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by kom107 9y ago
Hi Suvinay! Do you all have a website that keeps interested people updated about the upcoming Swarm hardware? I would like to follow this work. Thanks!
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by kom107 10y ago
I think this is a large part of the problem. I believe that the standard quantitative models used for productivity are no longer accurate. They are somewhat precise, but do not correctly reflect value that is produced.
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Ask HN: How do you interact with data at work?
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by kom107 10y ago
They are valuable, except for the fact that machines can now do the disinfecting aspect of the job (the most important part) better and faster than they can. See: http://tru-d.com/ And to the point someone else made in this
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by kom107 10y ago
Understood. I think one of the problems is that (fill in the blank: society, parents, students, guidance/admissions counselors, et al) seek to categorize and create blanket answers, whereas the correct answer is highly variable relativ
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by kom107 10y ago
Agree 100%. Great conversation tangent over on reddit's FI sub about this article, and specifically, the fear that those of us who were/are responsible will be taxed to support those who were/are not: https://www.
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by kom107 10y ago
That's not entirely true. See: http://yscouts.com/executive/where-did-fortune-500-ceos-go-t... Stanford has some fantastic opportunities, sure. But those opportunities come with significant opportunity costs (at
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by kom107 10y ago
Agreed. I've just gone about it by refusing to sign the IP agreements, OR by editing the document to say that anything I do on my own time is mine. Have yet to run into an issue with those approaches. I wonder how much innovation her
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by kom107 10y ago
Snagged my house in Morningside, which is in the city. You can still get pretty inexpensive houses throughout the East End, but you'll need to put in some elbow grease. Average prices seem to be around $200,000 for a decent home in t
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by kom107 10y ago
Ooooh. Talk dirty to us. YC Pittsburgh batch. Dig it.
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by kom107 10y ago
Born in Pittsburgh, raised in Pittsburgh, started (and failed, 2009-2014) my own company in Pittsburgh, currently have an excellent tech job in Pittsburgh and am going to launch the beta product of my new company (YC reject) in Pittsburgh i
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by kom107 10y ago
I'm registered as a Republican, and in theory, would rather date a Republican than a Libertarian. In unsurprising news, every woman I have ever dated has been a Democrat, and my wife is a Democrat from a socially democratic country.
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by kom107 10y ago
Bingo. My academic studies of political systems, US politics, game theory and economics leads me to believe that a true free market economy is the causa sine qua non for a more tolerant and free society. I also believe that one cannot legi
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by kom107 10y ago
"Current and future quality of life for myself and others trumps paying lip service to ideals that are never realized." Agreed. However, I bet we differ on the means by which one should go about achieving/obtaining (I separa
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by kom107 10y ago
I go back to the old-school, small government intellectual Republicanism (this may sound crazy to many of you, but I assure you, at one point it existed). I realize that this is currently not where the party is (see: Trump, Cruz, Jindal, C
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by kom107 10y ago
It's funny you say this, because I am a Republican pro-life lesbian. I have used both OkCupid and Tinder in the past, and I 1. Didn't find OkCupid to be terribly good for filtering out those with worldview I disagreed with 2. Lik
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by kom107 10y ago
Seconding this for the lesbian community. For heterosexuals, sure, this may only be a hookup app. For lesbians? Long term relationships from Tinder abound (I say this as a lesbian, albeit one who met her wife at work).
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by kom107 11y ago
Hey--sorry, forgot I hid it for a while. Anyway, it's kate (dot) mcginley at gmail. Talk soon.
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by kom107 11y ago
As someone with 10+ years of mad success in sales/marketing/hacking growth, from my own startup to Fortune 500 level in several verticals, here's what you have to do: 1. Yeah, sometimes you just gotta cold call. Even better,
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by kom107 11y ago
Reminded me of this article (link below with TL;DR). So we have two strong examples of how changing environment can reduce crime and improve lives. Perhaps we should change our current educational and judicial policies? TL;DR: after hurri
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by kom107 11y ago
While this is true, many disadvantaged students don't even know this, because they don't even look at these schools in the first place, as they assume they cannot afford to attend. Selection bias.
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by kom107 11y ago
Awesome. Thanks!!
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by kom107 11y ago
How do you know? I don't mean to be rude but I'm just curious as someone who applied and was rejected. My team and I are planning on continuing on. Good luck to everyone else who is in the same boat!
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by kom107 11y ago
Hello. I have. I had no college degree. I was a drop-out. I worked as a line cook, for $9.70/hr (no tips). No economic help from my family. $9.70/hr. Had my electric turned off a few times. Phone turned off regularly. Wat
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by kom107 11y ago
Glad to see there is a market out there for this. I applied to the YC Fellows program and pitched my idea as 'uber for nurses'. And here I was thinking that I was coming up with a groundbreaking idea...haha. I'm interested
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by kom107 11y ago
Oh, I was so shy when I was younger. Socially awkward (and I was just smart enough to know it), nervous, didn't want to talk with others at all, really. Now, I love it. I started very small and very simply: I started reading etiquett
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by kom107 11y ago
I run. I've lost 50 pounds since the start of it all. Running clears my mind up, and I usually can just let my mind wander--that's often all it takes for me to come up with a solution to a problem I'm stuck on, and if I&#x2
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by kom107 11y ago
So the way inpatient (hospital) settings work here in the US is that patients have their own rooms (occasionally shared rooms, with one or maybe two other people, but by and large patients have a private room). Usually the doctors round in
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by kom107 11y ago
Agreed--if the exit strategy for a startup is to simply be bought up by another company, well then come on down!! :-) I think that's actually a very interesting question. It's certainly possible that the accelerators here encoura
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by kom107 11y ago
The Pittsburgh area accelerators also require that the company stays headquartered in Pittsburgh. I love my hometown, but it's not exactly the best place to grow a company, especially a startup (in general, I think in some verticals t

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