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alephnerd

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About alephnerd

Recovering Policy Wonk. Former SWE, SE, PM. Now VC.

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    Yes, but publicly stating so on an anonymous forum where no one asked or cared is just a passive aggressive form of stating an opinion.

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    Comment #49250248

    Yet you took the effort to write a response with no prompting...

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    Comment #49243826

    Amnesty withdrew the report.

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    Comment #49231681

    It's basically an Israeli spin on YC (fit an archetype and raise later rounds based on that). That said, Gili also likes picking younger and inexperienced founders because Cybersta…

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    No but for different reasons. Israeli cybersecurity startups funded by Cyberstarts such as Irregular always call out being Israeli because Cyberstarts' whole marketing shtick is ma…

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    Comment #49203776

    I'd recommend reading the history of Autodefensas and FARC/FLN in Colombia. Anti-Drug militant groups have a habit of turning into drug lords as well.

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    Idk. I'd probably put it the other way - part of the state turned into gangs. Most of the core leadership of major cartels who haven't been arrested were mid-level officers in the …

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    Comment #49201889

    100,000 jobs were still lost and there is no one else who can absorb them. And the experience of the VFX industry is probably the best example of what would happen to a heavily uni…

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    Unions don't help with that as can be seen with Volkswagen or much of Detroit. Or, from an IP-driven industry perspective, the offshoring of Hollywood following the SAG and WGA str…

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    Comment #49201559

    That was the model. The group has now successfully synthesized it.

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    Comment #49201300

    The Git repo - https://github.com/arcinstitute/evo2

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    "Still Indians, actually Though the technology is making life still harder for many graduates" To quote the byline, which is the most apt description of AI's impact in most markets…

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    Comment #49187720

    Not OP but they're supposedly secular. In action, much of their leadership defected to join ISGS, AQIM, JNIM, and other Islamist groups in the Sahel and Maghreb in the 1990s to 200…

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