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(I'm not the person you replied to) In more established field it tends to be that people outside the field exaggerate things because the can't put them into the context of the fiel…

"I wonder if the increase of size of seed round corresponds to startups waiting to seek funding until they are more mature." Yes, but I don't think it's so much that they wait as t…

Maybe, I think the thing with that quote is that it's not always technology that is missing for things to get distributed. Technology, or affordable technology, has been missing fo…

It's weird that people who claim unpopular opinions, often at the expense of others, so rarely can find the time to argue their excellent ideas. I have a number of friends that wor…

"I'd call that a big negative externality to the accessibility of loans for higher education." That's only one side of it though. The other being the expectations discussed in the …

Web technologies only works when the interface is the primary feature. Spotify is a music player, Steam is a game launcher. There isn't that much functionality under the hood. On t…

Not entirely sure what your point is. The best solution is of course to provide African American communities with good schools from the beginning. Like many other ethnic groups Asi…

Eh, considering that much of the social pressure of Chinese society presumably stem from a lack of cultural diversity, I would very much be bothered never seeing anyone outside my …

As far as I know that only tells you why it might have had to be Dallas at some point when regional centers made sense. Which changed somewhere around Paypal if not earlier. I'm no…

"Especially for information technology, I don't understand the rationale why it has to be concentrated at certain places." It's concentrated _because_ it doesn't have to be at cert…

That's the point everyone else is making, yet conanbatt keeps coming back to comparing salaries between Berlin and San Francisco as an example of higher salaries in the US. Berlin …

So why are you even comparing the two and not e.g. working for Google in San Francisco and Zurich?