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If you're in NYC, we'll be hosting folks at the Betaworks offices for the 6/14-6/15 hackathon: https://lu.ma/z3z9ipke

Here's my experience: - When you hire, you implicitly put people in a level which dictates what you're willing to pay them. - People will always feel underpaid, and demand more $$.…

I believe startups should implement levels once you hire 2 engineers. It's hard to retrofit a system, especially if you're trying to be thoughtful about any pay imbalances.

I've spent a good amount of time on oil wells, and this was always obvious. Methane passively leaks from the ground of most wells, and is usually related to the quality of the ceme…

Bitcoin is an amazing wedge to install distributed solar and storage throughout the nation. Right now, utilities and governments make it hard to monetize these assets, and bitcoin …

This idea has been tried a few times. There's a fairly liquid market for the resale of oil and gas wells already. There is also advanced software packages for analyzing the data. I…

Founded rigup.com to try address this issue. Improving the quality of the cement casing is a huge factor, along with hiring competent workers and scheduling inspections. It all com…

Air is a better insulator

I believe it was going to start manufacturing its own panels (IRIC in NY State)

Most VCs will mandate founder equity to vest over 4 years. They must be actively employed for it to vest, so since he's stepping down and resigning from the board, I guess he'll lo…

I think Yelp is missing proof of identity and proof of patronage. It was created before social media took off, and before you could reliably know if someone had been somewhere. I d…

But shouldn't that have been priced into expectations or previous outlooks?

Twitter, LinkedIn, GrubHub, and Yelp all had decent quarters, and yet they all reported tepid outlooks. When they're in such disparate industries, how did they reach this consensus…

The article assumes that car batteries will feed into the grid. Tesla seems to think that won't be the case, car batteries need to be secured against harsh outdoor conditions and h…

I've heard that one of the major hurdles to smaller scale deployments is security (easier to secure a larger facility than many small ones).

And still no 2 factor authorization ...

My interpretation was that the marketers are very savvy at measuring the efficacy of advertising, but they're benchmarking it against an unknown LTV. As you mention, Snapchat has n…

Can't a counterparty anticipate your orders and make a risk-free return?

Sorry, I should have said "pseudo-anonymous". At least in Secret, I can see how many degrees of separation I am to someone via our phone address book. I've since edited the origina…

I've never used WUT, but was intrigued by the anecdote at the end: "Sun’s out; in Washington square park. Who’s around?” I've seen tons of apps that try to solve the "I want to han…

I would imagine that these types of startups don't work with YC's traditional valuation and round sizes. I hope they start changing the terms, especially as they now have enough da…

I think a lot of it is cultural. If you look at any portal or popular site in Asia, it's crammed with information and call-outs. OTOH, US sites and apps have been moving in the opp…

Thinking about this more, it's definitely not a breakthrough to use a consensus algorithm to maintain a set of transactions over a distributed system (such as a P2P network). This …

Good point. I think we're actually on the same page, but with different thoughts on how to classify the "breakthrough". I consider the technological breakthrough to be hash cash. I…

Note that I didn't assign any political views to my comment, I merely discuss the technicalities of the protocol. The protocol is the same algorithm that has existed for years. Bit…