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What's your problem with property ownership? You want to make it so that if people actually work hard then everything gets taken from them anyway? You're not talking about evening …

Indeed.

Oh I see, jealousy will solve all economic problems.

I did after the first two years.

I don't know how much you paid for your school -- but with math like that I'm sure you paid too much. But anyway, how the heck can you blame the kid if the parents are tight with t…

Didn't for several of my sisters, FYI.

Hah. That's an oddly specific match for our dilemma. Have you ever used it? I am at the same juncture now.

I'm sorry if you don't understand how this relates to startups. It does. I know of very few founders who didn't move to a new place for their startup. Understanding how the qualiti…

1. If your parents make 100k+ but don't want to spend it on your education, you're screwed. 2. If you're not a spoiled only child and your parents have to divide that money up then…

When an execution is as incredibly simple as hot or not -- that counts as part of the idea!!

You can't really call vastly different sites the same idea. This train wreck totally misses the "I would show this to my friends design" aspect of the idea: http://web.archive.org/…

From what I can tell, those sites are totally different as far as first impressions. Plus, hotornot got the most brandable domain in the history of the internet. edit: archive.org …

Damn, I was going to say hotornot, but you already did. There have been thousands of other startups though that have had first mover advantage work for them in a huge way.

More tough for some of us who are broke and have no car to do this all within one day.

Hell yeah the more the merrier. There's no way tiny yc can support the huge number of capable people out there who's talents are going to waste. That's becoming more obvious every …

Engineers needed to know more math where I went to school. I'm sure the mathematicians among us may disagree with my definition of "math."

"halo effect."

....and still only half of it would be good advice.

> You may not write any data to the drive or disassemble the drive. What the heck?

I'm not saying that you should ignore this data or not release early. I have though, have seen customers be very wrong. I'd say they tend to see only short term goals, not long ter…

My view is that startups aren't easy because there are no natural forces to guide you. Not customers, not markets, nothing. All can mislead. And I've become distrustful of one line…

Just what I was about to say.

> Get a travel visa and a sham marriage. It's difficult for me to say that I support this but immigration regulations are so rediculous and I have seen this technique used very suc…