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jhylau

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    Comment #48514252

    trump doesn't like dario given what he has said in the past.

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    Comment #48513904

    trump doesn't like dario. simple as that. don't over think it.

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    Comment #48513901

    trump hates dario. simple as that.

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    Comment #42010508

    Larger VC funds create incentives to focus on fees not investing based on startup fundamentals

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    Comment #41457102

    Track record is based on IRR mostly. See my other comment on the Lps below regarding the incentive structure and what they care about. This particular bet is almost a guaranteed ma…

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    Comment #41457053

    It’s not that they don’t care, of course they want to find winners. It’s just that A) there is so much capital to allocate that they have to allocate to marginal ideas B) their pri…

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    Comment #41457019

    These LPs at mega funds are typically partners/associates at pension funds or endowments that can write the 8-9figure checks. They are not super sophisticated and they typically do…

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    Comment #41453257

    VCs at the big/mega funds make most of their money from fees, they don't actually care as much about the potential portfolio investment exits 10-15 years from now. What they care M…

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    Comment #40810893

    but can they run RAG on these things? you can't just run a pure pre-trained LLM as that will have limited use cases.

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    Comment #29168914

    Vogtle nuclear delayed again due to shoddy work that needs redoing, raising cost to >$27.8 billion. New timeline means 16 to 17 years between planning and operation, thus 16-17 yea…

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    Comment #24823033

    They forgot about taxes

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    Comment #24823031

    They forgot about after tax

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    Comment #24266148

    I believe these types of trusts (without knowledge of the exact trust setup) are to limit the inheritance tax when he dies, by having the trust own the shares at an early stage (lo…

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    Comment #14602347

    one word: liberating

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    Comment #14602282

    There is a lot of vested interest in this company - it will for sure never go down. Plenty of investors around the world who will buy in. Valuation is a different topic - but this …

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    Comment #13578060

    international markets.

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    Comment #13302375

    REMOTE or Boston | Senior Ruby on Rails Developer | Carriage https://www.trycarriage.com Leading on-demand company (think UberEats, Postmates) in the Middle East looking to hire Se…

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    Comment #12846744

    REMOTE or Boston | Senior Ruby on Rails Developer | Carriage https://www.trycarriage.com Leading on-demand company (think UberEats, Postmates) in the Middle East looking to hire Se…

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    Comment #12673043

    For any non-static website - Heroku FOR SURE. It's not even a question - I have two companies that both run on Heroku - both startups are profitable and both will remain on Heroku …

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    Comment #12673015

    I made https://www.switchup.org - all the revenue is from advertising. I spend around 10 hours a week on it and have another full-time job/startup. The website is run by two freela…