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kalvin

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About kalvin

At Watsi.org

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ex-Ridejoy (YC S11), a community marketplace for sharing rides.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #47064870

    Update: we just deployed a fix for this, thanks for reporting! (We recently enabled Cloudflare caching which exposed a pre-existing CSRF issue, now fixed)

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    Comment #47064839

    We just deployed a fix for this, thanks for reporting! (We recently enabled Cloudflare caching which exposed a pre-existing CSRF issue, now fixed)

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    Comment #47056862

    We can't see any failed donations around this time, and we've had many successful ones, so we'd love to get more info from you to debug if you're willing. My email is in my profile…

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    Comment #47056744

    Thank you so much! Here’s another patient link for other readers, since you fully funded Philip :P Paw: https://watsi.org/profile/9dae70d8f758-paw

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    Comment #47055771

    Yes they are surprisingly cost-effective in the countries Watsi operates in, which isn't intuitive for those of us who live in places where surgeries are very expensive. "A review …

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    Comment #47055086

    Thank YOU Chase :) (I work at Watsi) If you'd like to see an example of what Watsi's about, check out Philip's profile: https://watsi.org/profile/2286cb03a5bd-philip Also, fun fact…

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    Comment #22755870

    We have Zoom on our Slack workspace and we'd remove it immediately if this were the case, but it appears to be false. The full list of permissions required by the official Zoom Sla…

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    Comment #15043492

    Wow, this is great. Props to the Clerky team. If this had existed in 2015 we would have used it, instead we paid a few thousand extra. For anyone starting a mission-driven company,…

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    Comment #12785759

    Another upvote for Garry and Alexis from a YC alum! Garry was such an empathetic, helpful person throughout our startup journey.

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    Comment #10578844

    We went with a broker based in DC, Joshua Lavine, for health insurance, since that's where we [eventually learned that] we needed to base our plans from. Great experience (well, th…

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    Comment #10578397

    PSA: Go with Gusto (formerly Zenpayroll) instead for payroll. We signed up for both Zenefits and Zenpayroll several months ago. Zenefits was a nightmare. Zenpayroll has been an abs…

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    Comment #10527887

    Garry, thank you for your kindness :)

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    Comment #10062699

    Agreed! Thank you for a much improved plan compare :) I do think there's room for innovation-- we just have to implement reliable software first. Piling on: If you're interested in…

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    Comment #9813515

    Nava | Washington DC * | Experienced full-stack developers/devops/product manager/operations | On-site - Full Time I'm part of a small team of engineers from Silicon Valley that ca…

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    Comment #9616570

    I think if you could see close-up how these systems work now, you'd be convinced that it's completely not worth the vast cost (in time, energy, money) to try and figure out who "de…

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    Comment #8989190

    (I've been working on Healthcare.gov for the past year and know some of the people at USDS; I was also YC S11 and appreciate the great parts of startup culture even more now) PSA: …

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    Comment #8660433

    I'm happy Lyft is demonstrating that it actually cares about its core/founding values of decreasing car usage. They could have viewed this as a distraction to expanding its existin…

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    Comment #8130381

    There's a lot of (understandable) cynicism here. But if this makes you mad and you want to do something about it, email your links/resume to jobs at hcgov dot us. We're a team of a…

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    Comment #8046497

    This is SO well done. So, so impressive. A side question, for any doctors on HN-- I'm really curious, what do you think about the Blood Tests section? That is, the benefits of mont…

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    Comment #7446446

    I think if you could see close-up how these systems work now, you'd be convinced that it's completely not worth the cost in practice to try and figure out who "deserves" each of th…

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    Comment #7316566

    (I'm working with Brandon) To clarify, you don't need to be able to commit long term-- if you can take leave from what you're otherwise doing for a few months, that's enough. If yo…

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    Comment #6922821

    [Ridejoy] She said: "One day ridesharing will be commonplace in the US, but I don't think we are at that day yet. Here is my rationale: 1. We didn't see any desire even when all th…