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Interview is gold, he is right.

Only losers think it doesn’t matter if it works.

Business owners carry a lot more stress than salaried employees (generalization but directionally true). They also don't have a "boss" that can fire them. Those two things are like…

I don't think there has ever been a company so poorly understood (willfully or otherwise) as Palantir. They make a software platform, it does not come with any data, does not come …

There is an important concept alluded to here around skin in the game: "the AI is not going to assume any liability if this code ever malfunctions" -- it is one of the issues I see…

Taylor Lorenz? Don’t forget your Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect as you read this…

This article is basically nothing more than a headline - there is nearly zero reporting attached to it...

Lack of manual journals would be a non-starter, I am actually not clear how a business could possibly run their books without manual journals. An example: you make something that u…

Check out the movie "Perfect Days"

It's because every small business has this problem and need, and there are a lot of small businesses. But selling technology to small businesses is extremely hard.

From the outside looking in, it seems to me that the biggest benefit of YC is the people you get to meet and build relationships with along w/ the advice and feedback and accountab…

HP-35s in RPN mode

Revenue is irrelevant when looking at savings, you have to look at net revenue or gross margin. Majority of Spotify’s revenue goes to record labels. If you are making -40mm / yr th…

The thing about abortion that most people seem not to understand is that the debate is fundamentally about answering "when does human life start?". One side believes it starts at c…

There is an old saying about biting the hand that feeds you…

I love the irony in all the comments here criticizing his spreadsheets and arguments by people who have clearly not read the book or looked at the spreadsheets.

Just to make sure I understand this — the argument is that in order to combat authoritarianism, Silicon Valley companies should censor more content?

Seems no different than Costco's Kirkland Signature brand. Private labeling something as your own that is made by someone else (and not disclosing who) is not really a new concept.…

I bet that this ends up resulting in higher prices. Once hospitals know what the others are charging, it is more likely to cause the cheaper ones to raise their prices than it is t…

Nothing, they provide the software for the data engineers and data scientists to use. It seems that the vast majority of people that have heard of Palantir totally misunderstand wh…

Will be interesting to see how many of these employees take the severance when the company asks them to sign an NDA in exchange, which would likely includes a non-disparagement cla…

Absolutely. But really there should not be capital gains tax as it is double taxation - you have already paid income tax on the same dollar.

Author should consider data for wealth and class mobility. Inequality might be rising but also there is more mobility (upwards and downwards) than there ever has been. Meaning it h…

Yes. And their names should be attached to anything they review (including the papers they reject) so that they have some skin in the game.

When the demand is more inelastic, as it would be for fuel, the taxes need to be a lot higher to change your demand. I bet you would drive less if the gas tax was 500%.