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Garry Tan posted some data recently on performance investing in demo day: https://x.com/garrytan/status/1927946812364574912 These returns outperform the S&P. Maybe these aren’t typ…

Forcing a reload is a regression compared to the "standard" method proposed at the start of the article. If you have a REST API that requests attributes about a model, and the clie…

Banks will almost certainly not let you do this

How does that lead to the 10x increase in profits (not revenue) cited by OP?

This isn’t only true for “rich” companies. Companies (particularly young ones) succeed or fail if they are innovating on their products and delivering value to customers. Reducing …

Nobody is being released from prison. The White House said that there’s currently nobody in federal prison solely for “simple possession”, which is what is being pardoned

But this isn't a big change? This is a bill with bipartisan support in congress, and it's my understanding that it has majority (but not 60%) support. If this is difficult, then ev…

The serendipitous knowledge of the question isn’t the cheating. The cheating is the deception in the interview that this is a question being encountered for the first time. It’s ch…

The board can issue new shares (equivalently, diluting existing shares) if it thinks it is in the interest of the shareholders. That’s clearly what they think of the poison pill, b…

The post doesn't appear to be talking about the new Coronavirus relief bill, but rather the existing SBA Disaster Loans: https://disasterloan.sba.gov/ela/ The two are similar but a…

It's also much easier to get visa sponsorship for a foreign worker who has a PhD than one who does not. Someone with a PhD has a stronger chance of being eligible for an O-1, where…

H1-B workers are (by the nature of their visa) prohibited from creating companies Founding a company is not the only way to create jobs

It is typical to label the fiscal year by the date of the end of the period. This distinction doesn't matter when your fiscal year is Jan - Dec, but comes up in this case If your f…

Something that dramatic looks to me like a logging/data error

Hey everyone - cofounder of SigOpt (YC W15) here. Happy to answer any questions

YC companies aren't "done" after 3 months. They keep building and growing for years to come. The 3 months is just how long it takes from first dinner to demo day. Companies of all …

I assume that you will pay the same way an advertiser would pay - by bidding for the space. If your bid exceeds the bids of anyone else trying to advertise there, nothing will be s…

Another founder here! If you have any questions about our engineering stack, I'm happy to answer.

Oops! Thanks for the heads up. We'll make sure that gets fixed.

Another founder here - happy to answer any questions!

If the abuse is translating spam, then that's even more surprising - because that's exactly the kind of abuse that Gmail already prevents all the time. It even seems like a great o…