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I'd love to see the numbers on this if you have them in a shareable format. How did your model account for value deflation and what assumptions did it make about storage tech?

It's great that YC provides feedback on why they don't accept (some) companies. However, it's a bit disappointing to see that not having MRR is a reason to reject a company. It see…

Their typescript compiler may not be targeting the correct ecmascript version so the typescript generated could be using polyfills instead of native features.

It's a little hard to tell if you're asking "are there laws against monopolies?" or "should there be laws against monopolies?". The answer to the first is a certain yes. There are …

Can anyone help me appreciate non representational art like that of Mr. Johns? One specific question I have is: do his individual works stand alone or do you have to understand his…

This comment explains some of the technical details: https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/arer0k/i_took_nearly...

This is only true to the extent that YC is a monopoly. If other accelerators compete with YC, entrepreneurs may choose to do business with an accelerator that selects smaller class…

These mutual funds and ETFs actively participate in corporate governance, and the overlapping ownership of most stocks in the market is a very underrated problem. Economists have f…

Yes, that is the problem I mentioned in the original comment that I'm not sure how to solve :)

This scheme has the advantage of it not mattering if something is active. Instead you pay fees based on what it's worth to you. If someone is squatting on a high-value domain, they…

The idea is that if I'm a startup that owns google-disruptor.com, I have to declare a value for that domain name (let's say $100,000), and pay a percentage of that value as a tax. …

One intriguing proposal to limit domain name squatting is "Harberger Taxation"[1] Under this scheme, every owner of a domain would declare a value for the domains they own, and pay…

I'm trying to understand exactly what is changing. From the article are they just switching the order of the two lotteries? They aren't actually raising the number of visas offered…

This is a good introduction to the terminology and symbology used to describe queues, and the KPIs that it highlights are useful. I'm left wishing that the writeup included some mo…

Another way Chrome could address the problem of extensions having too much access and power over users' browsing data would be to make it easier for extensions and users to specify…

As the article points out, very few websites and applications have keyboard shortcuts. If anyone else is interested in reducing mouse usage and has some familiarity with vim keybin…