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If you owe the bank $100, that's your problem. If you owe the bank $1.7 billion, that's the bank's problem.

* Take a low margin, fragmented industry littered with failed businesses * Then take some cheap but kind of profitable behavior in that industry (take local delivery over phone, se…

Related (possibly): OpenAI to remove non-profit control and give Sam Altman equity https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41651548

The person we saw was a master of science in physical therapy, and specialized in/had personal experience with concussion rehab. They were based near a ski mountain, and thus a str…

Unfortunately I don't know anything online, but I would suggest seeking out sports medicine/physiotherapy folks who work with your local concussion-heavy athletes (snow sports, mou…

My partner had a concussion many years ago, it was an eye-opening experience. After months of mostly-useless conversations with doctors, neurologists, etc, we visited a sports medi…

Another one: > He told me to go to the FTC home page and look up the main phone number. “Now hang up the phone, and I will call you from that number right now.” I did as he said. T…

Don’t forget the kicker, that IAP at the time was unable to support more than a few thousand SKUs! And (iirc) that pricing, naming, etc for everything would’ve needed to be done th…

This is not be the market success you’re thinking it is. The fast fashion industry relies on extremely dubious labor practices, massive amounts of pollution, and a culture of const…

I've had the pleasure of visiting a few cities/countries without much (if any) physical advertising/billboards, it's a change that's both incredibly jarring and incredibly pleasant…

The most annoying thing about them, that's seemed to increase over time, is that for 'premium' names the renewals are the same cost as 'buying' the domain. At least if you manage t…

Couple things to note here: * As the numbers here show, the high end of Manhattan rentals is very, very high. ~10%[0] of listed rentals at the moment are >$10k/mo. >$100k rentals a…

Topical, someone just landed a Carbon Cub plane on a ~90ft helipad for a stunt with Red Bull a few days ago. The video[0] is insane, I've flown in STOL aircraft before but had no i…

An anecdote: My NYC neighborhood has seen a building boom over the past decade. As far as I can tell, every new building puts its trash out on the street. Some particularly memorab…

Not trying to underplay how impressive the tech here is, but could you expand on what you see as the ($) value of something like this? From my perspective, these look like not-so-i…

4. Running the jail is incredibly expensive. The cost to jail one person for a year in NYC is >$550k[0], ~4x what it was in 2011. [0] https://comptroller.nyc.gov/newsroom/comptroll…