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> However, I wonder how much of that is changing due to the fact that most talks are now available to view online. Interesting point. If ideas, arguments, and claims in video and a…

Skip news entirely and read only (personal) blogs. Define news how you wish. Benefits will ensue.

The number you're aiming for is going to meaningfully change how you act. For example, you might get an offer for $50 million. If you do, the probability of making it to $1 billion…

This is almost equivalent to saying that the expected value of a startup increases with the scale you aim for -- clearly not true after some point.

The fact that the destination is the same does not mean that the journey doesn't matter. Most people are not indifferent to dying in 6 hours or in 60 years.

It's ridiculous to think about surviving the heat death of the universe when 50 % longer life spans would be pretty cool. In the coming decades, We may or may not be able to signif…

The benefits of diversification -- higher return and lower risk -- is a better reason to invest in gold, even if it was true that gold holds its value for millenia, which probably …

It's Warren Buffett, man. Perhaps he invests (long-term) in stocks because he believes what he writes, rather than writes what he does because he just happens to be invested in sto…

I don't think people do treat market share as a proxy for profit share. You don't really need a proxy for profit share because it's easy to measure. And if market share is publicly…

It's hard for you to be wrong. If someone with zero programming talent does become really good, you could just say that they did have talent after all.

Thanks for your answer. > I'm not sure what happens in terms of formal default if a borrower deliberately and aggressively inlfates away its debt faster than lenders can react by d…

Oh, I think I answered my own question. The lenders probably factor in inflation when they lend the US money. That would actually mean that the loans are in real money, and that th…

I was wondering about the exact same thing. Ability and willingness to pay should mean ability and willingness to pay in real terms. Anything else doesn't seem to make sense. Also:…

> Basically an infrastructure company in the most elemental and violently grand sense of the word? (a) I love this sentence, and (b) this is probably why people are so excited abou…

It will be time to stop looking to growth potential as a valid reason for huge valuations, when it seizes to be a perfectly valid reason. All else being equal, wouldn't you pay mor…

Agree that it will be tricky to recognize the pieces, but what's the point in doing it with 2D pieces? The app would be (slightly) more exciting if it could help you record the sta…

Don't see the use of this as an app, but fuck the use. If the goal is fun and learning, I think it's worth going all in and do object recognition using, say, SIFT vectors (see Wiki…

Whether their decision was right or wrong, they made a decision that big companies tend not to make. Startups should probably have a bias towards decisions like that.

Good post, but it would have been difficult to write without including IT (or media). You'd have to use the year 1795 or something. There are probably lots of fields today where Ar…