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I changed my last name when I got married, and at the time I had a work email address that looked like oldlastname@company.com on the company's Google Workspace. Given that oldlast…

I think your view is too strongly assuming that everyone in the market is perfectly rational and perfectly replaceable with zero transaction costs.. Especially when you start talki…

Others might care less about this than we did, but we were also thinking about popularity of names we were considering, including changes in popularity over time. There are names t…

My guess is that this is a funky artistic choice, and that they used to have a "normal" webpage. I checked with the wayback machine, and it looks like my guess is correct. I clicke…

Yes, there are lots and lots of people who don't wash their hands with any regularity and others who don't wash them as often as they should. You can find statistics about the frac…

And yet, I've been to plenty of venues that were uncomfortably loud in back while not going to any (indoors, professionally set-up) venues that were uncomfortably quiet in back. I …

Do the same characteristics that make it the most regulated state also make it the state most likely to notice these hazards before other states do? If so, it wouldn't be very weir…

They don’t just feel like an ad, they are an ad. You might not interact with ads (I’m usually similar), but they may still get enough interaction to be worth it to YC.

Your comment is an interesting reflection to me of the expectations people have for cheap or free software. You were willing to invest your time and schedule into seeing this talk …

That's a nice way to avoid scams, but the cost doesn't seem worth the benefits to me as someone who otherwise has good awareness about scams. I've made some nice friends off the in…

But someone with 5.5 years of experience isn't a person breaking into the industry.

I assume there are folks faking data in all fields, but I also assume that the rate of faked data is not the same across all fields.

Were people actually paying $200 for a piece of productivity software, though? I'm no expert but sort of got the impression that a lot of the consumer-facing software currently cha…

I would hope that random "non-government related non-profits" aren't using .gov domains. Isn't the whole point of the domain that it's just for government entities?

That also depends on the scale of the monetary sponsorship, though. If I heard something like "Meta/Google/Whoever is the main sponsor of Python for the next 3 years", I'd assume (…

Prices are much stickier for some products than others. There's a big difference between a lot of commodities being sold wholesale (oil or steel or whatever), products sold to cons…

This is all fascinating! Thank you for sharing! If I can keep bothering you with questions (or if you happen to be able to point me to a place to learn more about harpsichord tunin…

>I used to be a harpsichord tuner I have to ask out of curiosity, does this mean you worked full-time tuning harpsichords or rather that you did a lot of e.g. piano tuning and also…

There's a big difference between giving a voice to "the people who work [there] " versus to the people who own businesses there.

Yes, it has been widely reported. If you do an online search for something like "rogoff excel" you can see reporting all across mainstream media.

I'm not sure why the tweet adds the brackets around the w, since I don't see it in the SEC complaint. Here's what's in the linked complaint. For clarity, the "emphasis added" part …

This is exactly what I assumed when I read the headline. What did you assume when first reading the headline?

It's interesting that you chose Kleenex and Chapstick, because both are still protected trademarks in the US. Competitors to Kleenex still market themselves as tissues and competit…

Is the 80% sampling a variety of manufacturers and batches, or a single batch of drives that were all ordered at the same time from the same manufacturer? If the latter, I'd suspec…

I think the commentary railing against these sorts of trends talks about them in general, whereas the commentary promoting them talks about solving particular problems. So if you a…