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Startups that launched today at Y Combinator’s W18 Demo Day

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Re: Startups that launched today at Y Combinator’s W18 Demo Day

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Post by wcchandler »

This is an excellent list. YC will do very nicely with this batch. Modern agriculture is about shift hard and a few of these companies will go far even if they look to be "failures."

  - Bear Flag Robotics

  - Macromoltek

  - Culture Robotics

  - AesculaTech

  - Reverie Labs

  - Ovipost
I can see all of these being positively impacted. I just hope they can capitalize off it in some fashion. Definitely follow these companies for a while.

Re: Startups that launched today at Y Combinator’s W18 Demo Day

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Post by seanmcdirmid »

pjmorris wrote: post #19
seanmcdirmid wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Group health insurance is where all the good risks are, which is why it is cheaper in general than much riskier individual policies. Obama care was basically doomed when they didn’t eliminate the group market like Switzerland did.

Seems like the larger the group the better the overall risk profile. Which seems to me like an argument for single payer.

Well, it depends how the group is defined. Group insurance: educated (they got a job that provides benefits), probably better health. Individual market: everyone else. So if the group is defined as left overs from healthy pickings, it can really suck even if it is very big.

Switzerland eliminated the group markets, so everyone buys in the individual market even if they don’t have single payer.

Re: Startups that launched today at Y Combinator’s W18 Demo Day

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Post by jameslevy »

fastball wrote: post #24

Am I the only one that thinks "a social network for women (Leap)" is a bit sexist?

Sexist because men aren't welcome? While it would be the case that a social network for men could be considered sexist and maybe this represents a double standard, I'm sure there is a very good argument for why networks like Leap aren't sexist, just as there are good arguments for why pro-diversity hiring policies are not necessarily racist.

Re: Startups that launched today at Y Combinator’s W18 Demo Day

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Post by mlindner »

jameslevy wrote: post #28
fastball wrote: post #24

Am I the only one that thinks "a social network for women (Leap)" is a bit sexist?

Sexist because men aren't welcome? While it would be the case that a social network for men could be considered sexist and maybe this represents a double standard, I'm sure there is a very good argument for why networks like Leap aren't sexist, just as there are good arguments for why pro-diversity hiring policies are not necessarily racist.

> why pro-diversity hiring policies are not necessarily racist

Supreme court has also ruled that opposing them because they are racist is also not racist.

> It has come to this. Called upon to explore the jurisprudential twilight zone between two errant lines of precedent, we confront a frighteningly bizarre question: Does the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment forbid what its text plainly requires? Needless to say (except that this case obliges us to say it), the question answers itself. “The Constitution proscribes government discrimination on the basis of race, and state-provided education is no exception.” Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 U. S. 306, 349 (2003) (Scalia, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part). It is precisely this understanding—the correct understanding—of the federal Equal Protection Clause that the people of the State of Michigan have adopted for their own fundamental law. By adopting it, they did not simultaneously offend it.

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