Does SafetyWing covers health insurance for families on vacation? It says it is targeted to digital nomads but I wonder how this is different than a vacation insurance.
Travel insurance, now with hip fonts!
Startups that launched today at Y Combinator’s W18 Demo Day
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#52Voicery and Storyline are the two that connect with my interests. I think Voicery does itself a disservice by featuring a "pick the human voice versus pick our machine voice" demo quiz on their website. I got 100%, and it led me to emotionally response "they have failed", but in fact the voice sounded great. A more useful demo would have been to hear a range of different voices and be able to put my own text in and h…
Reading your comment I just tried and also got 100%. There are more micro-pitch variations, vibrato and harmonics in the human voice; the robot voice kind of sounds the same, but on some short sounds sometimes produces a kind of monocord sound that is not only non-human, but probably impossible for a human to imitate.
It seems some people are more sensitive than others to robot-sounding or robot-looking. I have a very hard time watching modern movies because most special effects completely ruin the experience for me; but other people seem to not mind at all.
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#53Veriff looks like a great product but also seems to compete with checkr, another YC company. Is it common for YC to invest in competitors of existing portfolio companies?
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I'm sure there are too, I just can't think of any.
I'll bite. At their heart, all antidiscrimination laws are based on the idea of equalizing power.
The law doesn't care if people with one set of genitals doesn't want to hang out with people of another set. What it is concerned about is if a given group has significant power to prevent another group from pursuing life, lib, and happiness.
Viewed from that angle, it becomes clear why antidiscrimination laws favoring AA in traditionally Cauc challenges are legal, but the reverse would not be true.
https://www.acacamps.org/resource-library/campline/single-ge...
Note that, for example, Hooters Rest. lost a discrimination case against males on the grounds that the hiring criteria was unfairly weighted (power applied) towards women (given their ostensible marketing strategy).
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#55"Correlia Biosystems is able to analyze microsamples of blood" This sounds familiar ...
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm sure there are too, I just can't think of any.
I'll bite. At their heart, all antidiscrimination laws are based on the idea of equalizing power. The law doesn't care if people with one set of genitals doesn't want to hang out with people of another set. What it is concerned about is if a given group has significant power to prevent another group from pursuing life, lib, and happiness. Viewed from that angle, it becomes clear why antidiscrimination laws favoring A…
if a given group has significant power to prevent another group from pursuing life, lib, and happiness.
Viewed from that angle, it becomes clear why antidiscrimination laws favoring AA in traditionally Cauc challenges are legal
I'm not sure it's a good idea to enshrine the idea that "Cauc" have an inherent power over "AA" into law. This seems close to running afoul of Equal Protection.
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#57Don't see Nectome mentioned.
Ah, there it is https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/20/these-are-the-64-startups-...
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'll bite. At their heart, all antidiscrimination laws are based on the idea of equalizing power. The law doesn't care if people with one set of genitals doesn't want to hang out with people of another set. What it is concerned about is if a given group has significant power to prevent another group from pursuing life, lib, and happiness. Viewed from that angle, it becomes clear why antidiscrimination laws favoring A…
if a given group has significant power to prevent another group from pursuing life, lib, and happiness. Viewed from that angle, it becomes clear why antidiscrimination laws favoring AA in traditionally Cauc challenges are legal I'm not sure it's a good idea to enshrine the idea that "Cauc" have an inherent power over "AA" into law. This seems close to running afoul of Equal Protection.
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#59"Correlia Biosystems is able to analyze microsamples of blood" This sounds familiar ...
It's a shame Theranos poisoned the well so badly. There's a lot of good work to be done in the space. But that kind of science just cannot be done by hyper-secretive overfunded outsiders. For the good of us all, try not to let Theranos drag down an entire kind of company - but in that, be critical of science, credentials, and data. And though science is still hard, signals from the NSF, QB3, Berkeley, UCSF, MIT and C…
I am out of the loop. What's with Theranos ?
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a shame Theranos poisoned the well so badly. There's a lot of good work to be done in the space. But that kind of science just cannot be done by hyper-secretive overfunded outsiders. For the good of us all, try not to let Theranos drag down an entire kind of company - but in that, be critical of science, credentials, and data. And though science is still hard, signals from the NSF, QB3, Berkeley, UCSF, MIT and C…
I am out of the loop. What's with Theranos ?
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