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Re: YC: Requests for Startups

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Post by dilyevsky »

a_vanderbilt wrote: post #539
dilyevsky wrote: post #534

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You’re advocating general motors approach over tesla/spacex approach. Tesla is selling millions of evs every year now an gm, boeing and friends are with you making excuses about training people and their process

I'm not advocating any approach. I'm telling you, as someone who has years of experience in the field of defense manufacturing, that one cannot force manufacturing processes into existence through sheer will. My posts on the topic are for the edification of whoever reads them, convincing anyone isn't my concern as ultimately it isn't HN comments that are going to change the situation. Maybe SpaceX should start making…

> that one cannot force manufacturing processes into existence through sheer will

That worked for russia but somehow doesn't work in the west?

I mostly lack experience in defense tech beyond being a user but ime it often doesn't work as well as the certificate (which probably cost a lot of effort to obtain) states it does. I'm of the opinion that we need to radically rethink our approach here if we hope to deter or withstand potential conflict with china in the next 10 years.

Re: YC: Requests for Startups

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Post by troupo »

monero-xmr wrote: post #547
troupo wrote: post #536

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So it' snow been over 24 hours, and we still haven't seen the answer to two questions about this business-plan. But I guess we'll hear about "unwarranted hate on HN" or some such very soon. > the point of my business idea above was to solve a pain point around paying a global work force considering the costs of global wire transfers How much do you think it will cost to "systematically go country by country, learned…

Every human is motivated by the same human desires, from thousands of years ago to now. Race is meaningless, we are all human. So why are some countries decrepit basket cases while others are successful? The answer is government, laws, and culture. The governments of Argentina (until things got so bad they elected a self-described anarcho capitalist libertarian! ), Venezuela, Cuba, Lebanon, etc. have created terrible…

None of this answers the questions about your business-idea.

These are two descriptions you started with: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39371127 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39371520

It literally is this:

""" If some company systematically went country by country, learned the local HR laws, partnered with the most trusted exchange, and then handled all accounting and taxes, a truly global HR and payment system could be built to make onboarding and paying everyone 10x simpler.

the point of my business idea above was to solve a pain point around paying a global work force considering the costs of global wire transfers vs. instant USDC settlement. """

So. Given all this, here are the questions:

1. Given that wire transfers cost money, and you want to make them cheap/free and instant, how much do you think it will cost to "systematically go country by country, learned the local HR laws, partner with the most trusted exchange, and then handle all accounting and taxes"?

2. Given that, by your own words, crypto is like having money in offshore accounts making tax collection more difficult, how does this mesh with your proposal of having a company do accounting and collect taxes?

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Note: I'm not in the least surprised that you can't answer these questions even if the first one of these I asked very early in this discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39372364

That's the reason there's so much "unwarranted hate" on HN: because people are not stupid, and they don't fall for demagoguery and grand proclamations. 99.9999999999% of all crypto proposals fall down immediately under the lightest of scrutinies: they are inevitably self-contradictory, unworkable, costly, don't do the job advertised, better implemented other technologies, or any or even all of the above.

Re: YC: Requests for Startups

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Post by hef19898 »

dilyevsky wrote: post #551
a_vanderbilt wrote: post #539

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not advocating any approach. I'm telling you, as someone who has years of experience in the field of defense manufacturing, that one cannot force manufacturing processes into existence through sheer will. My posts on the topic are for the edification of whoever reads them, convincing anyone isn't my concern as ultimately it isn't HN comments that are going to change the situation. Maybe SpaceX should start making…

> that one cannot force manufacturing processes into existence through sheer will That worked for russia but somehow doesn't work in the west? I mostly lack experience in defense tech beyond being a user but ime it often doesn't work as well as the certificate (which probably cost a lot of effort to obtain) states it does. I'm of the opinion that we need to radically rethink our approach here if we hope to deter or w…

And now imagine how that stuff would work if certification requirements were lower.

Regarding China, I thought the same thing. Until Ukraine. Because as it turned out, that being at constant, if low intensity, war for basically all the time since Vietnam and Korea (at least since Gulf War 2 over Kuweit), really has benefits for the warfighting capability of countries. NATO, and especially the US, have that. Russia and China don't. And it shows, Russia didn't walz over Ukraine the way the West did over Iraq. And China has to deal with an amphibious invasion against a country that had decades to prepare for just that. Which leaves the question of supply lines across the pacific for a prolonged conflict. And there my money really is on western navies.

Just as a reminder, Russia is at a war economy by now, and still has to source from North Korea. All the while, NATO countries are just emptying stockpiles and slowly, maybe too slow, replenishing them. And despite that, all Russia got is a stalemate.

Re: YC: Requests for Startups

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Post by baybal2 »

dilyevsky wrote: post #551
a_vanderbilt wrote: post #539

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not advocating any approach. I'm telling you, as someone who has years of experience in the field of defense manufacturing, that one cannot force manufacturing processes into existence through sheer will. My posts on the topic are for the edification of whoever reads them, convincing anyone isn't my concern as ultimately it isn't HN comments that are going to change the situation. Maybe SpaceX should start making…

> that one cannot force manufacturing processes into existence through sheer will That worked for russia but somehow doesn't work in the west? I mostly lack experience in defense tech beyond being a user but ime it often doesn't work as well as the certificate (which probably cost a lot of effort to obtain) states it does. I'm of the opinion that we need to radically rethink our approach here if we hope to deter or w…

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Re: YC: Requests for Startups

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Post by monero-xmr »

troupo wrote: post #552
monero-xmr wrote: post #547

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Every human is motivated by the same human desires, from thousands of years ago to now. Race is meaningless, we are all human. So why are some countries decrepit basket cases while others are successful? The answer is government, laws, and culture. The governments of Argentina (until things got so bad they elected a self-described anarcho capitalist libertarian! ), Venezuela, Cuba, Lebanon, etc. have created terrible…

None of this answers the questions about your business-idea. These are two descriptions you started with: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39371127 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39371520 It literally is this: """ If some company systematically went country by country, learned the local HR laws, partnered with the most trusted exchange, and then handled all accounting and taxes, a truly global HR and pa…

Sorry, I thought the answers to those questions were obvious.

The reason a business will exist and have value is because they did the work of figuring out how to pay workers in each country. My company does this now for Brazil, so it is possible to do legally.

The offshore bank account comment is to envision what it is similar to. For example it’s possible for an Argentinian to fly to the US and open a bank account in Miami, it’s just cumbersome to then get USD out of it and into Argentina. With a crypto wallet it’s similar to this but much more streamlined. The proposed business will figure out the intricacies of each country.

Re: YC: Requests for Startups

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Post by a_vanderbilt »

dilyevsky wrote: post #551
a_vanderbilt wrote: post #539

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not advocating any approach. I'm telling you, as someone who has years of experience in the field of defense manufacturing, that one cannot force manufacturing processes into existence through sheer will. My posts on the topic are for the edification of whoever reads them, convincing anyone isn't my concern as ultimately it isn't HN comments that are going to change the situation. Maybe SpaceX should start making…

> that one cannot force manufacturing processes into existence through sheer will That worked for russia but somehow doesn't work in the west? I mostly lack experience in defense tech beyond being a user but ime it often doesn't work as well as the certificate (which probably cost a lot of effort to obtain) states it does. I'm of the opinion that we need to radically rethink our approach here if we hope to deter or w…

The Russians certainly did scale up as you say, but there are underlying issues that have remained with them. Captured equipment has shown issues, some of which are potentially fatal to the user. The quality of work is poor and leads to a high failure rate. They do, however, make plenty of them - which has an advantage. Go to the war museum and look at any soviet tank built between 1940 and 1945, the welds look terrible and some are even missing the full complement of armor plating. They made thousands of them though.

The Western powers are not treating the situation as if they themselves were at war, hence no drastic changes in economic output to favor war machines. We have increased production though. Can't say how much, but it would raise eyebrows. I feel we should have been far more generous with the munitions, especially the older aircraft (think F-16, F-18) early on.

The certificates are basically just a paper trail. The aluminium is aircraft grade, the optics in spec, EMI shielding is sufficient, etc. We do extensive testing, but things slip through. Some issues are storage-related, and others are issues that don't show up til years later - such as microscopic ESD damage. Much of what we've been giving Ukraine was in storage for a while.

Re: YC: Requests for Startups

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Post by lukan »

hef19898 wrote: post #553
dilyevsky wrote: post #551

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> that one cannot force manufacturing processes into existence through sheer will That worked for russia but somehow doesn't work in the west? I mostly lack experience in defense tech beyond being a user but ime it often doesn't work as well as the certificate (which probably cost a lot of effort to obtain) states it does. I'm of the opinion that we need to radically rethink our approach here if we hope to deter or w…

And now imagine how that stuff would work if certification requirements were lower. Regarding China, I thought the same thing. Until Ukraine. Because as it turned out, that being at constant, if low intensity, war for basically all the time since Vietnam and Korea (at least since Gulf War 2 over Kuweit), really has benefits for the warfighting capability of countries. NATO, and especially the US, have that. Russia an…

"Russia didn't walz over Ukraine the way the West did over Iraq"

Not really the same thing. Iraq was very low on quality military supplies with years of sanctions before that.

And Russia did walz over Georgia in 2008 and Russia would have walzed over Ukraine in 2014 (some russian military was enough to capture lots of ground back then). But much happened between 2014 and 2022.

Re: YC: Requests for Startups

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Post by ilrwbwrkhv »

cmrdporcupine wrote: post #421
ilrwbwrkhv wrote: post #366

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Ya I think the whole industrial revolution made them capable of colonizing everything. So I guess in a round about way.

Massive navy + Ideology/ethic of feeling justified dominating others and a sense of superiority to go with it + A couple centuries of practicing on the Irish Profit!

To be fair the English did teach the world categorization which made everything standardized and reusable.

Re: YC: Requests for Startups

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Post by kolchinski »

riemannzeta wrote: post #62

Anybody interested in talking to a potential customer for: * Developer tools inspired by existing internal tools * LLMs for manual back office processes in legacy enterprises Feel free to message me. Having worked in-house for the last 15 years, I've seen a variety of these, have built more than a few of them myself, and am in the middle of building some new ones using LLMs right now — all within large enterprise leg…

I'd love to chat as well if you've still got bandwidth — I'm at alex@kolch.in

Thanks, appreciate it!

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