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Ah ok I see what you mean.

I think what we have today (weak ML) are models which can be trained to operate at the quality of a human for specific tasks.

So I am definitely terrified by the recidivism example, because it’s not obvious to me that there is a human who can do that task, but I’m pretty relaxed about the coverage one (because presumably at least in principle if you automate these sorts of manual tasks you can drive down the cost of providing care - if that saving passed on to consumer).

The image recognition one is a bit more complicated but if your scenario is targeting a hellfire missile I’m not sure the human-in-the-driving-seat method has created good outcomes so far, so I’m at least in principle open to some level of AI involvement perhaps short of full autonomy.

But I can definitely understand the problem of incentives. Ultimately we have that issue with humans though and it’s in some respects harder to audit them.

Can you expand on this?

Genuine question - can a topic really be `opertunistic` or is that author typo? I love these `referer`-type misspellings that become fossilized over generations

https://mapsontheweb.zoom-maps.com/post/110890462230/the-wor... to see how various countries come out

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There’s one to the right of Platform 1 at Kings Cross, London

There is a fantastic Michael Chabon book _The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay_ which has a similar space carved out of the Empire State Building.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amazing_Adventures_of_Kava...

Reminds me of this James Blunt tweet I saw the other day: https://twitter.com/JamesBlunt/status/1485182825070567432

Have you looked at Workflowy (https://workflowy.com/)? Allows you to share a subtree of your overall knowledge universe, works on all platforms, etc.

I did something a little similar to this with Apps Script to deliver my non-urgent email (everything except from a few approved senders) once in the morning and once in the evening.

It's only a slight exaggeration to say that it has changed my life!

If anyone is interested I'll dig out the code and share.

Even if you have the same class of stock, vesting, good/bad leaver provisions and strike price make that a false comfort. Remember that you don't typically get stock itself but rather options to buy stock.

However if you _don't_ have the same class of stock that _is_ a pretty good sign that you're going to be last in line.

Pre-investment, you should basically balance the administrative hassle and financial burden of incorporating in the US - specifically, Delaware with the decreased friction of fundraising for a US topco.

Cons of DE:

  - US lawyers are the worst both in terms of quality and cost 
  - You may need local sub to employ you
  - If you're not in the US you may struggle to open a bank account etc in your local jurisdiction

Pros of DE:

  - Everyone knows how to invest in a DE C-Corp no matter how early stage
  - Many tax advantages for investors can be maintained (e.g. EIS for UK taxpayers)
  - Lots of nice tooling for doing company secretarial stuff (e.g. Carta)

Once you have enough cash not to worry too much about the odd moderately expensive and opaque advisory bill for something you never knew you needed, the US looks more and more attractive strategically. To the extent that some people think there shouldn't even be a debate (e.g. https://medium.com/angularventures/us-incorporation-just-do-...)

(Source: founder of UK startup with US sub, acquired by US company)

Also the republic of north Macedonia is still in there by old name ;)

On the dollar bills: I've always wondered how the "rip it in half" strategy works in practice given that getting it precisely right is hard and presumably the person with 50+% can cash in for full face value (see https://www.bep.gov/resources/faqs.html). Did people really do this?

Pretty sure you can do this via https://www.marqeta.com/api (disclaimer: I haven’t personally used; assume you need some $ to get an account).

However, it's not clear there's anything that small states can do about this (other than make sure that this doesn't get passed in states making up a majority of EC votes).

The states that would arguably be stupid to go for this are actually the purple ones rather than the large or small ones, because they are the ones that are currently the focus of presidential campaigning but they would no longer be if there was a mechanism for making the EC reflect popular vote. That's perhaps why Colorado may remove itself (see https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-movement-to-skip-th...)

OP doesn’t mean

“For some people it’s better to have no job than a bad job”

(Maybe that’s true but as you say it’s their choice to make)

He is saying:

“For society, it’s actually harmful that we paper over the cracks of giving people on the margins of society confidence in how they can economically contribute and get meaning with unsustainable “jobs” rather than society actually being forced to confront this problem”.

I agree with this, however to be pedantic even in Serbian (or BCS more generally) there are some homographs (in ordinary orthography at least) which are not complete homophones - the classic example being grâd "city" / gràd "hail". It's definitely not ghoti though ;)

We use a similar YC company for corporate travel, flightfox.com. I can't tell you how much money we save by enforcing corporate policies and letting them use lots of tricks to get the best possible rates.

I would be curious (maybe @akharris can clarify) whether "average" in this case is the mean, mode or median...

I'd guess median because if the mean it appears that (cf parent) each company got exactly 1 term sheet, which does seem genuinely surprising if more or less the entirety of both cohorts succeeded in raising a round on some terms.

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I think you misunderstand the parent, which is precisely arguing that the "boring" things about the US military are actually the things that give it strategic superiority - not innovation. In fact your point is totally consistent with the parent - others may have innovated well, but that's no guarantee of success.

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$220/paycheck which in the US is typically twice a month, so $440/month.

My experience as a Brit working in the US is also that health insurance with higher employee contribution is often also (bizarrely) more expensive and worse quality in other ways, so there are additional non-financial (or not just financial) factors to consider. But the OP hasn't given enough detail to evaluate.

US healthcare is clearly a huge barrier to older employees joining startups.

At my company we have a great selection of healthcare that's fairly affordable both for employees and the company. I think it's as good or better than any packages I've seen from big brand-name enterprises. However, as a European founder, I was shocked by the complexity and effort that went into the comparison shopping necessary to get anything other than expensive, poor coverage. The quality of what's out there from JustWorks, Gusto, Zenefits et al was frankly shocking - and they are feted as "making it all easy and affordable". (We use Trinet which although in many ways antediluvian has very, very good health options at least for NY).

Interestingly there's a pretty good argument that Cyril and Methodius didn't create Cyrillic at all but instead were the creators of Glagolitic, a now-more-or-less-extinct script that was developed in what's now (roughly) the Czech Republic and was used in Croatia until the 20th Century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glagolitic_script

Exactly how Cyril got credit for the script he didn't invent is unclear.

I've never heard Ѧ called Yys, normally Yus - is that a typo or just terminology from a non-Russian Slavonic language? (genuine question, not trying to be a pedant)

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