ksvs

2,477 karma · joined July 18, 2008

ksvs··on Washington Is Killing Silicon Valley

"Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

ksvs··on Washington Is Killing Silicon Valley

I suspect capital gains cuts did help. Founders are influenced by colleagues who've done startups, and what they see is the after-tax returns. And certainly big investors are influenced by tax rates on each class of investment.

ksvs··on Washington Is Killing Silicon Valley

China

ksvs··on Jessica Fridrich Specializes in Problems That Only Seem Impossible to Solve

Someone changing their gender is not a sexual activity. There was nothing salacious about david927's comment. If anything it is an interesting sociological data point, given the small number of prominent women in math and science.

ksvs··on Jason Calacanis: Why we built Mahalo Answers

What's your theory?

ksvs··on Inhaling Fear: Those Graphic Smoking Ads Potentially Encourage Smoking

Unfortunately smoking errors tend to be fatal ones.

ksvs··on Australian Internet censorship plan in shreds

That and the fact that they'll spy on everyone even more than they do now.

ksvs··on Ask HN: valuing a non-existent company

Why not skirt the question and take the funding on a convertible note?

ksvs··on Raising the World’s I.Q. with Micronutrients

You say not to get into the debate, then you immediately launch into your side of it...

ksvs··on Google "uses" 21 times more bandwidth than it pays for

I'm willing to predict without even reading it that this "study" was paid for by some corporate opponent of net neutrality.

ksvs··on "37signals is the (Lotus, iPhone, Disney) of software"

37 Signals is the Moosewood Cafe of software.

ksvs··on The dumb, dumb world of Malcolm Gladwell

It's an amusing word, but a bad sign when one uses it.

ksvs··on Ask HN: Clients are gone, lots of debt, what would you do?

Joel Spolsky was in a similar situation when the last bubble burst. Maybe his example would be useful to you.

You must have had something that worked, if clients were paying you. Could you turn that into a product instead of a consulting operation? I.e. something larger numbers of lower-paying customers could use, without much involvement by you?

ksvs··on Ask HN: Should I drop out or not?

Do you feel like you're learning at lot in college?

ksvs··on 20 questions game that works astonishingly well

Didn't seem that great. It didn't guess any of my choices (Bede, Vita Sackville-West, and Diocletian).

ksvs··on Ender's Game Review

Then, publicly kick it in the nuts on your blog

...by comparing it to porn. That was the brilliant part.

ksvs··on Global warming predictions are overestimated, suggests study on black carbon

How did gibsonf1 miss this one?

ksvs··on Facebook gets exemption from SEC rule that forced Google to go public

Different markets value companies differently. No company in its right mind would choose to be valued by this one.

ksvs··on Second Life affair leads to real life divorce