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This is analogous to arguing against exploring the Americas because Europe had poverty.

It seems to me that over a couple hundred year time horizon the new land, resources, technologies and economies of scale added by the new world were clearly a net benefit to europeans as a whole and paid back the initial investment many times over.

Worked with peter for 8 years from 3 founders to 300 employees. They are great

I feel like if you look at the amount of equipment and staff here it obviously costs a huge amount to deliver this care. Regardless of who pays the $100k+ cost remains.

This shows a shocking level of ignorance about the US immigration system.

Just straight off the bat you need to be a resident for 5 years before you can even apply for citizenship ( https://www.uscis.gov/forms/explore-my-options/become-a-us-c... ).

The full process is the better part of a decade in the best case (e.g. expensive lawyers, STEM degree, immigrating from an easy country like Canada). If you're from a country like China or India where lots of other people are also applying for those slots - or if anything else is less than optimal - you're looking at between a decade+ and never.

This is not constructive advice. It is a heck of a lot more complicated than this is making it out to be. You wouldn't leave your loved one with a broken leg until the "found their own way" to the doctor.

I love that you wrote this. I wrote a very similar whitepaper about meta-evolution (evolving methods to propose better mutations) a few months ago: https://lemiant.github.io/PhilosophyCircle/papers/evolution_...

This is basically the pitch for YC

@aacook this is awesome! I just showed it to my sister and we're going to sign up for my Grandma's birthday next month. One request: Snapchat is our native photo sharing app (and I assume that's true for many other millennials) any chance there's a way to send from snapchat in the works?

If I remember right, this is also the second largest YC acquisition of any kind :)

Because the Series A program is free (no equity) and YC, although very founder friendly, isn’t a charity.

Hi John, I'm Alex Rodrigues, CEO at Embark. Thanks for your interest. Our testing is legal and we are in close communication with the DMV to ensure we stay that way. In California we restrict our system to Level 2 (like Tesla autopilot), in order to comply with regulations.

I'm one of the founders at Embark. We're super excited to show what we've been working on to the world! Happy to answer any questions.

And also... we're hiring! If you want to work on a small team with a strong vision that's tackling one of the most important problems of our generation, you should get in touch.

https://embark.recruiterbox.com/

In general I've always agreed with this view. But I can't help but wonder how studies like this explain Berkshire Berkshire Hathaway.

This is really cool and well done. I'm unhappy with the stats they chose though.

I thought that 20x less robberies seemed unlikely so I clicked their source. They were using the absolute number of robberies not per capita. The way they used it is sneakiness bordering on outright lies. This kind of bad-faith abuse of stats always irritates me.

There are a few:

- Dispatch [1]

- Starships [2]

- And at least one stealth mode company

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/06/self-driving-delivery-vehic...

[2] https://www.starship.xyz/concept/

Those concurrency features are amazing! Are there any other languages like that?

My mechanical co-founder swears by Hackaday. It's somewhat different, but a great place to see mechanical projects.

This makes no sense. The standard award for one death is $8m. In no world is what he went through equal two people losing their lives.

Is there some way I can subscribe so I don't miss the next instalment?

When I first heard about this in passing I had to investigate further because I just couldn't believe someone could go to jail for making a youtube video expressing a view. Especially not for decades with no warning. I was under the (clearly naive) impression that the 1st amendment was a right that belongs to all Americans. Can anyone explain how this can be legally justified?

This is awesome, I'm a big fan. I love it because (excepting the spontaneous creation of General AI) the treatment of future AI seems so plausible. Few people consider how we will handle this stage of AI development, but undoubtedly there will be lots of cool stuff like that between here and self-improving super intelligent computers.

Will there be a sequel?

This is a badly reasoned article. If the total stock of vehicles is decreasing it creates a lot of savings (as the article admits). How are these savings captured? In cheaper Ubers. The total cost of all the cars on the road is already being paid for out of our transportation costs. As each vehicle gets shared between more people the cost to each person goes down. Obviously there will be an equilibrium between lower prices from fewer vehicles and higher convenience from having extra capacity. But, using resources more efficiently won't cause harm. Even if the total vehicle stock were to decrease as much as the article suggests the price of an uber would drop much faster than the convenience.

Now this all assumes an efficient market. If Uber were to start abusing its monopoly powers, that would be something to be legitimately concerned about...

Can someone explain how Apple has managed to render brute force ineffective if there are only 10000 possible 4-digit passcodes?

I feel like that quote is a relevant content considering the post is about how YC was good for their startup... and they're listing ways in which YC was good for their startup.

What are they gonna do with all that money?

...change the company name to Large?

I definitely met all of these symptoms as a kid, down to the hours of elaborate stories and the repetitive motions. I've since outgrown it, I got too busy to return to my fantasy chracters. But I'll always miss them a bit.

This is very different though, because it would throw an error.