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swampthinkeron Headquarter Locations of Top 101 Y Combinator Companies

Honestly can't relate. I usually use HN when I have a poor cell signal because it loads so damn fast regardless.

swampthinkeron Fed likely to keep raising rates

Could you elaborate on this? I'm not familiar with the changes made.

swampthinkeron Uber Rebrand

Is it just me, or is this page incredible bloated and slow to load?

swampthinkeron Who Were the Mamluks?

Paper Mana, Bird Mana, and sword mana

swampthinkeron Who Were the Mamluks?

According to my EU4 history lessons, Ottoman food.

swampthinkeron Who Were the Mamluks?

Who were you playing as?

swampthinkeron Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

What were the main issues you faced with Helm?

swampthinkeron Boston-area startups are on pace to overtake NYC venture totals

It was almost as if PG and Jessica set out to prove the Boston/NYC status quo of VC wrong. If you wanted funding around here pre-2005, you had to be an experienced exec w/ a strong team of MBA's and senior engineers. Once YC + FB left and saw huge success, there was a scramble to figure out what went wrong.

Check out this meetup that a local VC set up back in 2005 [1]. Justin Kan, Emmett Shear, and Reddit's co-founders (Along with many other notables!) attended. All of them left for the West Coast.

[1]http://worcester.typepad.com/pc4media/2005/11/boston_web_inn...

swampthinkeron Boston-area startups are on pace to overtake NYC venture totals

Some of SV's biggest tech companies and institutions started in Boston. Reddit was in Davis, Drew started Dropbox while he was still at Bit9, Zuckerberg was in his Harvard dorm with staff meetings at Pinocchio's pizza. Hell I used to live next to the original YC office in Cambridge.

The talent exodus and missed deals was a huge wake-up call for Boston VC's to take more risk, and I think we're finally seeing the results.

swampthinkeron Project Revives Nazi Atrocities in Striking Color

Anyone know where you can find the other photos?

swampthinkeron Montreal Moving Day: what happens when a whole city moves house at once

Allston Christmas is more like the week before September first. With a guaranteed UHaul on Storrow that got its roof torn off.

swampthinkeron Ask HN: Why do managers get paid more than individual contributors?

Probably more IC's that stick to what they're doing. The point of a manager receiving higher pay is that they (generally) have the same experience as most IC's, but can be a productivity multiplier thanks to people skills.

swampthinkeron The SEC Will Leave Good ICOs Alone

That's an incredibly interesting way of looking at it. At first blush I was thinking more of a "Wild West attracts Wild West criminals", but it definitely is more nuanced than that.

swampthinkeron Luxury hotels are being inundated with requests from self-described influencers

I'm sorry, completely off topic. I can't believe your username was available up until 2016, kinda jealous.

swampthinkeron WeWork Is Raising Funds at $35B Valuation

Net loss, holy cow. $1.8B burn on $900M in revenue.

swampthinkeron Tesla is laying off ‘about 9%’ of its workforce as it ‘restructures’ the company

Wow, that fake crypto scheme tweet under his official tweet had me fooled for a second.

swampthinkeron Steam store to sell VR porn video games

Completly disagree with Valve's desicion on this. While I personally don't care about porn on Steam, Communities cannot police themselves, even with the best of tools. I think Reddit and HN are iconic examples of this.

swampthinkeron Facebook moving away from React Native?

That tweet was a month ago. This change could have been more recent than that.

swampthinkeron Leaked Emails Show Google Expected Military Drone AI Work to Grow Exponentially

War will always be evil, it's usually just about whether it is a necessary evil.

swampthinkeron How to Avoid Distractions and Start the Right Company

HN heavily biases towards new posts that have early traction. Keeps the page fresh.

swampthinkeron Why it's hard to answer “when to raise a series A”

Plenty of potential reasons. Stagnant growth, really poor executive team that got lucky, serving a dying industry, tapped out growth potential, poor unit economics, etc.

swampthinkeron A ‘delayed infection’ theory of childhood leukaemia

This is why dogs eat their own feces right? It actually makes a significant impact on their immune system and intestinal health.

swampthinkeron Theranos Inc.’s Partners in Blood

I'm speaking as someone who went through an emotionally abusive relationship. I think you're significantly downplaying just how impactful shitty role models and power dynamics like this can be.

swampthinkeron Why it’s so hard to fix banking: An interview with Simple’s exiting CEO

That's such a strange edge case that I frankly don't blame Simple for turning you down.

swampthinkeron Theranos Inc.’s Partners in Blood

Wow, I kind of feel bad for Holmes now. Seems like she really got taken advantage of and got romantic love interests confused with how to properly run a company.

swampthinkeron Japan's most valuable startup aims to teach factory robots to think

PFI?

swampthinkeron Adobe XD now free through starter plan

I really wish they would change the name. I will always see XD as a laughing face from the AOL messenger days.

swampthinkeron Tom Wolfe Has Died

I have to admit, I've never read a Tom Wolfe book. Does anyone have some good recommendations?

swampthinkeron Growing a Time Tracking Software to $316,000/Month

Is something just flying over my head? What's off about that?

swampthinkeron Google vs. Google: How Nonstop Political Arguments Rule Its Workplace

Think this was the link: https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/google-patent-speaker-m...

Edit: after reading the article I have very little sympathy for OP. Samsung clearly developed their technology without you, and Google was rewarded a patent 5 years after meeting you. Which likely means you didn't even file an affordable provisional patent.