ycombonator

2,541 karma · joined November 17, 2017

ycombonator··on New York Fed Adds $115.14B in Short-Term Liquidity to Markets

Pay off your local congressman.

ycombonator··on They Might Never Tell You It’s Broken

Every company has a over enthusiastic “Larry” who went to computer school.

ycombonator··on Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B

One strategy “trick“ up Google is start a film studio like Amazon and Apple and they all will look alike cannabilizing each other.

ycombonator··on Lots of Job Hunting, but No Job, Despite Low Unemployment

If this bill https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/386... passes instantly there will be approximately 200,000 “tech workers” flooding the market.

ycombonator··on Rising Seas Will Erase More Cities by 2050, New Research Shows

They had predicted almost a foot rise in sea level for 2020-25 in 1984. So we will see what happens. Source: https://books.google.com/books/about/Projecting_Future_Sea_L...

ycombonator··on Driverless cars are stuck in a jam

By your methodology everyone visiting an emergency room on a typical night should call ambulance because the cars have been banned in the city ? I know for sure as heck they can walk or ride a fancy electric bike.

ycombonator··on Driverless cars are stuck in a jam

So I have to take my 4 year old who developed a high fever to the emergency room on an electric bike/ scooter ?

ycombonator··on Google, in Rare Stumble, Posts 23% Decline in Profit

Firefox is smooth as butter on Mac OS with their latest update. Add unlock origin with default settings and privacy badger. It’s web the way it was intended to be!

ycombonator··on Leonard Kleinrock on what went wrong with the internet

Internet is the plumbing that powers everything from www, telecommunications etc. I think he is throwing the baby with the bath water.

ycombonator··on Launch HN: Carve (YC S19) – Rent Cars from Local Dealerships

Great idea. Again utilizing the excess capacity. Couple of questions: 1. How are you financing uber vouchers ? 2. Are they allowing cars to be rented beyond certain mileage limit ?

ycombonator··on Tcl: Everything Is a String

It still powers some companies with an annual rev ~1B.

ycombonator··on IKEA Will Be Entirely Meat-Free This Christmas

The only reason I go to IKEA is for their Swedish Meatballs, not for their Kindergarten themed furniture. Good luck being meat free and depriving your customers of vitamin B12

ycombonator··on Focusmate – Virtual Coworking Helps You Get Things Done

What in the WE is Virtual Coworking ? Does it elevate my consciousness with Blockchain sped up by IOT devices powered by 5G which funnel data through Kafka to backend instances that have been clustered up the wazoo with Kubernetes !

ycombonator··on Ask HN: How did you build up your personal knowledge base?

Notes on Mac OS and iOS works great for me. They sync and I organize them into folders.

ycombonator··on Facebook isn’t free speech, it’s algorithmic amplification optimized for outrage

Just thinking. If Hillary won the electoral college would we be hearing all the relentless outrage about Facebook ?

ycombonator··on Adam Neumann planned for his children and grandchildren to control WeWork

WeOwn

ycombonator··on Mark Hurd Has Died

Philosophically speaking, poof in an instant all those things that he accomplished didn’t matter when he died. He is at the same place as any random joe who died at his hospital.

ycombonator··on The US nuclear forces’ messaging system finally got rid of its floppy disks

Reliability over sexiness. There is reason space craft launched when most of the people here on this board weren't even born still work. https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status/#where_are_they_...

ycombonator··on TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Taxes for Free

How about a change.org petition and starting a github project to counter the lobbying.

ycombonator··on ICE has kept British family with their 3-month-old baby detained for days

Canada would not accept them and their previous Visa waivers to the US got denied. There is more to this than the clickbait title let’s on.

ycombonator··on WeWork set to sack 2,000 staff as anger towards Adam Neumann grows

Morgan Stanley told WeWork its valuation could hit $104 billion, Goldman Sachs estimated the high end at $96 billion, while JPMorgan said it might reach a more modest $63 billion, according to the Financial Times.

How are these three companies still not fined by sec for fraud ?

ycombonator··on Apple Is Sending URLs to Tencent?

Tim Apple better have an explanation for this one.

ycombonator··on Apple Removes HKmap.live from the App Store

What if China pressures Cloudflare, Akamai, AWS ? Where does this end ?

ycombonator··on Apple Removes HKmap.live from the App Store

That could potentially be the next step in forced censorship.

ycombonator··on Giant Molecules Exist in Two Places at Once in Quantum Experiment

Listen to this episode where Sean Carroll talks about Superposition of larger objects https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/52-many-quantum-worlds...

ycombonator··on Beijing Takes Aim at Prague After ‘One-China’ Dispute Deepens

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/chinese-state-runs-out...

ycombonator··on Beijing Takes Aim at Prague After ‘One-China’ Dispute Deepens

TIL about Tianxia. Thanks

ycombonator··on Fallout from Blizzard Hong Kong Incident

It’s not weird to agree on individual policies and disagree where you don’t. Thank God for America where this still can happen.

ycombonator··on China attacks Apple for allowing Hong Kong crowdsourced police activity app

No politician for the past 50 years stood up to China until Trump faced them head on. Credit where it’s due.

ycombonator··on China attacks Apple for allowing Hong Kong crowdsourced police activity app

That didn’t take long. NBA, American Airlines, Blizzard, Marriot.. the list grows. Soon they will have to ban rest of the 6 billion people.

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