So is reading a paperback in a house full of kids or Starbucks.
Making my point for me. A phone, in a solitary environment, is the equivalent of adding a house full of kids or people who bother you
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Further, reading on tablets, computers, or smartphones was not explicitly included in examples, making it unclear whether this behavior would have been classified as reading for personal interest or technology use.
It shouldn't count. That is distracted reading, imo.
Depends a lot on how law-abiding and civic minded the specific immigrants are.
It really doesn't though. If a society enforces laws (and civic-minded laws are possible, such as fines for littering etc), it shouldn't matter at all. Every group of people has criminals, hard workers, productive members of society, etc.
Depopulated sounds like nobody is living there, something like Pripyat. This town is said to have lost over 50% of its former 53,000 so still over 25,000 left. And apartments in GDR were rather small.
Not a native speaker, but is depopulated really the right word here or just clickbait? At least I was expecting something else. Heavily shrunk of course.
> is depopulated really the right word here or just clickbait?
I would consider depopulated to be correct
“A 30% revenue share can easily be the difference between a company that can afford to scale, hire new employees, and reinvest in its product, and one that is perpetually struggling to stay afloat.”
This brought up a fun thought exercise for me. Pretty sure that Y Combinator would argue that giving away 7% of one's company for access to intangible (but beneficial) things like funding, advisors, etc, is completely worth it for a company. Pretty sure that they also fund companies that pay salespeople fairly significant commissions on sales.
Interesting to see them argue that asking a company to give up 30% "commission" on revenue for access to a large market stifles competition and innovation.
Is Y Combinator's forcing companies to give up 7% of their companies for access to advisors and funding stifling innovation and competition? (Spoiler: I don't think so. I think both Y Combinator and apple should be able to capitalize on the access they provide.)
> I think both Y Combinator and apple should be able to capitalize on the access they provide.
Capitalizing, to the detriment of your competition (other paid software services) when you have a monopoly or duopoly on app distribution isn't legal.
> We record a demo and dent Akash’s car while recording, just minutes before the deadline. Judges love the demo.
I am not sure why it sounded like a good idea to mention potentially breaking the law during the application process...
The product sounds nice though. Are there any examples of successful email-related software companies? I can think of Superhuman. Maybe hey?
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Increasingly? This is the Sequoia who wrote thousands of words on Sam Bankman-Fried that uncritically said little more than “he’s so quirky and smart! ^_^” https://web.archive.org/web/20221027181005/https://www.sequo...
A great example. This wasn't but just 3 years ago, so definitely part of their increasing slide into embarrassment...
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I don't want to be insulting here, but have you sat down with a partner at a VC before? You may be surprised to discover their skill is rarely deeply technical...
There's almost 0 skill required to plug in components meant to be plugged in to each other...
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A16Z is consistently the most embarrassing VC firm at any given point in time. I guess optimistically they might be doing “outrage marketing” but it feels more like one of those places where the CEO is just an idiot and tells his employees to jump on every trend.
The funny part is that they still make money. It seems like once you’ve got the connections, being a VC is a very easy job these days.
Sequoia is also increasingly embarrassing. A shame because it wasn't but 10 years ago that these firms seemed like they were leading the charge of world-changing innovation, etc...
It also matters if raping unguarded women is considered a crime or a fun hobby in your culture.
Law enforcement is important, but it can never catch close to all criminals, especially if it's politically sensitive to punish disproportionate numbers of ethnic groups.
The most famous example is the the Pakistani rape gangs in Britain, where authorities has mostly ignored the industrial scale raping for decades: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62n72mj113o
It doesn't really? Like I said, crime and rape and law enforcement exist every in the world. If you ignore rape as a police force, there is a lot to blame with your policing. Anyone can take advantage of that