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Comment · 5 months ago
“I tried a prototype outside of its optimal use case and it was half baked.” Surprise surprise!
Comment · 8 months ago
Link the charts! Do you think they’re awesome?
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
There are simple, expensive answers: highly diligent social workers focusing on homelessness outreach + massive affordable housing construction that crunches housing prices. Regulate the substances but have them available to addicts, and make sure fentanyl is out of the supply chain, and make selling drugs outside the regulated system a felony.

We’re just not willing to pay the bills.

Comment · 2 years ago
Was expecting a deep dive into cancer therapeutics and startups working in the space.

This is not that.

very misleading title given how diverse AI applications are in medicine.

Comment · 2 years ago
There’s research that getting really hot (ie with hot saunas) can affect depression. One interesting supporting finding is that if you run around but don’t get hot (ie don’t sweat) then the exercise doesn’t do much for depression
Comment · 2 years ago
Last I checked you need ag tech to eat /s

Joking aside, it’s true that some folks have lives that require 350k liquid comp. If that’s you, staying at a cushy role in FAANG might be the right call. But for tons of brilliant people that’s not the case.

Comment · 2 years ago
Back when those were created, SaaS was the frontier!
Comment · 3 years ago
“…completely unmoored from the purpose of business, which is to make money by providing a product or service within a given schedule, scope, and cost.”

Or perhaps to solve an important problem in the world, within a given scope and cost!

Comment · 3 years ago
If this is a problem that a bunch of people actually complain about, hardware makers will just introduce apis to let systems know a human is typing. Think verified buyer on Amazon
Comment · 4 years ago
Not quite accurate, some climate cos getting funded at Seed and preseed by Fifty Years and Lower Carbon. Trick is small number of great teams here, who also see a distinctive advantage to going through YC. YC can’t overcome that without significant effort.

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