Evan Zimmerman
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Making the future happen, but better and faster. Building @workwithedge (YC W23) investing @jovono . Primarily tweet about products, patents, law, and CA.
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Has anyone calculated what % or VC dollars from 2010-2020 were spent on SF landlords? And what % went to Google/Facebook for ads?
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@MikeIsaac
You’re laughing, but this is a real reason that Google provides these perks. It actually makes employees more productive by saving them time!
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Really sad news. Herb Kelleher, who founded Southwest, was a legend. Truly one of the great founders of the late 20th century. My dad was a Southwest pilot for 27 years so we heard all kinds of stories. Here's a story of just how brilliant he was as a leader.
Herb Kelleher, a co-founder of Southwest Airlines, has died at 87
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@ashleevance
Not as impossible as you think. If you’re “too good” many mid tier colleges will reject you because they think it will hurt their yield. If that happens and you get bad luck with all other colleges…happened to a friend of mine in high school.
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Today's huge news in biotech is, obviously, Ultima Genomics. The $100 has been a long time coming, and I'm glad there's more competition. Illumina has gotten lazy.
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I never thought I’d be thinking of leaving the Bay. I truly love it here. But the lack of self-reflection during COVID-19 is making me think about it. It’s so poorly run. People are leaving. And the response is...more of the same? Like, it’s not working!!
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There's a lot of news tonight that, depending on your politics, you might like (or not).
One thing to unabashedly appreciate: Florida voted to enfranchise 1.5 million felons. The only times in modern history that more people got the vote were Civil Rights and women's suffrage.
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I lost my mom to glioblastoma. There are basically no good treatments. If you're working on this, please apply to
@ycombinator
. Thank you for highlighting this
@SurbhiSarnaSF
The rate of gliomas— or brain cancer— is exploding. Over the last ten years, there have been 5x as many cases.
There's so much more that we could do against this disease, and we'd love to be a part of the fight against it.
@SurbhiSarnaSF
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Watch closely. Perhaps the most underreported story in tech right now. If it works:
💻 Validates high-scale manufacturing in India
🇮🇳 Could lower prices enough for Apple to thrive in their weakest big market
🇪🇺 Might mean Indian-made is good enough to export, weakening China
Apple's India-made top-end iPhones to hit stores next month
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@markgurman
This is honestly better than putting out something bad. Hopefully they choose OpenAI and don’t fall behind…
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@nirsd
@ashleevance
% of students who accept offers. Issue is that great students are likely to have other offers from "higher ranked" schools that they will likely take. So low yield from those students.
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@peterpham
The other thing I don't get about the wealth percentage thing...stuff costs what it costs! So what, if I go to the store to buy milk it only matters if it's a certain % of my income? I think what matters is whether it quenches my thirst for the price.
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@singareddynm
It’s focus. Attention is scarce, and elite signaling is always about about flaunting abundance of something hard to obtain.
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@Noahpinion
This is also why I'm perfectly comfortable starting over with these departments. Like 80%+ of the anger with these institutions is over these departments. (STEM has its own issues...but these distractions stop us from fixing them)
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Today’s the day: ARM’s going public in the biggest IPO of the year. But did you know they don’t make a single chip? They’re a patent licensing business, and it’s a really interesting business model.
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@PalmerLuckey
@nikitabier
Oh yeah? Well…we built a live dashboard for every churned job applicant showing the precise missed value of their stock options. Next month we ship a Zillow integration showing them the houses they could have bought and will also, for select people, start showing yachts
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Depressing that our surplus isn't being spent on investment in the future. Imagine what $100 billion of new capacity could be for California. I'm tired of such short-sighted leaders.
JUST IN: Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled a plan to use a massive budget surplus to counteract inflation’s toll on Californians, including with new funding for rent relief, child care, health insurance premiums and utilities.
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It's national influenza vaccination week! If you haven't got your influenza vaccine yet do it NOW! If you're not convinced here's a vaccine meme.
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Balaji is right. I’d add a lack of interest in corruption in state and local governments.
Somehow, journalism lost interest in exposing institutional sclerosis and corruption in many of the institutions that matter.
You know, if there had been some serious investigative journalism prior to the current catastrophe into why the FDA was so bad at approving new technologies, we might all be in a better place.
Instead we got thinkpieces on the dangers of scooters.
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@the_transit_guy
It will not actually take 2 hours 40 minutes. It is on an extremely inefficient path. And even in LA it doesn't go to the part people actually want to go.
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What's happening with startup valuations lately? Been asked that a lot. Here's a blog post explaining what's going on.
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@lpolovets
@sriramk
@levie
Why are you tweeting jokes? Jerry Seinfeld perfected them in the 90s. No one can possibly make funny comments now.
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Really, truly excited to announce that
@kevlened
and I are joining
@ycombinator
as part of the W23 batch with
@DriftBio
. Drift helps life sciences companies manage, analyze, and share their data. Reach out to see how we can help!
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@markgurman
I think lack of productivity is a bigger issue than games. A $3500 computer with infinite screens is a pretty good pitch!
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@teddyschleifer
This is an insulting article, Teddy.
No one in the tech world is saying corporate philanthropy is enough. They’re stepping up to HELP in a time of government failure.
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With the new
@ycombinator
batch being done, and having just gone through it, I think the most misunderstood value proposition is that people outside YC overestimate the value of the broader network and underestimate the importance of batchmates.
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@gabrielnocode
@Zecca_Lehn
I found the link. I think the number is not from Bessemer but from Social Capital.
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Weird thought about ancient Chinese history: Why did China never create a computer? I always found this really odd for a few reasons.
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@michelletandler
This also puts the DA issues in a spotlight. We need to deal with the DA office, but SFPD can't get a pass.
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The case of Masimo and Apple has brought ITC 337 investigations to the fore. But these are very poorly understood. I put together an explainer of how 337 investigations work and why we'll see more of them in consumer electronics.
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@Noahpinion
Noah, kritik defeats the whole point of debate. When I was debating in high school these people would have been dropped. It's a competition.
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@tylercowen
Interestingly, the decreasing cost of sequencing and rise of antivirals will help with this. Many diseases aren't ever tested because it is impractical or there's no way to help, so no point. High resolution testing will mean we find way more bugs at the root, I think.
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-“Our tax revenues are $2b below budget. What should we do?”
-“Moar taxes! Screw tech!”
-“Oh, our train might shut down. We should run it well. We deserve good transit!”
-“Lol no, the trains are tech transport, screw those guys, why should we have functioning infrastructure”
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@cyantist
CBP has enormous powers within 100mi of a border under 8 USC 1357. That includes the beach, so about 2/3 of the population is at risk.
@CatoInstitute
calls this a “constitution free zone”.
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@launchhouse
LA and NYC rising, SF falling to become an NYC/LA peer. Boston is great for life sciences and some great startups here. Rest fighting for niches right now
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@NateSilver538
The issue with lists like these is that you'll see something like "air conditioning" and picture the thing you have in mind. But in reality the initial version was 0.1, not 1.0, and was useless for decades. The first actual air conditioning device was not installed until 1914
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@markgurman
If this is true it’ll be terrible for the Max line. It needs a major overhaul in its design. Would be a big failure.
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@GeoffLewisOrg
In the US, a big driver is Smith v. Van Gorkom. Big increases since 1985. If you have a consultant you have a paper trail, you as a director can't say you didn't fulfill your duty of care.
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"Elites want me out of my job," the Yale-educated lawyer cried in his hagiographic interview in the New York Times.
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@ryxcommar
This is not Docusign's product, the product that people *actually* pay for is custom esignature workflow and compliance software sold to major companies
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@Carnage4Life
This is a big misconception! Satya built on Ballmer’s base. He made a lot of bad choices but he also made a lot of good foundational ones.
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@timnitGebru
This is a straw man. I doubt
@scottjshapiro
is saying that they need to know about things like matrix calculus. But AI ethics researchers should know about how AI works, at least at a high level, instead of just conducting thought experiments disconnected from reality.
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@NAChristakis
I went to Berkeley Law (with Chem!). Pretty simple. First amendment is an elective and most amendments aren’t covered in depth in constitutional law. The focus is strongly on discrimination law. Also, many of these people know it isn’t protected speech, they just want to disrupt
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I was one of the early Raise participants. Without it, we would have ran out of money and not made it into YC. I’m extremely grateful.
1/ Doing startups is hard!
@mercury
is my fourth startup, my first two startups failed and I continuously faced roadblocks along my startup journey.
That’s why I’m excited to introduce the new Mercury Raise: one platform to help founders fundraise, network, and get answers.
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@JohnArnoldFndtn
Not so sure that's true. Brightline doesn't have any lines in the Northeast!
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@chetanp
One of my favorite articles ever is
@StevenLevy
on the creation of the spreadsheet. Especially the exposition. Imagine being a junior analyst doing this by hand. Imagine making an error and having to spend days recalculating everything BY HAND.
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@juliagalef
Alternate theory: the relevant factor isn't the ratio but the rationale behind the behavior. So "mansplaining" would be about explaining something to someone who is more knowledgeable than the speaker *because* of a sex-based presumption of ignorance.
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Twitter
Things that may not exist in 10 years:
Cell phones
Human drivers
Cashiers
Physical locks/keys
Surgeons
Colleges
Certain diseases
Television
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Thread: You know how people say "end of an era" a lot?
Just read that Melrose Credit Union is liquidating today. Obsoleted by Uber.
Now that's an end of an era. It's so easy to forget how bad things used to be.
Story time. About how bad cabs were.
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@SaskiaPopescu
@DanielleFong
This is something I’ve been hearing from a lot of my HCW friends who are on their second dose. First dose is painless, second dose needs a day off for fluish symptoms. People need to be more aware so there are no surprises. And yes, we need to let people take the day off.
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@AlexFischCC
I don't know how we should deal with this "foundation" but it really does seem to me like it repeatedly skirts the law.
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@terronk
@anothercohen
@patrickc
The year is 2052. Stripe is now a disembodied corporate entity existing on a blockchain in the Andromeda galaxy. “We must tax all intergalactic interlopers in our economy,” says the California Assembly.
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@shervin
The big one was airport security. Obviously, post 9/11, anyone with a certain skin color or accent was singled out. I almost broke down in tears as a teenager when my best friend told me he loved traveling with me because it was the only time TSA didn't "randomly" search him.
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For once, Twitter is ahead of the curve. I think this is the endgame for everyone, especially since social media policy seems to have a domino effect. What do you think
@CaseyNewton
?
We’ve made the decision to stop all political advertising on Twitter globally. We believe political message reach should be earned, not bought. Why? A few reasons…🧵
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To add to this, the best thing about YC is that you can talk to partners even after the program is over. And the advice gets better after your batch. Most programs don’t offer any value at all after the accelerator is over, other than brand (and most accelerator brands are bad).
Competition is good. What isn't OK is when competitors like Neo slander Y Combinator by saying "YC does not offer personalized advice" as they did recently on stage at MIT.
YC has 12 group partners including me: When we fund you you get 1:1 advice for the life of your startup.
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@mattyglesias
This was how the federal government primarily worked before the institution of the income tax; during Alexander Hamilton's era it was basically entirely tariffs. But of course, the federal government was also a lot smaller then.
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@ErekMajka
This is absolutely true about the law but don't talk to me as though doctors aren't like "this is what I did in my residency in the 1970s and therefore I'm doing it this way until literally the day I die"
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This is a great newsletter from
@markgurman
. I argued something similar in
@ByrneHobart
’s Diff newsletter a little while ago. There are great strategic reasons for Apple to commoditize ports w unity and run high margin connections to their wireless chips.
This week’s Power On now in inboxes and here! How Apple could unify its confusing connector strategy, good luck finding an Apple Watch Edition (if you actually want one), and Covid continues its impact on Apple’s operations.
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If you want more of this, support
@GrowSF
and give a hug to
@sbuss
and
@agarwal
. (I hope GrowSF does the peninsula next!)
The voters have spoken. There are more ballots to count, but the early results are clear: voters demand change, voters demand competence, and voters demand a city that works.
Now the hard work begins.
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@dataandpolitics
In SF, at least, we tax quite a bit. The reason we do t have nice things isn’t a lack of revenue. It’s the fact that we spend 10x per mile and take 10 years to finish even small projects.
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@mattyglesias
I don't think this is it. Most universities are just ignoring these rules and eliminating measurement efforts that would prove they are discriminating. This is just the result of deterioration of the quality of these departments.
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This is one of the most important fights of our time. Antivaxxers are getting less fringe. Let's keep America out of the 14th century, shall we?
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@MattHaneySF
You’re our Assembly member. Presumably, you can do more than just quote a Chronicle op-ed?
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