YCombinator's startup pros & cons thread
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@boomzilla said in YCombinator's startup pros & cons thread:
@tharpa said in YCombinator's startup pros & cons thread:
@masonwheeler said in YCombinator's startup pros & cons thread:
The term "cons" can also be short for "convicts". One of YCombinator's co-founders was Robert Tappan Morris, the infamous author of the Morris Worm, the original piece of Internet malware that brought approximately 10% of the Internet to its knees and was originally intended to do far worse. When it comes to being evil online the guy was decades ahead of his time; if it hadn't been for a bug in the code, he would have been able to use his worm to create the first botnet. (Of course, since it didn't work, he claims he had nothing but benign motives and it just got out of hand, but code analysis strongly suggests otherwise.)
Anyone with any sense of morals would be strongly advised to steer clear of YCombinator.
He is more than twice as old now as when he wrote the Morris Worm, and he did his probation and community service. Should we consider the possibility that he may have changed his stripes?
What does Elon think?
WWED
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@jaloopa said in YCombinator's startup pros & cons thread:
@boomzilla said in YCombinator's startup pros & cons thread:
@tharpa said in YCombinator's startup pros & cons thread:
@masonwheeler said in YCombinator's startup pros & cons thread:
The term "cons" can also be short for "convicts". One of YCombinator's co-founders was Robert Tappan Morris, the infamous author of the Morris Worm, the original piece of Internet malware that brought approximately 10% of the Internet to its knees and was originally intended to do far worse. When it comes to being evil online the guy was decades ahead of his time; if it hadn't been for a bug in the code, he would have been able to use his worm to create the first botnet. (Of course, since it didn't work, he claims he had nothing but benign motives and it just got out of hand, but code analysis strongly suggests otherwise.)
Anyone with any sense of morals would be strongly advised to steer clear of YCombinator.
He is more than twice as old now as when he wrote the Morris Worm, and he did his probation and community service. Should we consider the possibility that he may have changed his stripes?
What does Elon think?
WWED
FLAMETHROWERS!
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@dcon said in YCombinator's startup pros & cons thread:
@twelvebaud said in YCombinator's startup pros & cons thread:
Totally a $2.6M house! </sarcasm>
Yeah. Palo Alto is one of those towns where a home's price goes up several million dollars because of the zip code.
Location, location, location.
The lot is small, too, barely big enough to build the house on it. It's right on the border of Menlo Park, directly across the street from San Francisquito Creek, which forms the border. The creek has flooded in the fairly recent past, so expect to pay dearly for flood insurance. I'd estimate about 5 – 10 minutes from the university; at least there's a fairly direct route mostly on side streets, so you wouldn't have to fight the downtown traffic on University Avenue. ... Except that no right turn is permitted onto that street during commute hours, and never to get home from the university, so add a few minutes to take a longer route. That's if you want to go to the university, of course; there are lots of high tech and financial businesses in the area, too.
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@hardwaregeek said in YCombinator's startup pros & cons thread:
The creek has flooded in the fairly recent past, so expect to pay dearly for flood insurance.
I was curious how often...
in heavy rain events the creek has overflowed at least 13 times since 1910
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@dcon Sounds like an average 5–10 years between flood events. That's land that shouldn't have ever been built on at all, or failing that the building should be elevated so that there's less chance of serious damage.
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Seems like as good a place as any to put this:
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@lolwhat Five adults in a two bedroom does not look that bad.
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@stillwater Not two bedroom. Two rooms, period. A two bedroom apartment would have two bedrooms, one bathroom, a common living/dining room and a kitchen that may or may not be a separate room from the common area. Two rooms would either be a one bedroom — the bedroom and a living/dining/kitchen room — or a studio — a single living/dining/kitchen/sleeping room — depending on whether they count the bathroom as a separate room; it is, but given its specialized purpose, it's not generally considered a habitable room.
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@stillwater said in YCombinator's startup pros & cons thread:
@lolwhat Five adults in a two bedroom does not look that bad.
And under the right conditions, could net you a nice income from the streaming revenues.