In my very few interactyeith him, he can be quite blunt. But it's refreshing to see his commitment to a No BS approach to life go further than his comments on startups and investors only.
It takes a strong person to make introspection such as his very public. But kudos, for coming clean.
Actually, it isn't missing that. That is simply not important. Those who think it is are making excuses for themselves.
Many YC startups have failed, many non-YC startups are successful.
Take responsibility for your own success and failures. If you want to go to YC, great, go for it, but don't expect that getting in is the silver bullet to success.
I got hit with this too. TeamViewer showed incoming connections from Taipei & Guangzou. What I'm interested in figuring out is how sophisticated the attackers were. I immediately took the breached machine offline & plan on scanning it for negligees etc. I called TeamViewer & their response neither acknowledged or denied the hack. They simply asked me to report to local authorities & promised that they'd be cooperative with lots/etc.
Maybe getting a little more traction. Just spoke with a few VCs who seem super excited about what we're building. Funny thing is that I met these SV VCs & PE folks in LA & subsequently over here. They promised to line up intros to Google Ventures and other in the Bay Area.
That, combined with targeting angels via AngelList seems like a good combo. But it's still weird that there isn't a more obvious path. (Of course there's the YC lottery)
Amen, I've been suffering from l HN withdrawal symptoms due to this. I have only been able to read comments and submission headlines on the iPhone.
Updtae: this is likely due to third party apps (in my case Booking.com). But uninstalling doesn't seem to help. Also I couldn't read the article since safari can only visit URLs that I explicitly type in
There's also another annoying, existing bug in iOS at least back to 9.2 where if memory is low, copy stops working... the clipboard retains the old value until you kill basically every other app.
This is the norm in Arab/Muslim countries where their doctrine instructs that the (naked) dead should be covered only in a simple, white cotton shroud and buried six feet under; caskets and embalming fluids are not used. (Hence the Islamic requirement for a speedy (same day if possible) burial, no wake, etc.)
In similar vein, mausoleums, raised tombstones, and cemetery shrines are also forbidden (the overall theme is "we are all equal in death").
The net result is that cemeteries are "reusable" and some of the most-popular in Saudi Arabia ("jannatul baqee'" a là Arlington Cemetery) are reused/recycled every so many decades (or is it once a century, once the denizens are forgotten/no longer visited?).
On request, graves will be lined with timber, brick or
concrete breeze blocks to form an inner shell in the grave
space. Please note that we require the following notice for
these types of vault.
"A concrete or other permanent outer burial container is
not required, but there is an additional charge for a burial without an outer burial container."
The UK burial section for Muslims might be for offshoots or sects; for example, I do not know if Shiaa Muslims adhere to the same. Or it could be like here in the US: government regulations say you can't bury people sans-casket, so it could be "these (and only these) are your options."
For anyone slightly confused (I was), Bury Council (bury.gov.uk) is the local government for the town of Bury, and that is a guide for burials in Bury. It's not the national authority for burials or anything.
I've yet to read a criticism of this being harmful to the environment, save the fact that it takes up land that could otherwise be used for agriculture/forestry.
Tangential: That's the commandment of Jewish burial law.
Bodies are to be buried in simple, plain linen or cotton hand-made shrouds. One reason is so that those who cannot afford fancy clothing aren't embarrassed that they don't have any.
Also, bodies are supposed to be buried without caskets, but in areas where local law mandates burial with a casket, that casket is to be simple and modest, rather than an ornate coffin.
The human body accumulates toxins which are then returned back to the environment. The mushroom suit can apparently neutralize some of these things. Haven't tried it yet, will let you know when I do :D
what kind of suit do the mushrooms that have absorbed your toxins (lest they be released into the environment) have to wear so when they die, they wont simply decompose and release your toxins?
Or what if the mushrooms holding your toxins are ingested by animals, would it pass through and then ultimately poison the earth?
There is a trend called "green burial" where just that service is offered. I had to look into it for a client who wanted a green burial dictated in her will. There are local cemeteries that specialize in it. They basically wrap you in a sheet and bury you. No casket, no vault, no embalming.
That's why I posted it here. I think it's more of an intentional negative piece on Uber.
I was quite dumbfounded when the whole "craigslist killer" suddenly painted craigslist as a shady place for "weird" people online. I suspect the reality was animosity against craigslist for being disruptive to print media.
Is it me or is Uber being dragged into this the same way craigslist was dragged into somehow being a breeding ground for serial killers who were trolling the "adult services" section, which ultimately resulted incraigslist shutting it down.
There aren't much details available, but it seems that the driver appeared to be a pretty "normal" family man. If the criminal background/etc didn't turn anything up, then why would there be a significantly higher bar for Uber compared to a typical cab company.
I'm no über fanboy, but this certainly looks like a piece trying to stick it to Uber and generating negative PR which could scare future users from using uber. Bring out the pitchforks!
Are you saying that the employers of all murderers, rapists, etc are responsible for looking into the future and determining whether or not an employee will do something illegal?
not in the least, but providing a service that allows people to connect but provides no promise of a backgroudn check and simply facilitates offline contact (i.e., craigslist) seems notably different from Uber's directly connecting of customer and driver, facilitation of interaction, promise of background checks, and charging of a customer safety fee.
