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Hey, sam, great idea... how about you ask the US to give these 100 visas to ANOTHER firm first, if you really believe it. Otherwise, you sound like a selfish douche.


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Sorry for saying "douche", but depending on the tone in which he presented this idea to me, I might honestly say that. It's one thing to ask for 100 visas for YC, it's another thing to ask for 10 VCs spread across 10 different firms, and suggesting hat YC would take most of the burden of setting it up / distributing resources.


I actually ran the idea by a few other firms and they didn't seem quite as interested in international founders as we are.

We're willing to do the work on this. If others are, that'd be fine with us too. We just don't want to wait 5 more years for anything to happen.


Ah, would have loved to have seen that in the post. With that information, your post is a totally different read. Apologies.


I suspect davemcclure/500 Startups would be totally on board with this; they're almost MORE international focused than YC is.


Almost more international == just a little less international


I meant almost in the sense of "possibly", as in YC is international in the range of 0.2-0.4 and 500 is in the range 0.25 - 0.45 or something. And that YC still has a greater number/quality of international startups, even if 500 has a greater percentage, partially because YC has been around longer and has had a few big successes (Team Ireland at Stripe is worth more than all of 500 combined, and possibly more than TechStars, although Digital Ocean might test that).


This is a JOKE. Let Y Combinator? Oh yeah, bro? Wow. If the US were to give ONE company this right, that would be complete bllsht. I like YC, but think before you speak.


Definitely disagree. 'sama has clarified that he meant YC would volunteer to beta test it. Probably the fairest way would be for govt to take applications and select X at random.


Definitely agree


can we stop with the atom posts, please.

atom has built-in support for git? wait, no way!


you are the man.



your optimal lineup for today has danilo as a SF, projected to get 27+ points, but he hasn't played a game all season, and is out tonight... which makes me wonder...

what data are you using to project averages? 2012-2013 season?


Point of this tool is that you plug in your own projection values and it computes the best possible lineup.


ah makes sense...so that mean you are projecting danilo to get 27 tonight?


I'm just using (bad) third-party projections for now with the assumption that people who want to use my tool will be bringing their own projections to the table.

I also feel for Danilo...so many surgeries.


Am I the only one whose link has "Authorized=false.html?"...?

Can't get to the article...


chrome can't verify authenticity of this link


What does that even mean? It looks like an authentic link to me.


not down here


where is 'here'?


Bitcoin. easy.


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