pratyushag2's comments

Love Paprika for meal planning, saving recipes (and eating them), allows for easy modifications of recipe as well as web imports, and great interface for groceries. Definitely worth the price.

Funny. At first I laughed and the googled [0]. The response would suggest that either chinese teens are immune or china is blocking it in most of china. Or something else, but we know that the users are not in china.

0: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1299807/number-of-monthl...

Agreed. I used Instaweb to clean it up and make it printable. Then I sent it to my Kindle because it was still 30 pages.

Would the costs and development be much lower and easier if the focus was augmenting humans strength in physical work? Would that still qualify as a robot company?

Why do you wish that you had bought the house despite accurately predicting and waiting for the downturn? Didn’t you get a significantly better deal or did it just get offset anyway? Curious because it’s a similar decision now. A recession is inevitable, will it happen in the next 3-6 months or take two years is hard to predict.

Burn I wonder if that’s really a problem because in 3 years, if GOogle Cloud becomes a billion dollar company then most wont question its financial importance to Alphabet.

Yes, Sleepio is very helpful!

It’s 2m cells, not 400k.

Thanks for your well researched comment!

Your board members are crypto enthusiasts so I would recommend getting somebody who is very knowledgeable in crypto to 1) assess if crypto is a good fit for the company 2) if yes, then how to go about executing it in a way that it's legal and profitable.

It's possible that you may be proven wrong or likey that you're right. Either way, it would be hard for a board of say no to such an idea and it would delay the execution of it to such time as when your investments can vest. If they still move forward by then and you're uncomfortable despite all this, you can leave as soon as your stocks have vested. Your goal today is to delay, secondary is to convince.

Maybe I’m understanding incorrectly: 13k in teacher salaries would be per course taught by a teacher right? Which really means cost should be 1/4th.

52k per student for a 5,000 student college is 260m per year of claimed expenditure. That is quite a lot money for a faculty of 700, even after subtracting boarding and scholarships, no? I do not know where money is going, although the Bain research does seem to support the evidence for concluding that admin is a benefactor of it.

Twitter should own the utility of being a messaging forum for the public. This means a communication layer that can be easily used by many different services for different purposes. From there on, it should open up this message level integration as easily embrddable feature for websites and to app developers. Monetization potential will increase with engagement and engagement to a forum using twitter should be made as easy as text messages.

Cut costs and cut it by a lot!

These are incredible pictures. What kind of camera did you use to click these?

New Incentives (YC S16) | SF | REMOTE | Full-time

New Incentives is a metrics-based non-profit that is creating one of the most cost-effective ways of saving lives. We are looking for a senior engineer who will lead the development of tools to help scale our organization. This role requires strong skills managing backend and frontend services.

This is very important for us and we're looking for someone who is motivated by the challenges of increasing efficiency and building products that are scalable.

Email: pratyush-AT-newincentives. org

Google alerts. Just insert the journalist or topic names that you're most interested in. Does an incredible job of not only research papers but of informing you pre-publisihing, which has advantages.

Google and Facebook provide tools to help people implement their dreams. For example, our nonprofit heavily relies on Google's services (email, drive, sheets)for everything. In fact, sheets doubles as a database that can be used for all sorts of functionalities without needing to learn how to code. My point is that tools that help other companies in their journey to innovate can make a real difference. I realized this only when we were in Nigeria setting up the entire program. I am much less convinced bout Facebook of course but I imagine it helps new businesses with an avenue to get a lot of early revenue. Substitutes, at least for Google products for me seem much less functional in comparison and would probably require an equal # of engineers.

I have no stock in Google or Facebook and don't benefit by promoting either in any way. I just genuinely appreciate what Google's tools has allowed us to do (linked spreadsheets, email, docs, Android, Chromebook, drive and search of course!). I don't care much for fb but I imagine there are businesses that wouldn't survive w/o it and whatsapp is amazing at bringing ppl closer.

We founded our own organization in Nigeria to be able to do this, all the employees are hired directly by our organization. Women are enrolled at the clinics by our team and then called to give the cash transfer code (codes are redeemable at ATMs).

Obstetric fistula is not one of our focus areas.

We haven't had this problem yet and no clinic has reported this as a potential issue either. From what we have seen, these mothers care about their babies A LOT!

This is the cost to the government and NGOs. Basically, this leads to a lifetime of consuming drugs which often need to be subsidized by the government and other orgs. Naturally, it also increases the probability of more people getting infected. The costs are hard to estimate but add up to a very large sum and consumes a lot of global aid money that could be better used if these babies weren't born with HIV.

Thanks for pointing that out. While the average estimated number is easily into the thousands of $$, there is not enough evidence to say that it is hundreds of thousands.