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Uber for Everything 23 Aug 2013 | 10:14 pm
San Francisco has 800,000 inhabitants. How many cordless drills are there in this city? Probably orders of magnitude more than we actually need. I bought one six months ago, used it just once. It’s no...
Why Search Is Hard 15 Aug 2013 | 02:33 am
Yesterday I was reading this Hacker News thread about the Common Crawl, and one comment caught my attention: Common Crawl is awesome. I wonder how complex it would be to run a Google-like frontend on...
Open-source Something Often 10 Jun 2013 | 09:29 pm
If you write code for a living, when was the last time you released something as open source? If you can’t remember, I’d hold that against you in an interview. Why? Assuming you take pride in your wor...
Another Silly Startup Analogy 31 May 2013 | 04:40 am
When I was a teenager in Argentina in the 1980s, there was a weekly TV show called “Feliz Domingo” (Happy Sunday). It ran live for nine hours, between one and ten pm. It was a game show for high schoo...
Being the First Employee of a Startup Could Be Right for You 2 May 2013 | 12:06 am
In SiliconValleyStartupLand there are memes that some repeat as if they were absolute truths. One of them is “the first employee of a startup gets screwed.” Sure, and the black guy always dies first i...
My Criteria for Investing in Startups 14 Mar 2013 | 11:17 pm
Whether I like it or not I’m an angel investor, even though I prefer a different label. I don’t want to picture myself as a has-been who doesn’t have the fire to build another company. A lucky bastard...
Guns and Preventable Suicides 24 Dec 2012 | 07:33 am
Warning: what you are about to read is mostly speculation. Take with a grain of salt. Don’t trust my numbers blindly. Find your own data. The suicide rate in the United States is twelve per one hundre...
More Charts: Murders, GDP, Inequality 19 Dec 2012 | 08:36 am
I decided to plot country murder rates against gross domestic product per capita, and also against Gini coefficients. I scraped the data from these sources (.csv files at the end of the post if you’d ...
Mass Shootings, Political Correctness, and Magical Thinking 18 Dec 2012 | 01:12 am
Speaking in Newtown, CT yesterday, President Obama said: We can’t tolerate this anymore. These tragedies must end. And to end them, we must change. We will be told that the causes of such violence ...
Homicides vs. Gun Ownership 17 Dec 2012 | 02:57 am
I took the data and the script from @mdreid‘s blog post about Gun Deaths vs. Gun Ownership, and plotted Total Murder Rates (murders.csv) vs. Gun Ownership out of curiosity. The results are interesting...
