“..simply being a part of YCombinator alleviates suspicion of all of the bad aspects of being a dog (lack of credibility, obvious inexperience, youthful stupidity) and also exposes all of the good aspects (mostly, the publicity, and perhaps the fact that you’re more in touch with what’s new and hot).

“Google’s acquisitions chief is looking for crazy ideas [that] ignore the usual restraints of investment levels required or design parameters or ‘Gee I need more servers than anyone ever thought was possible’.. We don’t do traffic for traffic’s sake. It has to be highly monetizable.

“..the problem with linking to good discussions from a content aggregator: you import [the] fuckwads without contributing measurably to the discussion.

“..the point of content is to create interesting discussion. But as a site’s popularity increases, the probability of having an intelligent discussion approaches zero.

“..opportunities for abstraction follow the Zipf distribution.