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I am Sabbath observant, and I consider the requirement to unplug once a week a real blessing. Perhaps this is confirmation bias, but I feel my work benefits from a relaxation day. I couldn't imagine working a week where I have no end in sight.

Those observations are inconvenient, I'm not sure they're controversial.

What made that controversial?

Why's that?

Agree, I've spoken with VC's who said getting liquidity for founders ended up ruining the companies because all the founders cared about was finding ways to create more liquidity.

PH can feel a lot like a popularity contest and a SV insider's club, not like a democratization of launch.

That's not the question, the question is whether we want to allow practices like this that encourage companies spending time and energy figuring out how to screw each other?

We should allow practices that tend to make companies compete to produce the best product. Too many people will read this story and think how cool Uber was to come up with this strategy.

Feels like some of this should be illegal

I submitted, saw it shared by Marc Andreessen, never visited the site before.

It could also be that children that spend time with their parents are more well adjusted.

I think there will be many solutions to this issue. Right now, we're guinea pigs with devices.

YC on YC crime.

The point of posting these articles here on HN is not to talk about Trump's intentions or qualifications. Trump's strategy is something you can and should apply: stay away from details and make people think past the close.

The lack of innovation inside classrooms is partially because drugs seem like an easier hack.

YC has no foreign offices to date. Any idea on why the different strategies?

Ted Cruz also comes across as genuine, but he's missing the Trump brand.

Yeah, that's where he lost me too.

This post is fascinating, in particular his prediction that Trump will win the general election.

Btw if you want to see a version of a live conversation, here's one in doing right now http://abovethelaw.com/?p=386196

Thanks!

Actually, that's exactly how it works and in many ways ReplyAll is a much easier way to publish a conversation than a podcast.

Which is why btw, I told the guys from Reply All that they were infringing on our TM.

But that's another story...

Thanks! And we do. The average engagement on any ReplyAll conversation is between ten and eleven minutes. The publishers who use is to publish live conversations will typically see between 2 and 3 page views per unique reader.

Plus, we are currently building better ways to follow the conversations. Right now you can subscribe to the final version of the conversation, but we're adding in subscribe to follow by email, Twitter, Chrome plug-in etc

Sure. Interviews in general are better than a guest post because it requires less work from your guest and you get to ask follow up questions and get answers that you think your audience will find interesting. Late night hosts interview their guests, they don't usually invite guests on and have them monologue.

ReplyAll is better than the standard way of doing interviews because the questions are not predetermined, there is active back and forth and the readers get to follow the conversation as it unfolds.

So far bombs include situations where people use ReplyAll as a replacement for live chat around an event or simply include too many people.

Our best conversations usually take place over an extended period of time and between a small group of people 2-4

PS here are the links other than the homepage that I mentioned in the post, now clickable

The conversation with Sam http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/09/ycombinate/

An interview Mark Cuban http://abovethelaw.com/2015/05/a-conversation-with-mark-cuba...

A discussion about depression with Brad Feld https://blog.replyall.me/a-conversation-about-depression-wit...

Debate with David Frum on marijuana legalization http://abovethelaw.com/2015/05/is-legalizing-pot-a-bad-idea-...

Sam Harris & Glenn Greenwald's debate (not done with ReplyAll)

http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/dear-fellow-liberal2

Thanks. Right now, we have the basic free version plus we've white labeled the platform for a few sites. Debates.eu is an example, they are launching soon. We also consult for a few non-profits and help them get the most out of their use of ReplyAll. Ultimately, we'll build those services in, but it's been a good way to keep cash coming in at an early stage, plus we helped one non-profit use ReplyAll to secure two grants.

But what we're experimenting with now (with one big publisher) is the software for free, but they pay us for repeat visitors and/or we advertise inside the emails that go out to people who subscribe to the conversations and split that revenue with the publishers (this is the Outbrain model).

thanks for that!

Yes. We actually added that because one of the campaigns in the last Israeli election asked us to add it in. They didn't use it then, but we actually just white labeled a version for the group running their campaign.

It's a good question, and I'm not sure we have a good answer. We did show that we had built a product that people want, use and even love, but I don't we think did a good job of showing that we were building a $10B business.

Does that have a tracking device? I had to get rid of sidekick because it was alerting recipients with a red warning inside their emails.