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Note that he is commending the resourcefulness of the manager, not his dishonesty. Also he is asking them to invest in eternity and not things that perish. Unfortunately, you consider Jesus to be irrelevant as you wrote in an essay: "bronze age shepherds wandering about in Palestine". On the contrary. Read Jesus. Your world will be shaken.

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(I look Hispanic myself, and realized how much they are disliked when my wife observed that I receive glares and cold stares from strangers).

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=59891

My room mate was from the untouchable caste (translation for Americans). He was super intelligent too - managed to leave the country and got 2 post graduate degrees in the USA, trained himself to run marathons.

regarding your comment on hereditary occupations, please read this article

And no, I am not a brahmin.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2231011.stm

"In the dead of the night, when the city of six million goes to sleep, groups of jobless low-caste Hindus, known as Dalits, eke out a living by removing human excrement from pits in the poorer neighbourhoods of the city."

wow. did not know that.

"what it is that makes black-white marriages taboo"

Black Americans are a lower caste - Unfortunately. How many wealthy intellectual white-black marriages do you see? Few. But now Hispanics are the new ------ in America today. (a certain word that I wont use)

It is like saying, if you studied in public school in small town america, you cannot get into Harvard.

you are mistaken. The best Universities are almost free - subsidized by the government. (However in high schools, those that are English speaking Western schools do require wealth). Only brains counts. The IIT Math entrance exam is said to be the toughest in the world (google for past qs papers).

2) The caste system is very prevalent. It also leads to corruption similarly as Rick Warren found tribalism was the cause of corruption in Africa.

3) How many white-black mixed marriages do you see in America? Not many. Most kids up for adoption are biracial black-white. The prejudices remain over here in the USA - at least in relationships. Read the chapter on preferences in interracial dating in the book Freakonomics.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14926

The form is at http://www.ksrevenue.org/pdf/forms/k-53.pdf

2) If you were using your savings to live on so that you could do prototyping, can that be treated as an expense? (payroll or other). This assumes you were incorporated.

What about employees who own their business - would that still mess things up for them vis-a-vis VCs?

YC would be a loose umbrella of organizations.

I know it too well - been on both sides of the fence with the same provider (Blue Cross Blue Shield).

you dont have to get into YC to succeed, but understand he was talking at an exclusive event - the final YC dinner.

Also understand the odds. He picks teams most likely to succeed. If he rates odds of success as 1/2 (or whatever the article said), and the odds of getting in are 20/400, then the odds of success for you and me, those who didnt get in, is 1/40. Which is 2.5% and vibes with I recall that people generally say that startup odds are 2%.