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Awards for startups seem silly http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzPfKI4b-dg#t=4m27s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzPfKI4b-dg#t=4m27s
by richcollins 16y ago
Awards for startups seem silly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzPfKI4b-dg#t=4m27s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzPfKI4b-dg#t=4m27s
- chrischen 16y agoAwards in general are silly.
- chegra 16y agoI don't think awards should be the end goal, but they do serve a purpose. For instance, most people on here probably wouldn't have heard about Liu Xiaobo, well atleast before he won the Nobel Peace Prize. Having the backing of prestigious award such as Nobel Prize will only bolster his cause; he's in prison. Increase financial and political support is not silly at all. For scientist, this might mean that they wouldn't have to fight as hard to get funding from people who don't understand their research. The people who don't understand research understand awards, so it can be used as a proxy to make judgement.
- chrischen 16y agoYou don't need an award for any of those things. The award recognizes the accomplishment only to those who cannot understand it. That's why it's silly. But there are other ways to recognize their achievements... like understanding what they did and why it's important. Yes in an ideal world it should be unnecessary...
- ericflo 16y agoWow. That video was wonderful.
- btipling 16y agoI've been feeling down in the dumps all day, depressed about life in general, and I've just discovered thanks to you that watching videos of Richard Feynmann cheer me up. Thank you.
- richcollins 16y agoI have trouble watching them because they always make me feel like I'm wasting my life :-(
- kordless 16y ago"And then all of a sudden some strange phenomenon occurs in a corner." That give me hope. :)