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I'm the CEO of a startup specializing in personal electronics and communications equipment designed to withstand rising global temperatures. We're in our second
by hettygreen 3y ago
I'm the CEO of a startup specializing in personal electronics and communications equipment designed to withstand rising global temperatures. We're in our second round of funding and are ramping up production as we speak. Our goal is to get global-warming-hardened phones into the hands of nearly every human on the planet before it's too late.
Sure, the mass-manufacture of 5 billion more phones is only going to contribute to this global warming, especially since we're making these in third-world countries under lax environmental laws. But that just means we'll be selling even more phones!
- tux3 3y agoI like the philosophy Don't watch the world burn, warm yourself by the fire
- agency 3y agoThe rapidly collapsing biosphere presents a number of rapidly expanding business opportunities
- srgpqt 3y agoIt’s a great time to start a moving company! People will increasingly start migrating away from the equator for more livable temperatures.
- avereveard 3y agoPro tip: constitute as NGO, the tax structure is very convenient and most of the capital will come from traffickers anyway, so you cannot exactly declare it. Just make sure money is properly laundered before accepting it as donation. Art auction are great to shift large capital quickly.
- sogen 3y agoLet me write all this down, great tips! Add "blockchain-for-X" and you got yourself a new customer.
- bloopernova 3y agoWeapons. People will kill to keep their patch of desert from others.
- wongarsu 3y agoAutomated border defenses, both lethal and nonlethal. Weapons that are technically not lethal, but make the victim wish they were (bonus points if the weapon doesn't leave any external marks on the victim, to prevent media backlash). Weapons and procedures for destroying damns with minimal damage to your own country that lies downstream. Hypertargeted cloudseeding, to make sure it rains on your fields instead of your neighbors'. So many new opportunities for psychopaths to earn lots and lots of money.
- fransje26 3y agoLet's squeeze out the last quick bucks before the ship sinks!
- chrisfosterelli 3y agoUnfortunately, even if we stopped all global emissions at this very moment we will not avoid all of the serious outcomes from climate change. That doesn't mean that we should give up, but we should prepare for the world to keep changing. That means that we need people working on solving emissions but also that we need people working on adaptation to the changing world. Adaptation is a lot less sexy than directly solving climate change, but if we don't do it a lot more people are going to have a much worse quality of life than they need to.
- rollcat 3y ago> [...], but if we don't do it a lot more people are going to die. ftfy.
- chrisfosterelli 3y agoI had originally wrote 'die' too, because that's true as well -- but it also applies to things ranging from reduced smartphone access to loss of property from increasing wildfires. And these will all have effects on us too.
- petemir 3y agoAnd bring some marshsmellows...
- euniceee3 3y agoIs this an add-on case situation or IP play?
- DancerOfFaran 3y agofound the VC
- adhesive_wombat 3y agoI assume such a thing would be best as an IP thing, because device companies wouldn't find it particularly hard in a technical sense when they have a powerful business need to make heat tolerant phones, but if you can mine the path with patents beforehand, you get some nice fees when they do.
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- ornornor 3y ago> Our goal is to get global-warming-hardened phones into the hands of nearly every human on the planet before it's too late. So this is our life now. It makes me sad.
- cinntaile 3y agoIt's a joke. A pretty good one, it fits HN.
- birdyrooster 3y agoAnd they have to step over Apple’s corpse to accomplish that, first red flag it was a joke.
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