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Soylent Raises $1M, Reminds Us What’s Wrong With Silicon Valley
- api 13y agoThe other thing wrong with the tech industry is that it spews tons of money at meaningless little whiz-bang shit while major problems like antibiotic resistance, nuclear waste recycling or disposal, smart grids for renewable energy, sustainable food production, the shrinking middle class, etc. go completely unaddressed. Like where's the big venture funding for stuff like this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRACO_(antiviral) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRACO_(antiviral) The reason why Elon Musk gets compared to a goddamn superhero isn't because he's super-human. It's because he's one of a vanishingly small number of major entrepreneurs working on real problems that matter. Most of SV is working on the most inane of first world problems.