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I would use $1000 to purchase lab reagents and host a class teaching participants how to sequence a short segment of their choice from their own genome - for fr
by 100ideas 17y ago
I would use $1000 to purchase lab reagents and host a class teaching participants how to sequence a short segment of their choice from their own genome - for free!
- vlad 17y agoThey are pooling their money together to entice smart, creative individuals of their choice to spend one month each at their coworking office by giving them recognition and paying them $1,000 to be there. This will be a great way to meet and learn from such people who they might not ever hear about or meet otherwise, never-mind work alongside for a month. It also gives the house some publicity as well as a list of cool people who were "guests".
- noelchurchill 17y agoHow is it not helpful or useful??
- vlad 17y agoIt was his first (or second) post on News.YC, and it seemed sarcastic. (I've removed the first sentence of my paragraph.)
- mcantor 17y agoThe kicker here is that OP of this thread appears to be Mac Cowell, one of the Awesome Foundation members. http://awesomefoundation.org/controls/whois http://awesomefoundation.org/controls/whois
- Tichy 17y agoWhy not just run that class and ask participants to pay? I would gladly pay for such a class.
- rms 17y agoI would sell a kick ass PCR lab for 3500 if anyone is interested...