DaniFong

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by DaniFong 16y ago
Incidentally, does anyone know of any proper airship startups? :-) Here's one: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/AirshipVictoria
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by DaniFong 16y ago
I am, frankly, amazed that gene patents are now ineligible where software/business method patents remain so. This might be consistent with whatever theology the courts have sanctified, but it is the exact opposite of what makes sense for
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Indeed. In particular, I've noticed that nearly all of the cities I've lived in and love (SF, Berkeley, NYC, Montreal) have rent control, whereas many cities that don't have rent control (Dallas, Houston, Phoenix) I've really had no interes
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by DaniFong 16y ago
I had about $300, plus thousands in student debt, a couple of weeks before I took a flight up to Cambridge for the YC interview that sparked my first real entre into starting up. Starting up was a mad, year long scramble of part time jobs,
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Can we eat to starve cancer? (Ted Talk, William Li)(ted.com)
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This does resonate with me. Thank you.
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This is a very good idea -- one can increase the heat exchange quick dramatically, actually. This works also for washing machines, driers, and dishwashers.
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Is the toughness you're referring to the same kind of toughness portrayed in Hollywood and Schoolyards? So much of toughness and machismo is posturing. Do successful founders aggressively take control of every conversation and confrontation
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Presumably, someone has already checked this, but... it seems like temperature might be the primary influence. As the temperature increases, the heavier radioactive gases, like radon, as distributed more evenly, and higher up in the atmosph
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I hope very much that this is an overestimate -- otherwise, I am very, very concerned that we are going to switch to an Earth with a dead sea, atmosphere and climate controlled by land biota, as it has been in other hot cycles. Nature Artic
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The dead sea: 40 per cent decline in the ocean's phytoplankton last century(independent.co.uk)
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Are you speculating, or is this apparent from some data that you have seen and I haven't yet?
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"If you want to get a bootstrapped startup off the ground...somewhere in the early days...you'll have to break #1." This is baloney and has a higher chance of making great cofounders and hackers (like, for example, Marc Andreessen : http:
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by DaniFong 16y ago
Gmail sells oodles of advertising. It's not profitable?
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The Best Circuit Diagram Ever(starburst.hackerfriendly.com)
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As an immigrant here in the United States, I feel like I must be totally out of touch. How is this politically incorrect?
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Malcolm Gladwell isn't alone in suggesting that the solutions to power-law type problems, which usually require focussing on small parts of the problem rather than making sweeping changes, are unpalatable to government. Jane Jacobs, in the
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by DaniFong 16y ago
This is a pretty interesting proposal, and I must say, on first impression I think that implementing a Python-base solution would be a massive improvement to our current state of affairs, to a solution that might be the best 'good enough' s
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This is not a bad idea. It might be a great one. Do you know anything about the logistics of getting something like this legally worked out? Presumably, there are some businesses who'd be okay with that very high coupon -- as the business m
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by DaniFong 16y ago
Much of the best education already does come from the web, Bill. It's just that most of society doesn't recognize it.
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It wasn't genetic change that prompted the development of civilization from our ancestors. It was memetic change. Culture and the spread of ideas is what makes us human. The drive to have and raising children is a powerful force in the huma
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There's this fetish for formica tables, broken chairs and rotting pizza boxes among startups that's frankly a little hard to understand (or at least to justify). Art, office space, furniture and infrastructure are often really not all that
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Build what had previously not been needed.
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Is there an unfulfilled opportunity in creating bond-type instruments for investment in startups/businesses that may never get acquired or to the public market? Many founders don't want to exit, or don't intend to (37Signals would be a marq
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As far as I can tell, succeeding in a startup that you own, even if you're a founder and make out pretty well, largely boils down to the rule of pinball: Win, and you get to keep playing.
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The Rockefeller foundation funded the argonomists behind the green revolution, which has hugely improved world nutrition and has been credited with saving more than a billion lives. Philanthropy has worked in the past.
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We've started a company to make an energy storage system using compressed air that's 10x cheaper and 10x longer lasting than traditional batteries, while being as efficient. We don't need someone with the skillset immediately, but we would
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Most of life consists in trading one kind of freedom for another. What is striking about RMS is that in his defense of software freedom he sacrifices other freedoms of life that you and I enjoy.
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Something few with love for physics left in their hearts could fail to marvel at, once more.
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My teacher in seventh grade was a tenured paranoid schizophrenic who had it in for me as soon as I corrected her on the first day of class. This was combined with an altogether toxic social environment. For me, school seems pointless -- a f

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