DaniFong

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by DaniFong 17y ago
I'm sure that the makers of FaceRoulette are perfectly okay with competing in the 1% market niche of non-cock oriented videochat. The 99% cock oriented niche can be left to ChatRoulette; it is only fair, they are the first to think of it, a
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by DaniFong 17y ago
We already breed dustmites; just by accident. The incubators are homes, the climate controlled by the choice of laundry detergent and thermostat. This wouldn't be much different. A starting point is just measuring the allergen content of th
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by DaniFong 17y ago
You'll live to be embarrassed by that; this is actually going to be built. I've heard from six people who've started working on something like it already. It's not even that hard: Facebook for the platform, directed edge for the recommendat
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by DaniFong 17y ago
Don't eat the vegetables, they grow in dirt !
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What's pessimistic about them? They're hundred billion dollar scale problems, surely one could recover some of that. Currently desalination plants are even more expensive, and they don't do anything with the waste product. And breeding isn'
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by DaniFong 17y ago
Pandora for chat roulette is a bad idea? How can a recommendation engine for people possibly be worse than random?
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by DaniFong 17y ago
Great hackers see more solutions to big problems than they can ever possibly execute. Why hoard ideas?
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by DaniFong 17y ago
We were rejected, with some recommendations on what to work on next; we changed our application for our technology when we heard that twice, then after nine months we raised money from a top green VC at a multimillion dollar valuation. We j
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by DaniFong 17y ago
Holy shit, someone just built this?! I just posted this as an idea I hoped someone would steal... -- Oh, I see via the whois records that it was not, in fact, registered today. Oh good, the world is not insane...
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by DaniFong 17y ago
Heck, I can do one of those.
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by DaniFong 17y ago
This is very cool. People are starting to vandalize though. I may have to make my own and close it to editing.
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by DaniFong 17y ago
God damn it. It's going on the spreadsheet.
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by DaniFong 17y ago
What should you do if you want competitors to run off and start with your idea? I already have my main thing.
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by DaniFong 17y ago
Freeman Dyson on the topic: http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/freeman-dyson-on-invention-an... Brand: One of the things I got from Infinite in All Directions – it was a delight to me, and I’ve been quoting it ever since – is that you honor i
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by DaniFong 17y ago
Cost does not equate with energy. Back in the 1950's, Freeman Dyson did a study on the cost of electricity. Electricity costs much more to use than to generate. If electricity were free there would be only about a 5 percent drop in the GNP.
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by DaniFong 17y ago
I highly recommend the book "The Extended Phenotype," by Richard Dawkins. These are hardly new debates.
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by DaniFong 17y ago
*'memoirs of a dutiful daughter'
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by DaniFong 17y ago
If you paid closer attention to the physicists, you'd realize that exceptions break the rule: they're clues to a more general theory. Is it so inconceivable that a postmenopausal woman might provide some fitness benefit for their kin? What
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by DaniFong 17y ago
According to Keynesian theory, government spending improves money circulation throughout the whole economy in a way very similar to how bypass surgery improves blood circulation in the whole body. If you distribute money to people who need
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by DaniFong 17y ago
Memes are sticker, spread faster, and far more powerful than genes. It's the negative memes of the male segment of civilizations that beget violence; it is to a great extent negative memes that have suppressed women over the years. What's g
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by DaniFong 17y ago
Completely false. Consider bees. Almost all females in a bee colony don't reproduce, but if the other females left the whole colony would collapse, no work would be done.
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by DaniFong 17y ago
It's 19% of worldwide electricity generation. http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/wuhy.html Furthermore, hydropower may be throttled up and down, such that the combination of hydro + wind and solar can hit penetrations near 50% before more energ
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by DaniFong 17y ago
Why is it an exercise in futility? Hydro power accounts for a huge amount of our power already, and there's enough in wind and solar for the rest of it. Nuclear is presently quite expensive and takes a very long time to build. There are new
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by DaniFong 17y ago
The area around Rockridge station in Oakland, CA is a pretty good example of new urbanism tending towards urban densities. It's one of my favorite neighborhoods.
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by DaniFong 17y ago
That does sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. If you're more loose with your cash than others, but don't have as many benefits or nice terms, you will systematically fund people who couldn't get cash any other way, leaving the really
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by DaniFong 17y ago
It's a lot easier to do multichannel mixing, like he does, if you can tune up many channels at once. This is way easier with multitouch.
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by DaniFong 17y ago
Sort of. The YC founders are a pretty cohesive group, so if you get into their circle you get a lot of the benefit. This goes for SV/SF based startup founders generally, too. Since it's such a closed group, if you make friends with people a
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by DaniFong 17y ago
Speaking as an ex-academic physicist, this is pure snobbery! What's wrong with civil engineering?
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by DaniFong 17y ago
There are many happy ways to live, but to each their own. I wrote an essay on my experience, a bit of a similar topic. http://daniellefong.com/2008/05/15/advice-to-the-bright-and-...
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by DaniFong 17y ago
In which ways are my suggestions extreme? I don't mean to put you on the spot: I just actually don't know what you perceive extreme in what I'm suggesting.

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