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1. 151.▲
   by create_account 19y ago

   No, he means let the Idiocracy world of the future do this, if it's done, ever.
2. 152.▲
   by create_account 20y ago

   BTW, I'm seeing a weird bug in Safari. Every time I reply or just click an up-arrow, I get an error saying "does nto exist". Then I go back, and see that my comment was posted and my up-vote was counted. What gives?
3. 153.▲
   by create_account 20y ago

   Wait until you get groupies camping outside your house, just to get glimpse of you. You could be the next David Koresh or Jim Jones.
4. 154.▲
   by create_account 20y ago

   Point or no point, he sounds like an ass.
5. 155.▲
   by create_account 20y ago

   I get the Valleywag concept (be the E!, People, Page 6, etc.) of Silicon Valley, but Valleywag is worse than those rags because the people it's profiling (and subtly mocking at the same time) are more than just targets of gossip or adulat
6. 156.▲
   by create_account 20y ago

   If everyone's "lifecasting", who's watching? One Justin gets an audience (now, in the short term). One thousand (or even one hundred) Justins are not so interesting.
7. 157.▲
   by create_account 20y ago

   I agree with you. Whatever breakthrough they might have made technologically (and I don't know anything about streaming video, so maybe what they're doing is not so special), the actual product is rather uninspiring. Some exhibitionists mi
8. 158.▲
   by create_account 20y ago

   Here's another naysayer on Paul Graham and the YC experience, in a bit more serious tone: http://www.raydeck.com/2006/10/paul-graham-is-hurting-the-children/
9. 159.▲
   by create_account 20y ago

   Make urls in comments clickable, ie. automatically wrap markup around them, or let us type the markup ourselves.
10. 160.▲
    by create_account 20y ago

    We need more models of successful companies done without VC funding. At too many startup conferences I've been to, the message (explicit or implied) was "you need VC funding". I'm sure it's not always true.
11. 161.▲
    by create_account 20y ago

    So Google doesn't buy YouTube without VCs? That's what I'd say if I were a VC!
12. 162.▲
    by create_account 20y ago

    Uh-ok, I hope pg doesn't hear that!