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by eaenki 7y ago
Yes. Just like that. And Google and Boston Dynamics came out of it. That’s amazing. Now what if the budget could be $30B a year, $1-3MM instead of $100K (which might have been suitable in 1997, certainly not today) and take 2 months instead
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by eaenki 7y ago
This isn’t free money for personal use, this is money that you legally have to spend developing that far fetched idea.
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by eaenki 7y ago
Name one company that raised its first million with an IPO in the last few decades. Let alone one that did so while producing something like Google
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by eaenki 7y ago
I once regarded Ethereum as the the only successful project out of it. But is it? Did it create anything meaningfully better? Not really. Anyway, yes. And Peter Thiel’s fellowship is great. It’s just that he doesn’t have $30B a year to spar
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by eaenki 7y ago
Well, it could be equally appreciated if all those humans longing for better/cheaper education realized how much better their life because they can learn literally anything for free with a tap/click because someone runs Google&#x2
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by eaenki 7y ago
Anything that’s meant to bring a x10 improvement in how fast or far humans move, how fast humans can learn and communicate, how long humans live, any creature’s freedom, environment cleanliness
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by eaenki 7y ago
Well, a lot of the budget of any given government is corrupted away, regardless of what you put that into. But some inevitably goes to what it was meant to address. It won’t take it all, or no one would have any access to healthcare facilit
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by eaenki 7y ago
Even Lockheed (or some other aerospace company) at some point was a risky venture developing far fetched tech, doing basic research So I’d answer: all of them
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by eaenki 7y ago
That doesn’t sound far fetched tho, which would be the main requirement
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by eaenki 7y ago
There’s way more people complaining about expensive or poor education around the world than lack of growth capital for their far fetched science research / companies So I would deem it to be under appreciated by the general public
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by eaenki 7y ago
Yes that’s what I meant
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by eaenki 7y ago
While this is just a very basic idea I put out, still, corruption is rampant everywhere anyway. I suspect it would be a net positive to have a ton of Brilliant students getting money for their projects even if half of the money are corrupte
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by eaenki 7y ago
Mhh, I simply suspect that a family would rather fund their son’s projects and their friends because of human’s nature, and since one can’t ask a stranger to fund him, and not everyone can be bff with rich dudes, this is probably a problem
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by eaenki 7y ago
Well the US is the major superpower in good part because of Cisco, Bell Labs, Fairchild, Intel, Apple, Lockheed, Google etc.
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by eaenki 7y ago
Imo Education is overvalued, Capital is under appreciated, And, Because Capital is trapped into networks, that Capital is squandered among an infinite array of companies employing the talent and producing products that don’t make you, or th
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by eaenki 7y ago
The article cites he will go to uni in the Netherlands. Why not MIT/Harvard/Stanford/Oxford/Cambridge?
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by eaenki 7y ago
Really? The author touts how amazing a $900 fare is (MXP-JFK) but a quick search on Expedia returns the same flight, two ways, non stop, Iberia/American for $322. And I entered a random date. Depressingly bad journalism.
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by eaenki 7y ago
The past ten years little happened. But computer vision and batteries improved quite a bit. With those two things, I expect to see the rise of the robots in the next two decades. Transportation, deliveries, arms in healthcare and manufactur
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by eaenki 7y ago
no that's non sense. R&D is a huge fixed upfront cost while Uber's drivers are an ongoing cost that scales linearly. Just like Intel (huge upfront cost to design chips) VS Victoria's Secret , the former has unlimited upsi
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by eaenki 7y ago
This article is the weirdest shit I ever read. I would rather jump off a cliff than do what’s described there- not an exaggeration. Dude!
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by eaenki 7y ago
Volatility and lack of context which are amplified in a big org bc it's full of bureaucracy. Also Wall Street and Washington like full-time employees. Also it's hard to enforce IP laws on a dude in India. They're mostly used
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by eaenki 7y ago
Just short it.
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by eaenki 7y ago
Theme parks and Instagrammable spaces. In 10-20 years VR will replace almost any space for almost everyone. It doesn't make sense to me.
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by eaenki 7y ago
Since your model consistently beats the market and you can hedge at city level, Wouldn’t you be better off just raising money for an hedge fund that goes long and short with some leverage? It’s a cool idea anyway, good luck
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by eaenki 7y ago
Can you link the amazon listing?
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Ask HN: How do you find companies in receivership? And how to buy them
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by eaenki 7y ago
Beautiful
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by eaenki 7y ago
That's nuts. Millions and millions of dollars left on the table. You have to A/B test the hell out of pricing (and methods of delivery). I've been a long time user btw. Great product.
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by eaenki 7y ago
The insanity of crowds
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by eaenki 7y ago
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