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by flipside 16y ago
I'm placing my money on company X, you know, that company that's barely a twinkle in anybody's eye but will grow up to dominate the web 3.0 landscape. In 5 years, I'll bet you'll see Facebook and Google teaming up against X, how crazy a pre
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by flipside 16y ago
Clearly it's time to disrupt the commenting system of HN.
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by flipside 16y ago
Building up my network is exactly what I'm focusing on right now, because when I came up with the idea, I quickly realized nobody I knew could directly help me and what I want to do is going to require a solid team. I figure I'll spend anot
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by flipside 16y ago
This article encapsulated one of my strengths, the difficulty of focusing exclusively on any one thing. As an individual that has always been somewhat easily distracted, I've learned to take advantage of this by always staying on the lookou
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by flipside 16y ago
Crowd sourcing operates by certain rules, many of which aren't well understood. With some luck, I'll have a working version of W3 version of crowd sourcing up and running within a year, which will hopefully solve some of the problems mentio
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by flipside 16y ago
The approach I'm taking is to make myself invaluable to the project. At first, like you, I was scared that anybody could copy it and do it themselves, but after revealing my idea to others, I realized they didn't "get it" like I did. Every
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by flipside 16y ago
A cure for aging terrifies me, my gut tells me that it would be the end of homo sapiens. Think about it, do you really think all higher order life has this "defect" for no reason? Without aging, the youth would be at an eternal disadvantage
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by flipside 16y ago
For the record, I check my sanity daily and always get the same result: Yes, I'm crazy, but not completely.
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Poll: What would you do if you invented PCR for the internet?
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by flipside 16y ago
Patent it.
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by flipside 16y ago
Open source it.
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by flipside 16y ago
Start a company focused on the technology.
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by flipside 16y ago
Start a company focused on an application of the technology.
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by flipside 16y ago
Verify you're not crazy.
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by flipside 16y ago
Test the bejeezus out of the algorithm to make sure it works.
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by flipside 16y ago
Apply to YC and let PG decide.
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by flipside 16y ago
Go back to sleep, you're dreaming, such an algorithm couldn't exist.
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by flipside 16y ago
You do know that Groupon is matching donations to all 3 causes up to $100,000 right? If it's a choice between ignoring and acknowledging/raising money/pissing people off, at least Groupon is doing something. Not offending people is a surpri
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by flipside 16y ago
If it were that easy to convince people homeopathy was bogus, we'd have world peace by now. Most people believe what they want to believe, evidence be damned. Sad, but true.
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by flipside 16y ago
Here's my take from having gone through a similar problem, it may or may not be relevant to you. A few years ago I had a great idea for a product and would pitch it to whoever would listen. I had the domain, had a plan, just had to execute.
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by flipside 16y ago
Cost is relative and does not need to translate to a monetary value. 1. An entrepreneur spending $500 on a gift after they've IPOed/sold the company compared to when they're ramen profitable. The significance is different because the level
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by flipside 16y ago
Quora seems to think that scaling votes will allow it to preserve the status quo of "high quality" answers. Is it just me or does that seem pretty naive?
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by flipside 16y ago
Props on figuring out a way to incentivize edits. I've been working on a similar idea but this one is pretty elegant.
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by flipside 16y ago
Any Q&A site that discourages potentially useful answers is doing it wrong. As it happens, I've come up with an algorithm that would solve the most common problems with Q&A sites (included the ones cited in this article) and am in t
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by flipside 16y ago
Hapa Pride! (Hawaiian term for multi-racial)
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by flipside 16y ago
This is an example of the gap between what people think should make them happy and what actually will. Once upon a time, I thought I could be happy if did the things that seemed to make others happy. When I realized I couldn't find happines
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by flipside 16y ago
Is wanting to put Demand Media out of business a noble goal? By creating a service with better content of course.
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by flipside 16y ago
Vivek is absolutely right about Quora's scaling chances. I made the same assessment back in October when I first started using it and their recent unveiling of their future plans just confirmed it. Quora is niche, it picked a good niche to
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by flipside 16y ago
The best real world example I can think of is elitism, the idea that the smartest people are always the best for solving problems.
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by flipside 16y ago
I like this article because it's related to the algorithm I came up with for handling group diversity with scaling issues. Still working on the implementation though.

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