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by jrkelly 14y ago
I'd try to find a local iGEM team to join. http://igem.org/Main_Page That's the best way to build experience quickly if you are new to the field.
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by jrkelly 14y ago
I think by cloud he just meant "outsourced services." DNA synthesis definitely has nothing to do with the internet.
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by jrkelly 14y ago
>Has any synth organisms other than what's come out of >Venter's lab been created and proven viable? You should think of the Venter work as a technical demonstration of building a very large piece of DNA (>500 kilobases, a sma
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by jrkelly 14y ago
Sadly no, as I'd clearly be making more money. Sri, admit that this is the best Synbio post you've seen on HN.
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by jrkelly 14y ago
As a founder of one of the companies mentioned (Ginkgo BioWorks), I have to say this is actually a very nice outline of the industry. It's not clear yet if there's enough of a market for individual services to be broken out and put in the
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by jrkelly 14y ago
Comments under the CNN article are universally positive. You basically never see that on news site comments -- seems like there is broad public support for ratcheting down security theater. I don't really understand what stands it up now.
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by jrkelly 14y ago
"In another 50 years, would you expect Apple or Exxon to still be near the top of the list?". Is that a trick question? Exxon obviously - they make the thing we can't live without.
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by jrkelly 14y ago
I didn't ask any of these questions, understood the larger concept, and signed up. it sounds like you just don't like socks.
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by jrkelly 14y ago
This is a terrible list. Is it really likely that the 10 best books for entrepreneurs were all written after 2010? These are just the latest fad books.
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by jrkelly 14y ago
Yep, seems like he is just a bad version of the logo turtle.
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by jrkelly 14y ago
100% right on focus, but this part is grating: "But as you know, a few key people in any business have disproportionate impact on the company’s ultimate success. And nobody is more important in this regard than senior management." You see
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by jrkelly 15y ago
Pretty impressive reach for class notes. They were excellent though.
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The Creative Monopoly (David Brooks)(nytimes.com)
14 points by jrkelly 15y ago|2 comments
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by jrkelly 15y ago
The social sharing was very valuable for content junkies, b/c the only people who shared stuff on reader were other folks who were heavy users of RSS. Comparing signal to noise from that community vs. my twitter feed is a total joke. When
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by jrkelly 15y ago
Given the caliber of people that YC can now recruit - yes, that problem seems like a waste of their talent.
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by jrkelly 15y ago
I wasn't at the Demo Day, but it's hard to consider making car repair more efficient to be a problem that really matters. Not saying it can't be a decent business, but your essay about ambitious ideas was pushing people to do better.
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by jrkelly 15y ago
This was exactly my thoughts when reading the demo-day list. I wonder how pg reconciles this? Seems like an emerging strategic weakness for YC.
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by jrkelly 15y ago
Who are the best 'reversers' out there? I work in bioengineering which is largely a reverse-engineering discipline (i.e. we do a lot of tweaking natural organisms that we didn't design) -- just curious if there are overlapping ways of thin
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by jrkelly 15y ago
I actually have the opposite opinion - I'm more worried by the current situation. I think the reason the current web startup scene goes after such small problems is that folks are coming right out of undergrad (or earlier) and haven't had
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by jrkelly 15y ago
Forcing people to read ads -- check off another world-problem solved :p This stuff bums me out. Guessing this a solid group of engineers; could be working on something that matters instead.