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by max76 8y ago
I don't think we should assume LEDs for lighting. High quality optical fiber can transfer sunlight with a degrading rate of 10%/km [0]. Light can be farmed on the surface from a larger surface area that it will be projected onto i
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by max76 8y ago
The idea that 1000 people can be largely self sufficient on Mars is laughable, unless we make unrealistic predictions about where tech will be. For one example, a village of 1000 people would clearly have newborns. If newborns are avoided
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by max76 8y ago
I wouldn't take this as the path to success. You are in a very different industry than I have ever worked in. I do have some ideas for you to consider. - Add a share button. Freeware gets a watermark, paid gets the clean image. Inte
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by max76 8y ago
Who were your users? Were they paying? Why did you feel they weren't the users you wanted? I'm really interested in your decision to move away from a consumer model to a b2b model.
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by max76 8y ago
I think playing Devil's advocate would be to say my prediction is wrong. You are discussing the moral and ethical implications of my prediction, which is not a direction I am interesting in exploring now. The future will have it'
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by max76 8y ago
Google's mission statement: "to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful" Microsoft's old mission statement: (Paraphrase) To put a computer on every desk and in every home. Amazon&#x
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by max76 8y ago
The video offers a great example of why a talented engineer would choose to join a startup (1990s Google) versus work in a large established company (Intel). It also turned out to be very beneficial for Paul Buchheit to join Google instead
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by max76 8y ago
It's important to have an order of magnitude as a goal. In general the size of a company in dollars correlates with their impact on the world. The best talent is interested in making a big impact on the world. 2x or .5x won't mak
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by max76 8y ago
Focus on what you can ship today. Find users that love your product and determine what they love about it. Talk to the users that do not love your product, and determine which features you can add to make them fall in love with your produ
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by max76 8y ago
A lot of people here are saying $100B is too high of a goal to accomplish. The best advice of the video is to have a strong vision of the future. How will the world be fundamentally different in 10 years compared to how it is today. Think
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by max76 8y ago
I use to work in the midwest before moving to the west coast. We had a guy come in for a programming interview. He claimed to have 3 years experience with a programming language we commonly use. We gave him a simple challenge (connect to
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by max76 8y ago
In this case USDC isn't a store of value. The USD backing USDC stores the value. USDC is just a token for a USD.
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by max76 8y ago
Trading is all about trust. This represents an odd level of trust. The user trusts Circle and Coinbase enough to purchase USDC at facevalue. The user doesn't trust Circle or Coinbase enough to keep private transaction histories. I un