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by rdlecler1 5y ago
We’re an investor in MycoWorks. The mycelium (root structure) is killed in the process. It can then be tanned as you would tan normal leather. MycoWorks is working with Hermes which tans the leather in their own tanneries. Animal leather is
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by rdlecler1 5y ago
Instead of zero sum thinking why don’t we change policies that allow for more housing so the market can work effectively. Taxes don't create abundance, capitalism does.
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by rdlecler1 5y ago
This is just wrong; The cell quality needed for organs vs a meat slurry are totally different. You don’t even need the cells to be alive in the final serving.
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by rdlecler1 5y ago
I’d argue that there are more people creating now more than any time in history.
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by rdlecler1 5y ago
if ( (BMPa & BMPB) & (Ra & Rb & Rc & Rd)){ //Do Something } ^This is the algorithm they describe. They make it sound like there is some mystic computation going on. This is how biological computation networks
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by rdlecler1 5y ago
I don’t know when this occurred but a few months ago sites started having an oversupply problem and were taking people no questions asked. At that point the elderly and vulnerable had several months lead time and 95% of the people at the va
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by rdlecler1 5y ago
Bay Area child care: $1,800-$2,000/child. Then factor additional rooms with housing at $1,000-$1,200/sqft. A couple of children easily add expenses of $8-$10k/month is pre tax income.
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by rdlecler1 5y ago
There are 1.1b people in developed nations and about 1.4b in China. Of course china’s emissions exceed all developed nations combined.
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by rdlecler1 5y ago
Greenlight Biosciences (one of our portfolio companies) is using RNA as a highly targeted-species-specific pesticide.
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Ask HN: Anyone seen a reputation attack on their mailing list?
2 points by rdlecler1 6y ago|2 comments
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by rdlecler1 6y ago
There is a bigger story here is that EVERY business is show business now — it’s just that not everyone recognizes it yet.
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by rdlecler1 6y ago
All networks are like this. In a network of N nodes you have N^2 potential relationships. That’s just simple paired relationships. You can still go to higher order groups.
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by rdlecler1 6y ago
Do they want an alternative self or an alternative world?
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by rdlecler1 6y ago
Good question, and hadn’t asked them this but I assume it’s like Apple, but in this case ReiShi is the name of a material.
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by rdlecler1 6y ago
Most of us feel this, but an Elon Musk or Bill Gates may find this thought of an alternate life foreign, or at least horrifying.
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by rdlecler1 6y ago
Sounds like something Yahoo might have said when they declined to by Google. Maybe it’s a good time to start a search engine.
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by rdlecler1 6y ago
Mycoworks: which makes leather from mycelium. Will see products 2021. Brightseed: uncovering the medicine that’s in our food. Uses AI to identify bioactive molecules found in common food crops that can regulate genetics associated with heal
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by rdlecler1 6y ago
It’s not clear why travel would be ‘expensive’. I can imagine a scenario where we create several robots, one for mining, one for chemistry, one for manufacturing, and you could simply send them out start self replicating and creating techno
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by rdlecler1 6y ago
Another example about how google is broken. It has great difficulty distinguishing noise from signal.
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by rdlecler1 6y ago
“Before 1997, the British colonial government introduced the Crimes (Amendment)(No.2) Bill 1996 in an attempt to concretise the concepts of "subversion" and "secession" by confining them to actual violent conduct but of
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by rdlecler1 6y ago
If you had a propulsion system in one of these highways, could you move quicker (or at least use less energy?)
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by rdlecler1 6y ago
I’m surprised this isn’t getting more airtime.
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by rdlecler1 6y ago
If LTV >> CaC then spend.
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by rdlecler1 6y ago
The Vc partnership structure incentivizes small teams against large AUM. If you’re a team of three, if you bring on those two associates that’ll be $100k less in your pocket every year. May not be the best structure to generate returns for
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by rdlecler1 6y ago
We had something similar happen with our corporate twitter account that we’ve had for eight years. Our news site, agfundernews.com is the sites of record for foodtech and agtech innovation/investment and Twitter inexplicably locked us
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by rdlecler1 6y ago
That’s great. if you’re big they’ll block a couple of articles, but Twitter inexplicably killed our twitter account with 30k followers, an account we had since 2012, with absolutely zero recourse. (we publish original and non political
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by rdlecler1 6y ago
To pile on, Europe also makes it difficult to raise venture capital funds—particularly smaller micro funds as the startup cost is so high. Europe is going to regulate their way back to the dark ages.
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by rdlecler1 6y ago
My default in Yelp and Amazon is to sort by number or reviews rather than average rating because at small scale ratings can be games and if a restaurant is getting 6,000 reviews at 3.5 stars they are probably doing something right.
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by rdlecler1 6y ago
Sugar has a lot of important properties in many food products beyond making it sweet. It’s important in the browning, bulking, and springiness of a lot of foods. People who simply say don’t eat sugar dont seem to understand you need to repl
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by rdlecler1 6y ago
Please read Popper.

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