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by unono 13y ago
Hackers can make huge money in psychology/psychiatry (both prescientific fields). Life logging and it's analysis - quantified self. Positive psychology would be the better angle to play it, unregulated, big money in the self-help
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by unono 13y ago
The 'rich' in this case are middle and upper middle classes (wealth in homes), not the uber rich (wealth in stocks), so they don't actually have that much clout (doctors, teachers etc) on the international level, and they alr
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by unono 13y ago
I have to disagree about being the middle man. Deskilling the workforce into an assembly line is a value creating activity, it's what engineers basically do. The typical middle man is simply there to skim some money because there are c
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by unono 13y ago
Yes. Mobile apps offer a superior experience. Reading on mobile is better (e-readers) and that was the main thing that pushed the web forward. Apps are also superior, not just the speed/polish, web will get that too, but because of the
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by unono 13y ago
Oh sure, it will equalize wages across the world, with some rich worlders losing in the short term, but I think that's a good thing, why should poor worlder's suffer. Higher pay rates exist for two reasons, unfair monopoly positio
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by unono 13y ago
You're totally correct when it comes to skilled work, they get snatched up when they've proven their worth. However, this cloud labor is for unskilled work. So yes, they are commodities, but if they are a lot of them, and a lot of
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by unono 13y ago
The reason for that is because there's far too little work being placed in them. These types of places need to scale 1000x and you'll see wages rise to middle class level. This is also a much bigger opportunity for startups than t
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by unono 13y ago
Hackers can solve this problem - cloud labor, mechanical turk style. Hackers need to turn the tasks done in businesses into small bite size chunks that can be done by masses of unskilled workers. This is purely a software task that hackers
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by unono 13y ago
PG has stated multiple times that they key to success is being relentlessly resourceful and pivoting. There are a lot of people with that mindset, most of whom are not Stanford/MIT graduates. Encouraging more applicants from a wider se
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by unono 13y ago
There might be a lot of capable founders, such as older people with a lot of experience in other industries, who are filtered out by that. You might be a 50 year old guy who doesn't get computers but are a killer sales guy, making it e
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by unono 13y ago
That would be a good idea for an android app. I thorough list of hundreds or thousands of ideas we'd like to fund. Aspiring startups can go through the list, select which ones they like, max of 5, and submit an application to YC right
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by unono 13y ago
Thanks for that insider perspective, that will be useful to hackers attacking the space. An approach would be completely abstract the process. I believe the ownership model is a completely broken process that's pushed by the nefarious
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by unono 13y ago
All-you-can-buffet movies/tv and now books is done. That same for home renting, car renting, vacationing, plane flying, private schooling, food eating needs to be done. Huge profits for hackers that can do it.
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by unono 13y ago
Good story, great lessons for entrepreneurship. The big thing I couldn't help noticing was how inefficient the real estate industry is. There's so much regulations and people taking a huge slice out of the consumers pocket. Even t
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by unono 13y ago
They won't, out of politeness and not wanting to make enemies. I will, as an anonymous coward on the internet.
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by unono 13y ago
The machine learning/statistics crowd. Some names - Judea Pearl, Tom Mitchell, Pete Norvig, Andrew Ng, Geoff Hinton, John Langford, Jeff Dean. Of course there's many more than that, but these have gained some fame through textbook
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by unono 13y ago
I'm a big believer in utility-style pay by sip business. The employer-employee relationship is inherently prone to abuse and to mispricing, usually in the employer's favor. I've never hired anyone and never intend to.
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by unono 13y ago
I think we're coming from different angles - you're talking about life satisfaction, I'm talking about life purpose. The startup life might be harder, in the short run, but I think it bestows a grander life purpose because at
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by unono 13y ago
aah ... I think you should holding off throwing around labels like maturity, that's a bad way of making arguments. Of course you're using a third party for branding/funding, however, as I mentioned in my original comment, cor
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by unono 13y ago
I'm not even that concerned about getting rich. It's more about doing exactly what I want, when I want, and making a big impact (in terms of helping people) - without giving the billionaires any more power and money. As Jesus said
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by unono 13y ago
As usual, PG is 100% right, fighting for us hackers. The article, and others like it, are nefarious corporate PR pieces put out by Microsoft, Google, Apple and others designed to trick us into not realizing the tremendous power we now hold.
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by unono 13y ago
Patrick Winston is a disciple of Marvin Minsky. They're considered wackos these days.
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by unono 13y ago
'General intelligence' is wacko amateur thinking that reasonable people in AI don't believe in. You're shooting yourself in the foot mentioning that. The consensus amongst competent people in AI is that of building pract
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by unono 13y ago
The latest moto X has always listening chip inside. That's pretty significant. There's robocars, ibm watson, siri/gnow. The CEO of the quantum computer recently said that machine learning is progressing faster than people thi
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by unono 13y ago
About time. More startups should realize that they could increase developer adoption of their products if also published shell script interfaces to their product. In fact, your startup should really start off as command line accessible and
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by unono 13y ago
On the contrary, I think we're now in 'the age of the great underestimation'.
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by unono 13y ago
Well, I don't know about that. A lot of that is based on the PG brand, which the other incubators don't have. PG and Buchheit's connections come in to play when selling shares at first round and after. Their handshakes count
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by unono 13y ago
I see your point, PG could focus on relentlessly increasing the quality of each batch - if his aim is too just establish a high quality brand for no other reason than he likes to (the elite college model). However, from a purely profit pers
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by unono 13y ago
Could linkedin use it's data for nefarious purposes? Yes. Could some professionals ask to be compensated for being on the network? Yes. Have the professionals on linkedin realized the above? No.
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by unono 13y ago
I'm saying this politely - so don't bite my head off - but a.) you would say that, wouldn't you, you'd like as much of PG's attention as possible b.) it's quite presumptious to state that the 1000s of others wo

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