VandyILL

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DeFi Can Be Radically Better(youtube.com)
3 points by VandyILL 4y ago|1 comments
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by VandyILL 4y ago
Project I’ve been following for years. CEO (main presenter in this video) went through ycombinator and got acquired by Radix.
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Alternative Approach to SolarCoin and Renewable Cryptos(blueacreblog.blogspot.com)
1 points by VandyILL 12y ago|0 comments
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by VandyILL 13y ago
In an interview last we he stated that his next company would be vertical take off supersonic electric jet, if he decided to start another company. He said he's not likely to start another company any time soon.
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by VandyILL 13y ago
A problem I see is that companies would have to spend time defending legitimate patents just because consumers want the technology to become widely available. The scheme could cause business to waste money litigating defensible patents jus
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by VandyILL 13y ago
Why not Eminent Domain for patents then?
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by VandyILL 13y ago
I really don't understand what you're advocating or what mechanism you hope to develop. You basically want to put out bounties for law firms to take cases against patents? What patents would they target? What adversarial setting
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by VandyILL 13y ago
Doubt it's about his talent (even though he is very talented). Think it's more of a PR move. It'd look pretty bad for Mayer & Co if he ditched Yahoo in a couple months, and a ton of people would notice / company wo
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Does the NRA misrepresent its numbers? (Jan 2013)(motherjones.com)
2 points by VandyILL 13y ago|0 comments
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by VandyILL 13y ago
I don't think it'll work. The NRA & the gun industry have successfully marketed a product, and the NRA has successfully marketed itself as the means of protecting customer's rights to that product. Note, the NRA doesn&#x2
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by VandyILL 13y ago
One of my takes on it is that it has to be some sort of land/underground interconnection between cities. My reasoning behind this is that he is open sourcing the designs. My guess behind this is that if it is a ground based system tha
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by VandyILL 13y ago
haha. I might do something like it again, so keep an eye out i guess?
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HN User Stephenbez - I owe you $20 for your feedback
2 points by VandyILL 13y ago|3 comments
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by VandyILL 13y ago
I'll probably come back & post more on this later, but one thing to note is that it is not the law schools denying admission to the bar, its the bar denying admission to people who have not gone to law school. Also, it's not
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by VandyILL 13y ago
Talk about it with people close to you and seek professional help.
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by VandyILL 13y ago
From my perspective there doesn't seem to be any one field that combines all of them, but there do seem to be many permutations popping up that combine multiple fields - ie. the rise of Behavioral Economics (mostly just psych + econ).
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by VandyILL 13y ago
I think a more interesting discussion would be one concerning what impact the opinions on the markets is having on startup investing. I wonder if people's current distrust of the general stock market & fear of volatality may encou
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by VandyILL 13y ago
Thanks for the great input, especially the chargeback question. It seems like it should be at the top of the list but this is something I honestly didn't think of (although I was aware of general potential for fraud I wasn't dippi
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by VandyILL 13y ago
Due to the Norquist pledge this has about 0% chance of happening just because of the word tax. Realistically the people opposed to the tax would probably prefer the freedom to adapt that a tax offers compared to the small command and contr
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by VandyILL 13y ago
The app I wish I had in a college setting was a simple way of letting people know that I'm open to doing certain things at a certain time. The best example i'm thinking about is like a pre-checkin feature for something like foursq
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What is going to reshape the world next?(bbc.com)
2 points by VandyILL 13y ago|0 comments
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by VandyILL 13y ago
Maybe a more objective search engine. It'd be better for researching ideas than popculture or really ordinary questions. But for people trying to answer more in depth questions it would be great if the search engine 1) didn't ba
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by VandyILL 13y ago
Fair. I guess my statement was way too generalized, but was meant to be reflective about a slower shift over time. There's still nails around today but also many other moving parts & sometimes it feels like the approach hasn&#x27
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by VandyILL 13y ago
Was hesitant when I clicked on this article because of what "revolution" the author could be reffering to. Luckily he seems to realize that Bitcoin is an excellent accounting system rather than some miracle way of opting out of t
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by VandyILL 13y ago
Agreed, although they're not mutually exclusive. Just happens the way America has exercised it's hard power has diminished its soft power. We've been a hammer since World War II but nobody else has even been using nails.
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by VandyILL 13y ago
The frustrating thing that I've picked up on in law school is that the adversarial nature of our law system makes lawyers ask what is instead of what can be. They have to resolve conflicts as they occur within the existing paradigm &am
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by VandyILL 13y ago
This reaffirms my belief that the US chasing Snowden is a bad idea solely because it demonstrates the lack of soft & hard power the US has on the international stage these days. While people may not notice this small act I feel it'
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by VandyILL 13y ago
Yeah, but what specifically are they going to do to help the "internet community." Is it giving low costs loans to people who want to start businesses that happen to use the internet, or is it going to give loans to businesses tha
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by VandyILL 13y ago
Interesting idea, but without a physical locatiin I wonder if they'll be able to compete with the online products people would expect from an online bank. Also, usually credit unions are linked to a small commub you etc & help fina
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by VandyILL 13y ago
I think one of the approaches to encourage this is to rethink ideas about property given our ability to monitor space, time, energy etc. almost instantly. A basic example of this is real time metering which varies the price of electricity

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