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by tramGG 8y ago
Paranoid or not, why would I trust a potential competitor with the centralization and management of all my information?
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by tramGG 8y ago
I got rid of my phone for 3 years and my employer (between failed attempts at startups) was appalled that I would even consider this. They became irate but eventually acquiesced. It's weird how much people can't understand how oth
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by tramGG 8y ago
yeah, weird right?
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by tramGG 8y ago
$255 for a keyboard? Wow. What are the more higher end keyboards you've seen?
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by tramGG 8y ago
cancel the debt, and move towards free colleges.
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by tramGG 8y ago
Yeah the producthunt head nod was weirdly out of place. It's rife with faked/influenced votes and gives little penetration to actual users. If you want users just find the people who have the problem you're trying to solve.
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by tramGG 8y ago
It comes down to innovation. I bought iPhones because they were innovative. People aren't buying new phones because there is little marginal utility in upgrading anymore. We can break the innovation opportunities down into several area
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by tramGG 8y ago
This is why consolidation of power is bad. You can't out run their influence and consideration. Competition is great in both tech and state because you have options (barring collusion).
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by tramGG 8y ago
Spoken like someone who hasn't built an entire company from scratch multiple times. It takes a lot to build and share the vision, get buy-in from believers, build up an audience, distribution, marketing channels, the "right"
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by tramGG 8y ago
How old is the cut off age for enrollment?
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by tramGG 8y ago
Let's hear what everyone has to say here.
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by tramGG 8y ago
These companies were successful small businesses before they were large businesses. They were able to compete in new industries because they had access to capital, talent, and identified areas that were important and aggressively maintained
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by tramGG 8y ago
Providing more liquidity for people to start with, coupled with making it more difficult for big companies to participate in anti-competitive practices, might make for a new renaissance in growth and perhaps even produce more middle class o
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by tramGG 8y ago
1. Increase competitive opportunity and capital at the bottom (give easier chances for small upstarts to compete and win) 2. Relax the barrier to entries that only allow big players to compete and win at the top (IPO) 3. Incentivize more pe
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by tramGG 8y ago
You need to read what Synapse AI is doing. They're suggesting building this in their networks.
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by tramGG 8y ago
"The brand getting the most buzz in the car industry is Tesla. `What’s different about them? No advertising. Innovation in the car industry is not about putting Cindy Crawford in a TV ad. It’s about building a better battery.`" Ad
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by tramGG 8y ago
Man's search for meaning is good. The first part describing life in the camps that would lead to this philosophy really does an amazing job of framing the rest of the book.
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by tramGG 8y ago
People are always sleeping on the originators of the AI + Blockchain movement: Synapse AI ( https://synapse.ai/ ) -- they (along with many others like Goog, Seti, MS, etc) even spoke at the Decentralized AI Summit in Feb. ( h
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by tramGG 8y ago
Have you tried asking for more equity? Negotiating new terms is fine if you feel you deserve it and are passionate about your work.
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by tramGG 8y ago
https://synapse.ai/ or https://doc.ai or https://enigma.co/ or ... all have (or will have) the capacity for doing this
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by tramGG 8y ago
> Maybe good AI requires a combination of symbolic approaches for the knowledge representation, deep parsing for NLP and semantics/discourse models, and machine learning for pattern recognition tasks of any kind. I totally agree.
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by tramGG 8y ago
Links posted by YC alum/admins appear different in color for them, this makes it a voting ring feature built in because of this. Most likely they also have a different weight mechanic.
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by tramGG 8y ago
There are some people[0][1][2] want to sell your data and use your data to train ML. [0] https://synapse.ai/ [1] httsp://datum.org/ [2] http://doct.ai/
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by tramGG 8y ago
That's not true. He was just sort of a jerk. Maybe I should have said he was a nerd that was also an insufferable person. :) Did you read it?
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by tramGG 8y ago
I tried to read through this once. I couldn't get beyond: "Volume 1 - Benjamin Franklin" because I found Benny Frank to be an insufferable nerd hah. It sort of ruined the perception that grade school gave me of him.
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by tramGG 8y ago
"Amazon will stop selling Nest smart home devices, escalating its war with Google" http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-wont-sell-nest-product... Sounds like the same behavior. Google has been known to replace wh
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by tramGG 8y ago
Honestly, I own a Google Home and I love it. I've tried Amazon Echo so many times and the entire experience is terrible in comparison. I also wish Google Home wasn't made by Google -- because well I'm anti-Google owning ever
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by tramGG 8y ago
Last gold rush for crypto was in 2013 so ~5 years.
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by tramGG 8y ago
Perfect play to: 1. Find out what people are buying in stores and not on amazon, and figure out how to get them to switch 2. Use this data to target more advertising/recommendations across amazon 3. Use the purchase data to perhaps cre
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by tramGG 8y ago
A lot of talk about personal data ownership and markets, mentions repay-me, datum, enigma, but there is also synapse, ocean, iota-ish, numerai-ish, streamr. Some taken from here: https://i.imgur.com/mOWKrQE.jpg

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