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Specifically section 47 U.S. Code § 230 "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider"[3]
[0] https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R46751
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230
> yarn create redwood-app my-redwood-project --typescript
(I use to work on utility scale wind farms with 100+ x 2.1MW turbines)
[0] https://www.semprius.com/how-fast-do-wind-turbines-spin/ [1] https://www.windpowerengineering.com/calculate-blade-tip-spe...
We shouldn't, it's the exact opposite. As the network grows, the ecosystem of high quality advisors goes up, not just because better people join, but people are learning to become better advisors through being a part of the network. Not only that, but as the network grows so does the YC economy of potential partners. Instead of YC companies purchasing goods and services from outside the network (and thus bleeding valuation of the network) keeping money flowing in the YC economy only accelerates the value of the entire network. As this monetary flow through the network grows and accelerates so does the quality of the people managing the companies in the networks and thus potential future advisors to new companies joining the network.
I love the idea of version control for the internet. We are forced to use updates, even if we don't want them. The idea of being able to use a site's specific version is very attractive. It becomes even more interesting when you think of the internet over a much longer time horizon, say 200 years in the future where historians can go through all of our historical records. Much of this might be lost if we keep it in walled gardens as it might be lost forever unless the owners of that data release it.
Maine is a state that lives off the land, fishing and forestry are huge industries that provide thousands of jobs and sustain the state the other 10 months when tourism is dormant.
The lobster industry is the most sustainable fishery in the world, as others are going extinct the lobster fishery is thriving. We come from the land and we care for the animals and the environment.
Current technology used in processing lobster is orders of magnitude more humane than described in Consider the Lobster [0] and other food processing facilities pale in comparison (i'm looking at you whaling industry, fishing industry, livestock industry, etc.
We now have the technology to kill lobster instantaneously while simultaneously killing all bacteria and creating raw lobster meat that can be shipped globally.
Personally I like the intimacy of being close to killing the animals we eat, it's authentic, I think it gives acknowledgment to the animal's life at a level that is not even close to supermarket bought meats. What other animal do people kill in their own kitchen in SF or NYC? I think we need more of the intimacy with our food that lobster provides. The question is would you like to have animal butchering behind closed doors (because we know where that path leads) or do we want an intimacy with our food, our farmers and our fishermen?
That is 12x growth in 72 months.
The Gigafactory is named after the gigawatt or 1,000,000 kW because it will be producing multiple GWs of cells and battery packs.
An annual production of 500,000 automobiles will put Tesla squarely in the #1 spot for luxury production 3x more than Mercedes.
If you look at global auto sales[0] Tesla will be one of the largest, read top 5, auto manufacturers in the USA depending on how you slice the pie between domestic and international sales.
[0] http://wap.wsj.com/mdc/public/page/2_3022-autosales.html#aut...
Also, Neil deGrasse Tyson talks about if there was a space race with China the US would be on Mars in 18 months: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=c...
It would be truly amazing if a private company was the first to set foot on another planet.
No! They were too busy hacking phones and building things people wanted to waste time to go through the application process of YC. Money was chasing them.
This is true for most runaway successes, they were all true hackers that broke things: Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, etc. Not the "hackers" who are asking for $125k salary...
They didn't care about the money, they didn't care about the allure, they didn't care about the status. They just wanted to break things and make them work better, legality aside.
But the landscape has changed, and Steve & Steve are not just starting Apple and YC would not be around if Apple wasn't started when it was, so it's a silly question be it a fun thought experiment.
I think YC supports the companies that shoot for the moon, but people aren't willing to take the risk and say no to acquisitions of $20-$100m because that is the short term business model of today and people just want to take their $5m and show off.
"The approach of remaining independent, and investing profits back into to the company followed by technology zealots such as Jeff Bezos and Steve Jobs is unattractive to an investor."
They only way to counter this is to build a great product with little to no money and have it grow like a weed, then negotiate like a mob boss to keep the majority of the voting rights of the company.
That's enough for now, time for focus...