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The burden of proof should go the other way - is there any proof that these nuclear tests were safe, and wouldnt give millions of people cancer?

It’s incredible how many things humans do without considering long term consequences: nuclear testing, adding millions of synthetic chemicals to household products, pesticides (read toxins) sprayed on our food, pesticides produced by GMO crops, etc

> “protect ourselves - even just by blowing ourselves up”

Doesn’t that defeat the purpose?

Wikileaks is possible because of the blockchain. No question that the world has been changed by this kind of organization.

I’m happy that the cartel of financial institutions can no longer shut folks out arbitrarily, looking forward to seeing what else is made possible by the blockchain.

Any stories?

Saavy consumers will definitely evade this. However, this tax is likely targeted at finance companies looking to “get into crypto” and will do everything by the book

Winklevi

For consumers, Lyft/Uber/etc = best things to happen in years in transportation.

Private car experience at the price of a subway ticket is great, while making car ownership optional in places with lousy public transit. Surprised you care more about people following the rules than enjoying the benefits of VC-subsidized rides :)

While $2/hr sounds low for the US, this seems viable in countries with super low cost of living. I suspect language barriers are holding back more people from taking advantage of this opportunity.

Singapore seems like the most likely place where self driving cars will take off first. Easy to imagine them banning human drivers altogether, making it much easier for autonomous cars to coordinate between eachother.

Ha, I took the same screenshot

Ah that’s fair, different cultures will have different heresies.

As someone with many “heretic ideas”, I disagree with this article - people that execute on crazy ideas are thick-skinned. Hard to believe that smart people would actually leave SF because of PC culture (although it is annoying). Even from Altman’s examples, Newton stayed in England and did what he wanted, despite the social norms.

It was also odd to see Altman use China as the bastion of freedom, a place with widespread internet censorship and where things like democracy are considered heretic.

While KNNs are simpler conceptually, DNNs are fairly easy to put into practice, thanks to Keras and other libraries. A KNN approach would likely involve more code - for things like Data prep

Ha, I believe Duolingo is doing the same - getting their users to translate huge bodies of text while learning new languages

Kudos - 100k MAU is an extremely impressive feat. This is an excellent post, very succinct and punchy advice. Especially interesting to hear about the role of web and email in growth, advice around using ads to develop company positioning is great.

Finish every sentence by saying “over” ;)

Ha, article commenter suggests that angels have shifted to investing in crypto instead of startups. I’m curious if there’s truth to that...

Very interesting move. Curious to see if they find investors they couldn’t reach through traditional financial institutions.

They’re definitely already on this. Likely they have a deal in place with Comcast already.

The limitations you described are true for a wired approach to last mile internet delivery to every user.

You can get around these problems as a wireless ISP using spectrum in the public domain. Idea is that you beam connectivity to a router in each subscriber's home. You'll need to install nodes that connect a wireless network to fiber optic cables, but these connections are much more accessible than wiring up every building in a city.

Kinda sucks for near term, but this is going to create economic pressure and consumer demand for a Comcast killer.

One possibility is a wireless ISP via satellite or city-wide mesh.

Ha, the trouble is that pitchforks are more fun than facts.

What does Huaweied mean?

Are these strategies actually effective? I want to believe this will help, though wondering if we’re better off pitching in to fund a lobbying campaign like MegaCorps do.

Meh, Uber is one of the good guys, compared to other American multinationals.

For starters, Chiquita Bananas intimidated farmers and union leaders with AK 47s and hired militias in Colombia [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company#Aiding_...

Unless you find alternative brands that are not Chiquita :)

Very interesting product - my guess is that past attempts failed because of distribution and marketing strategies. (Motorola Atrix, Windows Continuum, etc).

Enterprise companies with large workforces seems like an interesting market for this. Employees would only receive a phone (no laptop), doable when work relies on MS Excel + email. For instance, consulting and sales orgs seem especially interesting, given their mobile workforces and lack of fixed office seating.

In general, how can you distinguish between heartfelt philanthropy and PR moves?

This reminds me of 'El Dinosaurio,' the shortest Spanish narrative:

"Cuando despertó, el dinosaurio todavía estaba allí."

English:

"When he woke up, the dinosaur was still there."

Makes sense - government could instantly prevent BTC from gaining mainstream adoption as a currency. Unclear how price would move if BTC was only used for store-of-value only.

In Venezuela, people go to jail under treason laws if they get caught mining. [1]

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/30/venezuela-is-one-of-the-worl...