How are those two things at all comparable? Changing the elective system might require nothing short of a constitutional amendment. At least voicing outrage about Rice/Dropbox raises awareness of privacy issues. You can't just say, "this one thing your doing isn't going to make a radical paradigm shifting difference, so you should just sit around until someone drops one of those in your lap."
Can you provide more info about this? That medical researchers are actively avoiding looking for cures for diseases? It just screams "baseless conspiracy theory" to me. And what do antibiotics have to do with it? As far as I know, antibiotic resistant bacteria are the result of factory farms pumping animals full of antibiotics, and patients simply not completing the full course of drugs once they feel better.
What if he were a black woman and the political group she donated to was one that sought to prevent white men from becoming engineers? They can still do engineering, of course, but they can't have the state title and benefits that go along with it. Would you feel the same way?
That's only temping because of the high resolution. I'm not sure if it's Comcast being intentionally awful or just incompetent, but I can't seem to stream HD anything on netflix. I turn on manual buffering and HD options just aren't there. If that problem didn't exist, there's basically no benefit in making paying the large up front cost.
Now, if production costs were completely covered by subscribers, it would be interesting to see what sort of movies get made.
Loans or personal cash are orders of magnitude away from the necessary funds. The only option was investment. Oculus needed at least hundreds of millions of dollars to make a consumer version happen any time soon. Companies like Uber, Pinterest, and Spotify can raise that kind of VC money. Hardware startups banking on an uncertain revolution in video gaming and depending on unproven developer & console company support cannot.
I don't get it... how else do they think a consumer version would ever be manufactured? I imagine manufacturing thousands of consumer grade custom tiny high definition displays would approach a billion dollars alone. What did these guys expect, another kickstarter? If anything, Facebook has just created the best chance yet that their dreams will come true.
Do you have any numbers on that? It seems a lot more common for very wealthy families to tie up their money in trusts that their children can't access, both to avoid taxes and to ensure there will always be a giant pile of money generating low amounts of interest. Plus, don't the kids lose an incentive to innovate? Where does that cost factor in? If you already have one private jet, the marginal benefit of another isn't that big.
not sure why somebody downvoted this. All of the very wealthy people I've met who got that way through inheritance don't have piles of gold in a vault. They have a guaranteed income, and access to all kinds of assets like houses, vehicles, memberships, etc. They don't have millions to invest.
I'm excited to see how this works, and how the process changes after some testing. If reddit is any example, stricter moderation almost always results in a better user experience and a tighter, more respectful community. Look at r/askhistorians as a prime example.
How do you begin to open a discussion on these topics with people who not only lack the necessary education to talk about them accurately, but already have a disdain for words like "feminism" and "privilege"?
Wait, you don't seriously think that Russia disappeared a Malaysian airliner (and hundreds of international citizens) to distract the world (?) from Crimea. That's just fucking absurd.
I'll have to find this later when I have time, but there was at least one story about HR problems at Valve that came out not too long ago. The author basically said that while nobody has "official" power, a cabal of a few individuals who were particularly adept at acquiring and exercising political clout within the organization ran things and made decisions.
That's a good point. People on HN are sometimes a little quick to put on their "it's just a really cool piece of technology!" blinders and ignore the gruesome, wasteful military industrial complex that brought them these "badass fuckin' guns" which do, in fact, kill real humans in real life.
It's fascinating to watch it happen. I hope it does recover. But I hope the most vocal proponents become a little more mature. I think part of the reason bitcoin seems radical to people, especially the tech-outsider non-first-adopter crowd, is that bitcoin is championed by radical free market types who don't just want deregulation, they want complete abolition of government.
It's quite a bit more irrational than being an entrepreneur, especially if you've invested so much of your money in bitcoin that living expenses are a "buffer".