Sorry, but if we are to learn from history, there is no hiding place in the world. Barricading yourself in a bunker would be like building your own prison. How long could anyone really survive before emerging back? And if the super rich did survive, how long before they destroy themselves again? You would have an accelerated log(N) kind of self-destruction. First year of survival = 1%, 2nd time = 1% of 1% and so on...
The problem is honesty isn't rewarded anymore. Someone working hard will be beaten by someone who tells all the fancy stuff...I know a lot of startups that raised millions, but their tech and growth is totally non-existent. I did some research and a lot of companies have little to no social media presence, yet are "growing" crazy. How do people find them?
Add network effect and you get overly hyped stuff that don't deliver. I wish startup accelerators relied more on experienced, reputed judges in the startup's field instead of growth gimmicks. Online contests/challenges seem to be the way to find really good tech startups.
Uber will be successful, but the problem is right now there is no barrier to entry in the market. They're pushing Lyft to spend more on marketing in order to get shares.
Uber has a huge chance of taking over public transportation and making it more effective. That's what I think they're gunning for...to privatize public transportation. How else will you get around town?
At least you get free food. My wife and I are fighting about this all the time. It's extremely tough to just work home and not meet other people. You'll need to socialize somehow. You go crazy otherwise. Your spouse will eventually get annoyed listening to you complaining and bouncing ideas off her.
The more you contemplate these questions, the least likely you are to do anything. The only question I think is valuable is: "How many months can you go without a paycheck?" I think the original idea is seldom where most startups end up. It's more than likely a problem you encounter while working on the original idea. In fact, I think the less money you have to start the more hungry you will be for success.
>I've always wondered why California keeps electing conservative governors
This is also true for Massachusetts. The people are smart enough to know party doesn't matter, but the person's ideals and what they have to offer. Also not all the people who vote for President will vote in local elections.
Even if I had legal expertise, I would include a disclaimer to take it as my opinion/guess...Google's lawyers could easily come at me with 'Hey how do you know this?' That's why I said 'probably'. Read Peter Thiel's "Zero to one" also. He explains it very well.
But they can control the content of the page. I looked at the source page and there is 0 mention of "search engine" on Google.com source page.
I'm pretty sure Google works contextually to know "search engine" means searching the web. Gogoduck does have the reference 5 times in the source code but Bing doesn't. Gogoduck can take the chance with their content to be the first, but if the leading search engines were to sue or act against Gogoduck, then it would be in Gogoduck's favor to get the spotlight.
If you go to Google to find Gogoduck then Google is of course the more valuable.
Anti-trust probably...Google doesn't want to be seen as a monopoly even though it has a monopoly on search. One less lawsuit. No ads at the top also. Since the user is looking for a search engine on Google, it could mean they're looking for an alternative to Google.
This is not true. Some professions are based on screwing the current client and moving on to the next one. How many times do you get to buy a house? This is why most people use an agent to sell their house. They can lie without seeming they're lying (sorry was unaware of xyz...that's what the owner told me)
The incentive for the agent is actually highest cash in down payment because they don't want to deal with the bank to get their money plus they get to keep the down payment if the buyer pulls out.
That's a rational buyer...what do you think the bank does? They run the numbers to see if the person qualifies, has great credit, etc...do you think they care how your day is going? Lol...
Agree with this. Best thing I ever did was remove all work related apps from my phone. That way I only checked email if I'm on the laptop. More advantages include: saving on your phone bills, storage on your phone, employers spying on you, and of course your sanity. Doing this, I found that most "urgent" emails were not really urgent.
Also if there is ever a lawsuit for whatever, the company has a right to seize your phone if there is company content on it.
I think WebRTC is secure by default and everything is supposed to be encrypted and served over https...Chrome for example doesn't allow unsecure usage of the API's. See this for more: http://webrtc-security.github.io
In all honesty, you can learn a ton of things in 1 year doing a startup that you'd learn in 20 years working for a big company...even if it fails. Marketing, selling, talking to customers, coding, etc. In most big companies you don't get even close to the customer. A lot of investors started the whole idea of funding useless ideas, then now complain that everything is useless, yet everyone applauds.
I think business school is already disrupted with startup accelerators like YC. It's a matter of time before they realize it. Some accelerator programs even want a tuition. I've pondered this a lot thinking what I would learn to go to business school, but problem is that you can't get funding to start a company, but you can get funding to attend business school. Hence why business schools exist now. But 10-15 years from now this will change.
It would take many cameras working together to pull this off...what happens when you drop out of sight? Feels like a big vending machine...If they're not competing with big grocery stores, then this won't scale well...right?
So the food tags have disposable rfid/bluetooth enabled? Or the computer vision is to be able to scan the bar codes even when they're not visible? Any issue with the amount of radiation in that store?
I'm guessing it's not as simple as they make it look in the video...unless the food tags have some kind of RFID/Bluetooth to communicate with the phone in your pocket...maybe the grocery bags? Even with cashiers sometimes they don't know what the price is...also some things are sold by the pounds...where is the scale? What if you pay then walk back in again? You get double charged?
I've been trying to get my logo. My card was charged, but almost 24 hours and no logo...I emailed you like the page said but nothing...even sent a tweet...what's going on there?
I'm not sure if this is a scam. I went through the process and paid and I should get a logo in 30 minutes, but I've been waiting for 12+ hours and still no logo. I email the CEO, which the site says to email at dawson@logojoy.com, yet no response and no sign of a logo in my emails...hmm!
Thanks! I was responding to the comment by saying that banning all cash wouldn't be necessarily good...but yeah the article does make it sound like all cash would be banned...
But what happens when there is a major disaster? How will people pay if there is no internet/electricity etc.? At least with cash you can plan ahead...also what are the poor people to do?
Right...definitely possible, but this would have to be extremely well coordinated. Chances are each state/city has different machines/hardware/software, different order of candidates on the ballots, etc...so for a random hacker to hack the results would be only if the machines are connected to the internet...I'm hoping they're not!
I don't know much about the election machines, but is there any reason for them to be connected to the WWW? If they're not connected to the WWW, then only someone with physical access to the machines could hack them...right? What's the likelihood of that?
I'm not a Trump supporter, but all the YC shaming is terrible. You're advocating for dictatorship where only one political view matters.
Wikipedia: "A dictatorship is a type of authoritarianism, in which politicians regulate nearly every aspect of the public and private behavior of citizens."
For a quick prototype, I think it's ok to have both in same server/database, but beyond a prototype you should think about security and scaling. Redesigning later can be a nightmare and most people end up not doing it instead just leaving what they already have.
The good thing with 2 separate servers is that if one is compromised, then the bad actor doesn't get access to all your data. Also you could use any language/database that makes sense for your auth server or services.