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Tesla Semi 9 years ago

A perfect place to stick a load of solar panels? The roof of a warehouse.

There's a clear need of AWS-like features for bio/biomedical > informatics specifically enabling sharing, security, reuse and anonymization of data (PHI), libraries (like R's bioconductor) and infrastructure (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS).

I tried to build a startup like this, basically a Heroku for bioinformatics, with a bunch of experienced biologist / genome folks. They just didn't get it and on my part, I guess I couldn't sell it to them. Part of it was snobbery, and institutionalized thinking. It was a big disappointment. Some one will do it, but until then it will crappy bioperl scripts, with no version control etc.

Honestly I would imagine those 3 Millennials having an issue with most hard work.

I live in Asia, I look though a different lens,

- Imagine being loaded on to a truck and brought to factory everyday -- You mean a free ride to work?

- Imagine your kids roaming the factory floor -- No child care costs?

- Imagine having to working 12 hours a day -- I can pay for my kids to go to school ?

- Imagine being stuck in a factory all day -- not under the sun planting rice/corn etc..

Obviously there are a lot of macro and micro-economic factors at work, I just saw a truck delivering a automated t-shirt embroidering machine, so that economic switch has tilted, but do you think the talk will be, "we are free!" or "where did the work go?"