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Paranoid or not, why would I trust a potential competitor with the centralization and management of all my information?

I got rid of my phone for 3 years and my employer (between failed attempts at startups) was appalled that I would even consider this. They became irate but eventually acquiesced. It's weird how much people can't understand how others don't want their addiction. This doesn't happen with heroin, or other drugs, just technology.

yeah, weird right?

$255 for a keyboard? Wow. What are the more higher end keyboards you've seen?

cancel the debt, and move towards free colleges.

Yeah the producthunt head nod was weirdly out of place. It's rife with faked/influenced votes and gives little penetration to actual users.

If you want users just find the people who have the problem you're trying to solve.

It comes down to innovation. I bought iPhones because they were innovative. People aren't buying new phones because there is little marginal utility in upgrading anymore.

We can break the innovation opportunities down into several areas:

1. Hardware

2. Operating System

3. Software/Apps

Hardware hasn't been innovated. The closest thing we got was the hope of a modular phone that was bought for the patents (?) and killed inside of google. The best thing we get is better cameras, biometrics, and screen resolution. Not many people care about cameras (not including selfies), biometrics is sort of a lame duck (who needs their face constantly scanned? or fingerprints as passwords for everything), screen resolution doesn't anymore because the screen size is so small -- majority of people play easy games, like LoL, PUBG, and Candy Crush clones.

Operating system experience is converging on features between iOS/Android to the point they are really indistinguishable.

Software is limited because of hardware specs, walled gardens, and the learning curve -- but much more nefariously I software devs might just be afraid if they build something cool these companies would just turn around and steal it/bake it into the OS.

Alternatively we could see adoption start moving horizontal into other peripherals like VR/AR/IoT devices (watches) -- but I'm not holding my breath on that until I see a company come out with something amazing. For instance the precursor to the iPhone was the Samsung i300, the leap from the i300 to the iPhone wasn't that big for me, but it changed a lot of things that just made sense.

The leap for peripherals right now would be too great to expect a magical turnaround in adoption -- but I would love to be first in line to be proven wrong.

So where does that leave us? Well we need to rethink things from the ground up again. We've hit local maxima with experience.

This is why consolidation of power is bad. You can't out run their influence and consideration. Competition is great in both tech and state because you have options (barring collusion).

Spoken like someone who hasn't built an entire company from scratch multiple times. It takes a lot to build and share the vision, get buy-in from believers, build up an audience, distribution, marketing channels, the "right" team, right product, the list goes on -- and all of this is both physically, mentally, and emotionally exhausting.

It's REALLY hard to just reboot into something else you pour yourself into.

How old is the cut off age for enrollment?

Let's hear what everyone has to say here.

These companies were successful small businesses before they were large businesses. They were able to compete in new industries because they had access to capital, talent, and identified areas that were important and aggressively maintained innovation in those areas by way of investor capital or profits.

Why is there a need for small companies to take those large companies head-on? Maybe slow the ability for the large companies to impede competition in tangential areas.

Providing more liquidity for people to start with, coupled with making it more difficult for big companies to participate in anti-competitive practices, might make for a new renaissance in growth and perhaps even produce more middle class opportunity again.

1. Increase competitive opportunity and capital at the bottom (give easier chances for small upstarts to compete and win)

2. Relax the barrier to entries that only allow big players to compete and win at the top (IPO)

3. Incentivize more people to participate by broadening investor classification.

4. Decrease capital gains taxes.

5. Break up monopolies.

You need to read what Synapse AI is doing. They're suggesting building this in their networks.

"The brand getting the most buzz in the car industry is Tesla. `What’s different about them? No advertising. Innovation in the car industry is not about putting Cindy Crawford in a TV ad. It’s about building a better battery.`"

Advertising has changed. It's no longer on a billboard in your face, but now a virus and fabric of influence in your mind that permeates and multiplies subtly through every medium you consume. Each piece of information collectively assembles inside your brain to fashion and form an opinion. The new science of advertising is figuring out how to put these pieces of the puzzle together so that you organically assemble an opinion on matters favorable to product sellers.

Man's search for meaning is good. The first part describing life in the camps that would lead to this philosophy really does an amazing job of framing the rest of the book.

People are always sleeping on the originators of the AI + Blockchain movement: Synapse AI (https://synapse.ai/) -- they (along with many others like Goog, Seti, MS, etc) even spoke at the Decentralized AI Summit in Feb. (https://decentralized-ai.com/)

This team even launched their own wallet application like two days ago. They're killing it.

Check out the yellowpaper, it has some really good stuff in it: https://synapse.ai/yellowpaper

Have you tried asking for more equity? Negotiating new terms is fine if you feel you deserve it and are passionate about your work.

https://synapse.ai/ or https://doc.ai or https://enigma.co/ or ...

all have (or will have) the capacity for doing this

Maybe good AI requires a combination of symbolic approaches for the knowledge representation, deep parsing for NLP and semantics/discourse models, and machine learning for pattern recognition tasks of any kind.

I totally agree.

Links posted by YC alum/admins appear different in color for them, this makes it a voting ring feature built in because of this.

Most likely they also have a different weight mechanic.

There are some people[0][1][2] want to sell your data and use your data to train ML.

[0] https://synapse.ai/ [1] httsp://datum.org/ [2] http://doct.ai/

That's not true. He was just sort of a jerk. Maybe I should have said he was a nerd that was also an insufferable person. :)

Did you read it?

I tried to read through this once. I couldn't get beyond: "Volume 1 - Benjamin Franklin" because I found Benny Frank to be an insufferable nerd hah. It sort of ruined the perception that grade school gave me of him.

"Amazon will stop selling Nest smart home devices, escalating its war with Google"

http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-wont-sell-nest-product...

Sounds like the same behavior. Google has been known to replace whole other start-up services or de-list them.

Honestly, I own a Google Home and I love it. I've tried Amazon Echo so many times and the entire experience is terrible in comparison.

I also wish Google Home wasn't made by Google -- because well I'm anti-Google owning everything.

Last gold rush for crypto was in 2013 so ~5 years.

Perfect play to:

1. Find out what people are buying in stores and not on amazon, and figure out how to get them to switch

2. Use this data to target more advertising/recommendations across amazon

3. Use the purchase data to perhaps create whole new brick and mortar stores that cater to the most in-demand products in different areas, like a more targeted walmart -- squeezing out the stores that once bought into this program.

I'd say it's a short term win, at the sake of long term loss of stores.

That being said, companies like this should declare a non-compete with the businesses they're luring in. Chomp!

A lot of talk about personal data ownership and markets, mentions repay-me, datum, enigma, but there is also synapse, ocean, iota-ish, numerai-ish, streamr.

Some taken from here: https://i.imgur.com/mOWKrQE.jpg