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The first Request for Startups created by Y Combinator was about the "future of journalism". The original RFS is quoted here [1], but does not appear on the current list [2]. What …

Discoverboard ( https://discoverboard.com ): An online community focused on quality, thought-provoking conversations about a broad range of interests. It's a significantly differen…

I have no direct or personal knowledge of him, but he comes across as extremely smart, ambitious, and well-intentioned in his writing and in profiles of him. Here is one I read thi…

If you are Sam Altman, yes, I think you can give advice at 30. The man's experience may be short, but I'd imagine it is unbelievably dense.

Discoverboard ( https://discoverboard.com ): An online community focused on quality, thought-provoking conversations about a broad range of interests. It's a significantly differen…

Jonathan from discoverboard here. There are a few things that make discoverboard different from other online communities: -Most members choose to use their real identities on the s…

From my perspective, Sam's essays have really been improving in quality. Some of his early ones felt like they were searching for a voice and/or trying to force the essay before it…

I'm not sure this is the answer, but it seems likely that you can more efficiently reflect energy back into the atmosphere than you can convert it via a solar panel and then use th…

The website you're describing already exists. In fact, you just posted on it.

A related question might be: where will mobile apps be in 5 years? Hopefully, the answer is that web standards will evolve to allow HTML+JS to do things currently only possible in …