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Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund (2008)

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Re: Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund (2008)

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Post by adwn »

sebleon wrote: post #120
matte_black wrote: post #90

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I think lifespan is only worth increasing if there is a corresponding increase in health span. My grandmothers are both in their 90s and quite lucid and healthy. I would love to be at least in their condition when I’m in my 90s, but I also am serious about exercise and nutrition so I would hope I’d be even better off than them. They do nothing of that sort. Likewise, I’d like to be with a woman at that age who would…

Right, it's better to be healthy at 90 than in chemotherapy. However, I question the societal and individual benefits of enabling everyone to live to 100. > We need to rethink the way we think about the elderly, because one day those elderly will be us. I find this Western fear of death to be toxic. One day we'll grow old and die - and that's ok, that's how life works.

> One day we'll grow old and die - and that's ok, that's how life works.

That's status quo bias [1]. If you want to die, nobody will stop you – but don't force your decision onto others.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status_quo_bias

Re: Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund (2008)

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Post by adwn »

sebleon wrote: post #85
matte_black wrote: post #59

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To me it sounds like the opposite, a utopia. All throughout history, genes have been passed down through natural selection based on short term traits. If we can select partners based on things like longevity, cancer resistance, disease risks, IQ, we can produce a better world filled with better humans, slowly but surely.

> better humans Ah, sounds like you’re into eugenics. Do you believe humans are wise enough to determine what traits are favorable? Increased longevity, for instance, seems short-sighted. We already have extreme population growth. While natural survival instincts strive to fight death, what’s the net benefit to society of helping more people make it through their 90s? Phases like childhood and parenthood would become…

> We already have extreme population growth.

Actually, many Western countries have the opposite and need large-scale immigration (along with all the societal problems this brings) to maintain their population numbers.

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Post by lr4444lr »

shaki-dora wrote: post #142
lr4444lr wrote: post #21

Fix news? it was enough to keep writing stories about how the president met with someone and they each said conventional things written in advance by their staffs Yeah, we now recognize that as propaganda. Maybe the web is finally helping people wake up to the fact that news was never really working.

This comment lacks both an appreciating for the nuance of international diplomacy, as well as journalism.

Then my hometown newspapers, whose "investigations" of local concerns consist of these same perfunctory recapitulations of representatives from the area politicians, and whose revenue by large comes from the full page ads paid for by those same politicians campaign bank accounts and even the taxpayer under the guise of questionable "public service" expenditures, must be brimming with the subtleties of diplomacy and journalistic excellence, I'm sure.

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Post by chaostheory »

busterarm wrote: post #36
chaostheory wrote: post #25

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That feature reminds me of what they had in Logan's Run. A lot of stuff feels like people trying to implement an idea from one of their fav sci-fi books or movies.

The part where at 30 you're deemed useless to society?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlRMDzHYgt4

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Post by pascalxus »

VectorLock wrote: post #112
pascalxus wrote: post #57

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i don't have the actual recipe, just the ingredients. With a link to their recipe. there are no instructions on our site, except their description which they publish through JSON+LD. Basically all the info we show is just stuff they publish through JSON+LD

So all these recipes are from sites that publish recipes from JSON+LD? How do you discover them?

It's the same way that google discovers them. The JSON+LD is on the recipe page. They place it there for search engines to discover it, so that they appear in a search result with the JSON+LD data: this data enhances the result, instead of just having the name of your recipe, the result contains description, image and ingredient lists.

You can see this in action on google search: type in something like "Chili soup", then it'll return the image, description, some parts of the recipe, etc.

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Post by smsm42 »

Trundle wrote: post #143
smsm42 wrote: post #115

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> And there’s nothing stopping people with poor genetics from breeding promiscuously with multiple women anyway, leaving behind single mothers in their wake. There's nothing that stops any people from "breeding promiscuously", provided they find suitable and willing partner. It is when you start talking about who is worth access to reproduction and who is too genetically inferior to be allowed that is where trouble s…

The poster hasn't said anything about people not being worth having access to reproduction, or being allowed to. I can't help but think people are reading some form of government mandate argument from their preference when they haven't mentioned one. I like swimming. I don't think anyone should be forced to swim nor that its the governments business to increase swimming. That guy wants to filter partners by their lon…

As I said, as a personal preference, it's personal business. If it's advocated as a societal norm, the government will inevitably come in, if not as direct coercion, then as softer means - subsidies, preferences, financial incentives, propaganda, etc. That's how it has always worked - maybe in theory the government shouldn't be in the business of enforcing societal norms, but it very much is in practice.

Re: Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund (2008)

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Post by pascalxus »

WoodenChair wrote: post #167
pascalxus wrote: post #34

I solved #16! If you are "searching" for a food or recipe based on it's nutritional contents (for example: I want foods/recipes high in potassium and selenium, but low in sodium), check out https://kale.world/c You can search by over 20 different nutrient types, weight them, and filter them to your hearts content.

Sliders do not appear to work on iPad.

Thanks for the heads up, I'll fix that.

Re: Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund (2008)

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Post by PKop »

m3rc wrote: post #154
PKop wrote: post #152

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Let me Google that for you... https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/08/twitter-q4-2017-earnings-rev...

So... a simple yes would have sufficed. They were not profitable, now they are. They may not be later, we'll find out.

You were already told they were profitable, in fact it was the comment you were replying to:

  "Twitter is profitable with revenues of $732M".
What more did you need?

Re: Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund (2008)

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Post by emagdnim2100 »

padobson wrote: post #38
seanalltogether wrote: post #19

I would love it if someone tackled the auctions market better. Ebay continues to focus more on being a marketplace, and promoting buy it nows. A real auction house should extend the time limit as long as people are putting in bids.

I wouldn't mind seeing an auction site with a far more limited scope, and a limited number of auctions. Say, like, a site for old video games. Anyone who wants to sell Street Fighter II for the SNES submits it to the Street Fighter II auction, and anyone who wants to buy it bids on it there. There aren't 500 Street Fighter II auctions, there's just one, creating a more efficient commodity market for Street Fighter II…

So an exchange like you'd see for stocks or commodities, but for specific real-world goods?
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