Enough with the flying cars! That was never a good idea.
Actually flying cars exist now and have been approved for use by all requisite governmental agencies.
What Happened to the Future?
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Re: What Happened to the Future?
#92Is this a joke? I have a 3d printer in my basement. Poor little VC, go play with your social networks. The grownups a busy making the future.
Mid-portfolio crisis, perhaps?
Re: What Happened to the Future?
#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, probably so. Facebook means that you can keep up with people (who's getting married, who moved, who had children) without emailing them. If you have 500 friends, each with a feed with 50 posts, you are talking about 25000 possible emails. Those emails would never be sent, because they are usually individually way below the importance threshold for an email. So, by this calculation at least, it's at least a 1-2 o…
That's assuming that knowing the minutiae of the lives of people who you don't talk to frequently is important. I'd say that that's actually a huge waste of time, and distracts from actual socializing by making you feel like you're keeping up with people without actually doing so.
Hear hear.
When G+ came out I dropped my Facebook account.
Due to the low activity on G+, I resorted to... doing stuff with other people in real life, such as volunteering and going to meetups.com meetups. And my real friends not near me kept in touch via e-mail and IM.
Re: What Happened to the Future?
#94What happened to HTML? If this were formatted with web standards, I could resize the fonts, scroll with my browser's built-in preferred scrolling mechanisms that aren't chunky, laggy, and painful, and I could actually read it. I'm not the only one to comment on this, but apparently whoever did this page is dense enough about web standards that the point needs to be repeated. How do you run a VC and not get this? My o…
Use Readability: http://www.readability.com/articles/v0mms3ke
The fancy animated graphs didn't survive cleanup.
Re: What Happened to the Future?
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
I definitely appreciate your support and you make good points about Pandora, Google and companies like them. However, from what I've read, it took Google five months to rack up those rejections, and I've spent five years. That doesn't make it impossible, but for a number of reasons, it shouldn't take that long. Aside from the given entrepreneur, it harms industry and ultimately the country when it does.
but for a number of reasons, it shouldn't take that long. I totally hear you. It _shouldn't_, but it does. I know we've talked about this before, Aaron, but I think you have to work like hell for the next 6 months to get people using _some part of your system. You've had uptake in libraries... try to get your system in as many libraries as possible. Get some press for that uptake and traction. You do this really well…
Unfortunately, domestic money transmission is illegal is California as of July 1st without a license. The only way around that is money, and I'm not willing to do jailtime for traction.
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#96> Not all technology is created equal: there is a difference between Pong and the Concorde Yes, Pong was simply a clever design making use of existing technology that made shirtloads of money for a bunch of people and spawned entire industries. Whereas Concorde - a "real technological development" - was a giant money pit fed from government slush funds for decades, punctuated only by occasional lethal consequences fo…
Now wait a minute here. How old are you? America had an SST too. It was killed due to environmental concerns and the Concorde was only allowed to fly into certain USA terminals. That's why the Concorde was a "money pit." Had we been able to let airlines go to SSTs, competition would have driven prices down.
Re: What Happened to the Future?
#97It's a good essay. The only problem is that it's Peter Thiel behind it. The problem isn't just that "we got 140 characters." The problem is that Peter Thiel asked for it by investing in and therefore promulgating Mark Zuckerberg's vision of ubiquitous irrelevance. I think he's right that VC is destroying itself by investing in what I have often referred to as trivial nonsense, but he and his firm are part of the prob…
>>>ubiquitous irrelevance
That's very cute, but the fact is most people don't say or do Important Things in their lives. And socialness on the Internet is a reflection of that.
And that cavalier dismissive attitude is what I would expect from Suits, not here.
Re: What Happened to the Future?
#98its;dr (interface too shitty; didn't read)
The interface is most likely different from what you are used to, yes?
Re: What Happened to the Future?
#99What happened to HTML? If this were formatted with web standards, I could resize the fonts, scroll with my browser's built-in preferred scrolling mechanisms that aren't chunky, laggy, and painful, and I could actually read it. I'm not the only one to comment on this, but apparently whoever did this page is dense enough about web standards that the point needs to be repeated. How do you run a VC and not get this? My o…
Click link, see blank page, unblock Flash applet, struggle through reading a single paragraph with eye-gougingly atrocious font and mouse-crushingly stupid scroll functionality... then my head simply explodes from the irony of what I am experiencing and what I am reading. Close window.
Copy/Paste into Emacs. M-x Fill-Region (which breaks lines)
Enjoyably read article.
Re: What Happened to the Future?
#100Flying cars do exist and can be bought (pre-order) today.
Unrelated, except to the sub-title. I also posted deeper in the comments, but I think it's a pretty cool project and thought it's worth trying to repost in a more visible spot. The price tag is a few 100k and you only need the lowest level pilot's license to fly it.