Rap Genius: Impish Ivy Leaguers Raise Millions for Internet Decoder Ring
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Re: Rap Genius: Impish Ivy Leaguers Raise Millions for Internet Decoder Ring
#2Congrats to the team and all, seriously...
but $15m investment in rap lyrics? When research on machines that could eradicate cancer struggle for crumbs? http://www.kanziuscancerresearch.org/ WTF SV?
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#3Congrats to the team and all, seriously... but $15m investment in rap lyrics? When research on machines that could eradicate cancer struggle for crumbs? http://www.kanziuscancerresearch.org/ WTF SV?
Capitalism is a harsh mistress.
Re: Rap Genius: Impish Ivy Leaguers Raise Millions for Internet Decoder Ring
#4Previous discussion from the investment announcement (14 days ago): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4608511
Re: Rap Genius: Impish Ivy Leaguers Raise Millions for Internet Decoder Ring
#5Congrats to the team and all, seriously... but $15m investment in rap lyrics? When research on machines that could eradicate cancer struggle for crumbs? http://www.kanziuscancerresearch.org/ WTF SV?
Think beyond the rap content and consider it to be a text annotation content engine. The applications/use cases span beyond rap.
this reminds me of what stackoverflow has done - verticalized Q&A sites based on what they validated/proved with stackoverflow itself.
Re: Rap Genius: Impish Ivy Leaguers Raise Millions for Internet Decoder Ring
#6Congrats to the team and all, seriously... but $15m investment in rap lyrics? When research on machines that could eradicate cancer struggle for crumbs? http://www.kanziuscancerresearch.org/ WTF SV?
Ugh.
Are you trying to argue that cancer research is inherently more valuable than text annotation? Because that's, well, brash. Or are you arguing that cancer research has a moral imperative that makes it inherently more valuable than text annotation? Because that's naive.
Investors make investments. You invest in things that you expect to make the most money.
Re: Rap Genius: Impish Ivy Leaguers Raise Millions for Internet Decoder Ring
#7Congrats to the team and all, seriously... but $15m investment in rap lyrics? When research on machines that could eradicate cancer struggle for crumbs? http://www.kanziuscancerresearch.org/ WTF SV?
Ugh. Are you trying to argue that cancer research is inherently more valuable than text annotation? Because that's, well, brash. Or are you arguing that cancer research has a moral imperative that makes it inherently more valuable than text annotation? Because that's naive. Investors make investments. You invest in things that you expect to make the most money.
Lets see how they do on their investment before calling people naive and brash.
Id suggest some "market research" on whether consumers want better cures for cancer or rather text annotation for rap songs
Re: Rap Genius: Impish Ivy Leaguers Raise Millions for Internet Decoder Ring
#8Successful crowdsourcing is about identifying a community with passion that can be channeled into useful work. Hats off to Rap Genius to nailing this for annotations.
Re: Rap Genius: Impish Ivy Leaguers Raise Millions for Internet Decoder Ring
#9Congrats to the team and all, seriously... but $15m investment in rap lyrics? When research on machines that could eradicate cancer struggle for crumbs? http://www.kanziuscancerresearch.org/ WTF SV?
Ugh. Are you trying to argue that cancer research is inherently more valuable than text annotation? Because that's, well, brash. Or are you arguing that cancer research has a moral imperative that makes it inherently more valuable than text annotation? Because that's naive. Investors make investments. You invest in things that you expect to make the most money.
Its not a zero sum game... it doesn't have to be either-or. But there is research going on in things that can change the course of humanity, on a large and immediate scale, and they don't get the attention they deserve
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ugh. Are you trying to argue that cancer research is inherently more valuable than text annotation? Because that's, well, brash. Or are you arguing that cancer research has a moral imperative that makes it inherently more valuable than text annotation? Because that's naive. Investors make investments. You invest in things that you expect to make the most money.
Lets see how they do on their investment before calling people naive and brash. Id suggest some "market research" on whether consumers want better cures for cancer or rather text annotation for rap songs
There's no better market research than selling things.