I demand a review of all his equipment to see if he was using Govt equipment and/or time to work on these ideas. If so, no patent awarded. VS commercial sector where patents go to court and end up in the hands of the parent company that provided the equipment.
I'm a contracter at an internet company in Palo Alto. If i pulled this, there is a lot of paperwork that says.. profits go to parent company..... 100% of my time is to be on said project. I just assume Director of NSA would have the same line.
I donated last week. The big problem is, those with largest money, have more unfair access to donating. Comcast just got to #2 in lobbying money. 3m per fiscal quarter buys monopoly. Seems easier for me to contribute against it. #americaninternetspeeds
I would argue they figured out what they wanted outside of the full influence of social consensus.
Live in a car = Fund Startup + Ring to from his supporting partner
Most ppl in the valley with a gf(bf) choose:
Apt + work at someone else's startup + untested supportive gf(bf)
Then there are the pompous ones:
Apt + Work at a fake startup (profitable, lots of employees) + have normal significant other, who says they support but probably wont be there if conditions get hard enough.
The real key is that he had unconditional support to do what he believed in and thought was right.
Do what you believe in, and everything else will work itself out as long as you are persistent.
p.s. I couch surf because i believe in what i'm doing, so i may be biased.
This kind of thing used to happen with map makers, for 1000 years. Their solution was to make random small inaccuracies so they could detect when their maps were being stolen. Additionally, Google has been doing this to small start ups in 3rd world countries for years.
This was an over produced decision, that should have been left to dealing with ignoring the cease and desist letter, instead of setting a president for banning VPNs and proxies, potentially.
I agree. Plato said, "To be just is to do no harm." I would argue up until now, we had best effort at full information at a transaction level between the police/the incident/the public. The flaw was the only accredable information was asymmetric from the point of view of the police officer. Some times this situation led to fibbing to close a case or cover up a mistake.
Now there can be the solution to have symmetric, or full, information for the same situation. The only 'harm' now would be to those who forget the truth, embellish it, or are just bad at their job and lie.
I'm not sure, once they go into monitization they might end up just like yelp.. not showing the good stuff because the businesses did not pay the ever increasing fees.
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“Small businesses don’t want to pay for an ad from Yelp or deals on Foursquare or Groupon,” says Seirafi-Pour. “They have deals already. What they want is a better way to distribute them."
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I do not see this statement as a 'we will not extort the businesses once our system is rolling'
Full disclosure: I dislike yelp, and feel it's an extortion service. Once the delivery end is kicking, i foresee a class action lawsuit for slander.
'Rebelling' in psychology happens so an individual can become an independant person. They rebel (males do at a younger age than females) to become something a bit different than the parents. We all do. The persons this article refers to just keep that mentality when it comes to other things.
"This works, but I see another way to look at it, witch removes something I don't like about the idea" Call it rebelling, call it out of the box thinking. It's what happens with us all, so we are not clones of our parents.
I don 't believe it's 'lack of moral compass' for this equation. It's such a tricky pot. What would this missing moral compass entail? drugs, privacy, sexual morals?
I would argue that a stronger internal sense of morality helps one find these cracks in the system to become entrepreneur.
A lack of moral compass would mean one would do whatever it takes without bounds to achieve the desired outcome. NSA, Crack Dealers,
A strong internal moral compass would let someone think it's not a bad thing to grow pot and sell it(George Washington), protect their wealth during hyperinflation with bit-coin (Argentina, Greece), Bring cheep education to the masses (OCW, Schwartz).
I think the idea you are looking for is: socially suggested morals. But the 'troubled' kids are smart enough to question what they see, open enough to imagine a better way, stubborn enough to not listen to nay-sayers without good arguments.
Class warfare aside, there are important variables associated with class, especially when you iterate this into thousands of situations.
First off, everyone rebels, it's part of our psychological growh to become individuals. The smarter ones, i suggest might not use it for petty crap, but for min/maxing on skipping class and going to a party, or putting of school for a year or two to run with a good idea. I say smarter ones, because they are just looking at more variables to crunch.
Secondly, the financial backing of one's support system, or family, has a lot to do with mitigating the downsides of intensive and/or risky projects. If mom and dad are more successful or stable, there is more of a safety net. Couch surfing and ramen/starving might not be for everyone, so a better safety net means less downside.
Self esteem vs low self esteem is a big one too. This correlates to socio-economic economic status. Self esteem will let one believe in their good idea, instead of letting someone tell them it's stupid.
I will agree that the article is slanted twords rich kids, they just had more bonuses.
The interesting thing to me, is I think if you look at middle class entrepreneurs, they will be running their businesses taking less risk (service businesses as tradesmen / lawncare / contracting / etc) for less reward, but are fitting the same mold.
any others?