I've thought about it like this for the last couple of years: Finding a good partner is the most important decision you can make. After all of the promotions and successful business deals/ventures, if you fail to do so, chances are you'll lose ~50%. Easier said than done though.
Hi, I'm Ashley Barr. (I'll prove it if necessary, but the tracks to this username have already been proved out by the bitcoin community)
This is pretty vivid summary. I didn't actually know that most of what I provided was already in the public record.
The reason I'm commenting is that I'm hoping to get more eyeballs on my original AMA, regarding Edit 3.
Cheers for your insights, I learned a little too.
It's a great question, and one I'm pretty optimistic about us getting right.
Take Open Source Ecology for example. They're making the Global Village Construction set, a collection of Open Source machines that cost a fraction of what proprietary solutions do today. I think the impact of what they are enabling is hugely catalyzing towards that end (post-scarcity communism [collective ownership of capital). To the uninitiated, it it might sound like they are do-gooders just trying to make cheap machinery available for developed regions, but in reality the kind of people who will benefit immediately are other engineers. The more these engineers are liberated by the technical/economical advances of the GVCS, the more time they'll have to put back into into the project. I can already imagine the first few small semi-sustainable towns popping up, packed with engineers, ideally mushrooming into the kind of ending Manna so wonderfully illustrated.
The more collaboration we see around giving people the technologies they need to look after themselves/family/community, the less likely we'll be living in a capitalist-dystopia.
For me personally, if I was given the option between being a billionaire and being able to have everything that I want, or helping to actively build with others towards a future where we can all get what we want... I know I'd have to go with the latter.
I'm very curious about how you're tackling this problem. It's no longer a secret that insects could provide a rich and abundant source or protein, the biggest problem I've seen this far is how to farm them, in other words what is the sustainable input into these farms?
As the other commenter pointed out, black soldier flies are a wonderful output, but from my research I've seen that they need meat for to grow and their larva to hatch.
I would also suggest you get your money out for the 5%. If their Japanese branch starts giving them trouble (they don't have licensing in Japan), there's the risk your money will be seized.
It's cool you believe in your product and its potential. At a first glance, I'm really interested in trying it out, but yeah "This is gonna change the world" kind of mantra really isn't what I need to see from and center. I don't know who you are, so unfortunately it comes off as pitchy. Tell me how this will help me convey and consume content.
I have this fantasy where my desk is able to attach rack mount chassis (u1/U2 x 2). It seems to me this would need to be a mod... Do you think the motor on these desks would be strong enough for such a feat?
That's like saying "The government stole my car from the valet who was driving it without a license". Mt.Gox knew they needed a license, that's been made extremely clear. The only reason they are still operating at all is because Japanese authorities are asleep at the wheel.
Tumblers/mixers are the most likely place to pick these up.