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Comment The shocking idea is... (Score -1, Troll) 168

humans are built to live hundreds of years. The environment we create for ourselves has really worked against our longevity. The corollary is should we live that long? Seems in many ways easier to get contribution equity - and thusly transfer that equity - from individuals over shorter time-spans.

Comment I do not see the point (Score 3, Insightful) 178

This is the 4th or 5th time it's plunged like this(percentage basis) since 2010. Why is the outcome this time different? more participants? more awareness? higher market caps? all of those things also bring along new players, lobbyists, proponents and capability to ensure the cycle repeats at some point.

Comment Re:Marketing Scam (Score 1) 440

You missed my point: there are literally thousands of powdered supplement mixes out there that contain all different types of blends/mixtures of various compounds, minerals, vitamins, amino, etc. there are even some that have whey, soy, casein, etc. as part of the blend.

Comment It's pretty simple actually - Do Some Evil. (Score 5, Interesting) 192

As a company providing APIs and encouraging development on your platform is great as long as you maintain control. The problem with APIs is apps can, provided the APIs provide enough of the right data, totally remove your influence in favor of the developer using your APIs. I first saw this Social Fixer app a few weeks back and I immediately thought "finally, someone that will remind us who owns facebook: the users." Facebook will have no revenue if they cannot monetize the marketing of their site, and with free APIs they can't do that. Paid APIs? Devs want free access, so you'll kill your dev community if you start charging.

Comment Re:Say what you will (Score 5, Insightful) 182

That's expensive. "Cloud" hosting services cost about 1.5x traditional hosting. When you want multiple locations("regions" in aws) you need to pay for resources in each additional region, then pay another cost to provide that failover. Cloud hosting is great, but it's nothing it does is new or cheaper than hosting 10 years ago.

Comment Bubble Tracking (Score 1, Insightful) 236

More than anything I was interested to figure out what the leading indicators of the next industry bubble would be(after being in college during the 90s.com fun). My takeaway from this is while it's a fun gimmick, it's a solution looking for a problem. The fact it's getting traction in conversation is fascinating and provides greater insight than the concept itself.

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