amirmc
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Comment · 1 month ago
That’s certainly part of it. I think people underestimate the value of getting to ‘good enough’. Once that’s reached, the economics start to be more of a factor in decision making.
However, I think geopolitics has also become a factor as the very existence of this article indicates.
Comment · 1 month ago
Which is a much better article
Comment · 5 years ago
I see. It seems that I was getting the empty page half an hour ago for just that link. Now it’s taking me to the full page.
Comment · 5 years ago
Interesting. That specific page is blank but others redirect to a more useful 404
Comment · 6 years ago
Of course FB wants to control content. It helps them increase engagement and also monetise.
Comment · 8 years ago
‘Willingly’? I think unwittingly is more likely.
Comment · 8 years ago
I’d argue it’s not the same. It certainly gives you a very close and stark window into what it’s like, but it doesn’t compare to the lived experience.
Comment · 8 years ago
> Companies are hardly going to make tons of money on unapproved therapies anyway, because the word will get out if x patients tried it and had no benefits.
That seems wildly optimistic to me. Companies, especially pharma, will always find ways to 'make tons of money'. The second part of the sentence assumes a level of disclosure (from the companies) and rationality (on the part of average people), that I don't believe exists in the world. There are plenty of examples to back that up, especially people's willingness to believe self-serving 'facts'.
Comment · 8 years ago
IIRC WhatsApp also cared a lot about making the app available on all kinds of phones. Not just iOS/Android. So all those people in the rest of the world could start using it and bring their families on board.
Comment · 8 years ago
> But I guess asking logical questions is frowned upon...
I did not consider the questions to be particularly ‘logical’ at all. Naive, perhaps, but not logical.
There’s presumably 30 years of knowledge you could look up to formulate better questions.
Currently at Mistral.
Previous things I've been involved with:
https://docker.com ( past) -- via acquisition of http://unikernel.com. Still working on unikernel adoption but with the leverage of Docker's ecosystem. First product is Docker for Mac/Windows.
http://unikernel{.org|.com} (past) -- Working towards wider adoption of unikernels.
http://nymote.org (dormant|side-project) -- FOSS, OCaml-based toolstack for connected devices and personal clouds. Just as the LAMP stack enabled the modern web, the Nymote stack (aka MISO stack) will enable the 'Internet of Everything'.
https://mirage.io (past) -- MirageOS is the 'M' in the MISO stack. A new approach to the Operating System where developers compose their applications by pulling in OS components as libraries (e.g networking, etc) and let the compiler deal with optimisation to produce lean, single-purpose VMs (aka Unikernels). The 'I' in MISO is the Irmin, git-like data storage system.
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/projects/ocamllabs (alum) -- Co-created this group to push OCaml forward and make it more effective by working on tooling, documentation and a Platform. I herded cats here.
http://www.springboard.com (spun out, later acquired) -- Accelerator programme I set up in Cambridge in 2009. Worked with neilgd. Teams included PagerDuty (agmiklas, bpuvanathasan & alexsolo) and TidePowerd (profquail) among others. Now being run by jdbradford. Merged with Techstars in Q1 2013.
http://www.tidepowerd.com (board member) -- One of the Springboard teams that Red Gate invested in (profquail). Makes GPU computing accessible to .NET devs. Now shut down.
http://www.svc2uk.com -- Student run series of events with folks from the Valley. Chaired by Sherry Coutu and Reid Hoffman.
http://www.go-test.it (now sold) -- Red Gate acquisition. I worked with the founder, martinkl, who moved on to Rapportive (YC S10) with rahulvohra and samstokes. The assets were sold on.
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