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The problem I find with most philanthropic efforts, most namely charities, is that it's a black box with little measure of accountability. You don't know how exactly the money is spent, and how effective it was.

If someone can start a 100% transparent charitable organization, where each line item of expense is open to the public, it would give people more confidence in giving, and it would give the organizations more incentive to make effective and efficient decisions. Kind of like a manager overseeing your moves, except it's the public since they provide the funding.

In terms of where to focus the efforts -- I find providing education is the only short term effort that can lead to long term and everlasting gains.

DynamoDB?

The problem with understanding trends is that people naturally tend to think that the past predicts the future. What they forget is that what goes up, usually goes down. This is true in the vast majority of cases except for certain occasions (rise of internet, mobile, cloud). This is why hype such as 3d printing, VR, AI, IoT, chat bots, are just that -- hype, until we arrive at the point in time where the exact necessary breakthrough occurs for each, but I don't see it yet in many of todays cases.

They'll run out of liquidity long before driverless cars go mainstream. There are huge legal and logistical hurdles to face.

"extremely smart people" also caused the 2007 mortgage crisis, and 2000 tech bubble

Did Uber really win yet? They haven't exited yet. Their valuation is insanely high and they are not looking to IPO, as they won't get a favorable price in todays markets. They are spending billions in China where they are not leaders yet (and unlikely to be). I don't see how they have won yet. They are walking a dangerous path with no exit in sight.

I suspect the same will happen to all the p2p lending startups soon

I wonder if Lee Sedol were to start as white again, and follow the exact same starting sequences, would AlphaGo's algorithms follow the exact same moves as it did before?

Product vs Service. Huge difference.

no it's because they don't make enough revenue

It all sounds like hysteria to me. We're not even close to this level of AI.

You kind of have to. The vast majority of them are obviously fake. If you look at the wording / grammar there is a lot of similarity (uses of the word "Great", etc)

though not yet proven, I believe we may have found the Enron of our decade

Security aside, I would argue that 98 and XP were the best versions of Windows during that period