I'm surprised to hear YC courting would-be founders who are more interested in finishing college (grad school, even!). Affinity to the norms of academic institutions (not unlike large corporations) and to converging on their pre-formulated problems would seem incompatible with the traits of successful startup founders.
This solidifies the view that YC is modeled as a "founder college" for the young and cash-starved, weened as they are on ready-made social support systems, institutional authority, and formal rewards.
> He has suggested that America’s government was involved in the Oklahoma City bombing in 1993 and the September 11th terrorist attacks. He says that vaccinating children will give them autism.
There is always a two-way relationship between the regulated and the regulator. Therefore, all regulated companies are, in a sense, merged with government. The greater the regulatory regime, the more deeply society becomes impressed with the features of fascism.
Do the stakeholders of the banking, pharmaceutical, media, and war cartels, forged in government agencies (whose charters they themselves drafted) and nurtured through regulation, hold sway over Alphabet and Facebook? It's a simple enough question to research and answer.
In terms of harmful ingredients, phospates (used to increase water content) might actualy be more dangerous than nitrates. Consumption of added phospates is linked to renal failure, CVD, and yes, bowel cancer.
It's thought that disruption of biophoton communication is the mechanism by which phosphates promote cell undifferentiation, proliferation, and, eventually, cancer.
What the law does is transfer the power to defraud the public from the common grifter to a central authority. In doing so, it adds another, more sinister tool to the ones you mention: forced participation.
>the solution is to invest more fully in the process, giving meaning to your life through activities that have no terminal point
Are there such activities? Even the more process-oriented ones, lacking final conclusions, have terminal milestones. The juggler will eventually master 4 balls; the violinist Paganini, etc.
Nutritional supplements compete with pharmaceuticals. Could there be a conflict of interest when an institution that is heavily influenced by big pharma puts out a study on their competition?
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/2009/10/23/bitter-pills/
It might be worth exploring the reason why the "taboo" on this subject has recently been breached. Could it be that how we define life and our expectations of it have shifted? In a world where the goal in life is personal enjoyment, of which ease is a precondition, childbearing is more commonly regrettable.
Perhaps there never was a taboo, just a different conception of what a human life should aim for.
Economics as a discipline is fraught with normalcy bias. Macroeconomics assumes a government. Taxes are assumed. Deficits are a given. Central banks, fiat legal tender, and fractional reserve banking -- none of these existed 150 years ago, yet they are as foundational to modern economics as mass is to physics.
First accept the fact that your team - despite their vaunted achievements in many areas - is not competent in ideation. Ideation is more than just pulling a rabbit (you've probably pulled one or two already, despite your collective lack of skill). It's akin to pulling a rabbit egg out of a hat, fertilizing it in a petri dish, and shepherding its development into a furry, scampering critter). It's a process of vision.
Your options are 1) develop this skill; 2) find someone who has. Weigh the effort and palatability of personal transformation vs setting aside the signal-detection machinery that has thus far excluded competent ideators from your circle.
> But the notion of JrGQL and GQL as query languages means that the servers handling these calls must be query resolvers. Unlike most restful interfaces which tend to devote a single uniform interface per endpoint with only minor modifications, a full query model of your domain means an explosive quantity of potential strategies piped through a single endpoint.
GQL does seem to encourage, if not assume, a type-theoretical graph datastore as the backend. (Who couldn't whip such a thing together, if it were lacking?)
But it does not require one. This point may be lost in the tutorial and examples shown on graphql.org. There is no reason one could not map a basic GQL service onto an existing set of REST endpoints, with each one a type, and the return of their fields controlled by the request.
The socialist slave number was never intended as a private key empowering the bearer to authorize or prove identity. It's more akin to a serial number on a a manufactured item. It allows item-specific tracking and servicing of inventory by both state and third-parties.
When viewed from the item's perspective, its drawbacks may amount to a "disgrace," but that's coming from the products' perspective, not the customer's.
The problem with supra-nations is that, as bigger monopolies on government, they are much harder to vote against with your feet. You know, in case they become captured by special interests and impose burdensome taxes, oppressive laws, and smothering regulations.
> Guns are not part of the human condition, and we could do without them if we so chose.
Could we really do without them? No guns for madmen, sane people, kids, death squads, adults, spies, sportsmen, militia men, soldiers, police officers, swat teams, special forces, or concentration camp guards?
It's even more surprising given research correlating founder age and industry experience to the likelihood of big exits. https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/younger-vs-...
This solidifies the view that YC is modeled as a "founder college" for the young and cash-starved, weened as they are on ready-made social support systems, institutional authority, and formal rewards.