That's really pushing it PG, it's quite clear what your actual intent was. You dislike arguing on the net because you don't want to be called out on your mistakes.
You had a really biased sample, you only ever took on teams right from the start so how would you know. And secondly, there's only a few outstanding companies and they seem to be equally split. Most of the world's richest people are not from teams but single individuals. The google boys are the only split fortune in the self-made billionaire club. If anything, the evidence is against you.
There's a pretty simple solution to the israel-palestine problem, offer either one of them a bribe to relocate to some empty part of Africa, or better yet, a patch of land in the desert in america or mexico. Put a fence and immigration controls around it, problem solved.
The US could spend way less on this then the current military aid it does to isreal/arabia.
I assume you're referring to indians. They have a special culture where the best students go into medicine, second is engineering, and only third is computers.
The new distbelief paper doesn't explain some things. Why are "receptive fields". An earlier paper claimed better than 15% results on imagenet and so does this, what changed. Why have you claimed sgd works on nonconvex well without comparing against actual nonconvex opto algs. You also didn't cite my comments on metaoptimize where some of your ideas seem to come from.
Yeah, it's such a simple thing that nerds don't seem to get. Put out ads on craigslist, adwords, indiegogo. Whatever sells, do that. The biggest problem is having more ideas than time to write them into an ad, there's too many potential products. You can outsource the creation of whatever sells so executing isn't even that big a hurdle (though you do have to be careful with initial pricing on the ad so that costs don't get you).
Telecommuting high def video. Upstreaming dozens of security cam/robot videos from your house. Caching data. Google can cache much of youtube and web right on your internet router so that you pay the electricity bill instead of them. Telemedicine.
You are a douchebag. There are billions of other web pages you could visit. I'm on a few others as we speak. This isn't a small room and I've cornered people in it, it'a public disucssion forum. You must be a total terror in real life if you are so easily annoyed.
I mean in their data center. Also, I'd be more impressed if they actually got the self-driving cars out to the world. It's been 5 years now. Google has a problem executing, they're lulled by their one success.
Like I said earlier, a luxury tax. The capitalist utopia of singapore has them. Tax the rich and give it to NASA or create multi-billion dollar seed fund for immortality hacktivists.
As much as I like google, I doubt they're as good as that. Their search and advertising is essentially a monopoly because they have such a data lead over anyone else. That's why facebook freaks them out because they know how having more data is the secret sauce. Their data center innovations don't seem all that incredibly innovative. If they had robots whirring around I'd be much more impressed.
He's helping the poor by making energy cheaper indirectly through kickstarting an electric car industry.
The tax issue can be resolved by luxury taxes. If people decide they'd like $100 million yacht, tax them $200 million for it. Countries like Singapore already have punitive taxes like that on cars.
What if it's a relative you'd like to see live another 10 or 20 years because they're too young to die?
Yeah, we need more playboys. The kid with cancer or malnutrition and his family should just learn to cope with death.
Anti-death people are such narcissists. The financiers like you are the true heros. You get a lot of hookers and blow and we should be thankful for you consuming them.
That's why I said government maybe needs to redistribute wealth if these rich folk genuinely don't give a shit about poor people. They can keep their money if they invest in society improving stuff. That's why I said immortality tech. He could get involved in miniaturizing extra-corporeal devices (artificial organs) that keep people alive even if their hearts or lungs get too damaged. He can start by watching that video and contacting those people and putting together a team of engineers to get it done. If you're not doing an Elon Musk, then maybe the government needs to raise your taxes.
Why should he keep building nice UI's. He's proven himself as a can-do hacker and has millions in the bank. He could spend his resources saving lives instead of polishing what's a tiny hill in the global landscape of ideas.
DHH needs to get off his high horse. He's hacked his way into providing a tiny service for artsy folks but he's not exactly hacking on immortality tech or AI like some of us. The government needs to consider redistributing some of his wealth. This essay is him gloating about sitting on piles of cash, where's the concern for starving african children or terminal cancer patients. He should sell his company and work on immortality tech. He can start with extracorporeal devices like described here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuBDhT7Y5GU