But the percentage we're really interested in is "what percentage of tech based startups are VC vs. bootstrapped." Especially in, say, the Bay Area. I don't know what that figure is, but I'd like to know.
Not common in Silicon Valley, but much more common in the rest of the country.
There’s an archetype for bootstrapped tech businesses:
- highly vertical specific
- couple hundred million TAM
- founder started the business in their 30s and is now in their 40s
But if you'd asked this question in 2015 or earlier, everyone would have said Disney -> pro-patent, average people & indie devs -> anti-patent. Microsoft was famously pro-patent, as were a number of nuisance companies that earned the label "patent troll."
Honestly, this idea of "patents to protect the people" would've come across as a corporate lawyer trick pre-2015.
Pollutions impacts people across all age groups, including children and otherwise healthy adults. Many pollution deaths aren't inevitable near-term deaths.
Health effects include:
- Respiratory diseases developing in otherwise healthy people
- Cardiovascular damage at an early age affecting long-term health
- Developmental impacts on children with lifelong consequences
- Cancer and other conditions with substantial life-shortening effects
I'm reading Nagourney's The Times now and a point it makes is that the owner's (Sulzberger) decision to institute a paywall, over the objections of his team, made the NYTimes the profitable digital success story it is today.
I guess I'm in the camp that considers your con a pro. If my Dad wasn't or isn't my biological dad, I would want to know. And I'd be grateful to any service that informed me.
This exact scenario happened to my wife. Grew up thinking her dad was her dad and that she was of some certain ancestry.
I remember her and I both spitting into a tube in our SF apartment in San Francisco in 2012 and mailing them off.
A few years later, we look at the ancestry data and there is a big surprise (she was ~50% something that she was sure 0% before that).
Turns out her dad wasn’t her dad and she was donor conceived — this has potentially huge health implications if you don’t know this.
By some fortunate circumstance, she ultimately found the donor… and 27 (and counting) siblings! Turns out the clinic where this all went down at in the early 1980s was sketchy and lied to a whole bunch of people and misused samples.
My hot take is that, viewed under the right conditions, India today is what a long-term MAGA victory in the US would look like (as in multiple consecutive Presidential administrations). Now obviously the religion must be changed; obviously also the demographic/racial aspect is different too. But in general, to see how MAGA might operate if it succeeded completely, look at India.
That's exactly what I keep saying - both governments use the same tools to control relatively gullible masses. For example, BJP won by a vast majority largely due to their IT cell[1], an army of people paid 1-10$ per day to berate or praise anyone, re-tweet/like/share to manipulate algorithms and make things go viral. This was a huge one-sided operation for the initial few years until the opposition finally caught up.
The party is headed by an alleged murderer (people died and cases against him conveniently disappeared as soon as the party came to power)[2][3]. He's the mastermind while Modi is just the face. Modi hasn't held a single unscripted press conference/interview in the last 10 years and can't handle questions that aren't pre-arranged.
Its not just related to India, Right wings across the globe have more or less figured this out.
An interesting takeaway from this is that it looks like Rust has really fallen off, in terms of popularity. There was a time when it would've topped these lists (and yes I know you mentioned it - I mean people would've mentioned it anyway). It seems like Nim has claimed 100% of its mindshare.
Some time ago, Rust had no viable replacement at all. If somebody came asking "hey, how can I replace Rust on this system level software" the only possible answer was "you don't".
Nowadays, alternatives exist, and so people can answer with one.
None of that has any meaning for the popularity of Rust or lack thereof.
Actually this implies there's probably an opening in YouTube for someone to make vulnerability videos in the style of speed run videos. And then poaching some of that audience, and riding the sponsorship opportunities. Not my skillset but yeah, I could definitely see that working.
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