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.
He also was one of few people who was right about the NSA pre-Snowden. People seen to forget this. When I read the Snowen story my first thought was that, unfortunately, more people would take InfoWars seriously. I do not support censorship, though.
Conspiracy theories are usually bad explanations and leave unexplained stuff like how new conspirators are recruited without exposing the conspiracy. Yet a small fraction of conspiracy theories are true, e.g. Guy Fawkes. A more sophisticated treatment acknowledges this and understands that these are frequently labelled 'conspiracy theories' in attempts to discredit them.
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.
Activities like preparing food for the homeless, tutoring poor kids etc., seems not to have terminal milestones to me. Please do correct me if I am wrong
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.
That's why bitcoin is such a disruptive invention. It solves what was previously the unsolvable Byzantine Generals Problem. Before that invention, a cryptographically secure decentralized store of value was not possible. Now it is. That's why it is such a disruption.
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.