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Toshio | 12 years ago

Huh. I don't follow news about India/AIDS or BTC, but Tesla is a startup IIRC.

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DanBC|12 years ago

> I don't follow news about India/AIDS

Are you honestly saying that you cannot see how smart people with excellent computing could possibly do anything to help with significant problems such as HIV/AIDS or world hunger or food insecurity?

Are you really only interested in news about the latest cat-photo startup?

(I'm not dismissing those web sites. People have fun, and winning a start-up lottery gives that person money to spend on good science.)

> Roving engine of chaos and snide remarks.

That's not a good thing, especially here.

Toshio|12 years ago

> Are you honestly saying that [...]

It looks like you are putting words in my mouth.

All I'm saying is that I follow a subset of news that's related to tech and startup. Which means I don't have an informed opinion on:

> how smart people with excellent computing could possibly do anything to help with significant problems such as HIV/AIDS or world hunger or food insecurity

or:

> the latest cat-photo startup