0xen 🎩
@0xen
No shade towards the Network School but it was announced one month away, that probably excludes 95% of potential applicants. Over indexes those who can drop everything and travel to a remote island, independently wealthy types. By design?
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0xen 🎩
@0xen
@balajis.eth mentions Indian engineers, African coders, Chinese liberals and Latin American libertarians. Can these folks drop their jobs for an eight week sabbatical? One month out?
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
There's definitely a subset that absolutely can; zuzalu was proof that they exist. In some cases, large parts of whole companies temporarily relocated. It certainly is a very small group relative to the populations of those countries as a whole. For a "round 1", asking unreasonable things of people may be fine, if the goal is to do a small experiment, and then you make the structure more accommodating for rounds 2+. But it's still possible to overshoot, and actually get lots of millionaires and zero students / young devs. I think if I were doing this I would give out lots of targeted scholarships. Or perhaps zuzalu 1.0's blanket "low-GDP country discount". CC @balajis.eth
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0xen 🎩
@0xen
how much lead time was there for zuzalu?
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
I actually think the median attendee found out about it 4-6 weeks before it started, so... exactly the same as balaji school! :D
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