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Is that a retort or simply an unrelated observation? Edit: My intent was to understand your perspective (and argue...), but this comment goes over my head, and
by bcook 11y ago
Is that a retort or simply an unrelated observation?
Edit: My intent was to understand your perspective (and argue...), but this comment goes over my head, and it seems as though it was a thinly veiled insult.
- statictype 11y agoWhat I'm understanding here is, that while it might be profitable to someone to have an exploit on hand that they can use, the actual work that goes into turning a profit from the exploit may be me costly enough that its not worth pursuing. Not sure if you read Cryptonomicon, but there's a part there where Randy Waterhouse finds a crap load of gold in the middle of a jungle and then rationalizes that there's no easy way to get it out of there, making it worthless at that moment. That gold has value, but no liquidity.
- vinceguidry 11y agoThis is a forum focused on the startup community. The difference between the merely-useful and the truly-marketable has been discussed ad nauseum on these pages, as that difference makes and breaks many startups.
- tptacek 11y agoNot an insult. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11251104 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11251104
- bcook 11y agoIf you could have been more direct, I would have been more receptive to learning, rather than confusion and feeling excluded.