ActsJuvenile

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I made a $2M funeral startup and became a monster(theguardian.com)
85 points by ActsJuvenile 5y ago|49 comments
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DOJ antitrust complaint against Google [pdf](justice.gov)
3 points by ActsJuvenile 6y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: What are your favorite IR Depth / Time of Flight camera modules?
1 points by ActsJuvenile 6y ago|0 comments
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by ActsJuvenile 6y ago
I am surprised there is no discussion of alternative readers like Onyx Boox, which allow infinite customization through Android OS. Remarkable is a closed ecosystem with no third party apps.
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by ActsJuvenile 6y ago
Seems like the dataset behind this article is for founders who have built businesses with $5K MRR and above. $60K revenue (and $20K profit @ 33% margin) is a fairly low bar, so it is not surprising to see solo founders create 2.5X more bus
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by ActsJuvenile 6y ago
How many people do you have on your team?
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by ActsJuvenile 6y ago
Hi Peter, what is your macro view on immigration trajectory in the coming years? Do you expect the hurdles and wait-times to keep getting bigger, or do you expect a softening should the presidency change hands?
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by ActsJuvenile 6y ago
Doctors vs Software Engineers are very interesting case studies in my eyes. AMA (American Medical Association) has successfully lobbied congress to cap residencies at 100K a year, essentially restricting supply. Foreign doctors have to go
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by ActsJuvenile 6y ago
Furthermore, downloading the Ethereum Blockchain, going through shady exchanges to buy ether coins, and maintaining a secure wallet is a much bigger headache than simply paying for Amazon Prime. This is a nice tech demo but not of any pract
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by ActsJuvenile 6y ago
Software libraries, APIs, tools, dependencies have exploded exponentially since the early days of C language and a handful of Berkley/Bell libraries. I often use a dozen different things for my projects and the next project invariable
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by ActsJuvenile 7y ago
Some sincere feedback: LVT sounds a cooky concept that might solve inherited / ossified land ownership problem in the UK, but it seems to have little relevance to the USA. Land is plentiful here. LVT might also reward families with li
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by ActsJuvenile 7y ago
I read through the entire pitch and I still don't understand what is special about Polar. There are a ton of apps that do all this and more in no particular order: 1) Xodo Reader 2) Liquid Text 3) Margin Notes 3 (AWESOME) 4) KOReader
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by ActsJuvenile 9y ago
Great project! I just found out that one creepy Safari extension is crawling every URL I visit. Also Yahoo Slurp is crawling my email URLs. Sigh.
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Ask HN: Why does the logo of this Chinese app stutter and color shift?
5 points by ActsJuvenile 9y ago|1 comments
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Mt. Gox bankruptcy lawyer has recovered $400m, has 180,000 more Bitcoins to sell(bloomberg.com)
4 points by ActsJuvenile 9y ago|0 comments
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by ActsJuvenile 9y ago
For the rest of the HN community, how do you fight patent trolls like these? How much does it cost ballpark to defend a product?
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by ActsJuvenile 9y ago
It's more about setting the tone. If top figures in the government and legislature take an inclusive stance and stamp out any racists issues, populous tend to pick up on that vibe.
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by ActsJuvenile 9y ago
Twitter is in a dire situation. As a fun project I wrote a Lua - Torch bot to search for certain tweets and hit like on them based on sentiment analysis. I realized that API query results were mostly news bots, retweet bots, corporate PR b
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Tether offering 0.2% interest PER DAY to shore up more USD(youtube.com)
3 points by ActsJuvenile 9y ago|0 comments
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One fine-print clarification about Tether 1:1 peg
1 points by ActsJuvenile 9y ago|0 comments
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by ActsJuvenile 9y ago
Check out the depth chart for USDT/USD pair. There is no buy-side demand at all. Anyone selling Tether would have to eat huge losses by selling their USDT well under $1. It is human nature to not sell at a loss, so no one is selling
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by ActsJuvenile 9y ago
I am feeling pessimistic man. We had a few decades of privacy and human rights progress post World Wars. But with Terrorism on the rise there is no way for privacy or human rights to make a comeback. We will see increasingly clever ways
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by ActsJuvenile 9y ago
Counter-counter-transactions sound like textbook example of overengineering. Bitcoin's only advantage at this point is its price, which will go away as soon as there is a crash. Then we can scrap Bitcoin, LN, and all the baggage and s
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by ActsJuvenile 9y ago
Don't worry - scaling solutions won't matter when Tether bubble pops and takes crypto market down for two years. BTC and BCH both are going to suffer equally.
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by ActsJuvenile 9y ago
Lightning needs two additional transactions to load and unload payment channels, maximum transaction amount is 0.04 BTC, and it is at least 1 year away from maturity for large scale deployment. Current price bubble will bust long before tha
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by ActsJuvenile 9y ago
100 nodes for a network worth hundreds of Billions of dollars: that's not over cautious, that's under cautious.
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by ActsJuvenile 9y ago
I am curious why you wanted Bitcoin on your site. It has been dead as a payment mechanism for a long time. BitPay is a dead man walking, save for all the mining hardware purchases denominated in Bitcoins.
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by ActsJuvenile 9y ago
No bank would service your account. At this point you need to found your own banking charter like ItBit or Gemini.
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by ActsJuvenile 9y ago
Wonder why Fred Erhsam quit if CB is crushing it. He doesn't strike me as a "follow the heart" kinda guy...
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by ActsJuvenile 9y ago
Loading and unloading Lightning channels creates separate transactions. Depending on how often an open channel is used, Lightning can increase the transaction load.

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