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by a_d 8y ago
Bret Victor - Inventing on principle https://vimeo.com/36579366 Alan Kay - Power of Simplicity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdSD07U5uBs Steve Jobs - Marketing (unveiling Think Different) https:/&#x
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Peter Thiel on “Founder as Victim, Founder as God” (2012)(blakemasters.tumblr.com)
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How to join the Intellectual Dark Web – a user’s guide(medium.com)
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by a_d 9y ago
I will attempt to argue against email marketing as a channel for any startup (B2b or B2c). 1. Channel is extremely crowded. Everyone has read the same best-practices and optimization techniques. So emails from most companies (each one of
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by a_d 9y ago
“We are about to launch an actual tropical Island with an erc20 token and this would be good news.” Super interesting comment. How can I learn more about your project?Are you doing this as a reg D offering? (With Securitize or polymath?) De
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Squaring the Triangle: Secure, Decentralized, Human-Readable Names(aaronsw.com)
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by a_d 9y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16547215 This comment by Animats in the context of self-driving trucks is quite telling. He warns precisely of this danger.
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by a_d 9y ago
Brilliant model. PayPal's fraud detection is usually the most cited human intervention model for building "smart systems", but the idea goes back further: Amazon's backend in the 90s, CD baby's recommendation engine
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by a_d 9y ago
How does one execute an ICO that is compliant? Can you please point to specific details or methodology?
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Understanding token velocity(multicoin.capital)
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by a_d 9y ago
Two years ago, I had the profound honor of having lunch with Prof Witten. He is also a very kind and generous human being. A small tidbit I learned: He spends a disproportionate amount of time thinking, and very little time on the desk with
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by a_d 9y ago
Is this the first company to go public that (almost) started/took-off as a "Show HN"? In a way, this is a big moment for YC, PG and this community. Is there a list of "Show HNs" that have become "big"? It
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by a_d 9y ago
>Would really welcome your thoughts and ideas here as well! Will write to feedback@cointracker.io
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by a_d 9y ago
2 follow-up questions: On #1 - Have you done any work on which segment needs this the most? (just curious, what "talking to users" revealed). On #4 - What are the future possibilities of this product (future vision of CoinTracker)
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by a_d 9y ago
1. Cryptocurrencies as an asset class has a broad spectrum of "investors" - tech-savvy millennials, high-net-worth individuals, family offices, financial advisors on behalf of clients, sophisticated hedge funds and a ton of "
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by a_d 9y ago
Harbor is promising. Their paper and code is still light on the details, but I am rooting for them. There are some open questions around compliant secondary trading, real world enforcement etc - but very promising direction. Do you know oth
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by a_d 9y ago
PG/YC started a revolution: They suggested a way through which programmers came into money. Now, with Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies: Programmers are creating money itself. This article makes a bull-case very articulately, with sprinklin
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The Curse of Xanadu (1995)(wired.com)
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I have been following Morgan Housel's (the OP) writings for a while. He has written some excellent essays. In terms of explaining important ideas, they come close to "PG-Level" (Paul Graham) in writing. If you are interested
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> Even on high-contrast sites like Medium, the bright background combined with dark text can be tiresome on the eye, meaning that highlighted text will invert that yielding a more comfortable white text on blue. Agree with OP and super O
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Crony capitalism. "Crony capitalism is an economy in which businesses thrive not as a result of risk taken for them, but rather, as a return on money amassed through a nexus between a business class and the political class." http
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by a_d 9y ago
In India, there are small boutique hospitals that solve this very problem (e.g. https://www.cloudninecare.com/; https://www.motherhoodindia.com/; http://ovumhospitals.com/ and hundreds more
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Decentraland: The new platform for exchanging virtual goods(medium.com)
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So, umm, what is blockchain really useful for? The basic thing blockchain helps with is: it provides a way to verify the order in which entries are made to a ledger. Genuine question: What applications/problems it is useful for? Have
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Jony Ive is retaking control of Apple’s design team after two years(theverge.com)
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The Reasonable Formation of Unreasonable Things [pdf](collaborativefund.com)
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Everything I know (Buckminster Fuller) (1975)(archive.org)
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Ben Franklin effect(en.wikipedia.org)
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Adopt Benjamin Franklin’s Virtues(njlifehacks.com)
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by a_d 9y ago
There are so many articles about ICOs that don't offer any new thinking. This one covers: 1. Lots of ICOs happening (crossed $3B in money raised). 2. ICOs are risky. 3. SEC will likely use the Howey test to determine which ones are sec

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