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by akanet 8y ago
Your mistake is in thinking that the money laundering is achieved by, say, generating a credit card charge for FOO when the item sold was BAR. Not so - the money laundering is in opening many merchant accounts purporting to be for selling F
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by akanet 8y ago
You're being rude, but to answer your question directly: the author responded to the circled comment with an underlined statement admitting to have knowingly engaged in these services for use by his employer.
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by akanet 8y ago
This article is extremely alarming. The process the author is calling "cascade billing" is money laundering. This exact process of disguising the nature of transactions to get banking institutions to transfer funds is literally wh
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Planet Money on Bay Area Housing Costs(npr.org)
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by akanet 8y ago
I think your justification for your opinion is sound, but I think the justification for the other side is sound as well. An elite runner may have only a handful of marathons in a year they really want to trim time off of, and another $250 o
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by akanet 8y ago
This is probably not true - there are many much larger video aggregation sites that exist comfortably outside of YouTube.
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by akanet 8y ago
Yeah, I think we can agree that there will probably be lots of interesting innovation in the distribution of illicit material. However, for an information technology to truly shape our culture, it needs a plausible path to go mainstream. No
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by akanet 8y ago
I think your central claim is sort of refuted by history, and I think there's two parts to it. 1. How relevant "natural" ecology is to understanding longevity of modern culture: unclear, probably not very. 2. Monocultures by
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by akanet 8y ago
This is a greatly simplified and probably unproductive view of both ecologies and monocultures. Certainly nature as a whole is an ecology, but you are vague in defining what a monoculture even is, or how both even apply to human culture. To
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by akanet 8y ago
I think replicated personal data is great, but the author's point is you are probably going to get a lot more storage and bandwidth per dollar by replicating across centralized storage providers. There may be some wins for the specific
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by akanet 8y ago
These assertions are descriptions of the current set of crypto P2P storage systems. Peers only store one copy of your data, per peer . Of course, multiple peers will store copies of your data or the system could never work, but there isn&#
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by akanet 8y ago
Did you mean empathy instead of apathy?
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by akanet 8y ago
I think Evan's identified a ton of problems with Postgres (at the time) that extend far beyond just the query/data pattern. Many of these problems were directly acknowledged by the PG team, which made for interesting reading: htt
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by akanet 8y ago
I strongly disagree. Pattern recognition broke new ground for Gibson. It was a novel examining the role of information and aesthetics have in shaping a very near-future society. Neuromancer is a grand, outer-space cowboy adventure, with all
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by akanet 8y ago
Narcissism and materialism can be very different things
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by akanet 8y ago
Probably not - you need to push water over the radiator blocks at a decent clip and I'm pretty sure you need pump. You could try a heatpipe into a big radiator that sits in a big tank of water, though.
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by akanet 8y ago
Benefit of the doubt is not a good heuristic for evaluating whether a business venture is a good idea.
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by akanet 8y ago
I agree with this comment except for the keep going part. It seems you've spent a lot of time building this but not a lot of time considering the value proposition. I think there is nobility in stopping projects, and this one seems lia
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by akanet 9y ago
I don't think it's very nice to call the work of someone trying to contribute information to the group "worthless".
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by akanet 9y ago
I thought this was a great piece, and I too wish that more founders recorded themselves to watch later. I've definitely wanted to shake more than a few prospective founders and say "DO YOU HEAR YOURSELF?" Some commenters here
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by akanet 9y ago
Yup, the search space has been completely explored. You can read more about the effort to do so here: http://www.cube20.org
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by akanet 9y ago
I am such a layperson and especially appreciated this article.
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by akanet 9y ago
To the interviewee: Having learned these lessons, why are you uh, making the "Product Hunt for Marketing Tools" next? Have you applied your learnings from the failure of Eloquis? This seems like an even harder segment to make mone
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by akanet 9y ago
To offer a counterpoint to this post, I am also a renter of WeWork's at 995 Market. We around 2k/mo for a four-person office and I'm fairly satisfied with this arrangement. The facilities were much worse when the building fir
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by akanet 9y ago
Those of you interested in the gory details of just how shady subprime auto lenders are getting should read this recent report on one of the big lenders: https://www.plainsite.org/realitycheck/creditacceptance.html
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by akanet 9y ago
That is also a totally good suggestion but we don't have to be mean about other good suggestions.
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by akanet 9y ago
This is pretty unlikely given that lithium is recoverable, extremely common (an element, not a complex organic molecule), and not, you know, we don't burn it to get value out of it.
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by akanet 9y ago
We actually go a bit further in the interest of giving you more power - CoderPad uses ipython for its Python repl. You can read more about it at https://CoderPad.io/languages#python
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by akanet 9y ago
I sort of doubt this will change your course of action, but we of course do not share your data. That said, any company that asks you an interview question has probably seen hundreds of answers to said question already and probably has neit
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by akanet 9y ago
Everlane is a great place to work! There are lots of creative, interesting people there making products that people actually want (clothes). If you're interested in working there, I encourage you to apply: https://jobs.lever

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