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by anateus 15y ago
I partially address this issue in a reply to drewblaisdell.
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by anateus 15y ago
I guess that's what I meant by "good faith". I think making a nigh identical open copy of someone's work is easily predictable to be unpleasant for many people. In plenty of situations (esp on HN and its environs) this is not the case, you
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by anateus 15y ago
Imitation, flattery, and so forth. Taking an existing closed system and opening it is a pretty fundamental part of the hacker ethic. However, it must be done in good faith and good taste. This is neither. Yes, it's quite hard to draw the li
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by anateus 15y ago
A friend's been posting his Lytro photos, and we realized that it lets you focus unto reflections, thus sharpening them and letting you do things like reading an out of sight monitor off the reflection on a table that would usually be too b
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by anateus 15y ago
Because the primary point of Blueseed is to allow easy access to investments from Silicon Valley. Getting invested in without a convenient corporate and financial structure. I think the IRS is an acceptable tradeoff based on the vastly grea
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by anateus 15y ago
1. You don't have to be a citizen to incorporate in the US. Y Combinator requires everyone to incorporate in the US regardless of their home country. It doesn't seem like Blueseed will have a similar requirement, but they should probably ad
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Defining Property(paulgraham.com)
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Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas(paulgraham.com)
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by anateus 15y ago
Going to address only #2: My understanding is that what he means is that even a social totally "conversational" message is a todo item of "read me". Less "frivolous" emails tend to either contains direct action items or imply action items
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by anateus 15y ago
I believe he meant that despite their intentions their size and precarious economic state leaves them open to pressure relative to countries of similar cultural values.
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by anateus 15y ago
Similarly MedLion ( http://www.medlion.com/ ) provides primary care in Santa Cruz and Silicon Valley for $59/mo + $10 visit in part by not accepting insurance (they claim on their website it saves them 40% in costs). Insurance works great f
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by anateus 15y ago
Ah, but the rate at which biotech is become accessible isn't just growing, it's accelerating. The DIYbio movement/subculture/etc. has been growing for the last several years, but recently several serious hackerspaces have sprouted, providin
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by anateus 15y ago
That is folk etymology, it has nothing to do with slavery. Refer here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_call_a_spade_a_spade Summary: The origin is actually a slight mistranslation of Plutarch line, and it was introduced into English in 15
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by anateus 15y ago
You may also enjoy the BIL conference taking place quite soon on March 3-4: http://www.bilconference.com/
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by anateus 15y ago
Definitely. To a level that surprised me. I'm a YC alum and I immediately rushed to see if I was on the chart :> I remember passing on talking to a FC reporter about the alumni network, I guess this is the result.
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by anateus 15y ago
Your confusion is really puzzling to me. You seem to understand why it's useful (ability to share contact info, payments, photo sharing), but how is that different from the "value proposition"? As far as I can tell that's the value proposit
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by anateus 15y ago
Path's error was not the uploading of your address book, but rather making it not be a user choice. The data was used directly in the functionality of the product. The level of actual usefulness this would be to the user is debatable but it
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by anateus 15y ago
Unfortunately, setting up such a scheme is clearly intended specifically to create reasonable doubt, which can get you charged with obstruction and contempt.
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by anateus 15y ago
I do mention that humans are capable of sharing their introspections with each other. There are a lot of issues with this, and philosophy is busy figuring that stuff out (from qualia on). This is why I choose to accept the common explanatio
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by anateus 15y ago
I understand "empathy" to mean the ability to feel someone's emotions/pain/etc. What this demonstrates is that rats will go to another rat's aid, and nothing about their internal models for doing so. It is oversimplifying to say something l
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A Word to the Resourceful(paulgraham.com)
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Schlep Blindness(paulgraham.com)
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Snapshot: Viaweb, June 1998(paulgraham.com)
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by anateus 15y ago
Not a great comfort, but companies like DNA 2.0, Invitrogen, etc. have pretty intensive safety checking of what they're synthesizing. No sending off for smallpox.
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by anateus 15y ago
In the interest of learning the middle, and upper middle class's vocabulary I respectfully make the correction that you probably meant that you went from the 1st percentile, to the 98th (of income, I believe you imply). I've seen my parents
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by anateus 15y ago
They brought them down to 2m, and then back up to 2.5m for the most recent batch. I heard it mentioned that 2.5m was discovered to be the sweet spot.
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by anateus 15y ago
That's a commonly raised issue, largely addressed by looking at actual pirate activity. Piracy is a high-risk endeavor which is only undertaken when you have: a lot of potential victims, with very high value cargo who don't have the incenti
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HighlightCam (YC S09) is hiring lead developers to revolutionize mobile video
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by anateus 15y ago
If you have only a smaller amount of fresh water, it is possible to survive with little ill effects if you mix fresh and salt water in a 2:3 ratio (respectively). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seawater#Human_consumption_of_s...
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Why Startup Hubs Work(paulgraham.com)
274 points by anateus 15y ago|90 comments

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