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by api 10y ago
One thing that's a little unclear for me is how much labor should be factored into CAC in a small team venture where everybody is wearing every hat. I've done it by doing an all in CAC calculation and then a non-labor calculation
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by api 10y ago
The key criticism I can make toward Etherium is that it tries to do too much in one system. If we want smart contracts it would be better to build an orthogonal smart contract system that uses Bitcoin.
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by api 10y ago
Why would a power lusting narcissist disrupt the source of his power? If he lands in that chair he will grow the power and size of government more than anyone since maybe Johnson or LBJ. It will be his vehicle. Finally the world will have t
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by api 10y ago
That's a stupid idea. Totalitarianism is the natural state. This relative state of freedom we enjoy is the abberation. It is the forest fire. A narcissistic authoritarian personality like Trump will dump water on it. Send a dull appara
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by api 10y ago
Yeah that's very strange. I've heard other libertarians support Trump too and I can't imagine why. He's definitely not a libertarian. What Trump has done well is to tap into a wellspring of hate for the status quo that s
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by api 10y ago
People do their own thing. If the author had gotten a big lavish dinner he'd use it to talk about the .1% and how out of touch they are. Instead he got an eccentric geek circle with probably a lot of boring SV inside baseball chatter a
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by api 10y ago
What would happen if the hacker went public, hired legal counsel, and asserted their right to the funds as per the terms of the contract? Now that would be interesting. I could see a top legal team taking it simply for the sake of an oppo
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by api 10y ago
Trouble is most of these are completely single vendor and closed. If you build your app for Lambda, theoretically you've built it to run on one computer: the AWS lambda "main frame."
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by api 10y ago
TL;DR: it's because home equity is used as a savings account, and it's the primary or sometimes only means whereby most members of the middle class can accumulate significant savings. Therefore any land use changes that might nega
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by api 10y ago
This is a special case example of why middle-boxes, especially those that actually modify traffic rather than just scanning or prioritizing it, are evil.
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by api 10y ago
As to your latter question I think it's a kind of elitism. "Real men code with vi" type stuff. I've always loved and always been a fan of OSS, but at the same time I have never been a fan of the arcane obscurantism tha
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by api 10y ago
Yes that's equally simple minded.
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by api 10y ago
I see this mentality at work in the Internet decentralization and OSS communities when they discuss the growth of closed platforms like Slack vs. open ones like IRC. They totally don't get it for exactly the reason you describe-- Slack
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by api 10y ago
But there was a ton of growth since then, and that growth created a ton of new jobs. Growth today is almost flat. Interest rates are zero bound. Jobs lost today might not be replaced because... nothing is happening. Or nothing that requires
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by api 10y ago
VCs have interests both ways. They can benefit in new investments if valuations are lower.
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by api 10y ago
I lived through it and yes, yes, yes... Today is nothing like dot.com. It was crazy... you had pre-revenue companies with no real working product raising series A, B, C, and then going public all within a year. Total unhinged market mania.
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by api 10y ago
We just lived through two mega-bubbles: dot.com and real estate. Actually three if you count oil. People now see bubbles everywhere and in everything.
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by api 10y ago
Everything in ZeroTier is open source except the web UI for my.zerotier.com and currently the Android and iOS GUIs. (The latter might change soon since we made the apps free.) ZeroTier's root servers run exactly the same code as ordi
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by api 10y ago
"Software would be much more difficult to write leading to longer lead times for applications." This is a problem we will need to solve. So far we've increased programmer productivity by sacrificing code efficiency because Mo
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by api 10y ago
Quibble: I disagree about 'no smartphones.' Look at what is possible on a 64K/8-bit machine in the 1980s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOS_(8-bit_operating_system) An iPhone could be done on a single c
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by api 10y ago
We wanted to build something useful in mainstream, casual, and commercial applications, not just for geeks. For that reason we took on the following non-negotiable design requirements: - An endpoint can join the network in <~10s. No boot
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by api 10y ago
My take on what it will mean: (1) It will now make sense to invest in the development of higher-order compute architectures that take advantage of truly massive parallelism. In the past such efforts (connection machine, etc.) were killed by
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by api 10y ago
"It is using the international coordinated IP-address space of the AMPRNet (44.0.0.0/8) and AS numbers out of the 16-bit and 32-bit private AS number space to interconnect active regions by external BGP routing." Yet another
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by api 10y ago
So wish we could have made it to this. In any case ZeroTier was conceived with Internet decentralization motives in mind specifically with the goal of making edge device connectivity easy. It can be and is used for other things but that was
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by api 10y ago
The whole thing has been deplorable since they un-P2P'd it. Terribly performance and call quality.
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by api 10y ago
We need to really fix platform security.
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by api 10y ago
Now that paid apps are almost dead, what would Apple actually lose by opening up the platform a little? I mean the app store model mostly. It's high degree of restriction seems like it's holding the platform back and keeping it fr
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by api 10y ago
Most online communities fall apart when they hit a critical size. I only visit a few small topical reddits now, like Space and SpaceX. Those are decent. HN is YC's kingdom. I expect a certain bias here and factor that in, but it's
12449.
by api 10y ago
It's really too bad I Waterloo us not in Toronto. It would be like Stanford being the heart of SV or MIT being in Boston.
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by api 10y ago
Maybe, maybe not, or maybe both. The truth is probably something different from what either side wants to assert.

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