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by api 11y ago
I'm kind of fascinated -- and not necessarily in a good sense -- with how unbelievably conservative the aerospace industry became right after its greatest moment of glory. That would have been Apollo in 1969. Seems like after the Moon
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by api 11y ago
What I've thought for a while is: maybe we need to just deprecate what might be a bunch of arcane and no longer meaningful terminology. It's a "round." Your company's metrics are X and you are seeking $N at pre-mone
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The current state of “seed” investing(medium.com)
2 points by api 11y ago|1 comments
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by api 11y ago
In a sense you could say this is the market working. America is huge and there are lots of good places to live. We also have this amazing global telecommunications network thingy. Who knew?
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by api 11y ago
IMHO sysvinit and systemd both suck in that they're both overly obscure, overly arcane, overly complex, and poorly documented. Systemd replaces a legacy pile of hacks mess with an over-engineered tower of babel mess. An improvement wou
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by api 11y ago
Tor for remote access? There are much faster ways to create seamless networks of machines.
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by api 11y ago
What about other forms? Radiation is not radiation. There's gamma, X-ray, alpha, beta, neutron, microwave, infrared, etc. and they all have different biophysical effects.
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by api 11y ago
(1) Convince the world you're Satoshi. (2) Snow some investors and raise a bunch of VC. (3) Pay off tax authorities with VC to avoid going to jail; swap angry tax authorities for angry VCs. The former are criminal charges with nasty pe
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by api 11y ago
You might be able to be if you use it to snow investors.
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by api 11y ago
I lived through 2001. This is not a bubble. As exhibit one I point out that everyone has been calling bubble since 2012. Real bubbles have more rah rah and less skepticism and more crazy. I do see a slowdown but this is nothing like dot.com
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by api 11y ago
I don't necessarily think this is a bad decision. Intel currently dominates high performance computing and data center chips, and if they lose that edge they will really lose. Maybe it makes sense for them to instead double down on tha
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by api 11y ago
It's actually free for unlimited use if you run your own network controller, see docs in /controller and /service on GitHub. There's now a 100 device free limit on my.zerotier.com which is just our hosted SaaS network co
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by api 11y ago
Trump or Sanders? They're both essentially populists.
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by api 11y ago
A video chat app for desktop and mobile that is simple, minimal, just works, and works well even under low bandwidth conditions. All the existing solutions I can find are feature-encrusted junk where the core video chat functionality is jus
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by api 11y ago
The only way I can imagine it being that synchronized is if evolution itself is somehow tightly coupled to cosmic inflation. Here's the speculation in more detail: Evolution can be viewed as an information transfer mechanism that learn
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by api 11y ago
This hypothesis works best if we propose an extremely narrow developmental range. Of course since we have basically no data, we can't actually argue either way beyond vague hand-wavey speculation. You can't calculate standard devi
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by api 11y ago
My speculation has for a long time been what I call the uniform cooling hypothesis. There are no type III civilizations because such things haven't happened yet. If the universe is all the same age and if the emergence and evolution of
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by api 11y ago
Different reasons for different people. There are several camps of BitCoin haters: (1) There are people who think it's a pure speculative bubble or pyramid scheme. (I disagree because it has utility.) (2) There are also people who poin
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by api 11y ago
"Narcissistic personality disorder" is a real thing, and like any other neurosis is not mutually exclusive with real ability or accomplishment.
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by api 11y ago
Those who try will sometimes fail, and those who never fail are probably not trying.
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by api 11y ago
Fossil fuels compete unfairly by deferring externalities to future generations. The full cost of coal electricity would price in the Manhattan seawall and the complete reconstruction of Miami not to mention whatever ocean acidification does
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by api 11y ago
Southern California passed this point long ago and nope. LA traffic is torture but look into all the anti-Metro sentiment and NIMBYism. They're building it anyway because LA literally can't grow anymore but the opposition is stron
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by api 11y ago
That requires transit infrastructure, which most Americans (even some to the left) steadfastly oppose.
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by api 11y ago
If that happens we better hope it never escalates to physical conflict at any scale. Google "hypervelocity kinetic weapon" then factor in that adding a hydrogen bomb warhead wouldn't be much harder and would give it that much
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by api 11y ago
Everything is a moving target. Write a web UI? Prepare to re-write it next year. Desktop is reasonably stable but now desktop is "dead" and mobile is the new thing. Mobile is a rapidly moving target and there's lots of platfo
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by api 11y ago
I've been a "mobile is the future of everything" skeptic since the iPhone first came out. Lately I'm feeling slightly vindicated. These things are awesome for navigation and rapid interactions with services and of course
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by api 11y ago
Are you sure this isn't just hiding profits for tax purposes?
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by api 11y ago
This might be the only online forum I've ever seen get less hostile over time.
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by api 11y ago
Repost, but a great article.
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by api 11y ago
A new genre of explicit nerd bashing seems to have emerged from the reactionary left. This piece follows the standard formula. It's quite pretentious and shallow. The article came across as mocking a dead woman. I've never viewed

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