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Making Peace with Your Competitive Advantage(zerotier.com)
1 points by api 12y ago|0 comments
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The snake oil salesmen who sold torture(mindhacks.com)
1 points by api 12y ago|0 comments
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by api 12y ago
If they didn't before these torture activities, well, they sure do now!
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by api 12y ago
I think you're greatly overestimating both the omniscience and the competence of intelligence agencies.
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by api 12y ago
Who's a "terrorist?" In many of these countries, we basically put out a call for people to turn in "terrorists" in exchange for cash rewards. You can imagine what happened next.
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by api 12y ago
Qt and Java.
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by api 12y ago
That'd be wonderful. Find a way to make that happen and you'll be rich and famous. In any case, people who make money on the backs of other peoples' work explicitly against their will are still assholes.
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by api 12y ago
That's a variant of "information wants to be free," which is an argument from the naturalistic fallacy. The question isn't "what's natural" or "what's easy." It's "what benefits th
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by api 12y ago
Yeah, that's what I'm getting at. I can't see any way to stop this stuff short of stopping everything else, but it irks me that we make heroes out of jerks who are basically just operating plagiarist click-mills. KimDotCom
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by api 12y ago
"I don't understand why we should hold back progress"... I don't think we should hold back progress. I'm not arguing for legislated compulsory DRM or shutting down the Internet. I'm just saying I don't hav
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by api 12y ago
Exactly. They may or may not have actually broken the law, but they are certainly in spirit a service that makes money through the unauthorized monetization of other peoples' works against the wishes of those works' creators. Ev
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by api 12y ago
I'd second this, though it's from a small sample -- haven't had time to read very many non-fiction books this year. Not only was it clear and inspiring, but it was also a little vindicating. I've believed for many years
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by api 12y ago
TL;DR: Orion uses rad-hardened chips, which are usually very slow compared with commodity hardware. But it also runs super-optimized and highly specialized code.
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by api 12y ago
"horrible Wordpress theme" Just Wordpress? I think you're describing every web site designed since 2008 there.
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The Doom That Came to Puppet(thedoomthatcametopuppet.tumblr.com)
5 points by api 12y ago|0 comments
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by api 12y ago
Sure. I'll drop you a line. The growth pattern is weird -- in kind of a good way -- and is definitely real as confirmed by admin panel signups, paid conversions, etc. mirroring and confirming it. Those are also pretty solid stable perc
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by api 12y ago
Just moved to OVH bare metal for my primary servers. Deal is insanely good, as is performance. If you need to scale beyond commodity cloud or you need higher single-threaded performance without the hypervisor overhead it's definitely w
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by api 12y ago
Thanks, especially for #4 and #5. #4 is really food for thought. I mean really. My gut instinct would be to agree with you wholeheartedly. Maybe PR is an area where "business advice" has wormed its way into my brain. Try as I migh
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by api 12y ago
I've used them. The effect is slight but seems to be there. At the very least it's a nice soothing background sound. There's a nice app for iOS called Binaural, and an open source program called sbagen.
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by api 12y ago
Right now I'm thinking enough seed for a lean and mean run to increase the growth rate, increase the conversion rate by adding value to pro tier, build out into mobile (iOS/Android), and get into a position where a series A would
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by api 12y ago
Per capita relative to population size it was much larger.
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by api 12y ago
Another thought: If I were an investor, I would probably have a strong bias toward 2+ founder startups. This wouldn't be because single founder startups never work, but because of "bus factor." Having two or more founders at
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Ask HN: Single founder startups: real data and experiences?
3 points by api 12y ago|8 comments
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by api 12y ago
I'm referring to the eventual depletion of oil and other fossil fuels, which is the single greatest existential threat faced by humanity. It's far greater than worst case climate change scenarios. A good way to think about fossil
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by api 12y ago
I know it's immensely compute-intensive and takes on the order of days to weeks to compute a single protein fold. If we could do that in seconds, we could do things like take a genome and "compile" a cell and then simulate it
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by api 12y ago
This should illustrate why getting "off oil" should be such a priority. That doesn't mean totally phasing it out, which would probably take centuries, but it does mean getting to the point where oil is no longer the rate limi
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by api 12y ago
A few ideas: Evolve nontrivial software with genetic programming. Voxel worlds at retina resolution. Fold proteins and simulate entire cell bio chemistries in silico. Find bugs in complex apps by exploring large chunks of their combinatoria
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Snowdrift: matching patronage system for free/open projects(snowdrift.coop)
2 points by api 12y ago|0 comments
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by api 12y ago
Interesting... What effect does this have on your criteria for investment? Or are you saying that raising less might in and of itself make the investment riskier by implying that they've under-estimated how much runway they might nee
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by api 12y ago
"No doubt the media companies' DRM interests are partially responsible for this." I think there's some truth in this, but you're wrong here. The problem isn't DRM, but what DRM is (impotently) reacting against.

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