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   by api 12y ago

   From what I know (and I am not a finance professional), the hot-airiest phase of the dot.com bubble sort of looked like this. You had a ton of startups selling each other things and advertising with each other. It was not planned, but unpla
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   by api 12y ago

   SEC? Hello? I mean, are there really people (probably organized crime) who just run this scam over and over again in the OTC boards? Yet the SEC won't let us crowd-sell stock in startups that at least intend to try to actually do som
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   by api 12y ago

   Another possibility is some kind of money laundering scheme. I've heard rumors before of money laundering techniques where you basically sort of commit financial fraud against yourself using sock puppet shell companies or other entitie
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   by api 12y ago

   Side note: I really wish someone would really explain this to Bitcoin people. Bitcoin is cool but it isn't an anonymity tool. Every single transaction is permanently in the ledger, and combined with IP snooping, big data, machine lea
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   by api 12y ago

   One of the things that needs to die is bass . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCawU6BE8P8 So yeah, loud bass sounds cool. Some interesting stuff was done with it fifteen or twenty years ago: hip hop, drum and bass, etc. Du
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   by api 12y ago

   I agree about social networks having this disturbing tendency to elevate snark and hot air, but I don't think that's the fundamental reason. My own two cents: Music is dying because it's become bland. I love music, but only w
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   by api 12y ago

   "ProtonMail makes the software that handles the keys!" Well yes, they do, but that's true for any cryptosystem where you did not personally audit the source code and then compile it yourself. That copy of GnuPG on your Linux
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   by api 12y ago

   I actually saw "Scaling Sherpa" once. Clever, but lame.
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   by api 12y ago

   I've heard the best thing with boats is to rent one. That way you get a first day, a middle day, and a last day, then you give the boat back and go home. Maybe you could intern briefly in the game industry and have the same experience?
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    by api 12y ago

    Lots of people play games and think "I'd love to make games!" Well guess what... every kid who loves games thought that. The problem with game dev is the same as Hollywood, professional music, and popular pro athletics, namel
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    by api 12y ago

    Yeah... it certainly seems like there's price inflation if I cherry pick things like food, real estate, energy, health care, and college tuition. I'm old enough to have lived through a good economic period with widespread optimism
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    by api 12y ago

    The problem is that everything is inflating except wages, which are still under extreme deflationary pressure due to outsourcing and automation. Stagnant or deflating wages means stagnant or falling consumer spending, resulting in an enviro
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    by api 12y ago

    I ask this as a general question to all of tech culture, not to just this particular setting: What about subtile elitism? It's one of the biggest subtile -isms I've run into. If you didn't go to a top ten university, you&#x27
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    by api 12y ago

    Interesting question: Do we know for a fact that Google does not monetize its e-mail data by -- say -- offering insights to traders or hedge funds? Boy would that ever be valuable.
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    by api 12y ago

    Methane is simpler in some ways -- no helium, for example. The big question marks here are composites and aerospike. Aerospikes have been tested but have not (as far as I know) flown. Composites haven't flown at this scale as far as I
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    by api 12y ago

    My first major was aerospace, then I switched. Starting to wonder if I made a mistake. I was told back then (late 90s) that there were no jobs doing anything non-military, and that the only thing I could possibly do if I wanted to work on a
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    by api 12y ago

    Is this going for reusability? Don't see any mention of that. Maybe I'm blind.
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    by api 12y ago

    It's part of a growing movement to reject feudal and surveillance based business models. Those business models are largely an artifact of the dot.com bust and the need to find some way to make "free" pay... they're a rec
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    by api 12y ago

    The problem with the web is more fundamental: it is trying to simultaneously be two different things. One of these things -- document markup and hypertext linking -- it does pretty well. The other -- a GUI framework for remotely accessed ap
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    by api 12y ago

    So EVs are good enough for Los Angeles high speed chases now... does this mean they've finally arrived?
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    by api 12y ago

    I personally agree. I was speaking to the general perception that most people have, and to its social and political roots.
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    by api 12y ago

    I'm not personally afraid of GMOs, but I do not fault people for being skeptical of them. Completely synthetic foods and food processing have a mediocre track record, and in many cases have caused actual harm (e.g. trans fats) for a lo
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    by api 12y ago

    In other news: the NSA developed a DSL with embedded C++. Is this the most horrific revelation yet?
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    by api 12y ago

    I literally experienced a sense memory from viewing this. I could smell the slight smell that old, hot CRT monitors emitted -- probably some volatile mix of things that give you cancer. Wow!
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    by api 12y ago

    It's full of gems like: "These variables define terms and websites relating to the TAILs (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) software program, a comsec mechanism advocated by extremists on extremist forums." I'm gonna go
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    by api 12y ago

    Does your protocol do any NAT traversal if the bridge is stuck on an IPv4 network or behind a firewall that doesn't allow inbound? Like if I have two bridges, will traffic go point to point between them or does it have to visit Helium&
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    by api 12y ago

    I'm very curious about how bridges work. How do they provide ipv6 connectivity if most of the networks they are connected to do not issue ipv6? Or do they require it? Also does Helium operate a cloud-based proprietary service discovery
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    by api 12y ago

    One thing that popped into my head immediately was the usefulness of a system like this to implement various kinds of democratic "dead man switch" type constructs. For example, let's say a dissident posts a dangerous leak to
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    by api 12y ago

    It seems Product Hunt is closed to most submitters... how did you post there? Did you score an invite?
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    by api 12y ago

    I know some people who live down in Costa Rica and have done that. There's basically two ways to get "rich" in this way: make lots of money, or reduce costs radically. They're not mutually exclusive-- you could basically