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by aws_ls 8y ago
After reading all the answers, have an observation. Not many startup founders have replied. Most are FAANG employees. Some similar roles in other product companies. One/two consultants. And one hedge fund guy.
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by aws_ls 9y ago
Is it using some other localization technique to complement the GPS? GPS at best can give accuracy within 3 meters (if I remember right). To make it accurate, laser/radar beams are shot out to the landmarks, of which precise co-ordinat
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by aws_ls 9y ago
I agree, another option is needed for a previous social network to die. Hope whatever is the next one is a federated one, that works like emails (SMTP) under the hood.
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The Future of Social Networking (2008)(w3.org)
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by aws_ls 9y ago
If the replacement is a federated social network, then there may be 2/3 large competing players for the interfacing part. My dream is a cryptocurrency based social network, so that those running p2p nodes can also get paid. Also the en
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by aws_ls 9y ago
>With Facebook it will really be about how many people truly delete Facebook Its also about action seeding, for later events. With each strike like this some people leave and its likely they are early(ish) adopters, and also likely tha
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by aws_ls 9y ago
Mixed feelings on this one. Most of them are likely to be scams as its so easy to do. But there are also things like the Brave browser[1] with its BAT(Basic Attention Token)[2], which am very excited about. With the Ad revenue on Internet f
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by aws_ls 9y ago
I understand. And that's why even in my post I said 'good earnest'. But I feared by OP's last comment that he was beginning to take the advise seriously. So I thought my duty to put an affirming point.
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by aws_ls 9y ago
I would say, ignore both of them (the HNers advising you above in good earnest). You will cross that bridge if/when there is a need. The disruption to a happy phase can come in various guises. Don't mend if it ain't broke, th
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by aws_ls 9y ago
May be filter HN, for not reading stories that make you feel worse about yourself. I just looked at my saved stories, based on that, I would say "not, at all" to leaving HN. Sample below: 1. Ethereum programming for web developer
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by aws_ls 9y ago
I think competition is wired into us, so you are not the only one who goes through this. Just try to keep it within a healthy range. Enough to know what's going on, but less than what gets you worked up about it. Not easy. Personally,
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by aws_ls 9y ago
>most of it is just wiring form fields to databases in new and exciting ways Not commenting on other points, but may be you are looking at it from an angle of an expert who has mastered it, so everything looks trivial. As, clearly its
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by aws_ls 9y ago
Yep. My anecdotal example. My elder one, created an account as soon as they turned 13. The younger one, couldn't care less. Meanwhile sometime few years ago, I also deleted my FB account. My God, there are only a few tech products, I h
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by aws_ls 9y ago
+1 for soccer. My teenager plays it with his senior school friends, but I always discourage him. Tell him he can pick up any sport, in which he doesn't have to physically directly engage with other persons. I played field hockey in sch
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by aws_ls 9y ago
Almost same story, but I didn't sell. Just moved around in ETH and BCH. Will never sell, unless it reaches like 100k USD worth or something. Its an experiment for me, out of interest/belief in technology. Personally not affected b
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by aws_ls 9y ago
Agree. The simple machine analogy got really irritating, when became repetitive. Also had to skip through that boring squirrel moon example - indulgent by their own admission. The newly wed lady, just wrote a few paragraphs about her. And
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by aws_ls 9y ago
Thanks for that link, I didn't know that. But in any case, my point is not that H1B can't be an issue for any case. But that Startups scene in India got a boost around 2005-2007, when many companies started, and it was nothing to
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by aws_ls 9y ago
Your narrative has some flaws. Startup events have been happening in India since past 10 years or so. Ever since Google won the war with Microsoft. Flipkart was founded in 2007. Ola soon after. This H1B visa issue is more of past 2-3 year i
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by aws_ls 9y ago
Also in such a situation, consensus could be reached easily on doing a hard fork. Government's effort would go waste on the original one. They can repeat, but it will take some time, and the hard fork can happen again, until govt gives
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by aws_ls 9y ago
Definitely a negative thing for LTC. And a double plus for Bitcoin cash. The other positive, of course, being of Coinbase now supporting it. In the past few days and weeks, LTC was increasingly being seen as a Bitcoin's currency com
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by aws_ls 9y ago
Thanks for sharing this. Of all the Sathoshi candidates, Hal Finney seems to be the closest (Not my analysis, but I tend to concur). Although he always denied it. When I read this[1] early reply by him, he seems to totally grok it. [1] htt
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by aws_ls 9y ago
Yes, that's why it highly irritates me when people repeat the Tulip bulb analogy. Bitcoin may be in a bubble, and it scares me. But it amazes me how little people think, before that kind of pattern matching. I read the paper about 2 ye
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by aws_ls 9y ago
Bitcoin has the culture of hodling* so I doubt how much of the pre-existing coins go into the market. So mostly the local currency (yuan/etc) would go to cover the mining costs and salaries of employees and owners. Don't know the
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by aws_ls 9y ago
But that's an issue. I agree nobody really knows. But the believers at least have small holdings. Where as skeptics give reasons, which may be true, but only time will tell. May be search for an Ethereum contract, which allows betting
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by aws_ls 9y ago
Even if there are no extreme cases like this, the stress of $10*num_of_min fine is not worth it. It seems disproportionate by a huge margin, and may contribute to bad health issues (e.g. blood pressure).
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by aws_ls 9y ago
Call me naive, but I listened the entire talk thinking it happened in 1973. Then came back and after seeing the discussion realized its an act. So definitely my wonderment and awe of it came down by several notches, as I could see how every
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by aws_ls 9y ago
Yes, I also was immediately reminded of Python's conda based environment management. E.g. 'source activate <env1>' may have python3 but when used with <env2> will use python2 and different version of other librari
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by aws_ls 9y ago
No not for free, of course. But streaming which I can purchase. Don't have iTunes, but have 3 services (Netflix, Amazon Prime and HotStar) in India. None of them seem to have it. Ideally, I want to be able to just buy a movie from some
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by aws_ls 9y ago
I have read 'The Death of Ivan Illyich', from what I remember the focus there is ignoring of his family for work. Which in his terminal days, he regrets a lot. This one, seems (based on Amazon reviews) to be regretting, spending l
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by aws_ls 9y ago
Yesterday, after I heard this news, I searched for this movie as an entry point to his works, with the hope of later reading a book by him. Unfortunately could not find the movie anywhere (YouTube has some bad versions). If anyone has any p

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