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by bhousel 15y ago
Hey, I saw you mention this in #startups today... I'm in downtown NYC some days, and would definitely be up for a semi-regular lunch club.. Hmm.. Shake Shack in Battery Park just opened this week.
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by bhousel 15y ago
Oh good, I'm pretty sure we'll get to the bottom of the bitcoin debate this time around. Remember to be civil, polite, and follow the guidelines! http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
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The Las Vegas Rules I: The Slightly Malevolent Universe(ribbonfarm.com)
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by bhousel 15y ago
What's stopping a malicious client from just generating a lot of tiny transactions to fill up the block chain and overwhelm all the other clients that perform the verifications? I understand that the current database with all the transactio
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by bhousel 15y ago
Right, but they've essentially been taken out of circulation . So without the knowledge of how many coins are usable, how can one accurately value the currency? Maybe this is the wrong mental model, but I picture it like a hard disk slowl
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by bhousel 15y ago
What commodity-based currency has a "stable" exchange rate?
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by bhousel 15y ago
Will my homeowners insurance policy cover damage to my bitcoin wallet?
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by bhousel 15y ago
Serious question: If bitcoins can be destroyed so easily (either by accident or deliberately), how can anyone know the actual number of coins in circulation?
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by bhousel 15y ago
> Introducing iLuminate™, the first patent-pending wearable, wireless lighting system. Serious question for the founding team: Why do you think what you do is patentable? It's kinda a hot topic today.
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by bhousel 15y ago
Wouldn't suing someone count as 'using it'?
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by bhousel 15y ago
Any plans to compare against corpora from other social news sites? BTW, I think what you're doing is brilliant, and I can think of about a dozen practical applications for your technology.. Ignore the naysayers.
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by bhousel 15y ago
Love this idea. I actually had a similar idea a few months ago, but was planning to implement it as an email and web proxy that could be surreptitiously installed on someone's computer. Rather than news sites, my proxy would tone down poli
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by bhousel 15y ago
Did you post this poll Saturday night of Memorial Day weekend on purpose? Edit: I posted my thoughts on the comments/no comments debate here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2568995 Basically, it doesn't matter. HN has become much mo
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by bhousel 15y ago
wtf.. Why screen scrape Facebook from a bookmarklet, when the Graph API gives you all this and more in JSON. http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/
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by bhousel 15y ago
Isn't that kind of the point of the spreadsheet? To be contacted about potential work?
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by bhousel 15y ago
Yes, that's it..
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by bhousel 15y ago
Second this... Actually they had (still have?) a sweet deal going with About.Me, where you can get an initial batch of cards for free (you only pay $5 or so for shipping) If you have an About.Me profile set up, your Moo cards will have a QR
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Delivereads - Curated Content for Your Kindle(delivereads.com)
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One way to handle a near miss(runningahospital.blogspot.com)
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by bhousel 15y ago
try http://www.readability.com/
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by bhousel 15y ago
> I will post all small and big thing I have done that day, will place some ratings and charts of my performance and other things like that. I will post where I sent my previous works, where I applied as a candidate for a job, what des
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by bhousel 15y ago
Thanks, I enjoyed reading your article. That doesn't mean I need to own a copy of it ;-) I actually do have a handful of dead tree books that I own for emotional reasons, so I can appreciate that aspect of ownership. But I love my Kindl
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by bhousel 15y ago
Why would I want to own a book?
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by bhousel 15y ago
without comment scores, new users don't have feedback from the community on how they're supposed to act. There's no way for them to learn the culture. Or more likely, the culture just changed. That happens sometimes, and when it does, th
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Airplane Passenger Witnesses Endeavor’s Final Launch [video](dump.com)
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by bhousel 15y ago
Anything involving government is very low pressure. I am a consultant, and I have a financial client where everything is an emergency and a government client where nothing is an emergency.
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by bhousel 15y ago
Speaking of flag links, I've lost them. Did I inadvertently do something to get myself flagbanned?
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by bhousel 15y ago
Every site with karma is gameable.
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by bhousel 15y ago
"was in retaliation for his constitutionally protected criticism of his employer." Is there any question why this guy was really fired? I will never understand why people seem to think they can criticize their employers and then sue after
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New high-tech eyeglasses can change perscription on the fly(money.cnn.com)
2 points by bhousel 15y ago|0 comments

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