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by dstorrs 16y ago
> It's as if we're all plagued with a /heavy dose/ of masochism. Fixed that for you. ;> Back on topic -- it's not actually surprising that this happens. Shared mildly traumatic experiences, especially ones where there is a visible
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by dstorrs 16y ago
> Now a REAL wedding disruptor would be a tool that > auto-generates video/photos of you and your family at a > wedding so you can send those out and skip whole wedding > nonsense, and go drinking with all your combined f
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by dstorrs 16y ago
I like your idea with the invites, but I'd suggest that you're only going halfway with it. 1) Guide the customer through creating professional-grade invites. That part is relatively straightforward. 2) Print and mail the invites 3) Provi
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by dstorrs 16y ago
Personally, I think this is the most horrific idea Scott has proposed in a long time. Police-state surveillance in my bedroom and bathroom?[1] No cash, meaning no possibility of discreet purchases? Only one option for banking? This world
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by dstorrs 16y ago
It's a great story, and I'm delighted for the people of this city. I do admit I wonder how well it would scale. If this could work for an entire country, then you'd have something.
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by dstorrs 16y ago
Serious question: why? I understand an economy that does not produce any of its own goods is in a jam -- it's an external critical dependency that can be wielded like a club against you. But if you have adequate internal production, what
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by dstorrs 16y ago
Here are some "trading money for time / convenience" options that I'd love to be able to afford: 1) Shopping. For a few extra bucks, most large grocery stores will deliver. 2) Laundry. Pay a service to pick up / clean / drop off your clot
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by dstorrs 16y ago
> Space travel for our civilization is like a poor person putting gold-planted rims on his shitty car. Well, that's one (wrong) way of putting it. I suspect you may be trolling, but here's some reasons that we might /want/ to pursue sp
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Oil leak crisis...scarily familiar?(liveleak.com)
18 points by dstorrs 16y ago|16 comments
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by dstorrs 16y ago
>... every imaginable risk, which six-months ago, is all the current oil disaster could have been: imagined. Ahem : http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=127_1274931222
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by dstorrs 16y ago
At least in this context, when I say "the cloud", I'm talking about a pay-as-you-go service that provides the ability to dynamically re-allocate processing and storage resources in accordance with demand.
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Ask HN: Hosting in the cloud
6 points by dstorrs 16y ago|5 comments
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by dstorrs 16y ago
One suggestion: It would be great if cells could pass energy to an adjacent cell. This would make it possible to form energy pipeling / distribution systems within your team, and for teams to cooperate meaningfully instead of simply "fight
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by dstorrs 16y ago
The problem I see with this mission is that it's essentially another "flags and footprints" mission on a grand scale: yes, the mission time is much longer, so perhaps there would be time to do something valid at Neptune or Saturn, but ther
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by dstorrs 16y ago
The issue with Orion is that the radioactive byproducts of the pulses get trapped by Earth's magnetosphere and fall inward to the planet surface. I believe it was Einstein who calculated that every Orion launch -- whether from the surface
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by dstorrs 16y ago
According to the article, this is only for primary machines. They will likely still have secondaries and/or VMs running Windows, for testing and etc.
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by dstorrs 16y ago
"You are what you choose." "No one ever lay on their deathbed saying 'I wish I'd watched more TV.'"
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by dstorrs 17y ago
I've locally fixed issues that I discovered, and then submitted the patches back. In every case, those patches have been rejected because they weren't formatted correctly, or the project lead disagreed with my choice of design, or the team
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by dstorrs 17y ago
I worked in the game industry back in the 90s and early naughties. There were pretty much two routes forward: work for a small company making new, creative games -- and watch the company go bankrupt after 18 months on average -- or work f
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by dstorrs 17y ago
Not always. A few years ago, I demonstrated for a business owner a simple set of breaks to his website that allowed me to download, install, and execute code on his server and then use it to look and and download every file on the system.
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by dstorrs 17y ago
I worked at a company called Pica9, generating PDFs on the fly. Another company has the patent on that, so we had to spend a considerable amount of effort working around it, making sub-optimal choices at easy decision point in order to mak
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by dstorrs 17y ago
Surely. But this is still great news for entrepreneurs--start your company, get bought for $10M or so, work at Google for 6-12 months gaining contacts and big-infrastructure experience and then leave to do the next thing.
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by dstorrs 17y ago
Key point: this was not an attack on, or a vulnerability in, Tor proper. Someone cracked one of the servers that happened to be a Tor infrastructure box. The system got shut down when the developers discovered it, the identity keys were c
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by dstorrs 17y ago
Ok, I disagree with most of what you see below. 1) I had no problem understanding what the site is for. It's clearly VOIP for social networking, and the colorscheme and design indicates it's aimed at gamers. Further reading supports that.
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by dstorrs 17y ago
I'm looking at it right now and it's working. Can you tell me what browser / OS / URL you're using?
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by dstorrs 17y ago
Can you tell us what you would need to see in order to feel confident in the site?
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by dstorrs 17y ago
> So they always say when creating a startup find some "pain" and find a solution. You've identified this well. Thanks. :> > [how do we plan to make money] You're right that people won't need this every day, but even if you only
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by dstorrs 17y ago
Thanks for the suggestion about themeforest; I'm browsing that now. As to the not being willing to sign up without seeing it, this is an issue that we've been struggling with. By the nature of the site, we need to have an identity attached
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by dstorrs 17y ago
LifeThunder is a central point of management for your personal information; when your address / credit card expiration / preferred contact email / etc change, we update all of your service providers (e.g. NetFlix, newspapers, Amazon, utilit
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Please review the alpha of our startup: LifeThunder.com(lifethunder.com)
5 points by dstorrs 17y ago|24 comments

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