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by gomox 8y ago
When I was 19 I was interning at Google and I got into a mild discussion on a mailing list with Rob Pike. When I went back to school the next semester someone was teaching a class on UTF-8 and I thought the name of the creator sounded famil
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by gomox 8y ago
The "classic" Mobikes have enclosed shaft drives. But they also have airless tires, a tiny frame and crank size and a frontwheel powered LED system. It's hard to say where their perceived huge inefficiency comes from.
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by gomox 8y ago
Alternate view: I did it in coach but with stops in between (so not 30+ hours at a time) and would recommend my version. One of the highlights of the trip was talking to everyone else in the train, which is bound to happen when you're
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by gomox 8y ago
I did NY->SF in a little under 2 weeks. The actual train ride is under 3 days. It doesn't take that long. Highly recommended.
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by gomox 8y ago
It's really not the same. Amtrak long distances are very different from actual economically viable passenger rail lines. It's mostly the people: no one who rides Amtrak long distance does it because it's an efficient way of g
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by gomox 8y ago
If you like long distance trains make sure you ride the Amtraks before it's too late.
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by gomox 8y ago
So much this. The one at my previous office wanted "clean plastic". What's "clean plastic"? Is an empty soda bottle clean? Is an empty salad container clean? Is cling wrap from a sandwich clean? I'm an environm
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by gomox 8y ago
Send your deck. You can worry about how good a VC they are when (if) you get a term sheet.
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by gomox 8y ago
Not disagreeing with the general sentiment on Tron, but both BTC and ETH are down around 65% from their peak as well.
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by gomox 8y ago
You mean you want to build a marketplace of marketplace ideas? How are you going to get people to sell their information? :)
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“I have a marketplace business idea” (2017)(medium.com)
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by gomox 8y ago
The idea is interesting but intuitively I don't think the math works out. I understand the hedge angle, but done at large scale this type of investment -labor automation companies- is unlikely to yield very good returns (say, 10% yearl
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by gomox 8y ago
Indeed. Most likely the way to go would be to build a truck that parcels can easily be put into by a machine.
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by gomox 8y ago
I recently helped a techy friend with this and there were a number of pitfalls when dealing with the addresses and the long confirmation timed. The UTXOs abstraction is super unintuitive. Ethereum's account system is much simpler. Sti
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by gomox 8y ago
In strict fairness this also happens in ICOs, it's just that the underwriter banks are replaced to an extent by presale investors who buy at a discount.
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by gomox 8y ago
This is actually less secure because the resources needed to perform a 51% attack on a coin are reduced drastically (as you only need 51% of the hashing power for one specific algorithm).
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by gomox 8y ago
The very respectable title-fu displayed herein makes me think this might be a good place for this question: What was a hilariously titled scientific paper involving zoology (possibly birds) from a few years ago? I've been trying to fin
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by gomox 8y ago
Past performance does not guarantee future results.
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by gomox 8y ago
You mean burning coal and capturing carbon back to profit from the price spread?
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by gomox 8y ago
There is not much that is centralized about "the law", and "the law" isn't really a mechanism for modeling and trading securities. To some extent, by the same logic, the Internet is inherently a centralized platform
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by gomox 8y ago
I am not familiar with any exit scam that was done based on issuing crypto-powered company shares, which is the topic of discussion. None of the ones you mentioned seem to fall into that category. Most are MLM type stuff. Where you got the
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by gomox 8y ago
See my replies to the other 2 comments adjacent to yours.
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by gomox 8y ago
Really? Can you point to a single security token issuance that was an exit scam?
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by gomox 8y ago
You usually get a copy in your e-mail when you submit.
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by gomox 8y ago
I'm not familiar with the space in the slightest. My guess is if you can't raise a seed round in this market, you either don't know how to do it or your business is not promising enough. Have you filled in a YC application? I
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by gomox 8y ago
Is this studycity.org?
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by gomox 8y ago
Hard forking doesn't necessarily mean the newly forked chain starts from the state as it was at the time of the change you want to undo. Notably the ETH/ETC hard fork happened much later.
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by gomox 8y ago
I meant that for VC-type deals done on the blockchain.
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by gomox 8y ago
Most ICOs don't sell security tokens. They sell utility tokens. But many ICOs have happened that sold security tokens, they just tend to be more discreet these days because of the limits on public security offerings. The security token
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by gomox 8y ago
Not all shares provide voting, as I'm sure you are aware of. But essentially, the paper the shares are printed on doesn't provide any legal guarantees by itself either. The fact that ownership is tokenized doesn't prevent com

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