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MixRank (YC S11) Is Hiring a Customer Success Manager(mixrank.wufoo.com)
1 points by il 13y ago
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by il 13y ago
Retiring on a half a million dollars doesn't seem impossible. Presumably he is drawing down the principal as well as collecting interest. His house is likely paid off, and he has no young dependents to pay for. He will also be receivin
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by il 13y ago
Note this is likely due to a Supreme Court decision rather than any particular goodwill from MasterCard.
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by il 13y ago
Sarah Harrison, the Wikileaks advisor accompanying Snowden, is a UK citizen. It's likely she had a hand in drafting this statement.
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by il 13y ago
So what you're saying is that if you take all of the successful companies out of an investor's portfolio, that portfolio will have a lower value.
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Snowden has shared encrypted copies of documents in case anything happens to him(thedailybeast.com)
7 points by il 13y ago|0 comments
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by il 13y ago
So have we identified all of the intelligence tools helpfully listed in his profile? I wonder what WEBCANDID means.
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by il 13y ago
If I am parsing your comment correctly, is it accurate to say that there are 5 justices who agree that surveillance of cell phone location data violates the 4th Amendment based solely on the level of information collected, regardless of how
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The Supreme Court may have already ruled NSA phone surveillance is illegal(influencehacks.com)
232 points by il 13y ago|13 comments
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Donate to the EFF(supporters.eff.org)
548 points by il 13y ago|35 comments
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by il 13y ago
You don't need funding to get to product-market fit. The optimal strategy is to bootstrap to fit and raise money to scale and build the business.
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by il 13y ago
Some carders used e-gold, but because most of the major fraud gangs operated out of Eastern Europe/Russia, the dominant carder currency was generally WebMoney. e-gold was actually incredibly popular for online gambling and participating in
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by il 13y ago
As the anarchists and idealists on HN will soon learn, the decentralized nature of Bitcoin won't make a difference if anyone transmitting it is in violation of federal law.
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by il 13y ago
How would the funding method make a difference? Any money you send, cash or otherwise, is going to end up the in the same Mt Gox account frozen by the feds, with no way to get the money out. Again, see e-gold.
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by il 13y ago
The exact same thing happened with e-gold a decade ago. Expect an unsealed indictment with federal conspiracy and RICO charges to follow shortly.
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by il 13y ago
This was inevitable. People can wax rhapsodic about the decentralized nature of Bitcoin, but once the feds freeze a few million dollars of a major exchange's assets, as they have done with every single anonymous digital currency since the b
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by il 13y ago
A corporation is just a group of people. It's not possible for a corporation to be ethical or unethical, a corporation doesn't have a soul or a conscience. It's possible for specific people inside a corporation to behave in unethical ways.
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by il 13y ago
Put your email in your profile, people in HN might see this post and want to reach out.
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by il 13y ago
Your burn rate is $2K/year? Where do you live?
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by il 13y ago
It seems that your reality is very different from the reality I, and most other entrepreneurs I know live in. In my world, anyone who has a credible idea and meaningful traction can get a meeting with most VCs fairly easily. Are you suggest
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by il 13y ago
Can you explain the correlation between VC connections and assholery? The vast majority of founders who raise VC money are not born with VC connections. They earn VC connections and build social capital by (usually altrustically) helping ot
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by il 13y ago
When the stock market drops more than 10%, trading is temporarily halted. This addresses technical issues and stops a potential panic. Bitcoin has no such controls. It looks like a grand social experiment. For everyone clamoring for a compl
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by il 14y ago
Let me rephrase then: Not all traction is revenue growth, but all revenue growth is traction(again, by definition).
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by il 14y ago
Isn't that just a truism? Revenue growth=traction by definition.
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by il 14y ago
I think traffic for lists like these is something of a red herring. Small fluctuations for low-traffic sites are almost entirely a result of randomness or sampling error. A better metric would be to divide the companies by traffic into nont
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by il 14y ago
Or it could be the most likely explanation: the existing US federal investigation of Intrade is moving to the next phase, a grand jury has issued a sealed indictment of Intrade staff, and their assets have been frozen.
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by il 14y ago
This has nothing to do with VCs. Building a business-any business-is incredibly hard and stressful. I'm not sure if you've been there, but bootstrapping a business, really building something new and unknown from nothing, is infinitely more
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by il 14y ago
Can you put your email in your profile? Those are exactly the kinds of events/culture I'd like to get more involved with.
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by il 14y ago
How did you connect with that crowd? I've noticed a very high overlap between techies and hippies, there doesn't seem to be an easy way to stumble into a group of discordians short of randomly wandering the streets shouting "hail eris!".
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by il 14y ago
He founded a startup with $350K in revenue and his parents will be disappointed? Really? This guy is not your typical at-risk high school dropout. He's clearly a true entrepreneur and a winner. At this point, he can pretty much write his ow

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