jackgavigan

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by jackgavigan 15y ago
Bitcoin's an interesting experiment but it's ultimately doomed because of the increasing "cost" (in terms of CPU cycles) of generating new bitcoins. http://goo.gl/I34VL
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by jackgavigan 15y ago
Bump.
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by jackgavigan 15y ago
> This whole "it's made by 1000s of people who do it in their free time" is pure marketing bullshit. No it's not. Projects like Linux were started by people doing it in their free time. It was only later, when people started using the s
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by jackgavigan 15y ago
Why not go out and raise investment capital?
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by jackgavigan 15y ago
This headline is slightly misleading. The "roadshow" precedes the actual IPO by as much as six weeks. Basically, the bank (or, in this case, banks) who are promoting the IPO take the company's management to meet potential institutional inve
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Ask HN: Doing non-core work to generate cash-flow: Y/N?
1 points by jackgavigan 15y ago|1 comments
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by jackgavigan 15y ago
Aside from over-promising and massively under-delivering, I think that one of the key issues is that free open source, decentralised social networking software already existed long before the Diaspora team popped up out of nowhere, caught t
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by jackgavigan 15y ago
> It doesn't matter that you're free to not use the service, the law says that if you do use it you have certain rights. Actually, the law says that you have certain rights whether you use the service or not.
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by jackgavigan 15y ago
Yeah, that struck me too.
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by jackgavigan 15y ago
Approx 99% of what is written about algo and high-freq trading is written by people who don't have a clue, have never worked in a trading environment (let alone actually traded) and think they're some kind of expert because they've read an
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by jackgavigan 15y ago
I think it would be great to have a YC-style event in London, although I'd suggest that, instead of waiting for YC to do it for us, why don't we do it ourselves? I'd be willing put some money up to make a London equivalent happen. If anyone