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by jval 13y ago
Wow, when did HN get overtaken by haters? Ok, it is just a prototype, but I don't see anyone here making their own flying car. I for one think it is pretty cool, even if it is just a concept. Obviously serves a very specific use case b
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by jval 13y ago
Your point rests on the premise that institutions carry some kind of permanent guilt with them that delegitimises what they stand for. There's a number of issues with that, not least of which is the fact that institutions are not neat
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by jval 13y ago
You're comparing apples with oranges. Airbnb's success is thanks to people like me who can't afford the comfortable certainty of checking into a Hyatt every time I stay abroad. Airbnb's success rate and level of amenitie
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by jval 13y ago
Cool guide, but I think the E-3's dual intent rules are a bit weird: http://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Laws/Memorand... "An application for initial admission, change of status
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Silicon Valley (HBO) Season 1 – Long Trailer(youtube.com)
14 points by jval 13y ago|1 comments
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by jval 13y ago
I agree. Awards should definitely be in BTC... seems like a vote of no confidence in your own product otherwise.
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by jval 13y ago
I mean that I run my searches through DDG, I dont think there's a way to even allow them to have anything else as they strictly don't track. There's no other way to have a search engine other than by having an IP and a search
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by jval 13y ago
This is the reason why I feed DDG all my data, even if I'm going to use their !g function to do a Google search anyway. A monopoly on search is a monopoly on the truth.
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by jval 13y ago
Great job guys. One problem I've had though is that I think you guys are hosted on AWS - a lot of websites block incoming connections from AWS. Are there plans to add an option in future to route through clean IPs? Premium or default,
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by jval 13y ago
This is just ridiculous. If Overstock is the biggest retailer in the world accepting Bitcoin, and on their opening day they only manage $130,000 in sales (130 BTC), what does that tell you about the volume of Bitcoin actually being used in
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by jval 13y ago
If card companies are paying it all back to consumers, then what are their shareholders ending up with? I agree with you that not all the $500Bn is going directly into the pockets of shareholders, but the reality is that there is a huge tra
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by jval 13y ago
You're all missing the point on why people have static sites. In the words of Paul Graham - "Static sites are the fixies of the Internet."[0] [0] https://twitter.com/paulg/status/402205795552489472
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by jval 13y ago
That's right, but I don't think opportunistic squatters are that big a deal. The problem is people who own portfolios of names that don't get used, and there's no way these players can put unique pages up for an entire p
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by jval 13y ago
Ahh yes, good point. Could the agent learn how to recognise each of these use cases and tax accordingly? Or could people learn to put up a unique website for any domain they use, or risk being taxed?
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by jval 13y ago
Is there any way to enforce a use requirement? One idea would be to have an agent[0] with its own Bitcoin wallet purchase server time that it uses to index the web and compute a uniqueness factor of each page. The agent then calculates a ta
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by jval 13y ago
Lots of copyright doctrines are more restrictive than the US. Most notably, a lot of jurisdictions don't have a concept of fair use nearly as broad as the US concept. Also, the US uses trade treaties to cajole other countries into adop
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by jval 13y ago
Fair enough you publish the unsolicited email, but when you respond and the other person responds back, and the only people in the two and from lines are yourselves, it starts to be private, at least in my view.
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by jval 13y ago
Academia.edu face the same problems that all players in this space do, namely that almost all content in journals is owned by parties other than the authors themselves. It is almost like starting YouTube in a pre-handheld camera era, where
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India's IT ministry uses Hotmail, Gmail for official communications(theage.com.au)
2 points by jval 13y ago|0 comments
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by jval 13y ago
I disagree. This is not good news for Bitcoin. >3. At this stage, financial institutions cannot denominate services and products in bitcoin, cannot trade bitcoin, cannot run bitcoin exchange, cannot provide bitcoin related services, cann
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by jval 13y ago
Sorry, I think the legitimate transactions idea is actually one of the stronger parts of this piece. > As long as there is a large enough community of people who want to use it to transfer value for any reason, it'll continue to sus
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by jval 13y ago
Hey dude, please post up a BTC address so we can send you some cash to tide you over.
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Are network effects valuable at all? Analysing Facebook and Snapchat(valj.net)
2 points by jval 13y ago|0 comments
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by jval 13y ago
With respect, the press is regularly quoting how many places now 'accept bitcoin' but it is all really a vanity metric. I know it is difficult to know how much these merchant accounts get used without internal information from the
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by jval 13y ago
Right, because rather than copping the automatic forex charge that most cards do for you, it is easier to open an account on coinbase, make a bank transfer that converts your USD into bitcoin (at a frozen rate mind you, that could either do
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by jval 13y ago
No point in doing something if it isn't authentic to who you are and isn't bringing you closer to the life you want to lead. The Silicon Valley way isn't the only way. If you're interested in a more community oriented br
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by jval 13y ago
Firefox OS?
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by jval 13y ago
Yeah, I have this too. I went 22 years thinking that people were dropping soap in my meals. I would think 'Damn, do people just accidentally grab the soap bottle instead of the sauce?'. Couldn't figure out how else such a str
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by jval 13y ago
He means first VC-backed bitcoin startup ;P
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by jval 13y ago
I disagree... there are a lot of things you can say other than just 'oh that's great'. This comment thread is a perfect example of that. It is an article about people paying it forward in fast food lines (a lovely story about

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