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by nationcrafting 13y ago
On the other hand, think about the benefits we get from seeing a bug in the software, and then seeing that Telegram have fixed it within the hour. Until a bug is shown and fixed, you don't even know whether it exists or not. So, you
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by nationcrafting 13y ago
Your point about bridges and elevators actually illustrates my own point very well. Bridges and elevators may be quite safe today, but they weren't when people first started making them. Some bridges collapsed under various forms of
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by nationcrafting 13y ago
Congratulations on finishing the book. I would definitely redesign the cover if I were you. It's not just that it's illegible, it also looks like blood splattered on a wall. Now, I know this is how you meant it to be, because of
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by nationcrafting 13y ago
Good on you for being so quick to implement these bug fixes. Others on HN have commented that the iteration process is probably not the best way to approach crypto, due to the high risk for the end user. It seems obvious to me that nothing
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by nationcrafting 13y ago
Gosh, I thought my childhood computers were slow... (my first computer was an Acorn BBC, with 32K and tape recorders to save your programs on, zzzzz...)
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by nationcrafting 13y ago
Indeed. My father quit smoking from one day to the next in the mid-60s, when a surgeon friend showed him photos of a smoker's lung. The info was available.
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by nationcrafting 13y ago
They haven't technically "pulled it off". They just keep doing it, despite infringing US-France trade agreements, but the trade agreements keep going because France is dependent on its US trade more than the US is dependent
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by nationcrafting 13y ago
Thank you for posting this. You've just thrown me back 20 years in time, when I was a young film projectionist in a cinema. The projector we had used this mechanism to flash the images on the celluloid at 24fps instead of one continu
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by nationcrafting 13y ago
If you forget the word "bribe" and think of it the way you would think about a waiter's tip, you'll see that it doesn't have to go into the public treasury to be a good system. If there's a financial incentive
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by nationcrafting 13y ago
I've often thought about the bribery that occurs in Peru (and, presumably, many other countries) when a policeman stops your car for some minor infraction, to accept a bribe in exchange for letting you go without a ticket. The usual th
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How To Make A Mint: The Cryptography of Anonymous Electronic Cash (1996)(groups.csail.mit.edu)
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by nationcrafting 13y ago
I'm Satoshi and so is my wife.
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by nationcrafting 13y ago
Exactly. I have quite a few clients where management and executive shareholding staff actually work for a different company than the rest of the company. Typically, this is called something like CompanyName Management Ltd. which sources al
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by nationcrafting 13y ago
Was just kidding. Sorry...
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by nationcrafting 13y ago
Haha, I still edit some of my HTML in TextEdit or some simple txt editor... It just opens so much quicker than Dreamweaver...
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by nationcrafting 13y ago
Is Hacker News turning into Reddit? What does this article have to do with startups, tech or anything else HN is about? Don't get me wrong, it's an interesting article but, frankly, there are plenty of other websites I can go to
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by nationcrafting 13y ago
Chile is in the top-10 freest countries in the world right now, alongside Switzerland, Hong Kong, Singapore and other economic successes. Taxes are low, and there are huge incentives for people to start their own businesses. You can regis
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by nationcrafting 13y ago
>there is still no reason to assume that it will ever stop having these extreme fluctuations. Think of the difference in waves occurring in a big pool vs a little pool, when a person of the same weight dive in it. In a little pool, a pe
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by nationcrafting 13y ago
Totally agree with this comment. The whole Slow Web thing is a nice philosophy, but you have to outweigh that principle with the principle of making this website maximise its functionality, the function that rationalises its existence in t
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by nationcrafting 13y ago
Somebody should come up with a service to unify Coin, Echo and Wallaby cards into a single card.
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by nationcrafting 13y ago
Exactly. It's funny that on a network of primarily tech founders, everyone seems to be looking at this as spending money, when the real pleasure is in using wealth as capital to really "make a dent in the universe".
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by nationcrafting 13y ago
The name is one of the things I love about it. After all, "Soylent is people" is right on target, in the sense that it's a people product, designed to help people with a food problem. There isn't one group on the planet
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by nationcrafting 13y ago
Well, it's interesting, but doesn't getting rid of the wings and later the flippers mean it's a single use drone? Also, how limited are missions that the drone can only do things in this order and not, say, start with flying,
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by nationcrafting 13y ago
Yes, the name matters a great deal. Not just to your customers but to yourself. A great metaphor will act like a "concept crystallisation" in your mind. It's like a coathanger you can hang your ideas on when you discuss the
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by nationcrafting 13y ago
Soylent is a great name. "Soylent is people" is perfectly on-brand, given that it's a product that aims to bring perfect nutrition in staple form to everyone, even to the very poorest people on the planet. It's the opp
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by nationcrafting 13y ago
The way I see it, marketing wise, that's an absolutely great thing. After all, some of the big claims for Soylent are very people-oriented indeed. Soylent aims to be very cheap indeed. The net effect, in the affluent countries, will b