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by sah2ed 9y ago
MtGox was a major exchange and it went down but it didn't deter people from investing in bitcoins, they merely moved their business to other exchanges. Your original comment talked about a scenario where people decide against bitcoin a
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by sah2ed 9y ago
> if something were to happen that made holding bitcoin undesirable (such as say, a possible crack for their elliptic curve crypto implementation). A much more realistic scenario that could make bitcoin undesirable to hold would be somet
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by sah2ed 9y ago
I believe this means that they associate your HN handle with a workatastartup.com account by reusing your session so you don't have to manage yet another set of login credentials.
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by sah2ed 9y ago
You have essentially described what economists call positive feedback. Positive feedback loops are self-fulfilling. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_feedback#In_economics
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Filecoin's ICO seems to be one of the few exceptions to follow securities law. https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/filecoin-ico-raises-record-2...
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Not disagreeing with your observation, but to extract gold, you need a mining license which is typically required by law, so in a way governments can still make useful laws that regulate the scarcity or abundance of gold as a commodity by p
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by sah2ed 9y ago
> Investors try to build something while speculators just try to make money, no matter the cost to anybody else. Based on your definition, what would you call Carl Icahn then? I tend to agree with John Bogle's definition that both t
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Dan Abramov's comment elsewhere in this thread says otherwise: "I work at Facebook, and can confirm we keep all code in a monorepo". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15893184
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by sah2ed 9y ago
The 70,000+ number you cited includes engineers and non-engineers but surely, the actual number of engineers that need commit access will be much lower.
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Any book(s) you could recommend to read more about this bit of history and the resulting monopolies? Thanks.
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Yes, but Mint used a similar approach. Not sure if this is what they use now, but Mint used a similar (but older) service to Plaid called Yodlee [0] as their backend for accessing bank accounts. [0] https://www.yodlee.com/
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Amazon blocked sales of Apple and Google streaming devices some years ago and was discussed heavily on HN. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10312938
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Yes. For instance, if you consistently put out good pieces on your past experiences in the software industry as a PM, then your current experiences as a software business owner, you will gradually become widely known as the guy who gives
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by sah2ed 9y ago
I'm sure you know The Man evolved the Internet from ARPANET so they clearly knew of its existence. Unless you meant to say that The Man didn't think much of tracking people on the Internet until it become economically viable when
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by sah2ed 9y ago
@jessepollak [0] wrote in the thread you linked to saying: "NOTE: A spammer posted this same post below, not sure why. " . It was a spammer's post that was flagged not Coinbase. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com&#x
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by sah2ed 9y ago
> playing golf is posted on Facebook twice as much as doing the dishes, yet people spend 5x more time doing the dishes. That would be by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz in this NYT article. [0] https://www.nytimes.com/2017&#x2
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by sah2ed 9y ago
May I ask where your space is located?
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Tools and blogs for entrepreneurs(steveblank.com)
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Cars and certain investment products are complex, yes but that's where the similarity ends. People don't generally buy cars with the expectation of a return like is typical for investments. The article was complaining about how co
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by sah2ed 9y ago
I think the grandparent point was about buying commodity goods from not just any seller but a seller who's values aligns with theirs. What you talked about is the whole point of good marketing -- to allow people who are not already c
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What AlphaGo Zero teaches us about what’s going wrong with innovation(timharford.com)
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by sah2ed 9y ago
There's a workaround, use mobile Safari.
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by sah2ed 9y ago
You have to learn that you need to strike a balance between wanting to be left alone (while productive) but not to the point that you are abandoned by friends and loved ones that you become lonely . You need to make time to do things tha
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by sah2ed 9y ago
I did a cursory search [0] on Token Ring vs CSMA/CD and it appears that "worse is better" is why CSMA/CD won out. CSMA/CD was much cheaper to deploy than Token Ring. "Token-Ring has been a bit of a mystery for
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Real-time Reddit like ChatRoulette ? https://www.chatroulette.com/
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by sah2ed 9y ago
I'm scratching my head as to the point you are trying to make. What's the chart got to do with the topic?
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by sah2ed 9y ago
> Bob and Mary are staunch members of <political party>. While they never discuss it at work, Mary deeply resents the views Bob posts on social media. I'm assuming Bob and Mary are members of opposing political parties? Even i
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Sounds like you are referring to The Gervais Principle ? https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
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by sah2ed 9y ago
What's ad revenue like now for IH?
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Tesla Learned About Dyson’s Secret Car Plans Two Years Early(bloomberg.com)
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