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by seiji 11y ago
Yes, that is a limitation. Nobody is ever going to pay millions of dollars for vim . But for database software? Totes.
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by seiji 11y ago
Well, you can reflect their bad DNS back at them using their own methods. You can write less than 200 lines of code to destroy your attackers. Morally right in an if-someone-tires-to-kill-you-kill-them-right-back way? Certainly legally wr
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by seiji 11y ago
With an attack like that, you know the inbound IPs targeting you are already vulnerable, so know what you can do? You can turn them back on themselves to attack the attack. This approach is not recommended by legal professionals.
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by seiji 11y ago
There's a YouTube account too: https://www.youtube.com/user/ComputerChroniclesYT It's great going through old episodes where they show the most sold software of the week. We used to be able track the most so
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by seiji 11y ago
Note to readers: It's 2015 and Apache 2 is preferred in all contexts instead of BSD (2- or 3-) or MIT.
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by seiji 11y ago
What resources are they using, though? It's more of a moral argument. We want open source available for people to use for small projects, but once large organizations take our software and make billions of dollars on top of our arch
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by seiji 11y ago
if you want people to pay you, they need incentive to do so. And unfortunately, the MIT license provides no incentive to do so. Software is free. Experience is what counts. You can make money by writing broken software then charging for
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by seiji 11y ago
Humans have a stubborn habit of assuming what they experience right now is the steady state future of the universe. It helps our meat selves cope with inevitable futures so we quickly believe things will always be the same from now on.
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by seiji 11y ago
A few wealthy foreign property owners are a drop in the bucket compared to a structural deficit of 3.5 million homes. Yes, you found the exact problem. But, with such a current high demand, all sales end up going to these wealthy few si
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by seiji 11y ago
Oh, the article itself is about people buying a single resource the sub-renting it out. So that's the feudalism part. The connected network part was also similar because you have to go through these co-living space capitalist-hippy ad
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by seiji 11y ago
Thought experiment. SF and NYC are "desirable" places to live. People want to be there. The world is more "globalized" than ever now. How does supply and demand cope when 6 million to 60 million superhumanly rich peopl
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by seiji 11y ago
It's almost as if they've rebranded feudalism as "sharing." Proper sharing would be a fully connected graph topology. Modern "sharing" is hub-and-spoke where the hub extracts rent on all transactions because t
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by seiji 11y ago
advocating taking property lawfully obtained and giving it to someone else? Yes. Obtaining property "technically lawfully" but actually illegally is not going to survive. It's a free market system Except, corrupt foreign
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by seiji 11y ago
What killed it was that there simply wasn't fresh blood. Looking back from today, there were also no "analytics" and no invasive pingback tracking every time you open a message (and no monetization). Why bother running thi
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by seiji 11y ago
It can be tricky. Is it worth delivering everything in a shit sandwich? With a lengthy and well thought out rebuttal, adding boilerplate niceties detracts from the detraction. When republicans stand up and say "kill all abortion doct
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by seiji 11y ago
Free Software is a philosophy and political movement. If your system runs code, you have the right to modify that code. Closed source binaries are profane and immoral (user retains freedom of usage and modification; developer may never &q
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by seiji 11y ago
How else can you be a legitimate thought leader?
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by seiji 11y ago
Good review, but it's worthwhile to note the source of the essays as well: it's a ribbonfarm adjunct and memetically sponsored by a16z, the saviors-of-humanity-with-no-ulterior-motives-whatsoever-but-keep-giving-us-billions-of-dol
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by seiji 11y ago
The overall readership size isn't of great concern (the more the merrier), but it breaks down when people start interacting at scale. It breaks down when posts start getting thousands of upvotes or tens of thousands of comments. At t
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by seiji 11y ago
This one is always fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvBSkt6LhJE Related: http://www.wired.com/2010/01/slime-mold-grows-network-just-l...
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by seiji 11y ago
where you're part of 15-20 small HN-like communities. That's the problem though, right? The goal is to have one place to go. That's why posts on HN get read by billionaires and people living in homeless shelters—there&#
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by seiji 11y ago
Someone said they want Reddit to have 1 billion users. That's nonsense! Just imagine if you wanted to drive HN into high-growth mode. It would kill everything here. If you take a community site (and Reddit is a community site, not a
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by seiji 11y ago
Answer: Americans don't view dogs as non-human. They aren't dirty beasts, they're just hairy, slobbering kids who always die too soon.
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by seiji 11y ago
Yup, basically right. It is still a legal document too. Typically severance documents will have a deadline to be signed which is after your official termination date. You're fully entitled to not sign anything at your terminatio
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by seiji 11y ago
Good point. At large companies, sometimes they don't include it for non-executives. At smaller companies, it should probably fall on everybody since each voice carries more weight and everybody would have more insight into the actual
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by seiji 11y ago
spent time talking about the severance. Often severance can be negotiated on an individual basis. Typically you start with some base amount (4 weeks + 2 weeks for every year at the company), but that can vary for different roles. e.g. w
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by seiji 11y ago
Let's not be revisionist. The original Airbnb concept was actual air beds and hosts that would actually make breakfast. That was the business. That is what the VCs passed on because it's kinda crazy. VCs can't pre-det
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by seiji 11y ago
heard no from warm intros. My last round of warm intro (thanks sam) VC partner talks had 100% failure rate too. There's no pattern you can draw here. I had great talks with some two-partner firms. Other two-partner firms did the w
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by seiji 11y ago
the most impressive executing founders on the planet. Big note: after-the-fact. They aren't gods. You're seeing post hoc fanboy hero worship of single-unit success. Sure, celebrate accomplishments, but don't elevate peop
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by seiji 11y ago
The goal of the Internet is no central point of failure. The downside (from a regulating abuse perspective) is there's no central point of authority either. SMTP had the problem where any node on the Internet could send email for any

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