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by seiji 13y ago
Which one is "caustic bastard?"
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by seiji 13y ago
Doesn't one wallet control something like 40% of all issuance so far? Sure, that's completely stable.
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by seiji 13y ago
As a fully decentralized service, bitcoin won't take off until people put central layers on top of it. Sure, anybody can run a web server and host their own site, but in reality millions of teenagers just use tumblr instead. Same wit
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by seiji 13y ago
Why would Overstock want a bunch of tiny cars? http://www.fiatusa.com/en/
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by seiji 13y ago
Examples: I started reading reddit the first day it showed up on paulgraham.com. I never made an account. (I stopped visiting reddit years ago. not worth using brain cells on that stuff anymore.) I started reading HN the first day it sho
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by seiji 13y ago
Remember when websites were 100% focused on "content without scrolling?" Now medium has gone batshit crazy with their "NO CONTENT WITHOUT SCROLLING!"
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by seiji 13y ago
Can you imagine the emergency procedures they have in place to cover up any mishaps? A few payoffs here, a few altered records there... no mishaps!
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by seiji 13y ago
The typical american lifestyle seems designed to kill you: drink a lot, work all the time, take drugs (legal or otherwise) to medicate or recreate yourself into submission, refuse to use your 10 days a year off so you continue to look like
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by seiji 13y ago
The goal of the stateless elite is to manipulate the masses into following them. If all it takes is a graph to convince someone "hey, this rich person is right, I should do everything they say" they see that as a very small price
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by seiji 13y ago
The brilliant fact of magnet links is even when TPB goes down, you can ask Google for a cache of a TPB page. The cache of the page still has functional magnet links.
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by seiji 13y ago
Don't become this guy: http://www.zdnet.com/student-richard-odwyer-spared-us-extrad... Sadly, the Internet isn't our playground anymore. You have to watch what you do even if it's just curating links to thin
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by seiji 13y ago
In 2003 the state of the art with startup talking was Guy Kawasaki, a guy who did some marketing in the 80s and has ridden that wave since. Nothing actionable. In 2003, there wasn't a way, as an "outsider," to get into the f
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by seiji 13y ago
That's not cultish I am disinclined to acquiesce to your assertion. Listing accomplishments is okay. Listing accomplishments paired with fawning and idolatry is cultish.
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by seiji 13y ago
Just for posterity: that's not my view, but that is the exact view of visionary sv asshole ceos (note: not of the good ceos, just the jerk ceos). In their eyes, you only exist as "traffic" for them to exploit. You are n
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by seiji 13y ago
Quality of submissions or comments? I was part of another forum-based company that went from zero advertising to full display advertising with banners and adsense (the ads brought in another $200k to $500k per month). Some of the vocal mem
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by seiji 13y ago
The solution there is just to get a receipt showing the breakdown. W-2's are kinda that already at a very coarse-grained scale. We don't have any system in place to show military spending breakdowns or get people upset about it o
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by seiji 13y ago
So we're all back to hoarding money under our mattresses? There will always be central banking infrastructure controlled by billionaires who are more socially important than you. We can't just "go decentralized." An av
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by seiji 13y ago
could risk a Digg-like exodus That only happens if there is somewhere else to jump to. What else is there? We don't use the best of all possible systems, we use the best available system, which is always highly imperfect.
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by seiji 13y ago
revolt in a mass uprising What actually happens: the old timers complain for three days then just put up with it. People still conflate online complaining with meaning and desires of the entire user base. Sadly, online comments aren&#x27
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by seiji 13y ago
Lobbying by the tax accountant and tax software industry: http://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-maker-of-turbotax-...
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by seiji 13y ago
The underlying point is: you can't have a rational discussion with people who live out in fantasy cuckoo land.
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by seiji 13y ago
serialize an effectively parallel computation Our computers pretend to run hundreds to thousands of processes simultaneously using only one to eight physical cores (numbers common for personal use at this point in the historical record).
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by seiji 13y ago
"Monitors" is a bit strong, unless you're talking about actual states. NY/NYC will go after you fiercely if you are wealthy and try to get out of city taxes. All federal tax information for employees is self-reported by
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by seiji 13y ago
Also see: the euro crisis. It isn't a "threat" so much as just foolish.
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by seiji 13y ago
The other systems aren't based around grinding CPUs at 100% power utilization for days/weeks/months doing worthless busy work. Unless your power comes from a zero-carbon-footprint renewable resource, it's pretty ugly.
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by seiji 13y ago
If r/bitcoin could speak, it would collectively say: "All tax is theft. It is our job to stop being stolen from. All money belongs to me for the benefit of myself. I am all that matters in society."
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by seiji 13y ago
Are we just supposed to tolerate them turning their own people into dog food? Of course, as eddie izzard says, it's all okay as long as you only kill your own people—just never step next door.
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by seiji 13y ago
There's a contingent of HN people reading this article who see nothing wrong at all and are now trying to figure out how to become the same thing themselves.
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by seiji 13y ago
What? The NSA wants poorly written papers by school children?
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by seiji 13y ago
Most of them probably just cheat. I've known half a dozen people in the country illegally working on startups. (With values of illegal from "left company sponsoring them but didn't leave the US" to "founded compan

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