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by smtddr 13y ago
This is ridiculous. Are you purposely ignoring the ____NOT ALWAYS____ in the qoute? Do you understand what this picture is? http://radgeek.com/gt/2008/11/jackson-ms-sit-in.jpg Do you understand the good tha
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by smtddr 13y ago
Why these extreme examples? OP said "not always" and we are talking about viewing webpages here, not killing people. Nobody is saying to just do whatever you want but sometimes you should reflect on what you're being told to
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by smtddr 13y ago
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/_/dict.aspx?rd=1&word=a+...
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by smtddr 13y ago
There are all kinds of failed start-ups. As long as you know you didn't scam anyone and you can explain to your investors what happened and show accounting-books detailing how it all unfolded, and you learned something during this whol
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by smtddr 13y ago
The future: http://i.imgur.com/lkdFZMi.png It's just like another comment(can't find it right now) said in an earlier story. Techies are turning into the new Bank execs. Greed[1] is taking over; screw anyone/
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by smtddr 13y ago
The difference is SilkRoad didn't have friends in high places, nor was it giving corrupt politicians/law enforcement/corp execs their cut of the spoils.
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by smtddr 13y ago
You trust the USgov? I don't. They can do whatever they want as long as they don't get caught; and sometimes even when that happens.... e.g. NSA.
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by smtddr 13y ago
I like to call these "First World Annoyances". http://i.imgur.com/UQu7dey.jpg
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by smtddr 13y ago
>>I think it's safe to say that there are some participants in crypto currencies making massive percentage gains using lessons learned on Wall Street. Understatement of the year and it's only January. ;) That's pretty
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by smtddr 13y ago
>>I don't understand the motivation will be for someone to use a such service instead of building it by himself ... Personally, I have no interest in learning how to build computers. I'm not into hardware[1] and have no pr
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by smtddr 13y ago
>>If you can't afford that, then perhaps you didn't make very good choices in your life (aka didn't make enough money to obtain what you want) and you should try and find a way to achieve that goal without inflicting p
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by smtddr 13y ago
>>I can't even imagine many of you people watching a stand-up comic. For the record, I think comedians like Louis CK & Dave Chappelle do society a disservice by making serious issues into trivial jokes but that's just
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by smtddr 13y ago
>>privatized prisons The fact that these even exist is disgusting. What are the board-meetings like in this kind of company? "Okay guys, last quarter had a decrease in people put in jail. We need to increase our profits this c
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by smtddr 13y ago
Back in the day this was some kind of problem in Linux. I always had to do stuff[1] to get MSWindows fonts to the Linux OS. But I don't think anyone needs to do this anymore. Gotta know more about this person's environment. 1. ht
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by smtddr 13y ago
Idea for a startup: Similar to how I can call a creditcard company to just cancel the current card on file and issue a new one, I'd love to have a place where I could just call up and say "Lock down my digital life and send me a l
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by smtddr 13y ago
>>The returns from such cards are so small now its not even worth mentioning. Well, I dunno about mining BTC specifically but I got a co-worker making about 0.45 - 0.6 BTC a month on a 2 GPU rig from Newegg at $1200. He's using
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by smtddr 13y ago
Good for you. Enjoy your money.
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by smtddr 13y ago
Heh, okay. So I take it you're a millionaire because when you first heard of bitcoin you were like "That's a great idea!!!" and minded/purchased millions of them. Or if you missed that train, you got onboard Liteco
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by smtddr 13y ago
We're all humans here... I think The Lotto is "absurd" but I still play it when it reaches those ridiculously high levels. Spending[1] $400 on CandyCrush is "absurd". The $999 iOS app "I'm rich" was
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by smtddr 13y ago
That's cool. I don't completely agree but at least if we're focused on SV then your point is reasonable.
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by smtddr 13y ago
I was going to downvote you based on your first sentence. But then the rest of your comment brought you back to earth. Now that last sentence though: >>Still, this is a reminder that we've all failed to create a better world wit
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by smtddr 13y ago
lol. Oh boo-hoo, I have all this extra money sitting around that I didn't plan to have for at least 6 years and I need to figure out how to use it. Woe is me, woe is me. ;) But yeah, I do get what you're saying about having capita
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by smtddr 13y ago
Hey, I completely support the protesters. If this protest is peaceful then I'll probably just call the police. But if you do something that I perceive as an immediate physical threat to my family, the logical part of my brain shuts do
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by smtddr 13y ago
I feel for the plight[1] these people are facing, I really do and I want to help. _BUT_ if you started showing up at my home protesting and making my family uncomfortable, that creates a different problem entirely. Anyways I'm assum
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by smtddr 13y ago
What are you doing??? Didn't you just condemn[1] this nonsense? ...now you're doing it. 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7099199
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by smtddr 13y ago
I can tell you why I'm beginning to go silent. Because I'm done with these people bashing these events. Either they're highly-advanced trolls and we're all getting played REALLY HARD or these people are serious; if the
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by smtddr 13y ago
Nope. PG planned this before that other incident happened. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7097462
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by smtddr 13y ago
This might be me being hyper-pedantic, but I'd argue that not even USD is a particularly good store of value. If you have a significant amount of money it should probably be in at least low-risk stocks or re-estate. Not just sitting in
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by smtddr 13y ago
I agree with you so much that I broke my mouse clicking the upvote arrow. I'm also glad that ycombinator is doing this because it shows YC's official stance, as an organization , supports these kinds of events regardless of all th
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by smtddr 13y ago
Oh wow, I didn't even know about that word! Now I wish I could edit that old comment.

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