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by thedaveoflife 12y ago
Your question is answered in the article: YC is interested in making money and they seem to believe that having more diverse founders will help them do that.
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by thedaveoflife 12y ago
The difference is that you are exchanging money for a service between two willing parties. Bitcoin miners don't take anyone else's money in exchange for verifying transactions.
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by thedaveoflife 12y ago
How long do you think the Chinese government will allow this subversion to continue? It seems like something they would aggressively shut down.
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by thedaveoflife 12y ago
A fair point, but also misleading. That's like saying a HFT trader is hoping to provide market liquidity... Really they're trying to make money. The market liquidity (or in this case blockchain verification) is an indirect benefit
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by thedaveoflife 12y ago
I agree completely... but one man's waste of time is another man's productive enterprise.
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by thedaveoflife 12y ago
I am not so sure that "transaction security auditing" would be accurate though. That makes it sound like this company is doing something altruistic. The truth is that this facility was created for one simple reason: to earn Bitcoi
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by thedaveoflife 12y ago
Would you say that mining gold/diamonds is also a colossal waste of time and energy?
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by thedaveoflife 12y ago
This is such a ridiculous scenario that I hope it's how it actually happened.
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by thedaveoflife 12y ago
Ironic, the entitlement he feels about having an adapter on his AA flight before complaining about entitlement issues from his/GRRM's audience... or was that the point?
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by thedaveoflife 12y ago
The lesson from this article: PR can be an effective legal deterrent. Publicize your victories.
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by thedaveoflife 13y ago
The best thing about this article is that it hopefully signals that we will no longer have to here about this anymore. As much as I love using GitHub, I hate hearing about the internal politics of their executives and engineers.
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by thedaveoflife 13y ago
Conventional economics states that in a natural monopoly the state should be the sole provider.
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by thedaveoflife 13y ago
Obamacare: the perfect scapegoat for large companies trying to cut costs.
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by thedaveoflife 13y ago
In the same vein, aren't most newspaper articles simply PR in some form or another? The key is to be a savvy enough user to spot it.
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by thedaveoflife 13y ago
I think most people probably don't use facebook to see what their loudmouth acquaintances have to say. They use it look at photos of their friends and family.
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Wall Street's Giants Try 'Flow Monster' Formula(online.wsj.com)
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by thedaveoflife 14y ago
>First, the unprecendented shutdown of a major American city may have increased safety some small bit, but it was not without a cost: keeping somewhere between 2 and 5 million people from work, shopping, and school destroyed a nearly un
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How the 97 Loss Arizona Diamondback signed Randy Johnson(mlbtraderumors.com)
1 points by thedaveoflife 14y ago|0 comments
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by thedaveoflife 14y ago
you would hope people would be able to use this with a certain amount of tact. Also, a simple button on the side of the glasses could be used for silent photos, or some other function perhaps.
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by thedaveoflife 14y ago
I think this demonstrates how many people browse the /threads?id=pg page (myself included)
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by thedaveoflife 14y ago
where there's smoke there's fire... unless someone has a smoke machine
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by thedaveoflife 14y ago
I'm not trying to cast aspersions... just to state facts.
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by thedaveoflife 14y ago
In a nutshell: take successful US start-up ideas and create a European version of the exact same thing.
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by thedaveoflife 14y ago
>Kurzweil seems to always get technological capabilities right. Where he sometimes falls flat is in technological adoption - how actual consumers are willing to interact with technology, especially where bureaucracies are involved- see
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by thedaveoflife 14y ago
real wages... meaning adjusted for inflation.
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by thedaveoflife 14y ago
Also due perhaps to real wages in the US declining to the point where cost/benefit calculations of US based production facilities are finally starting to add up for some manufacturers.
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by thedaveoflife 14y ago
For those learning R, this site: http://www.twotorials.com/ which I found on HN several months ago is fairly helpful as well.
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by thedaveoflife 14y ago
But there is no incentive for colleges and universities to change anything about their practices. Demand for college education has never been higher and is increasing even still. The question to ask is, if our higher education system is in
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by thedaveoflife 14y ago
the sad answer is because 38 studios had a famous CEO
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by thedaveoflife 14y ago
how many people who watch television DVR and fast-forward through the ads?

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