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by xiaoma 9y ago
Will users be able to delete their data like Delicious used to let them?
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> "I'm baffled by some of the comments here... Is it so difficult for you guys to just have a facebook account that you don't check in on? You can still sign into random sites that require it that way, arrange meetups, etc
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by xiaoma 9y ago
It's not super easy for Chinese nationals to move to Taiwan (Due to regular threats from Chinese generals, blocking Taiwan's bid to join the UN repeatedly for decades, "Anti-secession" laws requiring invading TW, etc). E
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I've seen this on HN, going back to at least 2007 or 2008.
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I second the recommendation for her course. It's a rare gem backed both by science and her considerable experience as an effective learner.
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If Satoshi Nakamoto is still alive and still has access to the coins he mined but never sold, they're already worth billions and the work has changed the world.
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by xiaoma 9y ago
For those too young to remember Netscape, this means he was the guy who made the first two web browsers that made it outside of academia and into widespread use. As a result, there are web tags we use because he (or his employees) put them
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by xiaoma 9y ago
Predictive of what? Edit: I've read studies that found psychological benefits from a single use of LSD, six months later. Anyone able to comment on whether or not this is true for mushrooms?
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Gmail wasn't blocked until later.
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by xiaoma 9y ago
Invest in the appropriate hardware and mine it. Another alternative would be to trade goods or altcoins for fractional BTC.
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Many of China's recent capital controls have been aimed at cryptocurrencies. This run is fueled by Japan and Korea (where the price actually went ~10% higher than on US-based exchanges).
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This run is being driven by a huge increase in usage in Japan and Korea due to work from their largest conglomerates to support it. Peach Airlines even accepts btc now. In total, the two markets hold over 48.6 percent of the global bBtcoin
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by xiaoma 9y ago
The comparison with the internet of 20 years ago is a good one. Much like the internet did then, crytpo-currencies now draw an assortment of technologists, anarchists, bankers and futurists. There's also a wildly optimistic bull case t
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In 2011, state run media repeatedly criticized Apple in connection with a 42 page report that condemned Apple on a number of fronts. A coalition of 36 environmental groups also rated Apple last of 29 tech companies. In truth, there were ser
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> "The best minds in Silicon Valley are preoccupied with a science fiction future they consider it their manifest destiny to build. Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are racing each other to Mars. Musk gets most of the press, but Bezos now s
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by xiaoma 9y ago
> "the industry's deal flow is large enough that they are fine with a small number of false negatives since false positives in their portfolio hurt more" This is backwards. Funding a company that goes nowhere is far sma
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> "How do you pretend you're here to protect and serve when you legalize a drug that seems like it was designed to kill people in a single use?" This is a different, adjacent issue. However, it's not impossible to ma
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by xiaoma 9y ago
Could you dig in a bit more into how the JVM laps the Erlang VM in terms of concurrency support and instrumentation?
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Wow! This is really illustrates a theme of the talk. I was completely blind to the 2nd "the", even the first two times I read your follow-up comment.
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When I type "the power of context" into Google, the front page is dominated by Malcom Gladwell and your essay is absent, sadly. Fortunately, it looks like the PDF is now linked from the talk: https://www.dropbox.com&#x2
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> "How wild is it that it took less than 10 years for a platform spanning killer-app to emerge in the largest smartphone market in the world?" It's not that wild considering that the iPhone hasn't even existed for q
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by xiaoma 9y ago
Just my own personal feedback here: I've really enjoyed the site, but the Nathan Barry interview decreased my interest in the site a bit. It's because, for me personally, the thing that makes IH special is the stories of people wh
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by xiaoma 9y ago
Because it dilutes the focus of the site! There are all kinds of people who give "useful advice" that could, in theory, help an indie hacker, but are actually aimed at a general audience. In the extreme case, consider diet and bea
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by xiaoma 9y ago
They've also featured Nathan Barry, who is neither indie nor a hacker. He's a popular blogger/author who used his considerable profits from that career to hire a team to build ConvertKit for him. I'm not actually sure wh
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Japan has done an excellent job on health care, but Japanese housing costs are significantly higher on average than those in the US. Along with a huge and growing underclass of freeters and other workers who cannot land the shrinking number
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> "If anyone is foolish enough to think china will adopt democracy in the guise of America or Europe is foolish, their culture is so different as so to not even be understandable by most westerners." Taiwan is a clear counter-
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I see the Japanese population as having a more defined vision of the future than Americans, and it's fairly negative vision. This leads to making concrete but pessimistic plans like saving as much money as possible and investing it onl
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Yikes.
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> "Yes, you can, but my question would be why would you want to? I don't know anyone personally who uses Office or Adobe for anything but work." Perhaps not people you know, but a lot of us enjoy drawing for fun. For me,
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How would any book "not work on the iPad"? It seems like whatever math is taught in the book can be done on the iPad (either writing out the problems in a drawing app or using a special purpose one). Was it some kind of ebook? Is

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