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by gottagetmac 6y ago
Time pressure was the main reason. We also couldn’t have been sure that a method that could recover $10 would be able to recover $12,000. Bots won’t bother to snipe opportunities that are too small (they have to put a little money at risk t
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Ethereum Is a Dark Forest(medium.com)
553 points by gottagetmac 6y ago|447 comments
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by gottagetmac 13y ago
Hmm. Maybe he took it down? Here's a story about him: http://fusion.net/modern_life/story/ethereum-bitcoin-currenc...
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Ethereum: A Turing-Complete Cryptocurrency(ethereum.org)
135 points by gottagetmac 13y ago|81 comments
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by gottagetmac 13y ago
You're never going to have a useful legal system where the laws are simple enough for everyone to understand. Free speech is a complex idea. To put it in HN terms, suppose I were to say "It's pretty sad that we can no longer
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by gottagetmac 13y ago
Well, because the 13th Amendment by its terms governs private conduct. I agree, though, that there's a Shelly v. Kraemer type argument that could be made against the enforceability of contracts limiting freedom of speech in certain way
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by gottagetmac 13y ago
Of course it does, when you're talking about the government regulating non-governmental, private speech, such as this mythical law against employers saying truthfully that you were fired for cause.
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by gottagetmac 13y ago
Learning "a little about the 1st amendment" and pondering it "a little in a few minutes" is a dangerous thing. From just looking at this text, for example, you would think that it only applied to Congress, when actually
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by gottagetmac 13y ago
You're agreeing with csense without realizing it. He said "this website" to refer to the site with the videos (not the comment above him), and saying video is "lower-bandwidth" to mean that is less quickly communica
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by gottagetmac 13y ago
Myles in fact does have a small one-person low-intensity startup off which he claims to make 5 figures per month. And don't you notice how he makes his lifestyle sound really good, and the startup guy's judgments seem silly? The f
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by gottagetmac 13y ago
This looked to me like they were trying to say "It's the studios' fault!" without pissing off the studios.
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by gottagetmac 13y ago
Myles identifies with Personal Income Hacker there, not the Startup Guy. He's making fun of that attitude.
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by gottagetmac 13y ago
What are you talking about? PIH is the Myles surrogate in that conversation. He's making fun of Startup Guy for thinking that anyone who does what he (Myles) is doing is "unethical or lazy."
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by gottagetmac 13y ago
I think Heroku counts as "git"
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by gottagetmac 13y ago
That's not the definition of "disrupt" used by Christensen (or by Yglesias in this article). Yglesias is arguing that we should return to the useful definition of disrupt as developing a product that is worse in most respects compared to ex
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by gottagetmac 13y ago
United States -> China (a pretty important route that does require a visa) says no information.
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by gottagetmac 14y ago
This is exactly what I was hoping for when reading this title... but of course it's just the tired "share this on Facebook" feature that Netflix had for a minute a few years ago and every non-VPPA-affected site has had for years. When will
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by gottagetmac 14y ago
Clever, although I'm not sure why NYMag and Fast Co. are more legit than CNN and Wired.
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by gottagetmac 14y ago
I was skeptical at first, but the rest of the evidence makes it look like it's not a coincidence.
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by gottagetmac 14y ago
I think you are bothered too easily.
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by gottagetmac 14y ago
anatoli, I think flipper28 was responding to _delirium's statement that suicide would be a "rational decision" for him/her in this situation based on a calculation of utilities. This is, as we know, not the usual way that people determine t
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by gottagetmac 14y ago
The provision you're referring to only applies to pro se litigants (people who represent themselves in court).
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by gottagetmac 14y ago
I think the point of the image is more that starting small makes them less likely to fail SPECTACULARLY. There is zero chance that Instacart will lose $830 million before it sees traction, which is what happened to Webvan. If Webvan had jus
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by gottagetmac 14y ago
What is his evidence for the claim in the title, other than that they have been raising increasingly large amounts of money (typically, all other things equal, a sign of health)?