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by jsutton 10mo ago
Take a second to think through why it might be bad for a 2nd grader to seek high schoolers as social peers.
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by jsutton 1y ago
If you actually believe that, I have a bridge to sell to you.
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by jsutton 2y ago
They aren't auditing anything. Programmers/engineers don't audit budget and spending. If they were doing an audit, they would have accountants on their team, which they don't. If you bring coders/engineers into a sy
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by jsutton 2y ago
Do British citizens get to vote on who each parliament party puts forward as their leader?
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by jsutton 2y ago
No one takes .so seriously even after notion.so. Hell, I'm sure countless people still try .com before giving up and Googling "notion" (or maybe that's just me, but I doubt it).
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by jsutton 2y ago
Terrible take. You want the USA to follow the same policy on speech that Communist China follows?
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by jsutton 3y ago
We get it, you don't like crypto. You would be better off leaving the snark and sarcasm at home if you want to get your points across without sounding bitter. Your last line completely contradicts the previous point you were trying to
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by jsutton 3y ago
Key point: on weekends. Northeast corridor is high demand all week long. And much more of the national economy flows through that region. LA <> Vegas is mostly leisure.
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by jsutton 3y ago
The first paper on AI and Neural Nets was published in 1945. What's your point? 15 years is not a very long time for deep tech.
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by jsutton 3y ago
A normal database isn't able to be easily disseminated by the people who need access to this data, which is enormous. Then who gets to host it? Real Estate associations are too many, too fragmented, too entrenched to agree on one or ev
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by jsutton 3y ago
Everyone said the same thing about ML/AI 5+ years ago. Hard things take time.
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by jsutton 3y ago
Agreed, this is the kind of use case blockchain excels at. I worked on a project that attempted to do something like a distributed MLS, and we had major industry leaders on board indicating a large degree of belief that blockchain could rev
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by jsutton 3y ago
> it merely aims to be a new mechanism by which value is transferred, which by most objective measures it's very bad at doing. What objective measures are you using? Over $3 Billion in value is transferred over the Bitcoin network
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by jsutton 3y ago
There's been a few examples of use cases said by others in this thread, and your financial settlement use case is a great one. Any time you need to move money around multiple parties based on a clear set of rules or criteria, blockchai
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by jsutton 3y ago
On the contrary, there is a there there, it just takes a tremendous effort and coordination to get to a point where it's actually useful.
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by jsutton 3y ago
There's nothing absurd about a company seeking to legitimize a component of their business. The crypto industry is not built around avoiding government rules, that's a myth propagated by its many detractors. It was born to address
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by jsutton 4y ago
Without the sarcasm, yes :)
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by jsutton 4y ago
The same place that took trillions of dollars in exchange for low-yielding treasury bonds. The same place that effectively devalued said treasury bonds when they decided to rapidly raise interest rates.
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by jsutton 4y ago
We're not talking about poverty. We're simply talking about restoring the bank deposits of early stage companies.
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by jsutton 4y ago
We're not, we're bailing out startup companies. You know, the main audience of this social media platform we're on?
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by jsutton 4y ago
Companies shouldn't fail just because their bank lost their money. That's ridiculous and not at all the principle of a free market.
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by jsutton 4y ago
Socializing losses is what enables high risk high reward businesses. Without it, the US wouldn't be half the innovative country it is now.
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by jsutton 4y ago
What about social media, is that a net negative? Gig economies? Every societal shift enabled by technology comes with significant negatives, but you won't know if it is a true net negative on society until it plays out to maturity.
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by jsutton 4y ago
You can't wait to see millions of people lose money and in some cases their livelihoods? Maybe you should stop blaming cancel culture for your declining karma and do a little bit of self-reflection.
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by jsutton 4y ago
Cirtrix hasn't ever been the parent company to LastPass. LogMeIn bought Citrix's GoTo product division, and also bought LastPass, so that's the extent of their relationship. LogMeIn and subsequently LastPass is has been owned
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by jsutton 4y ago
Be honest with yourself, do you really believe every single crypto company acts without integrity and ethics? If so, it's clear you haven't familiarized yourself with the whole industry. Plenty of crypto companies have strong cont
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by jsutton 4y ago
The problem is that anything which is declassified for the US public is also declassified for the world. There are plenty of things we wouldn't want our adversaries knowing. This is why most democracies are Representative instead of Di
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by jsutton 4y ago
2nd this, a top tier accelerator will do a lot to get you prepared for launching your product or raising money.
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by jsutton 4y ago
While connecting with 1 good founder for advice can be as beneficial without the time commitment, good accelerators not only provide the education on fundraising but also the network and infrastructure to actually fundraise. Accelerators of
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by jsutton 4y ago
Bingo! Found the reliable Beanie Babies comment in a HN article about crypto :)

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