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Tiny Pacific Nation Is Making a Go of Its Own Digital Currency

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www.coindesk.com 6y ago

Why the Marshall Islands Is Issuing Its Own Cryptocurrency

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medium.com 7y ago

2019: The Year of Decentralized Money

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flter.me 9y ago

Flter.me: a filter for your internet

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Some final thoughts on Boston

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Circle with Disney – parental online usage management

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How Yale Locks Work with Nest

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Nest Weave Enables Direct Communication Between Devices

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Continuations: Debating the Gig Economy

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SoundHound Challenges Siri with New Hound Voice Search App

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Rocket chat (open source slack alternative)

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Roombots: Lego-like robotic blocks that transform into furniture

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First living thing with "alien" DNA created in the lab

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Beer distribution game

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Design for people, not awards (video)

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Amish view on Technology

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How elephants rumble

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Journal Retreats from Controversial Arsenic Paper

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NEC Dual Screen Android Tablet

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HP "PalmPad"

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Ask HN: OpenVPN vs. Hamachi/Remobo/etc

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How to Approach a VC

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Your observation, while accurate, is a tangent. The point of the bibliography in the context of an academic paper is to reference the academic merit of the work. In the case of science, this would be reproducible experiments (ideally).

Perhaps you would prefer to include the generated text source as an author.

A long time ago I did high school math instruction. I used Sudoku for an initial introduction to proofs - something where the student knew they were implicitly going through a "proof" process.

Ran a consultancy for years

Most important advice I'd give is to liberally turn projects down and there are two positive outcomes

- you don't take on projects that don't make sense for you

- the best projects are the ones where the client is resilient enough to negotiate through your initial "no"

YC 120 7 years ago

i don't think you're imagining the selection process properly.

i think to get the right mental model, imagine instead that they only wrote "send a one-minute video and convince us to invite you".

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Why Toys? 8 years ago

The best dichotomy I've heard for this is:

Are you building [Ice Skates] or are you building [Ear muffs]?

Ice skates allow you to do something new that you didn't even know you had a demand for. Ear muffs solve a problem that you were already solving poorly (with your hands).

[Business vs toy] is an insanely counterproductive mental framework which will create a false sense of security in founders who are actually building crap - just because you can play with it does not mean it has value.

zinger point taken, but consider:

1 - compared to a rock, all humans are equal (note: this is not a political statement and has no relationship to theocracy)

2 - if a unit of food sits on the ground between two people, they are free to behave however they want, either can choose to pick up the food or not - this is liberty

3 - given that a unit of food when found will be split evenly (by some process out of an individual's control) their behavior no longer matters - this is not liberty

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"In a fixed career you have a chance to build something up, while in contracting you're often back to square one with each new contract."

When you are "contracting" (I assume you mean freelancing) you ARE working for a "company" - YOU. Your boss is you, your accountant is you, your assistant is you, your maid is you. If you don't give yourself a promotion, sure you won't "build something up".

What you describe is not inherent to "contracting" it's up to you. Some people thrive in that scenario.

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Build once. Build everywhere. -- computer-aided design for computer vision.

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totally agree. but my understanding is 'net neutrality' accepts this monopoly as a given and says the monopoly needs to be regulated. i think opponents would say - let's try to allow for competition (to break up the monopoly without central planning intervention).

I think you make good points. But by having additional compliance rules, it becomes slightly harder to compete with the ISP.

This argument, therefore, taken to a natural conclusion gives up on competition at the ISP level in favor of competition at the data level.

I think the counter argument is that by allowing for way more competition at the ISP level - there is no data level competition problem (the problem becomes how to allow for more ISP competition).

This side of the argument would love to see all users have access to 5 or more ISP choices where today more than 25% have access to 2 or less.

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