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adrianscott

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About adrianscott

Adrian Scott

Founder, Soma Capital

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Founding investor, Napster

Social networking pioneer and founder, Ryze, the big influence on Friendster, which in turn influenced Facebook

Past CTO on 2 crypto projects

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Past CEO & Founder, Coderbuddy

Twitter: adrianscottcom

email: firstname @ firstnamelastname . com

Strong interest in usability, behavior design as well. Love making things scale.

Ph.D. Math, nonlinear optimization applied to finding protein binding sites on DNA, at age 20 from Rensselaer (RPI)

Co-inventor of U.S. Patent related to use of hashing algorithms in P2P networks

Time zone range: U.S.

http://www.adrianscott.com/

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    Before you upload it all to Github etc, for folks recommending that... Keep in mind that there may be passwords / keys in the spaghetti etc... iykyk...

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    Most of us call him Nassim, cheers. It is interesting data to see him called Nicholas here.

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    Comment #25563074

    How would that help?

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    Comment #23461207

    Yes, except more like 'in addition to' than instead... unbelievable... #lockin

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    Comment #22507472

    I highly recommend YC use 60 frames per second (fps) for these videos for a better 'real' feel

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    You definitely want to scale UI to readable. Also need to consider how to take advantage of the extra screen real estate, e.g. code editor in right half of screen, browser for rese…

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    Rather interesting to note the use of "my" rather than "our" and "I" rather than "We" in the article: "Multiply this by all my managers and I was on my way to burning up all my cas…

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    Comment #21555845

    Read John Sarno's work, also David Schechter's.

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    Comment #20901425

    Hilariously weak logic... reading has higher information rate than listening. Written content can be parsed rapidly to focus on interesting chapters and sections of books. Main use…

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    Comment #18704339

    Nearly $113M raised, wsj article says it owns only 6% https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/16/elon-musks-boring-co-raise... https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1737630/000173763018..…

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    Comment #18279284

    Would you consider USD also subject to a Keynesian Beauty Contest?

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    Comment #18279261

    Bitcoin is stable in reference to itself, just as USD is stable in reference to itself.

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    Comment #18136560

    Really disappointed that the CEO's response has been censored / dead'd here. Not a great moment for HN.

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