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Um, no. I (the consumer) pay for my bandwidth. End of story. Anything else is a violation of the pipes that run the internet.

Storage is cheap with digital music. Even assuming 10 MB/song, you're looking at 40TB, less than $4k/mo on S3. It's not trivial, but it's probably a drop in the bucket compared to …

1000 times yes. Back in 7th grade I'd beaten all the zorks and countless other adventures. Never did manage to figure out HGTTG. It's my white whale.

I figured I could either spend the next week fighting script execution on Windows or just spin up a linux VM and be good to go. I wound up installing ubuntu manually on a VirtualBo…

Man, no way this is going to run on any sort of Windows environment. Guess I won't get to sneak in CTF time at work this time around.

You didn't know that Google has secretly been amassing a huge tank of carbon. There's a big red button that, when pressed, will release that carbon. I thought everybody knew this.

But, but... they took college classes. And they have a badge or something.

It's all very important and necessary. Only the sheep-like are ok with a government that operates in secret against its own citizens. They have pitted themselves in an information …

I think that holds pretty true for many things in life (i.e. the "teen pregnancy" gene), but definitely for money management. I also knew decently smart kids that didn't have a lot…

Agreed. I got really caught up in the "be your own boss" mentality and career path until I realized that I hated the business side of things, didn't like collecting money from peop…

Your experience mirrors mine to a large degree. I think most intelligent kids know their family's financial situation, and adjust accordingly. I didn't even ask for name brand clot…

And when they're 24 and still at home because "working at the local gas station just isn't what fulfills [their] passion", you might wish differently. An easy environment rarely cr…

I find it refreshing. In an age where everyone on the internet is trying to "tell a story" it's nice to just have some plain facts and information presented in plain old text once …

I think I get what you're saying... mainly that when wealth is so centered in that 0.1% upper crust of power brokers, that it keeps potentially wealthy people off the boat. Combine…

Yes, wholeheartedly agree here. I was not thinking of having the basic Maslow levels met, as I think that kind of social net should be somewhat guaranteed, and the economic benefit…

This is a really salient point. I would go a step further and ask whether or not that $100 is better in the hands of a wealthy person (in the context of this article - a person who…

Any plans to take a crack at solving #2, or does your book already do that (we'll assume for now that #1 is an impossible situation)? I understand testing on an intellectual level,…

He forgot two of the most important reasons people don't test: 1) We inherited this monolithic spaghetti mess of a legacy system with a class hierarchy that does not lend itself to…

This is what I came here to post. I think there are use cases for something like this (learning a new language), but it's going to be really difficult to get this into B2B territor…

Can we please begin to penalize the phrase "growth hack" on HN?

This was described in Cryptonomicon 14 years ago.

You can even resell it on Amazon. When I was just out of college, I'd make a point of buying up stuff where it said "only 2 left in stock". Buy them, mark up 20-30% on Amazon/Ebay …

Also a backer that didn't watch the video. I've always been more swayed by ideas and text than videos anyway. We got our copy, and it's in christmas wrap right now, burning a hole …

I wouldn't go that far. They've adapted over the years, just like our economy/government has gone from Capitalism to Corporatism.

> Email that isn’t related to intelligence is rarely viewed, and it’s even less often viewed if it’s from a US citizen I stopped here. The words "rarely" and "less often" should bo…