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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 t…

Hmm. Maybe he took it down? Here's a story about him: http://fusion.net/modern_life/story/ethereum-bitcoin-currenc...

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 t…

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 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…

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 …

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 …

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,…

This looked to me like they were trying to say "It's the studios' fault!" without pissing off the studios.

Myles identifies with Personal Income Hacker there, not the Startup Guy. He's making fun of that attitude.

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…

I think Heroku counts as "git"

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 develo…

United States -> China (a pretty important route that does require a visa) says no information.

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 an…

Clever, although I'm not sure why NYMag and Fast Co. are more legit than CNN and Wired.

I was skeptical at first, but the rest of the evidence makes it look like it's not a coincidence.

I think you are bothered too easily.

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. Th…

The provision you're referring to only applies to pro se litigants (people who represent themselves in court).

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 t…

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)?