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Actually it's very similar to StrikeDisplay (posted a while back, but I don't think anyone saw it): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1816482 http://strikedisplay.blogspot.com SD…

Or...why are you censoring my comments? I thought you guys were anti-censorship.

In spite of the gospel around here that everyone needs co-founders, if you look at the monumentally successful people in this business, they were all doing both the business and th…

More so: http://strikedisplay.blogspot.com/

Yeah, but what they don't mention on Ycomb. is that this is all, 100% hype, and none of these ideas has a profit model. The rent around here is paid out by trust funds and the last…

Zoiks.

Reminds me of one of my favorite paintings...the first one on this page... http://chrisroth.net/paintings/paintings2.html

New site for this at http://strikedisplay.blogspot.com

Very nicely done. Surprisingly fast. I think this has a lot of potential.

"There is no such thing as luck, serendipity or synchronicity. Those are illusions. Luck is the outcome of good planning; the other two exist only in your brain and only affect how…

I'm not saying the guy isn't smart. Just throwing out a little "outliers" to grease the wheel for the rest of us donkeys. Sometimes reasons to hope are not best expressed by those …

Yeah, I know. Meanwhile, there's now an industry built on telling children their dreams really can come true if they accrue enough ycombinator karma. Way to harness that aptitude, …

Right. Which has a tendency to reduce all discussion to the lowest common denominator.

I actually had this idea when I had dropped out of web design and became a taxi driver for a few years in 2001. It's a natural. However: "Taxi dispatchers make money on tips..." is…

Meh. Lucky people always love to talk about how easy it is if you just do what they did - though they usually have a hard time explaining exactly what it was that they did. How doe…

Okay, but networking a thousand jihadists makes a stronger jihad, while doing nothing to make them better or less violent people. Networking a million cancer survivors makes people…

I don't know. Facebook users didn't even have the power to roll back the outrageous TOS changes, they all know exactly how many of themselves there are. You're telling me they have…

Been doing the same thing - Argentina, then later Thailand and Vietnam - while working on my startup and turning flash projects to pay the bills. Telecommuting from the third world…

How can targeted advertising be a service? It would only be a service if you wanted to buy something but you didn't know what until you saw an ad for it. I think it's bizarre that …

I know that's the positive view of the situation... but if it makes governments less relevant and makes Facebook more relevant, all it's doing is shifting the power locus somewhere…

The decentralized, anonymized web definitely helped get those videos out...but I don't know whether the social networks really had much effect. Even if they had, you're assuming th…

You can make distractions for the masses or you can consume them; ya can't do both. If you have a thousand telephones that won't ring, then social networks are a great way to get s…