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Why do you think Hal would have been Satoshi but then also been the first developer using his real name?

Satoshi's email was hacked and that wasn't signed with PGP I think the consensus is that the statement wasn't real

If that's the case why has Craig continued to gain prominence and have more and more sway over BTC? Bitcion SV is worth $4B now. He's been able to monopolize the mindshare on Satos…

This is insane. Mess up with this and you could end up with a serious infection

Procedural generation for plants is actually pretty common already Most trees you see in video games are from middleware like Realtree

Even if Blender can't match any of these point solutions at their respective niches, I have to imagine there would be a ton of value in a team that all mostly works in a common too…

They offer a Crytek derived game engine called Lumberyard used for the long-running Star Citizen scam

Not a valid comparison since those are core products of both companies. Google hasn't and never will open source Search.

PUBG was itself a commercialized version of (arguably better) Arma 3 mods with a bunch of royalty free assets + microtransactions. It still was printing money and top of the Steam …

Alphabet has 120K employees right now. Ex-Google was a meaningful distinction 15 years ago. Today it does not remotely entitle you to being funded. Many VCs today recognize that Go…

The reality is that VCs are genuinely inclined to fund black founders since their funds are overwhelmingly old white men. This is an industry that cares a lot about not generating …

I'm in VC and there are many reasons why I and my peers are not interested in yet another software product selling to gyms. They are extremely fragmented, hard to access, low ACV c…

I was a customer at one of their gyms and the app was garbage. It frequently crashed and there were huge bugs with basic stuff like the dates I'd be billed for renewal being wrong.…

The thing that really allowed DoorDash (and UberEats) to pull ahead was investing in partnerships with chain restaurants vs focusing on independent restaurants. Which hasn't necess…

Meal delivery doesn't just exist because people are lazy. It has been around a long time via the much more inefficient process of calling a restaurant that you already knew about, …

For a period of time when Uber was in China, a huge amount of revenue was from fraudulent rides that weren't actually happening. There were smart investors who saw through the faca…

CloudKitchens is more the kitchen infrastructure for restaurants who only have a presence on delivery apps. They are trying to facilitate a restaurant model that is optimized for t…

DoorDash already serves as the back end for a number of other services. But being a courier company is not near as good of a business model. The aggregation element means that they…

I suppose you think Olga Tokarczuk or Svetlana Alexievich are more popular with millennials? David Foster Wallace and Harold Bloom both have called Delillo one of the greatest livi…

The fast inverse square root algorithm Carmack invented for Quake 3's lighting is the definition of elegant code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root

As I understand it typical occupancy rate is 95%. Looks like there are ~400K housing units in SF (not total bay area). That would imply there are 20K vacant units just for friction…

You're right, you aren't "forced" to pay, you're merely deprived of the right to participate in temple rituals that are central to the community and teachings if you don't. And als…

I've heard many times in the church that you're supposed to pay tithing even if you can't afford it and that "blessings" (often material) will make up the difference. It is patentl…

Add to this the fact that he had been reported as being optimistic about winning his case and had never exhibited suicidal behavior before, even when he was facing a serious senten…

The general prison suicide rate isn't comparable- Epstein was in jail rather than prison, previously already on suicide watch from a supposed attempt and was more importantly possi…