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Honest or not, starting a startup for the sake of making money (whether that money will fund a more altruistic "end-goal" or not) is probably not the right reason to build a compan…

I'm trying to think of reasons why they would delete their tweets under the assumption that everything will be fine. Why would they do it, knowing that they'll eventually re-enable…

Step back and ask yourself: What are my assumptions? Why do I believe these assumptions to be true? What if they aren't true? You have at least 50 years ahead of you. That's a long…

The reason I submitted this is because it's an interesting phenomenon that fortunes can be lost or made so rapidly. (An MtGox bitcoin can currently be sold for 0.4 bitcoin, so this…

The developer is Gregory Maxwell, aka nullc. Here's a very interesting thread in which he proposes that the bitcoin community should demand that every bitcoin exchange (and every o…

Docker can be used as a screen replacement?

Agreed. How could Gox imploding result in a better bitcoin world? I'd lose a ton of money, so my little world would be directly worsened. The price of bitcoin is now about $500, bu…

http://www.amazon.com/Fire-Upon-Deep-Zones-Thought/dp/081251...

This is mincing words. It's an attack on bitcoin. Many major exchanges were shuttered while they dealt with it, for example. It's certainly not an attack on not-bitcoin, so therefo…

True, but we'll never know if they used unsalted SHA1 or scrypt. Is there no value in putting a technical note at the end of press releases like this?

Ah yes, here's another website that stores "encrypted passwords." What's an encrypted password, again? More seriously, why is the social convention to lie in these situations? Why …

More seriously, if the software was set up to retransmit bitcoin after a "failed" transfer, then that service could be exploited automatically. Mostly, this wasn't a social attack.…

The seriousness of this attack is that several major bitcoin services lost a lot of money because of it. It's an attack.

The plugin folder is writable by current logged in user so a trojan dropper can easily load a malicious plugin. Maybe I'm missing something, but if you allow for the fact that a vi…

http://paulgraham.com/trolls.html News.YC is, among other things, an experiment to see if this fate can be avoided. The sites's guidelines explicitly ask people not to say things t…

I suppose Gox could be buying up all the goxcoins less than $300. But then you'd see a decrease in future volume until the volume reaches zero. They wouldn't do that, because they'…

What you did was completely against the rules: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is an …

I apologize that my original comment was lightweight and lacking sources. If I make such a claim, I should back it up with sources. I'm about to fall asleep though, and I don't rem…

Warning: using a permissive license like BSD or MIT will make certain people hate you. I was a bit shocked to discover this.

There's a lot to learn from genetic diversity Good comment. Hopefully this leads to some thought-provoking material... rather than applying the racism badge to it every fucking tim…

It's almost impossible to imagine someone reading their comment and misunderstanding them, unless they were bad at reading English. The point you're trying to make is based on the …

Actually, you comprehended them just fine. This is why I'm saying people are prejudiced. A prejudice is when people aren't consciously aware of why they're mistaken.

Counterexample: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2483053 Replace Drew's intentional lack of capitalization with this "your/you're swap," and you've got the same situation. It s…