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When I read this comment I thought, how does this guy not realize that crowdfunding whole companies from unsophisticated investors isn't new, it's very old.

And in fact, the regulation we have around it is because the problems didn't disappear after starting, they grew, as fraud in such a market is incredibly easy to commit, incredibly hard to improve, and extraordinarily lucrative.

Perhaps enough has changed with improved distribution of reputation to make it work this time, but... it's not new. It's old. It's widespread. And it's a common vehicle for fraud in every time and every place that it's existed.

Thus, I find myself thinking that yours is the kind of comment that people will link to in 2021 as a "can you believe this guy" comment, about how naive it was for you to believe that this time was different.
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> they choose to do like you do-- and attack me personally.

You are being a hypocrite. By saying "downvoters aren't critically thinking", you are attacking people who haven't even responded yet. You're setting up a pre-response trigger. It's an immature, adolescent way to debate. If you were a good at critical thinking as you say you are, you'd see that and understand why.

> you downvoted to try and silence my opinion

Are you psychic? HN doesn't provide a mechanism to see the modders, up or down, and I usually don't downmod and respond, myself. I do one or the other. So much for your 'slam dunk'.

> That you smugly said what you did

You really aren't above this 'personal attack' thing, you know. I actually attacked what you were saying, not you personally, pointing out your hedging. Even if you took it as 'personal attack', that you chide me for doing so, then do it yourself? Hypocrisy.

Your 'critical thinking' is rife with errors, so your pre-response strike against people who disagree with you is entirely unwarranted, and a very non-critical-thinking way to conduct your argument.
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Sounds like the old searching for your keys under the street-lamp because that's where the light is.
i wanted a terminal in emacs that was as standard as possible and created 'sane-term'. Just ansi-term with a couple useful features. Sorry for the plug
You're right. That makes a lot more sense, especially the $1.5M valuation. I missed the first line about Michael Siebel introducing them. Given his YC affiliation, it probably had a similar effect.
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That's some semantic gymnastics. So a "Public backdoor" is a "Frontdoor" when used by a law enforcement agency with a warrant. What about when the "neutral" third party uses the keys for some purpose without a warrant? What about when the third party is hacked? It seems confusing to refer to the same system as both a frontdoor and a backdoor.

The FBI would probably be happy with a front door. Unfortunately, a "frontdoor" means some "neutral" third party (or anyone who hacks it) then has the ability to decrypt all your communications. Furthermore, a "neutral" third party isn't necessarily that trustworthy. The saving grace of the CA system is that non-targeted attacks are likely to be detected, because the CAs don't have the certificates' private keys, and use of alternate keys is detectable, or even preventable (only in advance) with pinning.

Everyone would balk at a CA system where the CAs had all the servers' private keys. No matter how trustworthy the CA. It would be undetectable, and pinning wouldn't mitigate it. And that's exactly what the FBI wants for Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Whatsapp communication products.

If a neutral third party holds the keys, then you have the company (1) that makes the communications products having the keys, transferring them to the neutral third party (2) and deleting them ("we promise!"), so only the third party holds them for possible eventual use by the FBI (3). That's three entities that may potentially have access to key material in the future, not to mention anyone who hacks those three entities.
> very sophisticated armies showing an awful lot of
> self restraint.

Restraint how? Sure making the place an uninhabitable wasteland is within the realm of possibility with a sophisticated army but to what end?
All students get 2 points automatically, and the outcomes are +4, 0, and -2. That satisfies your demand for a negative outcome (and shows that your demand is unnecessary)
Our culture (at least in America) is poorly equipped to deal with the sexual freedoms that technology is increasingly granting. Porn is definitely a problem and a source of loneliness for many, but just like video games, its not the technology itself that is the problem.
Car built with car tyres.

Analogy wears thing because a tyre is a standard off the shelf thing. In software everything that is interesting (and requires employees) is custom to some degree. So it is like a tyre for a rover on the moon.

However no need to get that to also work for a scooter on pluto! Unless the sales guy has already promised it!
It seems really flawed - this page seems to have mixed content from different repositories: https://libraries.io/packagist/illuminate%2Ffoundation
These kinds of things are very easy to call out in hindsight, so, I do sympathize with the investors at least a bit.

Based on a collection of screenshots I put together of Airbnb's homepage over time (using content from the Internet Archive) I wouldn't have invested either in early versions of Airbnb:

http://www.startuptimelines.org/startup-timelines/airbnb/

Fred Wilson got his email from PG, I believe, in January 2009 and if you look at the Airbnb homepage then - the site is no where near as promising as it is now.
Thanks. I think what you say makes sense, as far as how my comment might be perceived.
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European mpg is not the same rating as the United States mpg mostly because a gallon is not the same size everywhere, as ridiculous as that fact is.

http://jalopnik.com/5981938/why-do-european-cars-get-better-...

Using your number of 78mpg imperial for the Lupo, this is only about 64mpg us.
I would say that compared to the Soviets the Mujahideen were only moderately armed. Even more so the Taliban vs the US in the border regions of Pakistan.
I wonder what's gonna happen, will they let his code behave like an embedded youtube player or will they backpressure on every other websites at the risk of annoying a big chunk of the web ?
7 is out of what? How many VCs gave them offers for money, and how many did they take?
whilst reading your above comment i wondered why you chose not to use environment variables instead. e.g.:

$ export cdc_stuff='/Users/me/src/project_stuff'
$ cd $cdc_stuff

however, now it's clear.

in the event you're looking for alternatives, perhaps porting your code to (e.g.) ruby could work.

just in case, here's the isbn number of a book called, 'Build Awesome Command-Line Applications in Ruby 2,' from the pragmatic bookshelf: 978-1-93778-575-8
I presume you don't intend to suggest that the freedom is the problem? I would propose we attempt to fix the stifling antisexuality of everyday social life, rather than the newfound capacity to meet bodily desires individually.
You got a point.
I actually tried with him, with Joe, and with the recruiter - multiple times. I didn't insist as much as you suggest, perhaps due to the fact that my Visa back then (L1) didn't allow me to work for them in the US, and my green card was still several months away.
The Lupo is not sold in the US, and this brings up something I've always wondered. Is 78 mpg calculated using imperial gallons? Because that would translate into a lower number in US gallons.
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Of active craft, yes. I had to double check; I became suspicious when I saw nothing Russian, but indeed there are no active Russian probes.
Have your heard of 'yodlee'? You can get the transaction feed from that and you don't even need a banking licence.
My language was admittedly a bit sloppy, but I was talking specifically about people who are turning to porn to fill the need/want in their sexual life for a partner.

If that's what someone genuinely wants, and it's what makes them happy [1], then good for them.

[1] As opposed simply to being a means of getting off while avoiding the risk and vulnerability that human intimacy tends to require.

Even then, if that's the choice they're making, it's their life, I guess. I've just known a few people who did make that choice, and invariably, they felt wretched about it.
Natural? It's certainly common. Kind of a red herring--I'm more thinking about the pattern I've seen nowadays (and this is certainly personal bias of one sort of another) where white-collar/tech workplaces are being elevated to some monastic asexual space (hah) where people have no concept of romantic interest (hah hah), and where outside of work the mere act of saying "Hey, you seem pretty cool, would you like to meet up for <insert culture-specific code phrase for precursor-context-for-eventual-offer-of-mutual-sexual-activity>?" results in frightened looks and scampering off to the warm and safe bosom of Facebook, Tinder, or online dating. Grumble. This doesn't excuse boorish behavior, mind you, but being sex-positive would be a nice norm.

Illegal sexual imagery in VR is a thing. So long as it is digitally created, I have no reason to think that it carries with it the intrinsic moral wrongness of whatever the equivalent analog act would have. That said, there's a clear counter argument that providing that sort of material normalizes the behavior.

What I think will be more interesting is looking at the IP claims to come out of VR and teledildonics...being sued by a former lover for, say, continuing to hold onto and operate recordings of their performance.

It's all rather entertaining.
Exactly. There's nothing especially novel about the concept of raising funds as widely as possible, and the reason that regulators have historically made it as difficult as possible to solicit funding for immature ventures through slick [recorded] pitches to as many retail investors as possible has nothing to do with the absence of the internet as a delivery mechanism until recently, and everything to do with people losing their shirts.

A few ideas that seem bad turn out to be good. Most turn out to be terrible, especially when the paradigm they're breaking was established precisely because most of the aspects of the idea have been tried, tested, and proven to be terrible.
> That is not neutrality. You're simply redefining the word.

The first definition of neutrality found on the internet is

Not aligned with, supporting, or favoring either side in a war, dispute, or contest.

I'm using that definition. By claiming that this is none of your business and you have limited scope of responsibility, you are very clearly favouring one side.

You do have responsibility for who you choose to hire.
You're looking for one of the X3 games (Terran Conflict or Albion Prelude), I think. With a bunch of community mods, it's exactly as you've described.

It's hard to say anything for sure given how little actual gameplay info they've provided so far, but it doesn't look like No Man's Sky's going to be that kind of simulation. It's very much a wanderer's game.
Case in point: Express is now owned by strongloop and is still (no pun intended) going strong.
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Surely anyone who is wasting time on porn and/or Playstation is capable of smoking pot at the same time. I'm not sure why you think this would require some sort of tie-in at the production end.
> politics, existed just as much in 1988 as in 1998

The nature of politics is to change over time. This is like saying politics existed just as much in 1999 as 2009, so the Tea Party must have existed back then. Politics has it's fashionable fads.

Hell, in 1988, MAD was a primary national policy for the US. In 1998, "what's MAD?" seemed to be more the norm.
> That's an assumption. Based on no data.

Yes it is, in fact it is more than just an assumption, it is my thesis.

Also you seem to be using "no data" as a pejorative, but I challenge you to produce any data on this topic period. Some things are intractable or at the very least incredibly expensive to conduct good science around, and if you refuse to consider a topic without data you will be paralyzed.

Like the OA I have been participating in online communities for a very long time (ran my first BBS starting in 1988), so I have a pretty strong sense of how they live and die. One of the things I've learned is that what people say they will do in the face of some future changes correlates terribly with what they actually end up doing when said change is put into effect. Therefore, the last thing I would do is throw a grenade into my community in the hopes of attracting you and your friends who are put off by the current state of affairs.
I really like this comment. There is no "right" answer, and there is no "fair", negotiate to terms you can live with.
I'm a little perturbed by the length of this article. Those who are aware of issues in crypto already know a lot of the background here. The challenge is to engage the public on the issue and break it down in a sensible way.

With the response to Paul Ford's "What Is Code?" article in Bloomberg, longer thought pieces on technology are now in vogue but the author could have made their argument in a more concise way.

I try to comment on substance generally and not appeal to complaints like mine but I only bring it up because this new fight around crypto is an issue with as much public bearing as the net neutrality debate but with infinitely more complexities (which makes it more challenging to engage regular people on)
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Python is my first programming language. By writing shell scripts and solving problems (e.g. FizzBuzz) I have learnt the basics of Python but have run into a wall, I can solve almost any problem I run into as long as all it requires is input and output in a command line but it is very rare for users to be presented with a command line nowadays.

Where do I go from here - How can I expand my knowledge of Python?
I believe that generous (in terms of giving their time) IT guys would be found, but I can't imagine how crowdsourced IT resources could possibly help Greek government?
I wonder how it will handle a crash test, for some reason I think it will be as unsafe as regular motorcycle.

So you basically getting all the downsides of a motorcycle: safety, limited space, no passengers ,wearing a helmet (some states), without getting any upsides: beating traffic by skipping between lines (I know its illegal but most of the motorcycles do this), finding a parking easier, looking cool...The only thing it shares with a car is having a roof and easier driving.

Imho it's better to get a $3K cheaper honda bike: http://powersports.honda.com/2015/rebel.aspx
Right, they just look ridiculous. Worse than the Smart car, and I didn't think that was possible outside of a circus.
>> Education, information, critical thinking and a sharp change of culture into acceptance is what I think we need,

Just out of curiosity , would you apply similar rules to hard drugs ? Are the any limits to your approach , places where a slower process that tries to minimize risks, should be applied ?
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I think it's a self correcting problem. The people that enjoy the VR to exclusion of regular human contact, will remove those people from the gene pool.

Sure, you might end with a different next generation that has the fear of VR built into them, or the entire human race will die, out, but its nothing to concern yourself with.
> you have to have an extra parameter to EVERY function or method

Dependency injection provides a pretty good solution to this, potentially even for the logging use case. Classes (or code modules or whatever) only need to think about their direct dependencies, and indirect dependencies are handled naturally by the wiring code. In a well-written codebase using DI, you basically never need to write code that accepts an argument just so that it can pass that argument down to other code.

For example, if a class Foo deep in your program wants to use an interface called Logger for the first time, you just add a Logger as a field and pass the Logger into the Foo constructor in your wiring code. It's a little more ceremony than an import statement, but not by much, especially if you use a DI framework to do the wiring for you. Importantly, you don't need to make any changes to code that uses Foo.

An advantage to this approach is that it makes it easier to test usage of Logger (e.g. asserting that Foo logs an error in a particular situation). It also makes it easier to extend the Logger, like using a Logger wrapper that collects statistics on what was logged, without needing a special extensibility point in the Logger implementation.

That's not to say globals/singletons are always a bad idea. They tend to result in shorter code and they're easier to understand, and you can still test against them if you're willing to use mutable singletons (e.g. monkey patching in Python) or custom extensibility points. My main point is that, if you have a class that's useful in a wide variety of situations, there are other solutions than just "use a global" and "explicitly pass it around everywhere", and IMO dependency injection is one of the best options if you're writing serious code.
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"Facebook with its "real name" policy makes itself the arbiter of other people's selves.

Under pressure from cross-dressers, Facebook said it would relax the "real name" policy and allow people to use aliases, but only if they are generally known by those aliases.

However, reportedly Facebook has not really changed the policy.

Even if Facebook makes this change, it will be unacceptable because companies and the state will be able to connect the account with your real identity. In order for the site not to mistreat people, it must let you have one account to show your boss and your parents, another for your friends, and others for various kinds of political activism"

https://stallman.org/facebook.html#realname

Also, real names allows US gov and other non-democratic regimes to identify people and their personal networks and go after them.
You will do MUCH better spending the $6,800 on a well-maintained secondhand real car.
> So you basically getting all the downsides of a motorcycle

Assuming your guess is correct, you capture the safety downside. But that is only a guess on your part. To me, it seems like a silly guess -- I'd expect that this will be less safe than a subcompact, but still a good deal safer than a motorcycle.

There are still a few downsides you don't get. You get AC in this vehicle. You don't have to wear leathers because you can't fall. You have a sealed cabin, so road noise, while likely worse than a normal car, will be much better than a motorcycle. A trike is a lot more stable than a bike.

> without getting any upsides

Price? Fuel efficiency? Parking in such a small vehicle will be much easier than the smallest car, even if it's not quite as easy as a bike.
If we are talking about current events or politics, that is a problem.

But I use reddit mostly to follow news about my favorite sports teams and a few of my hobbies. For that, I don't care what the rest of reddit is saying.
Given Greece probably has an army of unemployed IT professionals who would work for spare change this seems shortsighted to say the least.
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>“IP networks are different from packet-switched networks.”

Minor gaffe, probably meant to say circuit-switched
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It's mainly an easy/polite way of saying no. If they knew it was going to be huge, all would have invested.
As you said, you can do slow data transfer extremely easily and stealthily with this method. Bulk data transfer, not so much.
> Price? Fuel efficiency?

Have you even read my comment? Motorcycles cost less than this thing by almost 3K, and have a better fuel efficiency - the motorcycle I linked above has an 84 MPG.

> suffer the lack of AC or the fully exposed noise of the road

That's what I said above, next time please read a comment before replying...
Well!

> For most people (the asexual population and the abstaining Japanese youth notwithstanding), sex with another person, especially in the context of meaningful intimacy, is a source of joy.

> Watching porn by yourself all the time, although physically stimulating, is spiritually the opposite of this.

Participating in autosexual intercourse can absolutely be both meaningful and a powerful source of joy. It consists in the appreciation of one's own body, mind, and spirit as a full and complete flowering of the universe. Consensual sensory experiences allow that being to approach its own devotion fully.

On a less metaphysical note, this is really a marvelous denouement to the sexual brinksmanship that's infested society over the past few millenia.

From an individual perspective, I love having sex with myself. When partners I find attractive want to share, so much the better. It's not as much fun trying to convince them to, though, that part pretty much sucks, and this provides the best BATNA ever in that negotiation.
I'm more used to three previous definition. I would say those companies have tried to bootstrap, but bit successfully achieved it. Of you are a successfully bootstrapped business, you achieved goals without taking outside investment money.
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Wouldn't we be undercutting the Greek IT workers? Basically making their skilled labor worth less? It's a common problem when we send food aid, and price local farmers out of the market.
We won't empty the earth of fossil fuels, but when fields reaches negative ROI/EROEI they are no longer worked. It is likely in the not to distant future that oil prices will rise or production fall. (Added: This is why the tarsands are worked now; they weren't economical in the $10/barrel era).

To put things in perspective. This vessel is planned to extract 110,000 barrels per day. The world currently consumes 85-90 million barrels per day. In other words, this vessel will supply 0.1% of the current demand for oil.