create_account | 12 years ago | on: Feds seized $2.9M from Mt. Gox, court docs show
Since when is Union Square been renamed "Satoshi Square"?
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create_account | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2013)
Stop spamming this thread with your recruiter garbage!
create_account | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2013)
This thread is not for recruiters.
Downvote.
create_account | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: I made an HN job board
It doesn't do geographic searches well.
"San Francisco" results in just 1 match, whereas there are 5 on the front page alone.
create_account | 13 years ago | on: Soylent Campaign
While their high level goals (eliminate hunger, reduce stress on agricultural and environmental resources) are laudable, this project suffers from the same arrogance of doctors in the 1960s who said mother's milk was primitive and could be replaced by artificial formula.
Now, in hindsight, we know what a mistake that was, as natural breast milk contained compounds which decreased various cancer and health risks.
I cannot help but think they are going down the same road.
create_account | 13 years ago | on: Thirty Women In Tech Below Thirty
Ha, Bashir got funding from Jack Dorsey because he's her boyfriend (or was, at one time, anyway).
create_account | 13 years ago | on: Learning Lisp The Bump Free Way
Dude... the small, light gray text... are you trying to ruin our eyesight?
create_account | 13 years ago | on: Person with a long rifle and body armor in the Main Group Building of MIT
"Scene is clear. Call unfounded. No threat to public safety in #CambMA #MIT"
https://twitter.com/CambridgePolice/status/30533598012521267...
create_account | 13 years ago | on: Pinterest Completes $200M Funding at $2.5B Valuation
That's only part of it.
It seems this "affinity data" model is the basis for the high hopes and high valuation: http://gigaom.com/2012/03/24/pinterest-weve-got-a-business-m...
create_account | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is the ER Accelerator (NYC based YC clone) worth applying to?
A small amount of money for a few months, followed by a demo day in the end, etc.
It's not as established, though, and I haven't read or heard much about the startups which come out of it, though, which I why I posted the question.
create_account | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is the ER Accelerator (NYC based YC clone) worth applying to?
Their site is: http://eranyc.com/
I'd love to hear from anyone with direct experience.
create_account | 13 years ago | on: Knight Capital Says Trading Glitch Cost It $440 Million
Why?
You might be far less likely to blow up the way Knight did, but you're hardly immune.
create_account | 13 years ago | on: Knight Capital Says Trading Glitch Cost It $440 Million
"there are no logically possible situations in the code that they haven't programmed a response for"
Until they blow up one day themselves...
Call me cynical, but no type system, no matter how sophisticated, nor team of programmers, no matter how talented & experienced, is immune to this type of thing.
create_account | 14 years ago | on: Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs
Can you imagine yourself paying someone to smear others on a forum?
I cannot, no.
But a large (and dare I say ruthless) organization interested in limiting the PR damage?
Sure.
create_account | 14 years ago | on: Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs
He's been on here for years, and so have I.
I have often wondered, though, about his alacrity to side with the establishment, in defense of investment bankers, against net neutrality, etc., and what his motivation is.
create_account | 14 years ago | on: Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs
Maybe, since he was willing to name his employers, who happen to be despised in liberal circles.
OTOH, there is a lot of PR spending on social media (e.g.: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/08/us/politics/obama-campaign...), so it wouldn't surprise me if Goldman has hired people to smear Smith on forums like this one.
create_account | 14 years ago | on: Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs
Some of those banks do very well, and it wouldn't be terrible for their PR to hire him.
Possible, but unlikely.
Smith must have known he'd be attacked personally (as in that ad hominem piece you posted), and it's unlikely another bank would want to touch him, regardless of their true feelings towards Goldman.
Do you know anyone who pays people for saying stuff like this on random message boards?
Sure: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/pku22/iama_former_koch...
I tend to say this kind of thing because I think it's true, and because I'm unimpressed with the quality of opposing arguments and would like someone to refute me.
I'll give you credit for the latter (if it's true), but not the former.
create_account | 14 years ago | on: Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs
He effectively blacklists himself from any future job in finance (and therefore ends his career) just because he doesn't like his bonus?
So no, it's not Occam's Razor: if he were merely unhappy with his bonus, he would call another i-bank and move on.
BTW, I notice you're always quick to defend the big money status quo around here (you were against net neutrality a while back, IIRC).
What's in it for you, as a mere SEO "consultant"?
Are you paid to post these talking points, or do you really believe what you say?
create_account | 14 years ago | on: Arrington, Race, and Silicon Valley
Hence my unusual spelling.
I'm not sure the white trash equivalency is really gaining momentum, though.
Whites never deeply disliked their poorer and less-educated brethren despite looking down on them, and there has been a spate of "white trash is cool" with the popularity of the Cable Guy and Redneck comedy tours.
create_account | 14 years ago | on: Arrington, Race, and Silicon Valley
there really is a sense of "those losers are embarrassing us."
Chris Rock has a famous rant about this: "There are black people and there are n!!!ers, and the n!!!ers have got to go"
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