crocus | 17 years ago | on: Is the Singularity a Cult? A Nonviolent Debate
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crocus | 17 years ago | on: Technology is Heroin
Don't take it personally. Reddit has a culture of flaming. The same thing would have happened no matter who submitted it. They're just like that there.
crocus | 17 years ago | on: Gates predicts 10 years of woe
"2 years of woe" would be a more accurate headline for what he actually wrote.
crocus | 17 years ago | on: What happened to Zimbabwe
Anything?
crocus | 17 years ago | on: An Article About Startups That Wasn't Written By A Pretentious Asshole
This is much better than the original.
But if someone wrote it this way, without all the additional nastiness, would it have gotten so many votes? Which I suppose probably explains a lot of the nastiness. It's a way to get attention.
crocus | 17 years ago | on: 5 Things I learned from being rich and losing it all
In case you're wondering who you're upvoting, this guy is an "affiliate marketer." Here is one of his sites: http://www.gotrythis.com/
crocus | 17 years ago | on: Y Combinator To Offer Standardized Angel Funding Legal Docs
This is exactly what the startup community needs. I am surprised no one has done it before, actually.
I know several rich post-startup people who would probably be angel investors if the process were more standardized. I bet the number of potential angel investors is 10 times larger than the number who jump through all the hoops to actually do it. With that much more early stage investment to feed on, there could be 10 times as many startups.
crocus | 17 years ago | on: Have idea, need coder (comic)
He did have more than an idea, though. He had a huge audience. And that is why digg didn't follow the usual path of startups that begin as this cartoon.
crocus | 17 years ago | on: How black drug dealers are using white supremacist legal theories to confound the Feds.
Hackers are interested in more than just hacking. This is an interesting new phenomenon. The fact that the title has some words you'd see in a reddit title doesn't automatically make a story politicized flamebait.
If you think something is offtopic, flag it. It gets boring when people use the comment threads to complain about stuff they think is offtopic, just like it's boring when people complain about being downmodded.
crocus | 17 years ago | on: Ask YC: YC alternatives ?
crocus | 17 years ago | on: Meet the Rich
Really? Within the US, Silicon Valley has among the greatest disparities of wealth, and it is probably the richest and fastest growing region in the country.
Basically, it depends whether the disparities come from founding Google, or being the dictator's brother.
crocus | 17 years ago | on: Meet the Rich
They're correlated, but it's hard to say which is cause and which is effect.
crocus | 17 years ago | on: The Trolls Among Us
Well, one interesting thing about it is that it points out that such people have always been around, and in turn implies that we could learn how to deal with them online by using techniques we've developed for dealing with them offline.
crocus | 17 years ago | on: My startup made $300K in the first week.
Uh, oh. "Affiliate marketing." I think we have our answer.
crocus | 17 years ago | on: My startup made $300K in the first week.
I'm suspicious. The number seems off, as does the coy pitch. But I'd be curious to hear more.
crocus | 17 years ago | on: Steve Fossett may be alive, investigator claims
"Steve has not accessed any of his assets since his disappearance."
Interesting choice of words.
crocus | 17 years ago | on: A quiet investor becomes a media powerhouse everyone and nobody knows
Has anyone considered the possibility that he was funded by the Israeli government? This would be one of the smartest ways to influence the US media, to finance a genuinely charismatic investor in media companies.
crocus | 17 years ago | on: Online, Are You Really Reading?
Oh, they definitely know it. The deadpan diss is a Times specialty.
crocus | 17 years ago | on: Google: We knew the web was big...
Only if they take no energy to generate.
crocus | 17 years ago | on: Apple’s Culture of Secrecy
Though pancreatic cancer is usually rapidly fatal, he had an unusual form that's treatable.
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Talk about intellectually dishonest.