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aquateenon Why Web3?

The point is that YC's model contradicts what you said. It's relatively inexpensive to build an initial version of a product. Build something as quickly as possible, get user feedback, and keep iterating.

I can guarantee you won't find anything Paul Graham has written about doing a bunch of marketing analysis as a first step.

aquateenon Why Web3?

I've been on this website a long time and I suppose the userbase has grown quite a bit. I don't assume everyone has read all of Paul Graham's articles or even know who he is, but are you familiar with how YCombinator works?

Enough money to survive on ramen for a few months and build a demo. Get feedback from users and iterate over and over.

aquateenon Why Web3?

> generally people say one should market their product first then build it if there's enough demand

I don't agree this is the common wisdom, and it's kind of a surprising take to see on this website specifically.

aquateenon Positions chess engines don't understand

Kinda reminds me of this old folklore.org story: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Make_a_Mess,_Cle...

aquateenon A Beginner's Garden of Chess Openings (2002)

Blitz and even bullet are great for tactics and pattern recognition, especially for < 2000 rated players.

aquateenon Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering Role

I don't see how the sum would be unique to a particular combination of letters.

aquateenon What Developers Should Know About Job Searching and Negotiation

In all the interviews I've been a part of (1.5 years, maybe ~50 candidates), I've never seen a candidate decline because of salary requirements. We would decide if they were a good hire, and HR would make it happen.

aquateenon Who Y Combinator Companies Want

benihana made good points IMO. A couple PG-13 words doesn't warrant a ban.

aquateenon 100M games played

I don't play as much chess that much anymore, but ICC (chessclub.com) was the king (and I'd guess that it still is).

You don't play via the website though. Same for other chess servers (FICS, etc).

aquateenon Vanishing Point: How to disappear in America without a trace (2012)

http://laurencetennant.com/bonds/adhominem.html

aquateenon 8402: 2048 from the other side

I hate this game for some reason, whereas I really liked 2048. Not sure why.

aquateenon How Do Designers Choose Typefaces?

Interesting post, but please don't preface submission titles with "Show HN:", especially if it's not some personal project.

aquateenon Disney Accelerator

You mean the Los Angeles river?

aquateenon Hacking Airline Lounges for Free Meals

You could buy a first class ticket and hold on to it for a year, then use the lounges whenever you actually do travel.

It doesn't look like this is possible in the US though. I don't see an airline that offers their lounge just for having a first class ticket. Alaska even requires a ticket for the day you're there.

aquateenon 129 Cars

Possibly things have changed, but I remember PG posted his correspondence with a car salesman via email trying to buy a Jetta or something. Basically got stonewalled.

aquateenon Bitcoin drops 50% overnight as China’s Biggest BTC exchange stops Yuan deposits

There was some headline about a week ago that said roughly 1000 people own half of all bitcoins.

aquateenon Aaron Swartz commits suicide

How would prosecutors go about that? Going through all his blog posts to look for depression? And that would be standard procedure for everyone they prosecute?

aquateenon Stop telling people to vote

I happen to agree with JWZ, but drop the attitude internet tough guy.

aquateenon Stop telling people to vote

Politicians should represent the entire country...

Suppose I decide to vote instead of not voting at all. So now the winning candidate (who I may or may not have voted for) represents me, whereas he didn't if I hadn't voted?

...prisoners and convicted felons should also be given the right to a vote. If someone is going to pass laws that affect you, you should have a say in who that someone is.

Ok, what does that have to do with compulsory voting?

aquateenon A proposal for improving HN : it should cost a user Karma to post

Originally it was called "Startup News". PG announced he was making a new site not focused on startups, since that got kind of dull. Instead he changed the name of this site and nothing really changed. My memory is kind of vague, but I believe that is more or less accurate.

aquateenon Betaworks has acquired the core assets of Digg

I'd bet a majority of reddit users have never heard of digg.

aquateenon Roulette beater spills physics behind victory

Probably true. When I asked a blackjack dealer why they didn't have automatic shufflers, she mentioned the shufflers aren't purchased, they're leased.

aquateenon Rails isn't for beginners

Whenever I see "This", I picture a caveman pointing and barking.

aquateenon For the first time ever, the number of poor people is declining everywhere

No, he's not saying that at all. That's explicit if you just read his last sentence.

aquateenon For the first time ever, the number of poor people is declining everywhere

Calling The Economist "capitalist" isn't much of an aspersion, even if it was meant that way. And an aspersion isn't an ad hominem.

aquateenon For the first time ever, the number of poor people is declining everywhere

That was not an ad hominem. I really hate that phrase thrown about.

Seems full of questions rather than accusations, and I didn't see obscure mentioned anywhere.

aquateenon Newly Discovered Planet: Hot, Muggy And (May Be) Livable

Is it really that ambiguous given the submission title?

aquateenon Jeopardy Champion Ken Jennings Q&A about IBM Watson

I've never heard of Kasparov actually crying after losing to Deep Blue. Reference?

aquateenon How I Got Kicked Out of Y Combinator and Then Raised $1.5m for My Startup

It's not extremely common for people to list their location in their profile, but for some reason I was compelled to click on your username.

What a surprise I see "Los Angeles."

aquateenon Thank PG: For reclaiming the word 'hacker'

It used to be called Startup News, not much has changed w/ regard to submissions.