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I was under the impression that a judge could only pierce the corporate veil if I violate some sort of rule with regards to the LLC; i.e. withdraw / deposit company funds in my name or something like that.

Yeah, but Bitcoin's price is not based purely on logic. It is also based on emotion.

Wait, really? I was under the impression that a college degree for programmers is less important nowadays.

It is impossible to definitively give a reason as to why something as uncontrollable as Bitcoin changes in price.

But yeah, probably.

I grew up in Sunnyvale.

A lot of my friends from high school have part-time jobs / intern over the summer at the startups/companies from where around I used to live...

But I don't live there anymore. And I'm kind of hesitant to move back to Sunnyvale (It is the most boring, soul-sucking place on earth) so I guess that doesn't really count for anything.

Meh.

As a 19 year old programmer who just dropped out, this eases my anxiety. A lot.

Have you checked to see if they're on http://what.cd already? It's the de-facto bittorrent tracker for music. It is possible that many of those clips you have are already on there.

And if not, you could seed them yourself :D

Please, someone, get this trash off of the front page. Not only is this entire article completely content-less, but the number of fallacies in it is palpable.

I wasn't going to waste my time on this, but after skimming for 20 seconds I came to this:

> In many ways, Litecoin is looking like a better investment. For Litecoin it is still early days because the infrastructure is not quite there. However, it looks to be a more promising currency from the technical standpoint, e.g., allowing faster transactions and a longer time until the end of the mining cycle.

Faster confirmations DON'T MEAN SHIT. Just because it takes 2.5 minutes for a Litecoin confirmation doesn't mean it is any better. Yeah, a Litecoin confirmation is 4x faster than a Bitcoin confirmation, but all that means is that a Litecoin confirmation is 1/4 as secure as a Bitcoin confirmation. Which is actually worse, when you think about it because the blockchain is more bloated.

>Its current market capitalization is $215 million, giving a factor of 45 potential growth to simply catch up with Bitcoin.

Are you fucking serious?

Anyone have a mirror for the video?

Wow, that's kind of funny, because I didn't even notice that was gone until you mentioned it. I guess I was so used to it that I tuned it out.

Living in the Silicon Valley after reading this article might sound awesome; but it's far from the truth.

I grew up there. I feel like I was deprived of a childhood. I moved away a couple of years ago and am never going back. You have nothing but sprawled out office parks, rich internet tycoons, a police force with nothing to do, helicopter parents, and soccer moms. The thing that topped it all off was the super competitive vibe amongst the peers and parents. I would not recommend living there under any circumstances.

But you're winocm. You're famous, dude. Just show a link to your github page / contributions to the iOS jailbreak community and I'm sure you'd get a fat scholarship.

But then again, how can I say something like that when I dropped out of school myself? :P

I'm starting to get sick of these Bitcoin posts.

I used it to donate to What.CD and buy a Namecheap domain.

Since you said <100 BTC and not <10 BTC I'm gonna assume you have at least 10.

Which is a lot.

Hey, didn't you post in the Hackers@Berkeley Facebook group earlier today,

Fine, you are correct. I didn't think you were nitpicking my choice of words.

They should be worthless.

People only pay for them because they don't have any other choice. If it was legal to sponsor an Android fork that had a pirate version of the Play Store, I'm sure all of the hardware manufacturers would be shipping it with their phones.

Blame the piracy laws. These games are, of course, inherently worthless but the current policies are propping them up when innovation should be in other places.

It's so sad and inspiring to see him in such a state and still have the willpower to do the WWDC like that.

Talk about bad journalism. That is not true. Google's All Access music streaming has _never_ been blocked by flash DRM restrictions. The raw MP3 streams have been available ever since its inception, as it has been included in Simon Weber's python google music API implementation [1] for about 5 months (which is a few weeks after All Access was announced). From that API it has been implemented in those 3rd-party apps like GMusic and Cloud Play.

So, the only "bad guy" here is Google for not making an iOS app sooner.

[1] https://github.com/simon-weber/Unofficial-Google-Music-API

For the record, the delay has absolutely nothing to do with Apple withholding the Google Music iOS app. Google didn't decide to start developing it until early October [1].

[1] http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/03/google-music-ios-app-laun...

Agreed. Ever since they added the feature to send a snapchat to multiple people, it turned into a narcissistic cesspool. After a while I couldn't even tell if the snapchats I was getting were even for me or for everyone on that person's list. The new "Snapchat Stories" was the nail in the coffin that made me uninstall it.

That's mostly a problem with the current laws in place, which encourage the creation of these frivolous services.

For example, let's say piracy was legal, who would need to get a new job?

Software developers, filmmakers and musicians, mostly.

If you think about it, the only reason why musicians/software developers make any money at all is because threat that we will be thrown in jail if we pirate the product (and the culture that "piracy is bad"). Given, there are trivial ways of getting around this barrier, but the fact of the matter is that nobody can officially sponsor a centralized service that you pay for that pirates content and make it extremely convenient.

If piracy was legal, the free software movement would have the most ground, because most people wouldn't be making any money off of the software anyway. Microsoft would go bankrupt. Apple probably would suffer a huge hit, but they would probably survive due to the fact that they manufacture their own hardware. So both would likely release the source code to the public if they want to hold any market share at all.

People would be able to legally sell jailbroken iPhones and Android phones with cyanogenmod installed by default for a fraction of the cost. And provide support.

Nobody would be making these shitty iPhone game apps like Candy Crush because there would be no money in it. Instead they would be making software for individual companies that are solving actual problems, like those self-checkout machines at the grocery stores for example. Most software development would instead be a hobby instead of being completely overvalued the way it currently is.

I did not get any new information out of this article. Not only does the title basically tell you everything that the article is going to talk about, but the statement is obvious. Of course an autonomous driver is safer than a human.

This has been available in the form of Talkatone (on the App Store) for at least 3 years. This is nothing new.

I think it really would have taken off if the MMS deals went through with the big carriers. But, alas, that never happened. :/

That won't work, it could be prevented by a man-in-the-middle attack on the victim's own computer. Just spoof the blockchain signatures required as if the payment was sent on an ad-hoc network and the program would unlock itself.

Not really. My story is kind of unrelated to that little anecdote.

I started coding at like, 12. It was mostly fun little "side" projects like game addons and personal websites. I was praised amongst my friends as the "programmer genius" and I built a reputation online.

Eventually I ended up landing myself a web programming job when I turned 16, ended up hating it. Got another internship offer at 17 at a legit web search company. I hated that too.

I eventually decided I hated programming and stopped going to the search company (eventually got laid off for truancy). I spent my senior year of HS and freshman year of college partying a lot getting bad grades with no real direction.

Then I discovered C.