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How long till x buys Medium and/or it goes out of business and decides to shut everything down, like Posterous, et al?

> Since you can make new wallets at any time to spend from, the key is paying your btc into a wallet that others are paying into, and then extracting multiple different amounts to new, different wallets (and then using those for spending).

1mdc was a similar service to this that I used as did many others about 10 years ago for the purpose of obfuscating and anonymizing e-gold transactions between various accounts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1mdc

One interesting comment from the wiki page: "1mdc's e-gold was held in unallocated (pooled) storage (in several e-gold user accounts) which allowed for extra privacy from e-gold's administrators. However, this increased storage risk, as the client had no precedence on the e-gold they entrusted 1mdc to hold, and there was virtually no way for a user to ensure that 1mdc is maintaining full reserves of their e-gold."

1s should be long enough.

We think this is a great day for annotation. But we had a few questions. So we wrote an open letter to Marc Andreessen and Rap Genius.

https://blog.hypothes.is/a-letter-to-marc-andreessen-and-rap...

Quite possible he simply wasn't able to access the site like everyone else!

Check out this listing at 48th and Balboa-- pin out in the ocean. Really? So pitifully bad. Unfortunately, it's what we've come to expect from them.

And yes, as others have said-- this isn't anything close to the feature set we want, that has now been taken from us: the customer.

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/sub/3237512654.html

And why should that somehow exclude them from having to describe how and why it's secure? Pfft.

What kind of nonsense is this? As a pilot (of both land and air vehicles) your sentiments seem completely irrational. Define "flying car"! There are tons of entrants in this category, and many that are fully functional. I can't say that I find them practical, or myself a potential early customer-- but not because of some misplaced sense that we need computers to handle the piloting for us.

And what of Eric's quote? Sounds like someone who's busy building a self-driving car-- not someone who loves the beauty of being a pilot!

Are we to cede all functions that we used to master to computers? Really?

Give me a break.

Why yes, it is. Very much so.

Clearly we all are familiar with WH petitions that don't fare well. This one I think has the hallmarks of something different--and something the president could probably actively support. Regardless, the time required here is minimal. In fact, in the time it took you to write your pessimistic note, you could have voted to support the petition instead, and done one or two other things as well.

"I can almost guarantee that after a day you won't want to go back..."

Unfortunately I probably won't make it to a day or two. What you really strive for as a designer is more like "I can guarantee that after 30 seconds you won't be going back". I can tell you that I'm already uninstalling it. Don't change the styling-- or at least leave the information density that we've got w/ HN now.

Clippy! You're back! Where have you been all these years?!

Not like HN-- but one of the best alt news sites out there is cryptogon.com, hands down.

That's funny, because the way I read the analogy, Stratfor was the Crips, gathering information and using it for private gain, and Wikileaks was the LAPD, using it for public good. Now clearly the LAPD is probably nearly as corrupt as the Crips, just in different ways-- so I'm not sure far this analogy holds, for that reason and many others. Still very amusing.

One word... Kadmelia!

It's worth saying (and has been said elsewhere already) that fully distributed search has existed for years. Kadmelia is just one notable example in wide use. I do think it's great that it's coming to the torrent world though!

The characterization of it by many seems to suggest that this is novel and groundbreaking.

The statements made about how you'd have to shut down the internet to take it down are also a bit hyperbolic. After all, algorithms to sniff, detect and either block or throttle this kind of traffic are widely deployed. Of course it's an arms race and encryption and obfuscation are used to counter. I'm not sure what the current state of that battle is, but clearly the main tool in protecting these kinds of capabilities is our voices, not fundamental technical properties.

Way more immoral than auto-posting some annoying comments? Really?

Morality is a social construct, a contract that we all essentially buy into. Immorality is the violation of that.

If anything is immoral it's stealing 100s of 1000s of people's precious time (multiple times per day) with robotic systems--simply so you can make a few bucks, by providing no social value whatsoever. It undermine the fabric of what holds us together.

Personally, the response seems elegant and appropriate. A highly targeted activity that is likely to affect only the intended target. Maybe someone that lives in Latvia will go buy a cream pie and throw it in his face as he leaves his house!