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hotcoolon Mozilla founder unveils Bitcoin-based micropayments system for users, publishers

No account at Coinbase or any other online exchange is required to own bitcoin. In fact, to have someone else hold your money is against the spirit of Bitcoin.

Everyone is their own bank. All you need is a Bitcoin wallet and I recommend exactly that app, Bitcoin Wallet: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.schildbach....

There are many others as well. BitPay has a user-friendly one called Copay: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bitpay.cop...

hotcoolon How DuckDuckGo is trying to help programmers

I like their branding. Really like it. More personal, less of a corporate feel. I hope they don't change a thing.

hotcoolon Use Esperanto instead of English

And Esperanto can act as linguistic neutral grounds for people of all languages.

hotcoolon For anyone who has been turned down by 38 companies

Comments are shadowbanned too. Just log off on your account and then check your comments and submissions. Are they still all there?

hotcoolon For anyone who has been turned down by 38 companies

My comments on HN get shadowbanned for no discernable reason. Does that count?

hotcoolon For anyone who has been turned down by 38 companies

There is a game for rejection that's definitely worth checking out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1754790

hotcoolon Asana

I tried it. It didn't do anything for me, but to each his own.

hotcoolon Asana

I tried to like Asana. I gave it several tries over the years, but the UI is so uninspired it seemed to drain my creativity. It looks polished though.

hotcoolon The Loophole in the Hedonic Treadmill

My friend had several organs replaced, including his kidneys and pancreas (elective surgery). In each case, the organ donor was a recently deceased motorcyclist.

hotcoolon Ralph Nader: Why Bernie Sanders Was Right to Run as a Democrat

That myth was debunked long ago.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/6/1260721/-The-Nader-M...

http://www.cagreens.org/alameda/city/0803myth/myth.html

http://disinfo.com/2010/11/debunked-the-myth-that-ralph-nade...

hotcoolon Sanitation and Health Rights in India (YC W16 Nonprofit)

I'll reword my comment since you seemed to miss the point: Civic duty goes hand-in-hand with sanitation and health rights. Otherwise, it is unsustainable, even counter-productive to provide toilets for an Indian population that will not use them or maintain them.

hotcoolon Sanitation and Health Rights in India (YC W16 Nonprofit)

I love your optimism and motivation to make life better for others. You are a true leader and an inspiration!

hotcoolon Sanitation and Health Rights in India (YC W16 Nonprofit)

This is a wonderful idea, but sanitation and health rights goes hand-in-hand with civic duty to where one lives and works. It's not just the responsibility of governments to keep an environment safe and clean. Citizens must do their part, such as minimize their ecological footprint, pick up litter in their communities, be a good neighbour and so on.

A sense of civic duty seems to be amiss nowadays. Just look at the streets strewn with litter, or the runaway urban sprawl by rich land developers who have no regard for natural habitats.

We can't just throw money at the problem. That's not sustainable. People need to be educated to take responsibility for their surroundings.

We all have an impact on the environment. We all have a say. It is our world.

hotcoolon Smell.dating

Love the idea, but can't this be gamed by using synthetic pheromones? Pheromone colognes for the purpose of attracting women have been available for awhile now.

hotcoolon In foam-arrow patent fracas, Newegg swoops in to aid LARPer defendant

I'll second that. I keep getting redirected to the Canadian site.

hotcoolon Ask HN: Paid email hosting, with custom domains

I'm seriously questioning their technical competence not just from support but also from development.

Have to agree with you there. I tried their online office apps a few times over the years (also recently) and was surprised how limited and kind of janky the software is. They don't seem to be improving.

hotcoolon Why Tesla Motors Finally Acquired Tesla.com

Patrick Swayze said it best in Dirty Dancing: “Nobody puts Baby in the corner.” Well, the wrong domain can put you in a corner. The right domain can open the world.

I had no idea Patrick Swayze was such an authority on domain names and branding. Golden line though.

hotcoolon Show HN: BookmarkOS – an online desktop for keeping your bookmarks organized

Or you could support an independent developer for what looks like a superior solution.

hotcoolon Show HN: BookmarkOS – an online desktop for keeping your bookmarks organized

Take these "I'd buy if..." comments with a grain of salt. Some people are simply not interested yet will grasp at any excuse not to buy.

Congratulations on making this fantastic app!

hotcoolon Ask HN: Delicious is falling apart – alternatives?

Been using Dragdis lately: http://dragdis.com

hotcoolon Penguin swims 5,000 miles every year to see man who saved his life

Animal intelligence. Non-human persons with the capacity to love. I think these are hugely important issues.

hotcoolon Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL

Working on the Wheatbin project management software and book: http://www.wheatbin.com

Early access to the software is available through my "Rule of Nine" deal (and helps me keep the lights on while I finish this): https://gumroad.com/l/ruleofnine/ruleofnine

hotcoolon Digit: Save money without thinking about it

Now I think of saving purely as a way to put money out of my immediate reach.

That's how I save. I call my hack the "No Budget Budget" and wrote an ebook about it to explain my method: https://leanpub.com/nobudgetbudget

hotcoolon The New Mind Control – The internet has spawned subtle forms of influence

I designed supraliminal posters[1] to counter the covert forms of persuasion like Low Attention Processing marketing[2]. I definitely find them helpful, especially for meditation.

[1] http://zenpusher.com

[2] http://www.neurosciencemarketing.com/blog/articles/low-atten...

hotcoolon Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?

Solo Entrepreneur and Conceptual Designer.

Working on the Wheatbin project management software and book: http://www.wheatbin.com

Early access to the software is available through my "Rule of Nine" deal (and helps me keep the lights on while I finish this): https://gumroad.com/l/ruleofnine

hotcoolon Ask HN: Raising money for the first time, any tips?

The salary for a marketing person is on the low side IMO. With rent prices being some of the highest in the world, can you even live in Vancouver for $35,000 CAD?

hotcoolon Ask HN: Why don't you blog?

ROI (lack of) or the losing end of opportunity cost (there is something better I could be doing).

hotcoolon “I've been working at Mozilla for many years, from peak to decline”

After uninstalling Firefox I did look at Vivaldi, but went with Maxthon: http://maxthon.com. It's available for Linux and all major platforms. Fast too.

hotcoolon [dead]

I did something similar. It has the domain and a description of the business idea I had: http://startjumper.com

BTW: Ignore the prices. If you see something you like, contact me and we'll work something out.

hotcoolon Mozilla's Connected Devices Innovation Process: Four Projects Move Forward

I recently uninstalled Firefox browser on Windows because it loads at least 10x slower than Chrome, even with no plugins. Mozilla should fix that first. It'd give users (like me) more confidence in other projects they do, like connected devices.