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We made https://mailprincess.com a while back too. and http://maleprincess.com too

It lets you send letters, postcards, checks and faxes

Wound up having a decent number of users at some point, but then people started abusing the check sending features. We took it down and built some anti-fraud stuff, but never did anything to acquire users again. It does continue to work perfectly well though.

It's interesting that so many products like these exist in spaces that will probably never be huge and so there's no major VC funded player that may kill them all.

Used to use https://www.bitwage.com/ but fees were too high so switched to https://husky.io/

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I think the Google Plus redesign was the beginning of the end. Changing Google Talk into Google Hangouts and trying to be more like Facebook began the process of killing what used to be a great platform.

Good piece on that here: https://www.tnhh.net/posts/google-talk.html

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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky - introduced me to the rationalist movement

The First Immortal by James Halperin - introduced me as a sixth grader to things like cryonics, nanotech, etc. Got me thinking about a realistic ambitious nearer term future for humanity, rather than a more fantasy-like one in the other sci-fi I'd read at that point, like Asimov and Heinlein

As a Man Thinketh by James Allen - gave me much greater agency in life. Made me realize “You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.”

Soldiers use stimulants too -

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/opinion/sunday/why-are-we...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_and_culture_of_substit...

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Here's another perspective I thought pretty interesting from Charlie Lee, creator of Litecoin:

https://twitter.com/SatoshiLite/status/958427996209074176

Seems like the original post might just be fud: http://m.ytn.co.kr/news_view.php?s_mcd=0101&key=201801111615...

Using Google Translate: "Cheong Wa Dae said the Justice Minister Park Sang-ki's remarks that the virtual currency exchange will be closed is not coordinated by the government.

A Cheong Wa Dae official said in a telephone conversation with YTN that Park's remarks are the position of the Ministry of Justice and that other ministries have various positions.

In addition, the Ministry of Justice approached from the dimension of elimination of speculation, but the Financial Services Commission explained that the Ministry of Science, Technology and MIC is interested in nurturing core technologies of virtual money to prevent similar reception.

He added that virtual currency-related policies will determine the best time for policies to be effective while looking at market conditions. "

and edit: this post isn't a month old

Most interesting thing I learned from this article:

Brian Armstrong, Coinbase CEO, "said he now holds more of his wealth in a Bitcoin competitor, Ether"

http://mailprincess.com/ and its companion piece http://maleprincess.com/

8 years ago on a felucca in the middle of the Nile in Luxor I saw a dead horse float by

I get this error when trying to buy stuff from the main OB store (just tried with a t shirt)

It won't let me buy anything from any of the vendors I've tried

It says: "The vendor's server has rejected the purchase request. This may be due to a connection issue. Check your purchase data, such as quantity and Bitcoin refund address, to make sure it is valid. If it is valid, try again in a few seconds. Reason: vendor rejected contract". I've also gotten " Reason: unable to reach vendor"

Has anyone successfully bought anything recently?

Mailprincess for iPhone and Android ( https://mailprincess.com )

Lets people send checks in the mail from their bank account. Also lets you send photos you take as documents in the mail or via fax.

Mostly it was built for fun, to play around with Ionic, and to occupy spare cycles in between client projects. But hoped it would make some money.

So far, just has a few random users.

The main problem is that it's a pain in the ass to get bank accounts verified. You have to wait to confirm test deposits into your bank account, and, by that point, most people churn. Considered adding Plaid to get around that and do instant bank verifications, but it was too expensive to make it worth it from a user perspective.

Recently started thinking it might be fun to make a web version that lets users pay with cryptocurrency.

Interesting that this doesn't tell you how to connect the newest iPhone to the newest Macbook Pro

What do you think of this? - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3386875/Could...

workflowy.com is pretty good

Context: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByIUBSmy5stAc2t5dGZCWDFDNTA...

Founding a religion to guide mankind and AI through the post-human future

If you're new to HPMOR, don't read this. Instead, go to http://hpmor.com/chapter/1 and scroll down to "Every inch of wall space is covered by a bookcase."

It seems like http://www.buzzfeed.com/ideas does a pretty good job of it too (I'm new to the site but was inspired by the "easy tip" above to search out some good content)

I had the same problem, and Soylent told me this:

I think you might be having a reaction to the high soluble fiber content of Soylent. The best thing you can do is restrict yourself to 12 oz (which you drink slowly, sipping every few minutes) of Soylent for a meal, and intermingle with other foods throughout the day (use Soylent for no more than 1-2 meals per day).

If that helps, you can probably ease into more after your digestion is stable for a couple of weeks.

We're working on our next formulation of Soylent which will hopefully address people like yourself that are experiencing more severe effects, at least in part, so I hope that you'll stay tuned. I can't guarantee that the product will be 100% gluten-free at that time (we won't know until it passes certification), though that is something we are aiming for.

Sure. And that person would benefit from working at the top tier startup before starting his own.

I think it has something to do with the idea that 3% of YC applicants have a 100% chance of getting an interview.

If you follow PG's ethos perfectly maybe you choose to work at a great startup that is going to succeed and then you start your own. Work at Justin.tv, and then start Twitch/ZeroCater

Good problem to have.

"In 1894, the Times of London estimated that by 1950 every street in the city would be buried nine feet deep in horse manure. One New York prognosticator of the 1890s concluded that by 1930 the horse droppings would rise to Manhattan’s third-story windows." -Superfreakonomics

Alcor is a non-profit, and they're not implying anything other than the truth, which is that you're unlikely to get unfrozen, but it'd be cool if somehow you could be and maybe one day someone will figure it out.

And this is exactly why more research should be done to figure it out. Human creativity when provided the right incentives and not over-regulated is a pretty powerful thing.

Future generations may look back on us as unbelievably primitive and may have trouble believing that we suffered physical death and thought it an inescapable and acceptable part of life.

Not sure what you mean. It's not pseudoscience or shady. Still, that's the problem! It's probably physically possible, but we're not making much scientific progress towards making it happen.

When I mention cryonics people tend to respond very negatively without engaging rationally. More so than with most anything else. It's sad that it's something you can't say even here on hn. http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html