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As a CEO of a startup (10 employees, bootstraped) this post was very inspiring. I am spending my time improving my machine and growing it. But I spend no time at all building the blueprint from which the machine could build itself.

Sometime words, or expressions in this case (« the machine that builds the machine ») can reveal or even create a new reality. That’s what I feel right now.

Each time the JFK assassination comes up, reading the comments gives me the feeling that HN is pro lone gunman theory.

That strikes me as odd given the amount of circumstancial evidences pointing in the conspiracy direction.

Also the lone gunman who kills single handily the president of the most powerful nation in the world:

- would not admit it (why not if he is a crazy guy killing for political reasons?) - and is killed right after by a mafia linked guy

This guy is executed right after being questioned by the police and denying any role in the assassination and pretending he’s a patsy. And it’s not a conspiracy?

I have been looking into Monero for a few months. As a Bitcoin enthousiast I find the Monero community very friendly, hard working and seemingly disinterested.

I dislike mine so much as well. The battery life is so disappointing and the Touch Bar makes everything worst. I now need twice the number of taps to increase the volume or switch to the next song. For me this computer is a disaster.

East of Eden. It is to me THE American Novel. A great read.

I agree. The actual people paid to protect the populations are complaining to a charity that the job they are supposed to do is not done?

This as to be an Onion article!

One could argue that those social platforms are designed to keep you engaged.

It's been 2 years that I have deleted both my FB accounts (one for family and friends, the other for business), my IG account and my Twitter account. All accounts had many years of activity and substantial following. I never looked back and I am very much happier.

What made me decide is that I realized that I had become an self inflicted obligation to create content to feed my online personas every days. Basically I was doing things in my real life that I did not want to do just to feed a virtual person's life (mine) on other people's websites to impress my friends and contacts. This is insane.

This.

And what if you genuinely forget the password to one of your encrypted drive. Couldn't it be used to incriminate you on whatever charge?

You can buy everything you want with the US dollar but given the abyssal debt of the US government, one could think it will also end in tragedy.

Being right or wrong is not time independent. Someone saying it's crazy to buy virtual coins for $1 in 2009 was clearly wrong.

I don't mean to say that all coins are valuable. But it does ressemble another gold rush. Do some remember the domain name craze 20 years ago? Any kid smart enough to have bought generic domain names back then made lots of money.

Provided you can code all the necessary unsub/bounce/report modules and display logs yourself, AWS SES is the cheapest and it works well.

I'd sign up for that

It was great for "piracy". You had message board where people would swap floppies. You basically copied a game (Atari ST games of course) and would send the floppies hoping your counterpart would do the same.

It was a great time and I learnt a lot about the geek community, the sharing and got access to many games which at age 15 I could not afford.

Same here

Deleted my account 2 years ago along with Twitter's and Instagram's. It's just a better life for me now. Less stress, less anger.

What an interesting time to live in, when one can stock and even loose 400k in one email / text file!

Good luck anyways, hope you find them back.

Thanks for posting it. I enjoyed this read a lot.

Reading Chomsky is always a breadth of fresh air to my mind. Such a powerful thinking that forces to see the world differently.