WhoIsSatoshi

monk mode good mode - no need to be social, it will come as a reflection to how you are with yourself. Faking it for the sake of conformism is going to eat at your core.

healthcare sucks a lot more out of the customer in the US than elsewhere in the world, so the fact that the US spends more is combined with healthcare patients spending more money per capita in the US. Having experienced both, I can tell you that I am terrified of having a motorcycle accident in the US. Or breaking a leg.

How do you buy the bitcoins without the state tracking you? FYI the US is doing that also, you cannot buy on coinbase without providing ID... they want to be able to track big buyers.

premium mediocre has the aspiration for money, but none of the money. Bourgeoisie had the aspiration for taste and finer disposition, but they actually have the money.

The money is the difference, Premium Mediocre have none.

why do the Assange stories disappear from YC? Anyone? they keep getting removed...

more details surrounding Assange and the struggle the past month - weird lawyer suicide, fonky WL twitter, and police forces confiscating phones.. http://survivalacres.com/blog/julian-assange-is-probably-dea...

It's called README file. It would blink if it could.

My iPhone has wiped my contacts out of the blue 3 times last year. I have resorted to manually doing monthly backups. This never happened before. Apple Maps, which was awesome (Bless Forstall), is now cluttered with icons and logos on new queries that obfuscate my previous searches while I'd WANT the new searches. It feels like UX is going downhill, and it pisses me off. More than anything, what was meant as a personal device I can trust, has become just "another personal device". Wake Up Apple.

link to the reddit thread regarding the article: https://www.reddit.com/r/opiates/comments/3e2ord/the_article...

Maybe that wasn't his plan, but he can now see the very situation you depicted. I believe he was too proactive for a government that bases a lot on pretense (read - paperwork). Old world vs. New World.

I feel the Japanese struggle within their overcrowded society and that "specialization" is a way that one can have his own corner of freedom. If you go over there, you will notice that people work extraneously long hours, get paid little, and are constantly playing an intricate interaction model where seniority, class, sex, origins all play major roles. This is why so many went into video games, anime or manga. They need an escape. And just as you find that drive within their work, which is at the most strict expectation level, you can find traces of it in their hobbies.

I like the question itself - my friend went into journalism and now preaches STEM. I believe there is a disproportionate representation of those folks (rather than STEM folks preaching STEM themselves) because they are aware of the media distribution channels while the STEM crowd is more of a dark-room thing... And not-as-able to spread our ideas to the non-STEM crowd due to unfamiliar channels we by nature deal with less. Because of that we should continue to observe this paradigm - And I, one of the crowd, will meanwhile warn the potential traveller that the STEM road is harder, but the reward is inherent to the choice of going through it. I find the following applies much:

  "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
  And sorry I could not travel both
  And be one traveler, long I stood
  And looked down one as far as I could
  To where it bent in the undergrowth;
  
  Then took the other, as just as fair,
  And having perhaps the better claim
  Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
  Though as for that the passing there
  Had worn them really about the same,
  
  And both that morning equally lay
  In leaves no step had trodden black.
  Oh, I kept the first for another day! 
  Yet knowing how way leads on to way
  I doubted if I should ever come back.
  
  I shall be telling this with a sigh
  Somewhere ages and ages hence:
  Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
  I took the one less traveled by,
  And that has made all the difference."
  
  -R.Frost

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If anyone else is looking for the straight youtube vid it can be found here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeAjkbNq4xI#t=12

You can't catch the Dread Pirate Roberts. Another will rise.

proud to help fight the good fight Ladar - thank you for standing your ground!

Japan is in dire conditions. Society has, just as it did in Europe, corrupted the way of living of people into a "comfortable" reality. Except Japanese are way better at it than Europeans. So they "trapped" themselves in this comfy reality, which really is a slow-mo zone. Because the population is declining and the new generation is struggling to grasp the situation (and what must be done) they are in for a world of pain. They will be a weak nation very soon, and I bet a certain old friend in the east will consider "helping" them...

Is MEGA (https://mega.co.nz/) an acceptable company? What's the HN consensus on this? Kim Dotcom does appear a bit sketchy.

You're talking about Assange. He's currently running for australian senate spot. Read his book, spread the word.

I would like to see proof as well, currently this seems to be mostly hearsay and journalist sensationalism.

read his book.

You forget that we are as a whole a up-and-coming group and in 10 years, many of us will be in very powerful positions. The digital revolution did not enter mainstream before the 2000s: What we can and should do now, is talk to others, explain what is going on, share our ideas. Be the change and the world will follow.

I see a lot of peripheral discussion - But what do you think about the article? As an investor, I see the proposed solution as very interesting. I feel as though there is no reason that the funding effort cannot be entirely crowdsourced for a company trying to raise funds.

It could all be a craze, but I'm worried it's only the beginning of a new world order - And the last resort of this society is its most unlikely candidate: the geeks and nerds that have since times past been shunned and excluded (oh the irony!)

We have to manage a personal shift beyond that - then the people who won't let the bad weigh on their shoulder or get used to the good making their life easier will be able to exist beyond appearances, and find substance in things. I can see EST coming back in force within the next 50 years.

I have this friend who manages to do just the opposite. He complains that his life sucks, that he needs a job and that he's lonely and wishes he'd meet someone. This of course has the adverse effect on people: it makes them keep their distance because you're "anti-social" or a "downer". Pretty creepy to realize that your whole life can be affected so much by what you see of the world... and what the world sees of you. Television probably had a lesser impact previously, but we're entering a whole new level of social superficiality.

This isn't only in Japan, it is a phenomenon that is spreading across the globe. Japan is first hit because of the strong disparities between generations. Truth is, the internet brought about a lot of things so one could have a constant "window out" from a single room. Most of us know precisely what I am talking about.

I would like to theorize that this is only one of the things that facilitate such isolation by making it more tolerable. What pushes people IN is the social reflection. Misfits often get shunned for being different. Tack all that on top of the social networks and the compound strength can be overwhelming: This generation is the first generation EVER to get to observe first-hand how their failure compares to their 5th grade friend Jimbo, who's now a doctor. And Suzan has had 2 kids. Meanwhile Jack constantly posts pictures of his new cars on sites X,Y,Z. That doesn't help your self esteem when you see everyone happy and you're lonely. Back in the days, your dad might have messed up for 3 years, but the stigma never stuck because (1) people did not have proof from the network itself and (2) he was able to "snap out of it" because he wasn't constantly reminded of others great lives (and by comparison how miserable he was) - those things would get ushered behind the blinds of hearsay, they'd be on the very periphery of your life. But now all of those haunt you, via Facebook feed and other social medias, where subconsciously we mostly try to advertise our successes. I think it is time for psychiatry to wake up to this. I fear it will take another 50-100 years for this to be understood.

I wish the world would wake up and realize that WE as a society are malfunctioning and that the burden to support each-others falls on all.

I fear Snowden will have to play the waiting game like Assange - this is ridiculous. I wish someone would stand up to the bullying - hopefully Assange is playing his cards right and the new wikileaks party in AU might help level things a bit

I don't see patents as critical to the masses. Look at Germany - they are trying to abolish software patents altogether (src: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/german-parliament-says...). I am worried that regular people will be the ones enslaving us all. Will Iceland become some kind of freedom haven? Will people migrate to seateds instead to create a waterworld of the future? I'm very disheartened by the present: I would like to do something, but can't figure out what to push towards.

Is there a point at which regular people will realize what is going on? The only ones who seem to care are the few people who understand the implications - everyone else content being a sheep, satisfied with explanations given by government in place. For our sake, connect with peers, talk about what is going on, dwell and aspire to learn more.

Being acquired would definately be a hindrance with the goal of bringing an affordable EV to the masses. I don't think it's about the money from there on.