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What am I supposed to be doing with it? What am I supposed to be getting from it? Admiring some design work or absorbing useful information? The aesthetic is there, but the utility? Nonexistent. This isn't how you present this type of data to a consumer. It isn't consumption-friendly.

I chalk this business up under the "no idea how it got funded" category. 16 million bucks? It almost seems like a joke. What exactly is their business model? I get it, they want to annotate 'stuff', but how does that make money?

If I want to read a quick summary of a news article, I read the top comment on reddit, or the first paragraph of the article. The meat's right there -- that's how journalism works. If I want to read summary of a book I read Cliff's notes, or an amazon review. What value are these people adding besides TechCrunch drama? It seems nonexistent.

if you've got revenue you should be able to pull something. it's the pre-revenue people who get turned down.

"the sanctity of HN"

more likely not. it's called a "correction".

then spread awareness -- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=134179.0

bitcoin alternatives -- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=134179.0

This seems a natural consequence of bitcoin's adoption and growth. I see virtually no barriers to entry here, no limit to the number of competing currencies that could be introduced, and as a result no real value to bitcoins. How long can one cryptocurrency expect to be allowed to grow before another comes along and dilutes the market? What factors prevent the average consumer from considering them substitutes? Bitcoins and competing currency are fundamentally similar. They vary only in retail and consumer adoption. I can't make sense of this bitcoin hype.

...and what happens when a competing cryptocurrency is released?

There's also the standard built-in microphone. The best option is to disassemble the laptop, remove the webcam hardware, and clip the leads to the mic--detatching it from the motherboard. If you need a webcam use an external.

gobble.wa@gmail.com made a similar post to the freebsd-questions mailing list a month ago. In his case the question was how to print an md5sum along with the file names in a given directory. I saved it because I thought it was a clever hack.

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2012-Se...

A lot of times I catch myself in the mindset of taking a step back and saying "here are the set of tools I have at hand to accomplish a task" without realizing that I should simultaneously be taking a step "in"--so to speak--and acknowledging that the tools I have to work with are not immutable tools cast of iron; they are malleable and can be re-tooled to suit my purposes.. and that sometimes going that route can be the simplest--and in fact "best"--solution.