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I respect your point of view. I like the project as i like Golem. They are trying to build decentralized cloud services on top of an existing blockchain. Hacker news is not read by idiots, so please don't accuse me of trying to deceive readers. The average reader here is quite smart, they don't need your defense.

No, that would be a sin. Fred Wilson doesn't own ethereum either.

One project I really like is Streamr. It looks promising. Monetizing realtime data on top of ethereum. It's great to see projects on top of ethereum creating real value.

Here is a post he wrote about leaving Poland and starting his journey to emigrate to the US. He ended working as Director of security @ google even without a college degree. https://lcamtuf.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/on-journeys.html

Handkerchief in the suit pocket, tie, cool haircut. When engineers knew how to dress.

PANIC SELLING!

"Experience has prevent that the simplest method of securing a silent weapon and gaining control of the public is to keep the public undisciplined and ignorant of the basic system principles on the one hand, while keeping them confused, disorganized, and distracted with matters of no real importance on the other hand.

This is achieved by:

    disengaging their minds; sabotaging their mental activities; providing a low-quality program of public education in mathematics, logic, systems design and economics; and discouraging technical creativity.

    engaging their emotions, increasing their self-indulgence and their indulgence in emotional and physical activities, by:
        unrelenting emotional affrontations and attacks (mental and emotional rape) by way of constant barrage of sex, violence, and wars in the media - especially the T.V. and the newspapers.
        giving them what they desire - in excess - "junk food for thought" - and depriving them of what they really need. 

    rewriting history and law and subjecting the public to the deviant creation, thus being able to shift their thinking from personal needs to highly fabricated outside priorities. 

These preclude their interest in and discovery of the silent weapons of social automation technology.

The general rule is that there is a profit in confusion; the more confusion, the more profit. Therefore, the best approach is to create problems and then offer solutions. "

This is nuts.

For they go on saying that the big fish eats the little fish, without asking whether little fish swim up to big fish and ask to be eaten. They accept the devouring dragon without wondering whether a fashionable crowd of princesses ran after the dragon to be devoured. They have never heard of a fashion; and do not know the difference between fashion and fate. The necessitarians have here carefully chosen the one example of something that is certainly not necessary, whatever else is necessary. They have chosen the one thing that does happen still to be free, as a proof of the unbreakable chains in which all things are bound. Very little is left free in the modern world; but private buying and selling are still supposed to be free; and indeed still are free; if anyone has a will free enough to use his freedom. Children may be driven by force to a particular school. Men may be driven by force away from a public-house. All sorts of people, for all sorts of new and nonsensical reasons, may be driven by force to a prison. But nobody is yet driven by force to a particular shop.

Avoid embarrassing yourself, and our profession, by behaving like a hamster in a cage spinning the wheel.

http://programmer.97things.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/Hard_W...

self hosting an e-mail server is a headache.

I took a pod from the list: http://podupti.me/ Went to sign up: https://poddery.com/users/sign_up There is no way to use my facebook or google account to sign up! IMHO, The barrier of entry for regular people is too high...

We need something like a next generation Usenet. http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet

Switch to MongoDB and you'll start loving MySQL.