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iamadamon Show HN: A few years ago my Type'o'Shooter went viral – here's the new version

No social sharing? I want to brag about reaching wave 26 with a 342 streak!

iamadamon The Final Leaked TPP Text Is All That We Feared

The nation state is dead unless Donald Trump manages to pull off a victory.

iamadamon Why are little kids in Japan so independent?

Even in the rough and tumble NY of 40 years ago, parents allowed kids to roam freely up until the tragic disappearance of Etan Patz in '79. [1]

Seems like that event and the subsequent media fearmongering is what really spurred the cultural shift towards helicopter parenting and a reduction in youthful independence in the US.

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/04/hey-pare...

iamadamon Peeple app for rating human beings causes uproar

Considering credit companies and advertisers have been sprinting along this path of rating human beings for a while now, maybe Peeple (if executed well) can provide a necessary counterweight?

iamadamon JustFab: The Billion Dollar Startup with a Dark Past

To play devils advocate here, doesn't the individual always have a responsibility to read the fine print rather than blindly plugging their credit card details into an offer for cheap shoes?