omarchowdhury

How are they going to track him if none of their requests are ever loaded on his end?

Presumably we have different definitions of opting out. I was thinking more of the DIY type. It's certainly more reliable than to trust the people you don't trust not to track you because you tell them not to.

I just think that parent knows very well how to opt out of being tracked on his own.

Parent's HN profile indicates a 2009 registration date and whose Keybase reveals they're a software dev... I'd bet he knows how to block javascript and/or maintain a host files block list. But I'm being assumptive.

Does the $300 a month pricing kick in at the first instance of 3,001 unique site visits in a given 30 day period?

It definitely would have.

> if god would to exist, he would have been the loneliest thing, and in his grief and loneliness, he gave birth to otherness, and here we are.

You might enjoy this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hidden_Treasure

How long does it take for full recovery?

There's more margin and LTV in the former.

I'd imagine at the time of these deal talks, they were the only talent.

In 1999. My mom told me about it!

Where do you usually come across them?

Could it be that there aren't that many exciting new products coming out? Or is that blasphemy?

> But investors ultimately care about ROI, and if you didn't invest in Google before the dot com bust then there's a very good chance your entire fund failed.

Google is up 4000% since its 2004 IPO and 1000% from local bottom during the housing bubble crash. Didn't even need to be a VC to get access to VC level gains buying GOOG.

Key points: Excite's CEO passed on purchasing Google for $750K + 1% of Excite's stock because as a condition of the acquihire deal, Larry Page demanded Excite's tech stack be replaced with Google's. While the financial terms of the deal were acceptable to both parties, the deal fell apart due to Larry's request: Excite tested Google's search results against theirs and at the time found no material difference warranting such a drastic change in their business.

That has only been an issue around the Dec '17 congestion. I can have my transaction mined in the next block for the satoshi equivalent of $0.61 today.

Doing this for commercial purposes without the expressed permission of the featured person is a violation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights

> Bitcoin certainly got enormously slower.

https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-confirmationtim...

Average block time data doesn't agree with you, or are you talking about something else?

More than the interest paid on savings accounts.

The point isn't that there is a level of abstraction, but the kind of abstraction. The abstraction of paper money as opposed to metals comes with the potential for abuse through unrestrained printing.

> The problem isn't that savant's are above these things, but that they matter very little to them.

Then, the savants need to learn that the world doesn't revolve around them.

I agree. The common definition of genius seems to be one who is imbalanced, but still produces something of value.

And one wonders how muddied the waters will become, actual videos may be discarded on accusation of being deepfakes!

Does that guarantee a purchase spot?

Agree. I'm in love.

Congratulations on your launch. How many suppliers are in your Brand Network? Is it possible to obtain a list of active partners?

Market forced competition always has to grind up against inertia and switching costs.

I'd say you're right. $70M annual processed by 56K merchants comes out to an average of ~$1.2K in sales per merchant per year.

The tone is your own projection, as is the assertion that I presented an opinion as fact. I don't see evidence for those two things. Now, you're presenting your own opinion as fact.

As for the following disingenuity: "the complete lack of any information existing within the current comprehensive knowledge of mankind itself," I pointed you to shroomery.org where you can find people's attitudes towards meditation and psychedelics and a cross section thereof that would corroborate my initial statements. It would be your own shortsightedness to not include these first hand reports within the "current comprehensive knowledge of mankind."

And as someone who acknowledged that they derive signal from upvotes and downvotes, surely you would appreciate the notion that perhaps my premise is the top comment in this thread because people agree with it out of their own experience and rationality.

To dispel paranoia, I'm not the one downvoting you: https://prnt.sc/ptuh4f

I accept your idea that I could have been more rigorous in my initial post. I'm also not against pedantry. I just didn't see it as a fruitful line of inquiry in this context, seeing as how my original post became uneditable. Otherwise I would have edited it to make it clear that YMMV and I'm in no position to make absolute statements about subjective realities, although I do think that this is obvious (since I was offering a possible risk, and not a guaranteed outcome) and not something that needed to be dissected.