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They are apparently a pedophile, and they give an account of what life is like for a pedophile and on darknets. They also assert that there were little to no rapists / people selling CP on Freedom Hosting.

Here's a pastebin of his comment for screen readers: http://pastebin.com/9uuQK4ME

I had no idea it was a $10b industry, and if not for HN discussion then I probably wouldn't have learned that.

EDIT: after re-reading, tptacek seems to be saying "threads questioning whether child porn is valid to be hysterical about result in useless discussion." That's probably reasonable.

Yes, it was a simple, straightforward query for information that I lack. And you hardly answered.

Your service includes tethering, right?

A few years ago I had the same thought about Carmack. I wondered why he seemingly abandoned his vision for space travel by returning to work in the game industry on Rage. I figured Carmack probably realized that Elon's SpaceX was going to "win the race" and gave up. Or maybe Carmack is just getting old. Either way, he's still one of my heroes.

Also, it's probably ethical that if you've bought TAoCP, then it's ok to download it in PDF form. Some people like PDFs instead of hardcopy.

My writing is bad. Do you have any recommendations for how I could improve?

Better question: Would you mind describing what your own path was like going from "I'm a bad writer" to "Hey, I'm fairly good"?

My lack of writing skill has bothered me quite a lot over the last year or so. I've sent emails to various HNers asking that question, "What did your path from beginner to master look like?" but no one responds. (... Perhaps I didn't write the email very well...) :)

I have a lot I'd like to write about, but expressing myself well turns out to be the hard part for me. If I can figure out how to do that, then I think people will find the topics interesting. But I'm finding it very difficult because I'm a complete beginner. I've never written any long articles/essays/books before.

Thank you for your time!

EDIT: Here's something specific: I'd like to get better at using metaphor. I'm finding that even though I've been writing a lot, I seem to have reached a "plateau" of quality. It's.. well, it's just dull. I don't use many metaphors, and I know my writing comes off as very dry. So I'd like to get better at whatever skill or mindset that lets me spice up my writing, rather than my writing plodding dutifully along its lackluster course without any flair in presentation. Has anyone else found themselves in a similar situation? How'd you overcome it?

EDIT2: Thank you for the great responses!

I'm writing a book. I plan on putting it on piratebay myself. I'll have an option for people to pay me if they so choose.

Just had to get that out of my system.

http://gfx.cs.princeton.edu/proj/3dscanning/

Or you might find some things of interest in my article collection https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/315/articles/index_no_im...

(No doubt Dropbox will disable my public links soon. I wish there were an easy way to mirror my Dropbox folder to S3.)

Math is timeless. TeX may be, but it's too soon to say. It's a recent invention. It's only been around for 35 years.

The people who make these sorts of games aren't gamedevs. They are social engineers.

It's unfortunate that the distinction hasn't been very clearly defined. It's not true that just because they've created an interactive loop that they've made a game.

If you're bringing in enough customers to cause you scaling problems, then that's a good position to be in.