steveitis

"The author charitably attributes the inability for such a system to be energy neutral to "engineering problems," but I think it's pretty clear that there are also physical laws that make this impossible."

Why not just use a electromagnetic system? Electons with mass down, and em-waves without mass up? Then it's not impossible, just very small forces and superconductors.

Failing that why not use quantum teleportation?

There are several ways to move a subatomic particle in a massless way, and then return it to having mass at a distance.

EDIT My point is to say that the specifics of the enginerring aren't the real question. The real question is "Why doesn't the essential CONCEPT work"?

This article describes any easy way to do this incorrectly.

It also has simple spelling errors, such as 'weather' for 'whether'.

It is NOT what I've come to expect from HN. Downvotes for everyone involved.

Oh. Right. I can't downvote. Damn.

I don't think it matters if Nintendo approves.

There is a ton of 'homebrew' for the NES that contains no proprietary Nintendo code, and I doubt that any part of the 'hardware' being emulated is protected intellectual property.

A case can easily be made that it is designed with home brew ROMs in mind. Despite the obvious fact that it will inevitably be used for copyright infringement.

1. Why would you say it is 'unfair' of me to be able to decide who gets the benefit of my lifes work when I pass on?

That's the rational. I earned it, so I decide who gets it. Usually my kids. YMMV from country to country, and state to state yadda.

2. Why not mind your own business. I worked for it, and I'll decide what to do with it. If you'd like to decide the fate of vast wealth, than go earn vast wealth.

3. You could even have a system that prevents people from whinging about how unfair life is on the internet whilst some people don't even have benefit of a decent soapbox, but it wouldn't make much sense either.

If you want real time streaming, you can sign up for tdameritrade, and then request API access.

It's free, and decent quality.

The interface is RESTful, but the data is a funky binary format that's hard to parse without the documentation they make you sign an NDA to get.

http://www.tdameritrade.com/tradingtools/partnertools/api_de...

Blargh. Anyone care to share it anonymously?

http://pastebay.com/ ?

Me too, and I was only on the free version. After trying to copy a couple of thousand tiny text files, I had to force kill explorer repeatedly until I gave up and uninstalled Dropbox.

In the end I just signed up for a $9.99 a year hosting plan with 20 gig of storage and WebDAV. Cheaper, faster, and no funky software to crash my boxen.

Honestly I'm not even really sure how Dropbox ever became so popular.

Sounds like Asimovs 'Foundation'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_series

Peter Thiel (Paypal cofounder) has a net worth of 1.3 billion, which is a hell of a lot more than 100 million.

He has already said he believes in the concept and donated money to the 'seasteading institute'.

Obviously either it isn't worth that much to him, or 1.3 billion isn't enough for it to be reliably done.

None of those steps are actually 'non-trivial'. My statement was meant to be sort of tongue-in-cheek. It's a true statement. It's also a gross over simplification.

This method has worked for me in the past, especially on the internet. Outside the internet however it's virtually impossible due to fundamental market restrictions.

Sort of. I built the business, but it got litigated away from me. Last valuation of it though was several million dollars.

Now I'm starting over, and I'll do it again.

Is that a quote from something?

I remember back in grade school when I asked my Mom what the penalty for not paying taxes was "Do they take you to jail or something?", and this simple fact dawned on me and me mother simultaneously.

The easiest way is to simply find a way to make one dollar (anyone can make one lousy dollar), find a way to automate that (hire people, code something, yadda), and repeat a million times (assuming the original process is scalable).

Simple, and effective.

You posted a comment about your enjoyment of the authors failure, and judged his time management skills due to the fact that he posted his rant about another persons failure on the internet.

Do you not see the hypocrisy?

I've thought that kademlia or some other DHT would be the ideal solution to this.

Think newsgroup/forum style conversational threading, with a separate data channel for large transfers, and landgrab DNS based on popularity.

The author seems not to understand that robots.txt is granular, and that Google even honors the X-Robots 'header' version.

ACAP is pointless, or at least not the big deal improvement these guys want it to be.

I'm not sure about the concept of a 'work week' either, but it's plain to me that the dichotomy of work vs life is a useful one.

Anyone who has ever worked from home is probably aware of how much less productive they are without creating clear work/home boundaries even when working from inside the physical home.

For instance it's difficult to accomplish much with children barging in demanding spaghetti-o's every 3 minutes, or with the surround sound system blaring some movie with copious cannon fire from the next room.

Without creating that arbitrary boundary between work and 'real life' much less work gets accomplished and 'real life' becomes another burden to bear.