Aetius

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Steve Jobs infamously sold all bout $1 of his initial stake in Apple, depriving him of untold riches. Pincus has been adamant about retaining as large a stake personally as possible and dictatorial control over the board.

Aetius

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Umm, did you actually read the article?

  The former chief executive of the YouSendIt, 
  a website where users can post files too large 
  to send over email, has admitted to launching an 
  online attack against the company he once ran.

According to FBI investigators, from about December 2008 to June 2009, Shaikh sent an ApacheBench program to YouSendIt's servers, which measured the number of requests per second the site was capable of handling. Sending the program multiple times in essence amounted to a distributed denial of service attack, or DDoS attack.

No "curious" person would run apache bench on a website they formerly cofounded for 7 months.

Aetius

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How many queries per second could you do that with just a personal machine (i.e. not a cloud machine with huge bandwidth limits), before your ISP shut you off?

Aetius

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Disney, Viacom, Newscorp

Aetius

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Quote of the year:

  "If I had $8 million worth of easily convertible currency, there is absolutely no way I would store it on a public

website like Mt Gox, no matter how secure I believed it was. If I had to store that much there, even temporarily, I would use a password so long it would make War and Peace look like a Twitter message."

Aetius

15 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

Zynga, meet Vostu.

Aetius

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Chris DeWolfe raised $100 million.

Aetius

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Go cry in your MiG-29, Paul.

Aetius

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<trivial app> in <less than 100LOC> with <new tech>.

Old meme is old!

Writing a chat app is one thing. Writing a node.js 3D MMO is quite another.

Aetius

15 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

Extrapolating this out ... Lakeside School, Philips Exeter or perhaps Collegiate ;)

Aetius

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People really need to learn the concept of "Expected Outcome" before they go headlong into "rejection therapy". For instance, what was his expected outcome if Steve Jobs had replied back? I'm willing to bet it was 0. He just did it because he could. This is like me tracking down insert female celeb fantasy here's phone number and asking to talk to her. Pointless.

Aetius

15 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

Together, we can end violence against elephants!

Aetius

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Let's count the ways in which the media, twitter, and even HN can be hypocritical:

Driving cars that pollute the environment and force the US to wage continous war to secure oil. Supporting a food industry that is killing us. Support raising my taxes so you can live a better life. Use an inordinate amount of energy, water which is scarce. Live wonderful lives with nice furniture, clothes, etc that are made by really poor people the world over. Take trips all over the place, using more oil. Sit at home watching TV and being entertained instead of being productive and fixing problems (yes, this too is a sin). Have bad children that will grow up to be murderers, theives, leaches, and knownothings because you're too busy whining about some guy hunting an elephant. Have supported tons of politicians that serve to further their own interests and that of their corporate sponsors.

I could go on and on and on before I finally get to:

Legally shot and killed an elephant which was destroying crops in an African country.

If I switched my domains from GoDaddy for this, I'd pretty much have to withdraw from American society for good, in order to be on decent moral ground.

Aetius

15 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

Hey man, I'm doing it right now ... got a startup i've spent 10 months on that I'm still hoping I can make successful. Even though I could probably quit and pickup one of these 150k jobs everyone seems to be getting ;)

Aetius

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Casinos won't go bankrupt because they are a monopoly protected by the state ( although the state(s) does not have allegiance any one them and is increasingly in the process of granting many more licenses to shore up deficits, Casinos still have a very, very high barrier to entry ). See my comment downthread. And yes, they are equally predatory. And lotteries, well, yeah ... owned by the state, not going anywhere because there is zero competition.

Aetius

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Yeah let me rephrase that:

  When the business is scamming customers, 
  competition in a free market is not a pretty sight.

And no, I'm not aloof enough to believe we have a truly free market. But it's free enough to let thousands of Swoopo clones race bid prices to the bottom. Now it seems customers may even be winning more from the auction sites than the auction sites are taking in.

But fear not for Swoopo! They'll undoubtedly sell their soon-to-be patented "technology" to the likes of Intellectual Ventures, who'll use it to extort other would be scammers, completing the circle of evil!

Aetius

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Sunk cost fallacy.

Aetius

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I'm quite happy that Swoopo is failing. Did you get the impression that I wasn't? I'd love for gambling to be legalized.

Aetius

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Great idea, no. Epic scam!? Yes.

Aetius

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Competition in a free market is not a pretty sight. That's why gaming commissions never stepped in -- they knew what Casinos have long known; without state protection of gambling, the number of venues would quickly proliferate into the thousands and push profits to zero.

I'm also pretty sure that there is still a lot of legal liability in the air. August Capital will most certainly face some exposure; on my female facebook test account I've seen advertisements of Swoopo class action.

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