I'm a beneficiary of the "startup lottery". I am living the dream, and I state that in this anonymous forum to provide perspective to my own feelings about The Rich.

In your early thirties twenties, managed effectively, one million dollars is enough to retire on, and live care-free. Two million dollars is enough to live well. Six million dollars is enough to retire on extremely well. Ten million dollars is disgusting. Twenty is obscene. A hundred should be criminal.

Thirteen million dollars is excessive, for sure, but that's not the kind of awful, powerful wealth that is the root of problems in our society.

The whole company was worth whatever it was worth (I don't remember). I was just the loudest partner there.

I guess everyone who ever had the means to create an endowment for a school is a criminal, then.

A hundred million dollars is a very powerful tool in the right hands. To suggest that having such means should be criminalized is farcical.

> I guess everyone who ever had the means to create an endowment for a school is a criminal, then.

Yes. That money should have been fairly balanced to the education system before it ever entered the robber baron's hands.

>I think it’s worth discussing why people like “constrained” systems in a bit more depth, because some of the things I’ve mentioned above are definitely not constrained.

I am the CTO of an edu org, and I've spent a lot of time thinking about this. I would say that from our perspective, it's people aware that they're paralyzed by choice. Unity is a bad choice for kids because there's SO MANY OPTIONS on how to build your game, so many plugins, so many choices!

QBasic was great because it was limited. You had to do a lot of the work yourself, sure, but you could start with a simple text game and not have to think about which input library to use, or font choices, or whatever.

We start kids with Scratch. Most of them build a cute toy and get bored - we break out python (a document with a few imports and a window that opens with a moving sprite included) for the ones who start getting frustrated with the scratch gui (because it's too limiting).

Email spam detection is hilarious.

Basically, you have to take a set of ritual steps to "warm" various email resources (such as domains, addresses, and IPs) to be flagged as "known" and "legitimate". For example, IP addresses: you should send warming emails to a valid address that you control for a few weeks to just show up on lists without having spam marks against you.

It's insane.

Is this for your own custom domains you mean?

>thinly veiled expression of xenophobia about the Japanese.

while that is an unfortunate and awful aspect of one its central aesthetic tenants, i do not think that it is the core.

Kind of an understandable xenophobia, given rhetoric in the US in the early 80's. It's a work that fits the cultural context of the time it was written, in that respect.

This partially comes from the SV all-or-nothing attitude: you can have AR on all the time (and thus revenue stream all the time), but you can't do that with VR.

Also the potential markets affected. VR really only affects the games & entertainment market, which is big, but best case you're revolutionizing Hollywood. AR is applicable to a wide variety of B2B markets - surgery, piloting, hazardous waste removal, firefighting, the military, mining, tourism, deep sea exploration, science, space colonization, etc. - which collectively have much more money spent on them. Your total addressable market is basically the amount of money you can capture if everything goes perfectly, which is dictated by the amount spent on substitutes. AR has many more substitutes than VR.

Same reason cryptocurrency is hot - it threatens the financial/insurance/ownership industry, which as a $13T behemoth is currently the biggest economic prize on earth.

The really big market being found for VR is in fitness, that could have a much larger impact (to general health even: than if it were just used for games and entertainment.

Nope. Porn.

I don’t really see that at all. Facebook just bought Beat Games, not PornHub.

Facebook wants to be a family friendly brand.

Windows 10 makes this distinction. It's a logical one, for sure.

It's officially banned and to the average subscriber, effectively banned. Certainly, porn spam was not why viewers were going, anyways.

Everyone likes to point out how your smartphone, etc are more powerful than the Apollo Computer. But, it's even more drastic than that.

The tiny processor that runs the bluetooth radio in your phone is more powerful than the Apollo Computer.

The Cortex m0 used in many USB-C PD compliant wall chargers is more powerful than the Apollo Computer.

The Apollo Guidance Computer has roughly the same power as a Game Boy, first manufactured in 1989.

The game boy cpu was very underpowered for its time - which was fine, since it was meant to get many hours off of AA batteries.

It's what you use it for that matters.

It's a brutally honest look at the shortcomings of a startup backed by a product, that seriously, looks to be at least decent.

Their intent is to get you to convert, but instead of giving the usual flowery bullshit, they make you laugh.

Fine, I'll try it.

I didn't come out of it thinking this is real.

At some point, the amount of people who have the curiosity to click any of the links probably outweighs the poor traffic if it was just like "we made a new tracker".

I think they've hit that point.

Absolutely, they got my eyes on the product for far longer than they would have otherwise.

I thought it was a joke, too, until I came here and started reading comments.

Their intent is to get free advertising by being on the front page of HN.

This page could be worse at conversion but wins by going viral.

>Is it eliminating animal suffering, reducing global warming as farming is a major polluter, or are they actually just disgusted by animal products in general?

For me, it's both. For others, it's religious. For far fewer, it's health (allergies, intolerances, etc). In all of those cases, if a restaurant advertises their product as meat free, it should be or else it's false advertising.

Further complicating the issue is that burger king has for years sold a veggie patty that is heated in the microwave - using separate tools and is "contamination free".

So anyways, if they want to advertise meat-free, then it should be a meat-free product that is served to you.