Dude wasn't a libertarian. He was just a murderous asshole.
He sold hacking tools and identity theft kits that existed solely to harm others. He tried to have people killed.
Fuck him.
And fuck the inevitable posts here about how, despite selling tools that are explicitly meant to harm other people, that he was somehow some good-hearted libertarian. He wasn't. He was just a fucking asshole.
What a surprise: jacquesm is being an asshole for no reason.
He said it was a bug, and you (without evidence) are basically accusing him of being a liar.
jacquesm, people here like you but I don't know why. You're a blowhard, an asshole, and the only reason you have any money is because you bought a common typo and turned it into a porn shop.
You're a fucking asshole. You're toxic. You said, long ago, that you'd quit HN. Keep to your word.
For fucks sake, MtGox did not drift into 'fractional reserve' it became insolvent. There's an important difference, and you're smart enough to know it.
If you're always concerned that somebody is a bigger success, you'll never be happy. If you make a few million dollars you'll get to know people with tens of millions. You make tens, you'll know people with billions. Make billions, and you still won't be the new hotness for more than a few years, in all likelihood.
Just do good work. stop caring about the results of the work, care about doing the right work, and doing it well.
That said, you probably won't read this because I stated the truth a while back: that dang is an emotionally unstable asshole and he likes toxic shit on this site.
It's not a pack of lies. You're conflating two issues.
One issue is that engineers are underpaid because they tend to oppose the sorts of organization and regulation that could provide real bargaining power. Libertarian ideology runs rampant, and this hugely benefits buyers of engineering talent.
A separate issue is that even if you paid more money, there wouldn't magically be more engineers who can actually do the work that startups need done. We don't ned 10% more great engineers or 20%. We need double. or Triple.
"the stupidity of solar, it works best when there's less load"
That's a new one. Apparently peak electricity usage isn't during the daytime, when the sun is out.
Oh wait, that's exactly when it is. If HN mods had balls, they'd ban worthless shits like you for arguing politely but incredibly fucking dishonestly. But dang has no balls. dang just wants to suck pg's sweet sweet dick.
They're all b2b with high ($500k+) customer lifetime values, but the first business, in the best case, could serve about 30 clients simultaneously. The second could serve (in the best case) a few hundred. The startup could serve thousands.