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He probably writes his tweets in a word processor and copies and pastes them into Twitter before sending the tweet.

This appears to be a confirmation code. I don't think it has to be for a bitcoin account. It could be for anything personal or government related. Perhaps they require him to reset his government passwords at a regular interval.

He's probably pasting what he thinks is the tweet he just wrote into Twitter and hitting send before realizing he pasted the confirmation code he copied and pasted earlier. It's most likely timed out and harmless by the time he sends it.

One group convinces themselves that it is impossible and never builds anything. Musk's group convinces themselves it is possible and never builds anything. At least the former is honest.

Yik Yak destroyed itself by ignoring their users and making changes that undermined the reason people used their app in the first place. They're only "struggling" because of a series of self-inflicted wounds.

Finally, someone provides an explanation for what's going on at Uber.

They called and threatened his mother. Private investigators followed him. He had $400,000 in legal fees from the layers they hired to harass him.

It's like those services that popped up in the 90s that tried to translate things into the internet age. Like the service that would use your printer to print an entire newspaper for you ever morning.

It's a felony to access a computer system without authorization, access a computer system to obtain unauthorized computer services, degrade or disrupt a computer system, take data without authorization, or to use data obtained through misuse of a computer system.

The law is so vague everyone technically commits a felony every time they load a web page. Did ycombinator give you explicit permission to use this server? No, they did not. If they want you punished for posting this and they can find a friendly district attorney, you're screwed.

I'm old enough to remember when the conventional wisdom was that sharing music on the internet wasn't stealing because nobody was being deprived of physical media. Give Google a few years to lobby and create PSAs and people will being going to jail for creating ad blockers.

> The functions listed above are not mainstream use cases for legitimate software.

Who decides what is "legitimate" software? Do you want to live in a world where you have to get the government's approval before writing code?

How could a feature be "mainstream" if it isn't included in software? Should we have arrested Steve Jobs for the Macintosh because GUI wasn't "mainstream" when it came out?

I thought it was obvious. We're still living in a housing bubble and the people who would otherwise live in buildings such as these are in homes they're struggling to pay for. There's no market for them until the inevitable correction.

He's pointing out a sentence that wouldn't pass muster in a primary school book report. Yours is the only "unsubstantive comment" I see here.

When I buy a book from Amazon, I pay Amazon, not the seller. Therefore, the seller is an employee of Amazon.

You don't understand. He was arrested for being a pedophile. All of his friends and family will know about it. Everywhere he goes people will be looking for suspicious behavior involving children.

Forever.

He had a career working with children that he had to abandon. If a single child or parent made a false accusation, it could confirm everyone's suspicions about him and his life would be over. His neighbors would demand he move. His wife would probably leave him. He would probably never see his kids again. Every day he has to live with knowing he did nothing wrong but that other people have the ability to destroy his life on a whim at any moment.

These senators filibustered for 12 hours in 2013 to protest Obama's drone strikes. It was kind of a big deal at the time. #StandWithRand ring a bell? Perhaps you're not old enough to remember.

Rand Paul (R)

Ted Cruz (R)

Marco Rubio (R)

Mike Lee (R)

Pat Toomey (R)

John Thune (R)

John Barrasso (R)

Tim Scott (R)

John Cornyn (R)

Jerry Moran (R)

Ron Johnson (R)

Jeff Flake (R)

Mitch McConnell (R)

Saxby Chambliss (R)

Mark Kirk (R)

Sen. Ron Wyden (D)

In 1997, congress lowered the tax on capital gains making non-dividend-paying stocks cheaper than dividend-paying stocks. It made it very attractive to invest in companies that didn't pay dividends like tech company IPOs which were popular at the time because of the growth of computers and the internet. There was a boom of personal investing as average people were quitting their jobs to become day traders. Stocks were rising uncorrelated with business fundamentals but because of the speculation of them increasing even more in the future.

The "crash" happened when some large companies became too nervous with the overvaluation and put in large sell orders for their own stock. This caused everyone else to panic worried that the stocks they owned were worthless and that they would lose everything if they continued to hold onto them.

The bubble "burst" in 2003 when congress changed the tax laws so that capital gains was taxed at the same rate again.