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BTC has always had more in common with rare gemstones like Taaffeite than currencies or even metals.

No practical value, no industrial value, no means to materially change the rate of production, nothing special at all except that it is rare, only a few people care about it, and its price will always depend primarily on the behavior of a very small number of market participants.

AWS has a collection of tools which make it easier to detect and avoid accidental spend, and which make it easier to optimize purposeful spend.

These aren't controversial, even though they reduce revenue, because they improve the customer experience.

If PG actually meant a single word of his essay, he'd fire Dan Gackle and he'd radically change how HN moderation works.

But, as per usual, Paul Graham is full of shit. He is interested in challenging other people, but he is absolutely and totally unwilling to be challenged in any material way.

And heaven forbid you challenge any aspect of one of his most highly valued portfolio companies... lol... you'll be banned right out of this place.

because Paul Graham absolutely LOVES declaring some things heres and he LOVES to suppress speech.

He just wants to be the one who declares what is heretical and what is not.

This is an outrage. Only private companies like Google, Facebook, LexisNexis, Experian, Equifax, Corelogic, Nielsen, Acxiom, Datalogix, Epsilon, Spokeo, Radaris, ID Analytics, eBureau, Intelius, PeekYou, Rapleaf, and Recorded Future should profit from information about me.

The algorithms that ban Muslim terrorist propaganda also routinely ban non-terrorist Muslim content. They have essentially the exact same failure modes as anti-Nazi algorithms that also ban some politicians.

Why are you tolerant of these problems in one case, but extremely bothered by them in the other?

Does your opinion change when referring to white American terrorists? (nazis, white nationalists, other groups that incite domestic terror)

Or is your support of these limits scoped specifically to anti-western muslim terrorists?

Are you opposed to social media companies removing / hiding / reducing the reach of anti-western and terrorist propaganda?

Do you think ISIS and Al Qaeda should have broader reach?