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elaineou.com
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elaineou.com is a personal blog at elaineou.com about economics, philosophy and startups. Since 2015, 39 different Hacker News readers have linked it 53 times, most often “The Value of Settlement Finality (2016)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Most-linked posts?
- The Value of Settlement Finality (2016)2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-12-27
- How do I get my son or daughter interested in computer programming?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-09-29
- The Transaction Costs of Tokenizing Everything2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-10-17
- The best way to invest a single dollar2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-03-01
- Plan for HyperBitcoinization2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-01-16
What Hacker News says?
https://elaineou.com/
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on “Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?”Submitted How Google’s Web Crawler Bypasses Paywalls as a story · 640 points
HN discussionIt's a feature that creates certain limitations in utility, as this article from Elaine Ou elaborates on: https://elaineou.com/2016/08/01/the-value-of-settlement-fina...
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on “Bitcoin’s Price Was Artificially Inflated Last Year, Researchers Say”Submitted Stuff You Can't Say in Silicon Valley as a story · 267 points
HN discussionBut the increase in tech jobs doesn't benefit existing workers. Compare https://elaineou.com/2017/08/26/the-mystery-of-the-vanishing... : > According to this Joint Venture Silicon Valley report, 74% of Silicon Valley tech workers are foreign-born immigrants. A decade ago, 36% of Silicon Valley tech workers were born abroad. In 2000, only 29% were. > Tech industry employment has increased from about 300,000 jobs in 2…
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on “New U.S. immigration rules spur more visa approvals for STEM workers”Submitted Stick a Fork in Ethereum as a story · 250 points
HN discussionHow Google’s Web Crawler Bypasses Paywalls https://elaineou.com/2016/02/19/how-to-use-chrome-extensions...
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on “How paywalled sites permit access to visitors from social media sites and apps”Submitted How paywalled sites permit access to visitors from social media sites and apps as a story · 184 points
HN discussionRelated: https://elaineou.com/2017/03/10/technical-interviews-from-th... > 2. A bill for 5 typewriter ribbons and 24 pencils totalled $9.85. If a typewriter ribbon costs $1.25, what is the price of a dozen pencils? > The IBM Programmer Aptitude Test is from 1960 (? I think. It’s tough to read the date on the mimeograph). Is it just me or have technical interviews gotten much harder? > I interviewed for a programmer…
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on “A new obstacle to landing a job after college: getting approved by AI”Submitted The Transaction Costs of Tokenizing Everything as a story · 133 points
HN discussion> 85K new H1B's a year aren't enough to depress wages when the population of the US is 300M+. Well, this is obviously false. Compare these numbers from 2017 ( https://elaineou.com/2017/08/26/the-mystery-of-the-vanishing... ) > According to this Joint Venture Silicon Valley report, 74% of Silicon Valley tech workers are foreign-born immigrants. A decade ago, 36% of Silicon Valley tech workers were born abroad. In 200…
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on “Two Silicon Valley executives charged with H-1B visa fraud”Submitted Show HN: A Machine Learning Model for Salary Estimation as a story · 83 points
HN discussionWe would do well to remember that BitTorrent came from Mojo Nation, which attempted to tokenize distribution long before Filecoin and the like. Ultimately, "too cheap to meter" was the problem they encountered, so they stripped out the tit-for-tat portion and Bittorrent was released. https://elaineou.com/2017/10/14/the-transaction-costs-of-tok...
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on “Can we tokenize behavior?”Submitted Sexual Harassment in Silicon Valley as a story · 67 points
HN discussionHere is Elaine Ou's blog: http://elaineou.com/ After being told not to talk about this stuff, she thought she'd get someone else to guest-blog it for her (which she then published on her blog): https://archive.is/LBBC2 The arrogance and lack of self-awareness of these "creative entrepreneurs" defies belief.
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on “Bitcoin Bucket Shop Kicks Bucket”Submitted How to Measure Diversity as a story · 32 points
HN discussion>>However, unless censorship resis-tance in an electronic transaction is a requirement (such as for drug deals, ransom payments, money launderers, and those seeking to evade currency control), irreversibility combined with the volatile price means Bitcoin is sig-nificantly inferior to alternatives such as credit cards or PayPal This is not true, as Elaine Ou explains: https://elaineou.com/2016/08/01/the-value-of-set…
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on “Risks of Cryptocurrencies [pdf]”Submitted How do I get my son or daughter interested in computer programming? as a story · 29 points
HN discussionI agree with your post x100000. I loved Flightcar when they first started: http://elaineou.com/2013/11/25/free-airport-parking-relayrid... As an early-stage startup, they had no choice but to provide fantastic service. Now it seems like they sacrificed customer service for growth.
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on “An open letter to Flightcar”Submitted BIP: Hard Fork to Return Seized Silk Road Bitcoin to Ross Ulbricht as a story · 26 points
HN discussionSubmitted The best way to invest a single dollar as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted TechCrunch Disrupt censors hackathon project reference to Anne Frank as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Value of Settlement Finality (2016) as a story · 12 points
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Submitted Censorship in the Time of Corona as a story · 5 points
HN discussion Submitted Why Is Tech Journalism Such Shit? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Bitcoin is Forever as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Byzantine Fault Tolerant Airplanes as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don’t Hate the Ad, Hate the Ad-Tracker as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Of Paywalls and Piracy as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Guilt by Association as a story · 3 points
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