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   by api 9y ago

   The iPhone was so successful it ate the company. Everything else is an afterthought to "sell more phones." Security takes a back seat to animojis and better cameras. The mobile market has plateaued, so this will harm the company l
2. 10772.▲
   by api 9y ago

   We run a chunk on OVH too. It is over 100X cheaper than AWS. We have had some issues though. OVH had two major outages in the last two years. Our strategy has been to build a more robust distributed architecture and use these issues to be &
3. 10773.▲
   by api 9y ago

   CloudFlare has done a great job convincing everyone that putting them in the middle and letting them proxy everything is a standard configuration that you need, and if you're not doing it your site will be too slow etc.
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   by api 9y ago

   I once saw: "This sign was printed with materials known by the state of California to cause ..."
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   by api 9y ago

   Modern examples include JavaScript and the web as an application platform. While the arguments here have some validity, I think a more important reason for the triumph of worse-is-better is human cognitive overhead. The correct solution bei
6. 10776.▲
   by api 9y ago

   They are trying to get out of the way of the oncoming train of lawsuits and criminal charges that's going to hit us when the ICO/crypto bubble really deflates.
7. 10777.▲
   by api 9y ago

   All the old totalitarian ideologies seem to be coming back into vogue. Fascism is back too.
8. 10778.▲
   by api 9y ago

   WeWork is a real estate play and acquisition/rollup fund that happens to rent desks.
9. 10779.▲
   by api 9y ago

   What drug was the person who drew that graphic on?
10. 10780.▲
    by api 9y ago

    The only somewhat reasonable hypothesis I've ever heard about how astrology might work (if it did) is the clock hypothesis. The idea is that the stars have nothing to do with it in a causal sense. Ancient people just noticed certain pa
11. 10781.▲
    by api 9y ago

    Are they small enough to mount on sharks?
12. 10782.▲
    by api 9y ago

    It's pretty common for people to play both sides so as to be ingratiated to whomever wins.
13. 10783.▲
    by api 9y ago

    Identity politics isn't even a progressive idea. It's one of the central tenets of fascism.
14. 10784.▲
    by api 9y ago

    All major experiments in full blown socialism have turned into mafia states. The drive for profit exists regardless of political system.
15. 10785.▲
    by api 9y ago

    Stuff infosec people have known about for many years continues to break through into the public as if it's something new.
16. 10786.▲
    by api 9y ago

    That's harder than just shifting the economic system. The problem is that human beings (or at least a lot of them) willingly and almost instinctively follow psychopaths and narcissists. As long as that's the case then these behavi
17. 10787.▲
    by api 9y ago

    The lack of investment in this field is absolutely ludicrous given the potential payoff. I suspect some amount of lobbying by entrenched power and fuel interests that would be rendered obsolete, but I think more blame can be placed on that
18. 10788.▲
    by api 9y ago

    "Consumed by greed, rendered numb to human suffering by a life of hedonism and extravagance, devoid of empathy, incapable of self-criticism or self-sacrifice, surrounded by sycophants and leeches who cater to their wishes, appetites an
19. 10789.▲
    by api 9y ago

    This is actually the correct response. A better way of saying it is: Facebook is not free. You pay by surrendering data about yourself and your friends.
20. 10790.▲
    by api 9y ago

    Isn't this more or less identical to anti-immigrant sentiment at the national level, and isn't that something that's rather politically unpopular in SF? Isn't this a bit hypocritical?
21. 10791.▲
    by api 9y ago

    San Francisco has a NIMBY problem.
22. 10792.▲
    by api 9y ago

    Really? Serverless platforms seem mostly proprietary. If you use AWS Lambda then you are mostly locked into AWS.
23. 10793.▲
    by api 9y ago

    Would Celera have done what they did without HGP doing a lot of preliminary research and creating an environment of strong interest? It seems to me that these kinds of arguments have a "that which is seen vs. that which is unseen"
24. 10794.▲
    by api 9y ago

    I'm afraid that I agree. Convenience and network effects are the two most awesomely powerful drivers of adoption and retention and Facebook has both.
25. 10795.▲
    by api 9y ago

    Yeah, that's a living wage for a writer.
26. 10796.▲
    by api 9y ago

    I don't think that works. Only the very rich can take large sums of money and lock it up like that.
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    by api 9y ago

    PoS is also plutocratic isn't it? Money would always flow to those that already have the largest stake. Economies already naturally do that, so also coding it into the monetary system would double the exponent on the effect. Winners ta
28. 10798.▲
    by api 9y ago

    I've predicted "remining" for a long time, especially for rare materials.
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    by api 9y ago

    Qemu emulating Ultrix at AWS to run software from the early 90s for dialing out to weather stations. No source code, so could not be ported. Modems were local on site and accessed via TCP tunnels over an OpenVPN tunnel from AWS.
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    by api 9y ago

    Medium is a magazine with unpaid writers.