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1. 12631.▲
   by api 11y ago

   Bootstrapped companies are at a huge disadvantage vs. funded companies. Funded companies can afford deeper longer-sighted investments and kamikaze growth-at-all-costs free/freemium strategies that bootstrappers cannot. The only huge gr
2. 12632.▲
   by api 11y ago

   IMHO this is The Problem, and is far more significant than the problems IPFS or even cryptocurrencies are trying to solve. I would stop short of calling these projects wasted effort, but solving the economic model is a prerequisite to any c
3. 12633.▲
   by api 11y ago

   You're right about UX being central to the problem, but you're missing a major part of it here. UX is hard . Getting great user experience takes IMHO a lot more pain than getting algorithms and systems to work right (in most ca
4. 12634.▲
   by api 11y ago

   I think it's concentration of capital more than anything else. You can do engineering or write code anywhere, but raising money is much easier in SF/SV than anywhere else.
5. 12635.▲
   by api 11y ago

   But it redirects to https. That's secure, right?
6. 12636.▲
   by api 11y ago

   But Utah is not on the coast, therefore "nothing happens there" and you can't advance your career (supposedly). The mega-prestige city where you "must be" phenomenon is a major driver here. It's really exploded
7. 12637.▲
   by api 11y ago

   What I've seen is that the Internet intensifies the power of gatekeepers in the long run. It overloads people with too many choices, and in choice-overload people fall back to relying on a few filters to tame it down. The information
8. 12638.▲
   by api 11y ago

   Most artists know next to nothing about business, which makes them prey to those who do. I think this explains why the industry is so horribly exploitative.
9. 12639.▲
   by api 11y ago

   It's probably a crap hand rolled key derivation function instead of a proper hash.
10. 12640.▲
    by api 11y ago

    Power accretes and wealth flows uphill. Seems a settled thing at this point.
11. 12641.▲
    by api 11y ago

    In every case worldwide the error was assuming continuous growth at mid 20th century rates (when many of these plans were put into place).
12. 12642.▲
    by api 11y ago

    $1k ransoms are in a category sometimes called "greasy crimes." These are crimes too small to trouble law enforcement much, especially if there are much bigger crimes around. Of course now that it's being done at scale that m
13. 12643.▲
    by api 11y ago

    What about the ways this could improve security, such as by really making hardware 2fa easy to do online?
14. 12644.▲
    by api 11y ago

    If that happens it will be a fight.
15. 12645.▲
    by api 11y ago

    The US is in almost all things far less free market than the rhetoric would have you believe, and this is a bipartisan thing. The American right throws free markets under the bus as much as the left, but often for different reasons.
16. 12646.▲
    by api 11y ago

    Finally a way to scale booleans in the cloud!
17. 12647.▲
    by api 11y ago

    Maybe Iceland could capture the entire infosec industry.
18. 12648.▲
    by api 11y ago

    So this hands the entire security software market to overseas companies...?
19. 12649.▲
    by api 11y ago

    Problem is that she's a Democrat and a liberal on social issues. Is SF going to vote for a right wing social conservative candidate just because Feinstein is bad on crypto? Same problem exists in "red" states, where conservat
20. 12650.▲
    by api 11y ago

    I wonder if simple compounds like this get forgotten because they are not patentable, so there is no monetary drive to do the research.
21. 12651.▲
    by api 11y ago

    They deserve it quite a bit more than the music industry ever did.
22. 12652.▲
    by api 11y ago

    My point was simply how absurd this is, not that it's a practical alternative.
23. 12653.▲
    by api 11y ago

    In some cases it's cheaper to live in another city and fly to/from SF every single day than to live in SF.
24. 12654.▲
    by api 11y ago

    My couple cents: that which can be gamed will be gamed, especially in a community full of "hackers."
25. 12655.▲
    by api 11y ago

    Nothing here about privacy or visibility into where my data is going. ("Situational awareness" in security parlance.)
26. 12656.▲
    by api 11y ago

    I think what they want is culture , which is produced by people who love their communities and who don't work 90 hours a week so they have time to actually do it.
27. 12657.▲
    by api 11y ago

    It seems to be full of people who want to be near art and "cool" people. Unfortunately tech doesn't find a way to pay those creators of culture anything. If anything, the focus is on finding ways to make everything free. So
28. 12658.▲
    by api 11y ago

    If this happens to Nest or any other company like them, we will discover that anything dependent on the cloud is destined someday -- probably sooner than we expect -- to become a brick. The sooner we learn this lesson the better. IMHO cloud
29. 12659.▲
    by api 11y ago

    Wow, this is naive. He's only thinking about the positive, honest applications of collected data. I've noticed before this tendency of some elite-educated elite-circle types to forget that one-sided self-interest (at best) and ful
30. 12660.▲
    by api 11y ago

    If NAT is involved in anything, NAT is to blame. Even if there are no problems, NAT is to blame.