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   by api 11y ago

   "We know your data security matters that is why go an extra mile to make sure your data is fully protected from prying eyes. All your sensitive files are secured with ultra secure triple DES 1344 encryption when at rest. When in motion
2. 12842.▲
   by api 11y ago

   There's a lot of tech in San Angeles (I consider it one city), but it's more spread out. We are a distributed network of hundreds of suburbs, not a hub-and-spoke network. :) We are located here and likely will be for a while: htt
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   by api 11y ago

   I can only speak for myself. Here's why I never applied: - In its beginnings ZeroTier was a one-man band for several reasons (some circumstantial, some historical). PG has explicitly written against single founder ventures, so I decide
4. 12844.▲
   by api 11y ago

   Over the long run, this eats itself. It would result in a lot of low-quality but highly connected 'juiced' companies getting too much of a boost from brand but then flopping by failing to actually deliver on their hype. In the end
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   by api 11y ago

   Your (b) is a big one in my mind. The core of giphy could be run by one person. There's probably enough monetization potential here for a good healthy lifestyle business for 1-3 people.
6. 12846.▲
   by api 11y ago

   Everything is rising but wages, due mostly to overseas wage arbitrage.
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   by api 11y ago

   As a side effect of historically cheap money, house prices have risen so high that entire younger generations are locked out of home ownership in quite a few areas. There are a few outliers but in general it's good jobs, affordable hou
8. 12848.▲
   by api 11y ago

   I solve this by not wanting silly investors.
9. 12849.▲
   by api 11y ago

   I have a conspiracy theory. The world actually ended in the year 2000. Jesus returned, struck down the antichrist, and all that, and the series was over. But the problem is that the series' producers signed a contract for ten seasons a
10. 12850.▲
    by api 11y ago

    > "Giphy hasn't monetized, so the normal conversation about revenue multiples that's killing everybody else doesn't apply yet." I keep hearing this kind of thing: that it becomes harder to raise once you start
11. 12851.▲
    by api 11y ago

    You win the Internet! Seriously. There's an LA Tech Slack that I really wished was something other than an endless cascade of gif spam. I left it because I got sick of the red notification buttons making me head over to look for some
12. 12852.▲
    by api 11y ago

    Luckily, I made no (financial) bet. :)
13. 12853.▲
    by api 11y ago

    While not universally correct, this is true more often than it should be. My personal opinion is that the answer lies in the more primitive parts of the brain. Investors, acquirers, and customers are all human beings, and as human beings th
14. 12854.▲
    by api 11y ago

    In the short term this is not something to fear, but in the long term it is. There is a qualitative difference between Turing-complete and non-Turing-complete automation. Imagine what the great Chinese outsourcing wave has done to the West&
15. 12855.▲
    by api 11y ago

    I think I'm in disbelief that there can possibly be so much of this stuff. I recall years ago though reading a debate between a peak oil "doomer" and someone saying climate change was the bigger problem. The latter kept sayin
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    by api 11y ago

    Hmm... and combine with EVs coming of age, a Moore's Law type growth curve for solar (and solar EROEI), etc., and perhaps the high energy costs of the recent past are gone for a while. I have to admit I'm surprised. I totally boug
17. 12857.▲
    by api 11y ago

    Oil is the rate limiting reagent for industry, so causation goes the other way. A rapid oil crash is a clear indicator of a slowdown.
18. 12858.▲
    by api 11y ago

    Anything that allows people to momentarily escape consciousness is a sure seller. It hurts to be aware.
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    by api 11y ago

    I liked the smoking reference. Years ago a friend explained that part of the allure of cigs was to have something to do with your hands so you can look busy and avoid awkwardness. I remember thinking a few years ago that smart phones are th
20. 12860.▲
    by api 11y ago

    I dunno. If my car were sealed that would be okay with me as long as this development were coincident with less maintenance or lower cost. There's not likely to be many user serviceable parts of an electric car. If you are a computer p
21. 12861.▲
    by api 11y ago

    I think equivalence at least with cloud is possible for most tasks except those that require vast amounts of local data. ... for now. Gigabit endpoint links and super cheap storage could close that gap. Mainframe/PC is one of the great
22. 12862.▲
    by api 11y ago

    There's an old deep division between people who think everyone ought to learn the depths of a computer and people who think that's unreasonable and maybe not even good. I used to be in the former camp and have moves to the latter.
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    by api 11y ago

    Those are good points and I don't disagree at all, but I was talking about perception more than reality. There's still this immense perception that if you're not in the top five you don't exist, and I think that's o
24. 12864.▲
    by api 11y ago

    But it's not just cities. Philadelphia and Baltimore and Atlanta are big cities, but they aren't the right cities. It's a small number of them. It's not just urbanism, but also brand.
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    by api 11y ago

    I think it's a symptom of something else: the hyper-centralization of relevance and cultural center of gravity in only a few places. When I was younger (1990s), I don't remember it mattering so much where you were located. I&#x2
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    by api 11y ago

    I've had one female coder tell me she's picked gender-ambiguous names and doesn't show her pic online for this reason. Only once she's proven her ability does she reveal her gender.
27. 12867.▲
    by api 11y ago

    Like I said: Docker wants to be a linker and a binary format: http://adamierymenko.com/docker-not-even-a-linker/ If everything (mysql, pgsql, etc.) were a library you could achieve much of what it does with -static and
28. 12868.▲
    by api 11y ago

    That's not native, and is much bulkier and slower.
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    by api 11y ago

    Us dorks who have been hacking away on ways to 'decentralize' the net feel vindicated by this kind of thing.
30. 12870.▲
    by api 11y ago

    We built our auto-updated to use its own signatures in addition to https and Mac app signing because we don't trust CAs.