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by api 11y ago
It's more a misunderstanding of economics. Conventional "stick a tube in the ground" oil may well have peaked or may peak soon, but there's more oil around than that. It's also not entirely clear that peak oil would
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by api 11y ago
If they are legit they should be straightforward for an experienced security researcher to confirm.
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by api 11y ago
Some of the more extreme stuff is the fault of "stretch the truth till it breaks" ideology in business culture. This stuff is dubious in any form IMHO, but when naive first-timers without MBAs pick it up it easily devolves into ou
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by api 11y ago
Neither can most artists.
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by api 11y ago
Why is it okay for programmers to be turned into lifetime billionaires for what amounts to an interesting hack and a little hustle (e.g. Facebook), but it's not okay for a musician to make a few large off a successful/popular tr
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by api 11y ago
Don't feel bad for taking it seriously. I can't tell satire these days. The world is too strange.
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by api 11y ago
No way zenshutdown.com
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by api 11y ago
Skype was built by a team of Europeans in several countries. Don't remember which country it was originally headquartered in but it was not American. Reaching further back, ICQ (one of the first big IM companies) was Israeli. Hetzner a
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by api 11y ago
Yes, that's a very valid counterpoint. The problem being explored by this and other ideas is this: the Internet has massively increased our intellectual wealth, but for the vast majority this does not translate into any increase in ph
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by api 11y ago
That's true. Facebook does give you something in return. In a way it's better than the new model we're seeing with these expensive home automation devices that upload everything to the cloud. In that case you pay for the priv
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by api 11y ago
Maybe so, or at least it's an interesting thought experiment. I've thought for a while that the dominant business model of the web is for-profit piracy. I don't mean The Pirate Bay -- those are small time players and are not
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by api 11y ago
I believe in having definite but mutable opinions. I'll change my mind if someone can present a compelling argument with evidence, but so far I haven't seen one (here or elsewhere). "It's always turned out that way in th
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by api 11y ago
https://www.google.com/#q=%22indeflation%22
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by api 11y ago
Here's one for the FAQ: "Does OnHub send all my browsing information including SSL SNI header information to Google?"
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by api 11y ago
... because in the wake of an extremely noisy and well publicized dot.com / tech market crash, everyone would be completely reasonable to choose an expensive STEM degree. Professionals are routinely wrong about predicting economic tren
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by api 11y ago
It's largely a concept I've encountered online, with varying degrees of precision in discussions. There will be books about it in 20 years once the academics notice, sort of like stagflation (which was "impossible"). It
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by api 11y ago
That will happen for automation and manufactured goods, but not for assets and anything else leveraged. If anything the in-deflation we are seeing today will be amplified as central banks will be forced to keep money cheap to avoid total de
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by api 11y ago
It's not here yet , but automation able to fully replace human beings for a huge number of jobs will eventually come. At that point a universal basic income will be the only option other than walling off the majority of humanity in gh
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by api 11y ago
So essentially you're saying (and also re: your other comments) that this is basically a bunch of nothing?
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by api 11y ago
How are these agreements anything less than the end of national sovereignty?
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by api 11y ago
The only mechanism I'm aware of that truly allows anonymity over your own connection (or a connection that can be tied to you) is onion routing. On top of that, you must do it from a separate device or isolated VM to prevent hardware f
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by api 11y ago
Hardware is only a tiny, tiny part of the cost of developing a system for general use by huge numbers of people. If you don't believe me, do a price check on cloud hosting and then keep in mind that cloud hosting must be profitable so
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by api 11y ago
Those are legitimate issues that you have to keep in mind for certain. What I described is an ideal that is intentionally not reachable in practice, like "the home is all of efficient, attractive, well located, and cheap." In real
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by api 11y ago
It's not just true for security, but also to some extent for usability. At ZeroTier we develop our core network virtualization engine with a very strict philosophy about settings and features: * Any setting a user must adjust or manage
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by api 11y ago
If it were easy, think of the evolutionary advantage: you're never vulnerable to predators and you get twice as much working time per day. The fact that sleep still exists seems to suggest that this is hard and involves some nasty trad
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by api 11y ago
Yes, the OP makes that point as well and it's also very relevant. PG's point on that issue is dated. Today we have a "stack" that automates a lot of the grunt work: ZenPayroll, Clerky, Stripe, etc. A single founder can j
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by api 11y ago
"If you’re unable to convince friends to start a business with you, PG says it’s a vote of no confidence. But, what if you’re like me and you don’t have a lot of entrepreneurial friends? Or, maybe you do, but they don’t want to work on
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by api 11y ago
For Apple the review process is more about offering a clean user experience for their users to sell more phones/tablets/macs.
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by api 11y ago
If you're ever in Irvine, California, e-mail support@zerotier.com for a beer.
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by api 11y ago
You mean this will chase MS out of enterprise? Awesome! It means we don't have to support them anymore! (Supporting Windows is 10X more work than all other platforms combined due to stupid "can't reproduce here" proble

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