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by api 12y ago
There's another reason this won't happen: very few users really care. If users really wanted it and clamored for it and showed a clear market preference for secure and privacy-respecting companies, then you might get somewhere.
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by api 12y ago
Lobbying against environmental or financial regulations is one thing. Taking on the national security state is something else entirely. I don't think it's loony or hyperbolic to say that the military/intelligence world really
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by api 12y ago
The situation globally and the situation in first world countries, particularly the USA, is quite different. Income inequality is falling in places like Brazil, India, and China but is rising in the developed world.
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by api 12y ago
Of these I think UX is the most significant. UX is where the proprietary walled gardens and centralized services always win. Good UX is unbelievably, grindingly hard. If you want to make a product with a good user interface and overall expe
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by api 12y ago
I notice few commenters have brought up the obvious deflationary pressure being brought to bear against authors and publishers here. The same thing has occurred in music and film. In the future is art and literature going to once again be t
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by api 12y ago
Any time I see something that is both interesting and obscure, like an article or a podcast, I have a tendency to packrat it. I have a USB RAID drive full of that stuff. It's a habit I've had for a while and it comes from exactly
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Peter Thiel on Financial Markets and the Singularity(youtube.com)
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The Republic of Bitcoin(medium.com)
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by api 12y ago
"No idea what it could be." Maybe it was really bad. :)
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by api 12y ago
"And the only way to figure out what those improvements are is to build them and see if a massive number of new users show up." That's sort of what I wrote here: https://www.zerotier.com/blog/?p=74 You c
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by api 12y ago
I'd add Dropbox alongside VMWare as a company that unlocked a huge "sleeper" market. Fundamentally I don't think those are counterexamples to the product-market fit thesis. These are cases where the huge market does exis
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by api 12y ago
Color? Or was that later?
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by api 12y ago
After reading a little I thought "yep, this is gonna be another conservative screed." Kept reading and yes, it's another conservative screed. I realize the author(s) might think they are liberals, but they're not. They&#
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by api 12y ago
I do think people understand that, and I think it's one of the reasons Glass seems like it's a failing product. People are drawing the line at wearing a heads-up mobile camera controlled by an advertising company.
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by api 12y ago
I wasn't even really dissing Google, just pointing out the reality of the world we live in. The fact is that very very few people really care about visionary things. There has to be a way to make it pay, and unfortunately surveillanc
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by api 12y ago
"Google isn't really a search company-- it's a machine learning company." No, it's an advertising company. That's who pays the bills. At the end of the day all this cool tech is to better understand and model h
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by api 12y ago
"How do we frame this so we can still screw the public on behalf of our lobbyist paymasters?" Takes time to figure that out.
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by api 12y ago
I'm a bit disturbed and annoyed by the popularity of the concept of social proof, and the fact that people assume its a good thing. I never see it discussed critically. How is it not a mechanism of entrenched elitism? Wouldn't peo
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by api 12y ago
I didn't say it was bad, just that it wasn't the primary asset that was acquired. Facebook could easily have built a massively cross platform mobile chat app in-house. ... and it wasn't the best, either... look up their singl
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by api 12y ago
These kinds of startups really aren't tech startups. They're media startups. It's not about their technology. When Facebook bought WhatsApp they were not buying technology. That being said-- trying to replicate such thing is
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by api 12y ago
I'm the author / creator of this. Saw this link in my web referer list and was happy... I submitted it to HN long ago and it stayed at the infernal "1". If anyone's got any questions ask me. I'll watch this thr
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by api 12y ago
The thing being parodied has no subtlety either.
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by api 12y ago
Gamifying crowd sourced intel about traffic patterns?
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by api 12y ago
App.net was centrally hosted and centrally controlled, so it wasn't really all that different from its competitors. It also had execution issues.
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by api 12y ago
The problem isn't that users don't care, but that there's no revenue model. As a result none of these decentralized networking or platform companies can get funding. Without funding, they don't have the resources to buil
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Ask HN: Entrepreneurial crowd funding smackdown: which platforms have you used?
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by api 12y ago
I completely agree. I'm seeing an increasing amount of real evidence backing up skepticism over what I call the "cult of the 80 hour work week." http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/06/27/sleep-as-a
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by api 12y ago
I think that's a good literary caricature of a very real possibility of how a post-scarcity or even post-singularity economy might look. It would also be in the best interest of your ruling class to occasionally drop money from helicop
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by api 12y ago
Markets can only be perfectly efficient if p==np.
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by api 12y ago
Interesting bright side you have there. I wonder if us startup heads are just early adopters and in the future everyone is an entrepreneur. I wonder if it could even get as weird as everyone raising rounds. So you graduate from college and

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