brunoTbear

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by brunoTbear 7y ago
That's fair. 3x valuation growth in the last 5 years is tech company level. More or less the same trajectory as GOOG and FB. It's not Stripe or Airbnb level growth, however.
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by brunoTbear 7y ago
Will be interesting to see the terms for the acquisition and see if Mary Meeker's last investment for KP was a winner or not! I'm cautiously optimistic for a good outcome for the Plaid folks here: last round was two years ago for
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by brunoTbear 7y ago
ChromeOS has offline support for docs editing. Everywhere, even airplanes, have reliable wifi these days. Connections to the cloud are only becoming more reliable. Your take is FUD and old.
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by brunoTbear 7y ago
This is a confusing and boring take. A) You have to trust third parties. B) It's boring to point out what Google has killed. But when you look at that list there's nothing as substantial as ChromeOS. Finally, ChromeOS is incredibl
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by brunoTbear 7y ago
I think this was a remarkable piece of journalism. Bloomberg standing by it, to me, speaks of a national security source that they cannot identify. Imagine the struggle of the journalists to pull together a story of national security intere
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by brunoTbear 7y ago
That's a pretty big stretch.
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by brunoTbear 7y ago
This is not necessarily about uniquely tracking users. This is likely about telling automation from manual traffic to login. Credential stuffing is a large enough problem for account takeover and the cost to a user of losing their gmail acc
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by brunoTbear 7y ago
Turning everyone into deputies to enforce that their friends not borrow their car seems pretty lousy to me. Reminds me of those felony murder laws, or the laws that punish parents where their children host binge drinking parties without the
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by brunoTbear 7y ago
Calling it "Dogor" as both meaning Friend in a local language and a play on "dog or wolf" is the kind of word play humor we deserve.
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by brunoTbear 7y ago
I’m heartened to see more aggressive screening protocols be studied. Fear of iatrogenic harms seem to cloud our progress towards early treatment.
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by brunoTbear 7y ago
I worked at a startup that structured their values to be explicit tradeoffs between two equally valid choices generally, but where one choice was more valid for the startup. For example, we held something to the effect of "We value ope
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by brunoTbear 7y ago
Don't forget the impact of hydrogen on metals: turn everything brittle. For a company founded on reusable componentry, Hyrdogen in your turbopumps, fuel chambers, combustion chambers etc. is kind of a deal breaker.
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by brunoTbear 7y ago
I'm surprised to not see any current Stripe employees in here commenting on the move. Usually you'd see one of The Brothers Collison in a HN Stripe thread. As a former Stripe (ex-Stripe?), I do buy the story of running out of room
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by brunoTbear 7y ago
Yes, to a very large extent
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by brunoTbear 7y ago
The best part is the minifactory at the bottom of the page. Completely nuts to launch a rocket in that small of a space in that little time. Everyone should scroll down and check it out if you haven't.
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by brunoTbear 7y ago
WFIW I didn't advocate backdooring either, I'm just asking how we, as technologists, balance what I think are reasonable and compelling goals: protect user data, and protect children. One reasonable answer is that FB/Google&#
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by brunoTbear 7y ago
I'm not sure what the logical fallacy is you're referring to. I'm not advocating that we backdoor encryption. I'm asking what's the nuance in privacy vs crime prevention. I guess your position is one of an absolute,
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by brunoTbear 7y ago
You may be radically underestimating the degree to which the Internet has made it possible for people who abuse children to share content. In some cases, these crimes truly couldn't be perpetrated without the anonymity of the Internet,
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by brunoTbear 7y ago
That's still not an especially resounding success, or an especially relevant metric for us to understand the efficacy of FB's detection systems, and doesn't help us understand whether encryption of content is going to hurt hu
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by brunoTbear 7y ago
The claim of catching 99% of activity is really hard to justify. In many detection systems you cannot know your true number of false negatives. It's inherently unknowable in this case. A better metric would be mean time to detection fo
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by brunoTbear 7y ago
Discussion of this article and the article itself are mixing issues: 1) differing taxes in SF between tech and banks. This is a difference of a few basis points in taxes. Square doesn't want to be taxed as a bank here. This will cost
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by brunoTbear 7y ago
The fact that Homeworld wasn't mentioned until the last paragraph was a major case of "they had us in the first half not gonna lie" for me. Cannot wait for the sequel. I spent so many hours playing HW1. Great balance of macro
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by brunoTbear 7y ago
I didn't see the terms on that Tiger capital round anywhere online (very cursory search tho, so I'm open to being wrong!), but they raised $75 just 2 months ago. I wonder what the terms on that round were and what this acquisition
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by brunoTbear 7y ago
You got downvotes, I hope because your tone isn't super productive, not because HN doesn't like the realist viewpoint you're taking.
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by brunoTbear 7y ago
Terrapass seems to say my CO2 emissions from flying so far this year are going to come in around 13 metric tons. At $1000 per ton this isn't feasible. At $100 I'd think about it. At $10 it's not a question that I'd buy i
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by brunoTbear 7y ago
I'm surprised by the size of the commit. If $1M is the floor for what a Stripe-sized org is willing to spend, how expensive would a carbon tax actually be? Are there good estimators for my impact as a consumer and how much I need to co
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by brunoTbear 7y ago
What I want to know is who is behind the 5G fear-mongering. I see this all the time and from different places. My poor conspiracy-minded elderly uncle in western Pennsylvania has been had by Fox News and the rest of the insane-right. He sen
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by brunoTbear 7y ago
Who else would you put in that league?
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by brunoTbear 7y ago
The comparison is best with San Diego as a warning: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/09/13/550674476...
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by brunoTbear 7y ago
It's not a matter of not holding it until they get home. These people are homeless, and often resort to things like shitting in a suitcase. No joke: https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Neighbors-disgusted

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