crystaln

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by crystaln 7y ago
Is there something like Google Drive / Dropbox that allows you to use cloud storage with local encryption, that has nice OS integration on desktop and mobile?
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by crystaln 7y ago
Not fraud just bad business. If they spent the money in good faith expecting to make a profit, it is just bad business.
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by crystaln 7y ago
Why I will never live anywhere with roommates, or have an event, anywhere with one bathroom!
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by crystaln 7y ago
Even YC is cowed into silence by the might of China. Understandably so, even if somewhat cowardly. Does YC want China to boycott or otherwise disable YC companies? Does YC want to threaten any future relationship with China? No. So they kee
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by crystaln 7y ago
I am not sure why I would read or anyone would write such a thorough account of an obvious and largely beneficial technological trend. I do appreciate the art tho and did skim the entire article. Smartphones take astoundingly better picture
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by crystaln 7y ago
These descriptions all seem like nonsequitors which limits my interest. If it had any coherence it would seem super fun.
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by crystaln 7y ago
This seems intuitively obvious, not a miracle. Take every other element in a series that has any regularish omnidirectional trend, alternate addition and subtraction, and you are quite likely to end up with a zero convergence.
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by crystaln 7y ago
I suppose they could protest a 64GB pro version or they could buy a bigger one. I guess we all pick our battles.
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by crystaln 7y ago
Library consumers don’t seem like the most lucrative customer base.
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by crystaln 7y ago
Regardless of what you say as a founder, if the growth is not there and a massive opportunity arises, your investors will push you to pursue it. You won't have much choice, and this is an empty promise you can't keep. Personally I
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by crystaln 7y ago
Ok, fine - let's say you're going to inherit $100k and the art.
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by crystaln 7y ago
So if this piece were the only thing you inherited and you were broke, you would owe the Irs $29M and have no way to pay it. Your heirs will repeat this exercise unless you donate it - and still owe the taxes.
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by crystaln 7y ago
And like PHP an extraordinary amount of good engineering has poured in after bad, resulting in a quite workable even good products with technical debt. I might also make the comparison to MS-DOS / Windows. Not sure why this is downvote
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by crystaln 7y ago
Not if there is a critical mass of people opting out.
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by crystaln 7y ago
This seems like the sort of social good organization that should be revived as a non-profit with government support. This is such an important organization for the future of education and economic innovation.
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by crystaln 7y ago
It is still subject to legal constraints, and when exposed there is at least the possibility of consequences and changes. In China it is entirely legal, tolerated, and expected. In China the intrusions can entirely unsubtle and deep, wherea
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by crystaln 7y ago
The US spying is subject to a strained but ultimately effective legal and constitutional system. There is no comparison between the US government's transgressions, and the Chinese government's complete unrestricted impunity to spy
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by crystaln 7y ago
It has a much better name for one.
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by crystaln 8y ago
Cool. I wonder when they will shut it down. I largely ignore Google products announcements these days. Why bother getting excited about things that won't last?
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by crystaln 8y ago
Whataboutism?
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by crystaln 8y ago
Indeed however "government entity" could refer to Saudi or Russian states also. I haven't seen any indication they were referring to the US government.
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by crystaln 8y ago
They shut Reader down specifically to shift users over to G+, instead of turning Reader into a broader social network. This would be like if Mark Zuckerberg had shut down Facebook b/c he didn't want to build a yearbook product and
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by crystaln 8y ago
The real tragedy here is the destruction of Reader for a failed and ill-conceived product. Had Google used the passionate Reader community as a base to build a high quality content based social network, they would be a powerful force in soc
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by crystaln 8y ago
Because they can hold BTC for the purpose of using ethereum apps instead of selling BTC.
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by crystaln 8y ago
For sure if you are using any app or OS over which you don't have complete knowledge and control, and which isn't entirely unhackable, you are trusting someone somewhere. Application companies will always be able to backdoor their
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by crystaln 8y ago
Sometimes we get the interface we deserve.
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by crystaln 8y ago
Maybe someone should create a site like this that runs all security exploits on SO in your browser.
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by crystaln 8y ago
I don't think I would support this in an engineering organization. There are so many people focused on solving these problems, that I believe not being able to make an existing solution work well is for lack of trying. I'm a bit o
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by crystaln 8y ago
Firebase is really awesome. However there kinds of reliability issues and the lack of integrity and communication with which Google handles such things are major reasons I would avoid committing to it. On top of that, Google's history
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by crystaln 8y ago
Happy Birthday is in the public domain now. As of a few years ago though, it was indeed legally murky though perhaps not unwise as long as performed in your basement with the lights out, and all in attendance are trusted and sworn to secrec

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