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by davidu 7y ago
This is the wrong dichotomy and it's a false one perpetuated by Mozilla. Users can have end to end encrypted DNS and browsers shouldn't be hijacking it. To put it another way, you don't want the people who only care about eye
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by davidu 7y ago
You know this is a very superficial understanding of what has happened right? And it doesn't capture how the design of the algorithms are actually shaping peoples views? The idea that it just gives you what you want is just not an accu
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by davidu 7y ago
same
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by davidu 7y ago
This is essentially a hijacking of the DNS as far as I’m concerned. The sale of .org is heinous; And I’m an unabashed capitalist. There is absolutely nothing defensible about this move that I can see. Is there any argument that this is bene
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by davidu 7y ago
Most funds these days, at large firms, are fully deployed within three years. So a ten year fund still has 7 years left on the clock, and then there are ways to extend the clock beyond that. The huge winners take even longer to reach a liqu
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by davidu 7y ago
Here's a scenario of punishing the American dream: Imagine you're a startup founder who has a high-flying startup. You own 20%. It just got valued at $800,000,000. Now you're worth $160,000,000 ON PAPER. That's awesome.
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by davidu 7y ago
Correct. And the reality is, this is a reaction to a hypothetical threat (though certainly an obnoxious threat) -- name one company Amazon launching a hosted version of their open source code has killed? I believe the current number is ZERO
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by davidu 7y ago
"The DNS was co-opted in this effort and OpenDNS tried to achieve this with a recursive resolver that performed NXDOMAIN redirection into a search engine, in a reprise of Sitefinder. For a short period, OpenDNS also redirected the doma
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by davidu 7y ago
Isn't this what Partner ID is designed for? "Injects" is a strong word. Maybe "Hashicorp provides an Azure Partner ID in Terraform deployments for deployment stats, and some users may not want that" would be a bette
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by davidu 7y ago
But finally there are viable, open, replacements that are emerging: https://www.2dimensions.com/explore/popular/trending/all which uses Flare: https://www.2dimensions.com/about-flare (and is
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by davidu 7y ago
I've been running one in AWS on a micro instance and I don't like running it. I'd have paid for this had I seen it when I was doing this.
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by davidu 7y ago
This is a great passive income type of business. Here's a nearly identical version that a number of folks use: https://hostifi.net/
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by davidu 7y ago
I don't doubt the headline, but "We observe all individuals who began to day trade between 2013 and 2015 in the Brazilian equity futures market" seems like a weird way to come to that conclusion.
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by davidu 7y ago
More interestingly, the github repo is just a wonderful example of a fully built application using modern techniques in a microservices architecture: https://github.com/DMarby/picsum-photos It's so hard to always
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by davidu 7y ago
Regardless of the legal ownership structure (I believe the SSRN perspective), it is effectively "state directed when needed." That's not a xenophobic perspective, that's a reality of being a company in China and it&#x27
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by davidu 7y ago
There are no bad ideas, just early ones. (I believe this was first said by my partner Marc)
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by davidu 7y ago
You have no evidence of that (and I totally disagree) and you just continued to drag her into this years later. Just because someone has found employment is not much of a signal of how they are doing. I think you should edit your post and a
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by davidu 7y ago
My comments back in January (before the 2nd crash): https://twitter.com/davidu/status/1085881783319699458 """ Semi-related, they also found the 737MAX cockpit voice recorder from the downed Lion Air
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by davidu 7y ago
"The answer to the AMP URL problem are "signed exchanges", which allow a publisher's domain to be displayed in the browser address bar, even though the content is loaded from Google's cache when a user clicks on an
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by davidu 7y ago
Another approach to this (doing quite well): https://onuniverse.com/
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by davidu 7y ago
Just s/Los Angeles/San Francisco/g and it's the same story.
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by davidu 7y ago
I believe all of these justices care a lot more about their legacy of justice and the sanctity of the court than anything else.
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by davidu 7y ago
My understanding is that when compared to alternative, qualified, right-leaning candidates, he was the most moderate. This is just based on people I know who have worked with him and tried cases in front of him.
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by davidu 7y ago
That certainly could be true. I like to believe supreme court justices remember that with that role comes with the truest ability to be impartial and unbeholden.
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by davidu 7y ago
Prior to the confirmation insanity, Kavanaugh was viewed as one of the best supreme court justice nominations for all sides. All the confirmation hearings did was potentially radicalize him to the right. One of the best things about being a
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by davidu 7y ago
This isn't really true. The wholesale networks are operating at speeds that make this kind of sniffing impractical. I'm not saying they don't ever siphon traffic for LEO or other reasons, but not for privacy-violating/
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by davidu 8y ago
Related: Second System Effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect As an aside, I'd love the Twitter engineering teams that fixed the fail whale to one day write about this as it related to fixing Tw
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by davidu 8y ago
This feature still shows up almost constantly for me... there are a few flavors (some of which appear contemporaneously on a single product page for me) including "after looking at this item people purchased..." and "similar
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by davidu 8y ago
This is a good post and it was pretty comprehensive. Worth noting however, that there are many more hairy solutions Fred didn't raise. For instance, some founders will negotiate a grant upon IPO or upon sale of a company beyond $x doll
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by davidu 8y ago
DNS does not need to be plaintext and DoH is not the only alternative. It's the alternative that the advertising engines and CDNs prefer because it extends control. The privacy of DNS argument is a major red herring. DNSCrypt (or DNS o

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