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by e1ven 8y ago
I might be willing (and even prefer!) to actually buy it online, but before I'd be willing to consider that I'd want to sit in one and do a test-drive at the very least.. I'm not going to buy 4 cars and return 3 of them to be
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by e1ven 8y ago
If they're going to do that, I'd leave the disbursement to the state. That'd be easier for companies (just send one check), and provide a privacy preserving proxy between the payment and payee.
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by e1ven 8y ago
I agree, and paying people directly doesn't make a whole lot of economic sense. But if it meaninfully increases the cost of using the targeted data, it could be an interesting trade-off. Almost like a carbon tax isn't designed to
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by e1ven 8y ago
I apolgoize that I don't have any references available at the moment, but I've read in several books that Microsoft insiders said it made an enormous difference. Having the government essentially watching their every move caused t
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by e1ven 8y ago
There are a million other things which should also be done. Saying "What about these other things?" isn't particularly constructive to the discussion of this proposal. There's nothing in it which precludes changes to the
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by e1ven 8y ago
Microsoft was going to be broken up, until the political landscape changed. Even without the breakup, Microsoft was under heavy scrutiny and regulation as a result of the court case, which insiders say dramatically changed the company cultu
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Mercedes Concept EQV delivers an all-electric luxe vision of van life(techcrunch.com)
2 points by e1ven 8y ago|0 comments
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by e1ven 8y ago
It's certainly the right direction! I applaud them for pushing this. From the article, it looks like many of the others are reproducible on a code level, but the release system is using older binaries, which haven't been rebuilt y
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The Feds’ Favorite iPhone Hacking Tool Is Selling on eBay– and It’s Leaking Data(forbes.com)
8 points by e1ven 8y ago|1 comments
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by e1ven 8y ago
The slide at https://www.redhat.com/files/summit/session-assets/2017/LT12... says that the License will be displayed on the Get Image page. This page says (for the NodeJS image) "Before downloading
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by e1ven 8y ago
One big difference is that (afaik) people aren't putting vagrant images into production, it's for local development.
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SEC declares war on Elon Musk after another misleading tweet(arstechnica.com)
12 points by e1ven 8y ago|5 comments
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by e1ven 8y ago
I agree they are abhorrent and I'd prefer if they were banned. From a practical perspective, try pressing the second button down on the right. This will mute on most models.
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by e1ven 8y ago
Are there many proxies which don't allow IMAP?
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by e1ven 8y ago
Signal is probably the best combination of easy-to-use/secure.
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by e1ven 8y ago
What do you mean by 'fake rocket'? A prototype built for display, not for launching?
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by e1ven 8y ago
Apple had previously used Bing as the default search in certain areas, such as Siri and the Search bar.
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by e1ven 8y ago
Thanks! It looks like the driving factors are that it's a combined plant, and gas is too expensive on site. We did examine both the operating and fuel costs of a gas option. It costs less to build a gas plant; however, gas is a more ex
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by e1ven 8y ago
It's an interesting reflection of changing dynamics for startups - When YC started, it was in Boston, before later moving to SF. Now that they're expanding to do some interviews on the East Coast again, they're doing them in
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by e1ven 8y ago
I'd love to hear more details about why they didn't work out than the article goes into. I'm guessing it's because of the combined heat and electric?
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by e1ven 8y ago
Obviously Reddit, particularly r/programming Slashdot.org is still around Metafilter.org is still going http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes https://lobs
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by e1ven 8y ago
I worked on a project a few years ago to render screenshots to imagemaps, then used server side imagemap processing to click. Made modern websites work in Netscape 2 :)
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by e1ven 8y ago
To be fair, I've been following YC for 12 years and I didn't recall that Instacart was a YC company until I saw the parent's comment. There are just too many to keep track of, even for the big guys. That said, I don't kn
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by e1ven 8y ago
I think his point is that SV has had a lot of companies lately which ignore regulations that are inconvenient. This helps them grow when they are are small, and then when they get bigger they can either fight it in court, lobby, etc. For ex
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by e1ven 8y ago
Semi-paid volunteers are legally tricky - https://priceonomics.com/the-aol-chat-room-monitor-revolt/ People volunteer to moderate communities because they care about the value of that community. Not dissimilar from run
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by e1ven 8y ago
There were some at https://imgur.com/c7UWQa9
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by e1ven 8y ago
I had worked on one a few years ago, which used a DHT to exchange messages which were signed GPG JSON. At one point I had it using a Dining Cryptographers-style algorithm to post messages fairly anonymously. I don't recall if that stay
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by e1ven 8y ago
There are allegations that he's paid to post things on behalf of companies. One such complaint is https://old.reddit.com/r/HailCorporate/comments/amg6kr/netfl...
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by e1ven 8y ago
It hasn't launched publicly yet, but that seems to be what Tildes is going for. https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes
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Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation(techcrunch.com)
774 points by e1ven 8y ago|835 comments

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