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The Untold Story of How Jeff Bezos Beat the Tabloids(bloomberg.com)
2 points by fossuser 5y ago|0 comments
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Why Cryonics Makes Sense(waitbutwhy.com)
3 points by fossuser 5y ago|2 comments
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by fossuser 5y ago
I really liked Small Fry. It’s written by his daughter and it’s more about her life and their relationship than his, but I think that’s the reason it’s really good. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/08/lisa
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by fossuser 5y ago
I agree founder led companies are more like dictatorships (though feudal earldoms may be a better analogy?), this becomes less true in older companies no longer lead by a founder. I agree there’s risk (founder could lose touch or go crazy),
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by fossuser 5y ago
This is why I'm in favor of founder controlled shares (Founder's Fund companies tend to do this - Zuckerberg at FB). Founder's retain total voting control of the company and can do what they think is in the best interest of t
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by fossuser 5y ago
I thought it was pretty funny how similar Henry David Thoreau sounds to a certain modern day archetype in silicon valley. Interesting overlap between the industrial and computer revolutions too.
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Walden: 19th Century Vanlife(obscuredinosaurfacts.com)
1 points by fossuser 5y ago|1 comments
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by fossuser 5y ago
I wonder if it's possible to make some sort of patent troll insurance company. Basically a company that attempts to collect as many patents as possible to weaponize against trolls and then provides legal protection to clients from trol
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by fossuser 5y ago
The end goal of this based on what I've seen from Open AI examples and related beta projects is more high level language -> code. "Write a standard sign up page" -> Generated HTML "Write a unit test to test for X&q
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by fossuser 5y ago
People have made some variation of this argument since the move from writing binary to writing assembly. With every new layer of abstraction there’s more power. The long term benefit of a tool that can do this well far exceeds what humans c
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by fossuser 5y ago
Interesting about the beta blockers - docs mostly seem pretty clueless about this kind of thing and often suggest benzodiazepines (lorazepam, alprazolam, etc.) or SSRIs - neither of which I really want to take given their negative effects.
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by fossuser 5y ago
Yeah - I think it's a normal human experience, but there's a spectrum of intensity. It becomes a problem when it starts limiting you from doing what you want to do. Bobby Fischer was also terrified before chess matches, Elon Musk
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by fossuser 5y ago
I can relate to the anxiety before something like that which often then disappears when you start. I feel similarly before technical interviews and it’s really unpleasant, the fear holds you back from doing things you’d otherwise want to do
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by fossuser 5y ago
Yeah, same issue in the Bay Area. It’s frustrating because increasing housing supply has so many positive effects for the group. It’d make life so much easier.
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by fossuser 5y ago
Yeah, people like having purpose and feel good contributing to a shared goal. If the work is stimulating, and the company is doing something you find valuable (or it’s your own company) then that’s very fulfilling. There’s some cultural tro
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by fossuser 5y ago
Even fastmail is still using a centralized service. I use fastmail (with my own domain) and hardest part about the switch from gmail was going through all the crappy website account flows to change email (some of which are impossible). I dr
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by fossuser 5y ago
I mostly agree, but many of these choices are constrained by problems. We use gmail (or fastmail) because of the spam problem and your own email server getting blacklisted. Also the complexity and know-how necessary to be a linux admin. Man
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by fossuser 5y ago
Yeah - I think things are generally a lot better than they were when it comes to a precocious kid's ability to access interesting information. The issue now isn't scarcity so much as abundance, avoiding apps designed to be addicti
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by fossuser 5y ago
> “An extraordinary claim should have unambiguous, clear, unassailable proof.” This level of requirement is beyond what’s required to convict someone of murder in a court of law. It’ll basically never be met under any conditions. It’s al
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by fossuser 5y ago
We're lucky - it's at the top of a hill overlooking a giant valley up mosquito road I think on the west side of town? It took a few tries and there is still a minor obstruction which causes occasional 10s drops. It's my in-la
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by fossuser 5y ago
We got Starlink in Placerville California and it’s great. Just make sure you place the dish in a location with zero obstructions. 50-180mbps down and 24-40ms latency. ~25mbps up.
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by fossuser 5y ago
Doesn’t have to be left vs. right. Politically motivated reasoning can come from any party or person. The comic’s content suggested some anti-Hillary sentiment, that paired with “Russiagate” suggested some pro-Bernie political lean, Green P
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by fossuser 5y ago
I thought the latter CFFA charge is what helps to enable to former? IANAL though so I could easily be wrong about this. Basically helping to break into the computer system moves you out of the realm of journalist and into the realm of polit
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by fossuser 5y ago
They traced it back to the IRA and named the specific people involved on the Russian side and the method (email phish of Podesta). The Mueller report goes into specific detail or you can listen to the lawfare blog podcast that goes through
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by fossuser 5y ago
I think you’re overconfident in what you believe to be true based on the evidence that exists. The Russian bit can be politically inconvenient for you and yet also be true.
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by fossuser 5y ago
No, that’s not illegal for somebody without a clearance. The crime he’s charged with is that he was willing to (and I think did?) assist in breaking into a computer system to get the docs. I think under the CFAA. They have communication rec
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by fossuser 5y ago
Thanks - I think this is a good counter argument. My personal approach is to treat email as public communication and to delete archives aggressively. I recognize that this isn't something most people do.
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by fossuser 5y ago
Ah you're right - not sure why I thought that Protonmail was Russian, but they're not.
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by fossuser 5y ago
Yeah - and WNY is really great in terms of housing costs (I grew up outside of Buffalo). There are trade-offs to that cheaper cost too though. Mostly in terms of job availability (though maybe that's changing with remote work), stuff a
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by fossuser 5y ago
I think Fastmail is more honest - if you're using email and communicating with 90% of the rest of the world that uses gmail then the 'privacy' provided by proton mail is irrelevant. They're also based in [edit: I thought

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