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by ggg9990 8y ago
No it’s not. The way big companies are dealing with the GDPR is to ask their lawyers what to do. The lawyers define compliance very expansively since they’re not the ones doing the work and they are the ones who will be blamed if the EU com
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Windows Phone was dead as a doornail long before the 950.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
If Microsoft couldn’t force their way into the phone market late, no way a startup was going to.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
The one thing I spent years teaching my wife is that when there’s anything untoward on the highway, JUST STOP. I’ve avoided at least two major accidents by stopping instead of swerving — in a few feet you can get your speed down to levels w
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by ggg9990 8y ago
OK, the GDPR conversation has officially gone off the deep end. The EU does not care about your server with videos of your house.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
The chance that a random implementer has a security vulnerability is much higher than that Jeff Bezos is listening to me watch TV. A private system is more vulnerable to target attack and an Amazon system is more vulnerable to mass surveill
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by ggg9990 8y ago
I have lived in several countries and I know I would have a terribly difficult time emigrating from the US and living elsewhere, even if things got really bad. It’s probably the local version of the same thing.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Interesting point. The cryptocurrency energy consumption problem will never be solved, since if it is, it will be economically feasible to attack. So cryptocurrency adoption in the mainstream will require massive electricity consumption.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
The GDPR exists for the EU to help itself to some $billion of the >$1 trillion increase in the value of US tech companies over the last three years. If you live in the real world, and not in the theoretical world of law as written, you d
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by ggg9990 8y ago
I think most of the talk is about increasing the number of women and non-Asian nonwhites. I’ve heard very little talk about being more respectful of people’s humanity (whether applicants, employees, or the general public).
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Most companies don’t care how discouraging they are to the people they don’t hire.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
I am not going to say that this is a bad thing. One thing about managing a widely distributed company, with workers of various skill levels, is creating crystal clear rules. The rule that “everything you fill in online MUST be an exact repl
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by ggg9990 8y ago
It's just hard to get a business to $9m with too many of those in place, and I'm assuming that the unit economics of any SaaS are really good unless it's one of those products that is built on human labor like voice transcrip
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by ggg9990 8y ago
If you imagine finding some big stash of amber with, say, 1 million different dinosaur fragments preserved, you could imagine using some statistical techniques combined with knowledge of extant related species to put something together.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
How did a $9m ARR company fail to receive a Series A? Disagreement over terms?
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Not that surprising when food and safety are two of the most basic human needs.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Consequences be damned, if I could make Jurassic Park, I would.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
If Microsoft is anything like my company, they’ve stopped collection on any PII that they can’t deliver back to the user in response to a privacy request. So they probably have stricken those columns from their DB and are only aggregating d
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by ggg9990 8y ago
All lists of this type are not “do this and you’ll succeed” but rather “don’t do these and you’ll increase your likelihood of failure.” Just like looking before you cross the street won’t ensure you survive, but not looking will make it qui
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Did you get to the part about violent confrontations between would-be chargers trying to claim the same scooter?
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Each scooter has about a 300 Watt Hour battery, call it 60% charging efficiency (likely way more efficient than that) and you’re only talking about five cents of electricity per scooter.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
I built the high level system but out of stock components from the usual suspects. I used off the shelf components though. Standard High CRI LED strips, stock power supplies, 0-10v dimmers, and a Raspberry Pi in charge. Most of the hardware
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by ggg9990 8y ago
I’ve installed this lighting through the ground floor of my house. It’s not continuously variable but has three different white point LED strip lighting systems that are transitioned from one to the other based on the color temperature read
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by ggg9990 8y ago
A specific definition of what is psychological warfare is required only if you're trying to enforce it by law.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Some people who have been considered great leaders have manipulated people into something that is perhaps against their interests, but in the long-term interest of society at large. It's hard to say that the soldiers who died in the Ci
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Perhaps different people's experiences are different?
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Yes, but I don’t think you find a ton of highly skilled 18 year old software engineers in the US selling RCEs in the black market for $200K, so I’m not sure you find that in Uruguay.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
It would be no skin of Google’s back to multiply these bug bounties by 10, and they should.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
I’m not sure how familiar you are with South America but Uruguay is one of the most developed countries in the Western Hemisphere, in the group right behind the US and Canada.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Just like wearing turtlenecks won’t make you Steve Jobs, maintaining a corporate culture of total secrecy will not make you Apple.

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