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by gist 7y ago
Finding security vulnerabilities is an industry that gains by the type of wide and open disclosure that is done. And revels and enjoys the process and profits from it. An overwhelming majority of vulnerabilities if not actively pursued and
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Well that is true sure. But he wouldn't be PG (in the context of my point) if he hadn't made money based on what he has done. I mean I'd never read what he said if he was just a guy who did Lisp and wrote essays. And if I wa
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Represents most of what I hate about the 'security industrial complex'. Self serving and to that point at the bottom of the page is a link saying: 'With the discovery of the CDPwn vulnerabilities, organizations from every ind
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Snark, agree not needed. But this: > Perhaps you don't owe billionaires any better (btw, is pg one? I had no idea) He means in a sense 'rich as croesus' is my guess not literally that he has more than a billion (arbitrary
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> ever appear on the HN front page? They appear on the front page because of the 'Newman effect'. I just coined that term for back in the day what made Paul Newman's salad dressing successful and has since been copied as a
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From 1984 that is 36 years ago. And it's a RFC not the constitution or a law. After much discussion ICANN and parties decided to allow companies to own tld's. And they did.
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> "Niagara Falls", or "Yosemite", or "Grand Canyon" and the US government protested Not even close to being true. I have actually dealt with the US Government and have gotten explicit permission from them fo
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Stupid? Why is it 'stupid'? Because to you it's of no interest or need or the cost is more than you would like to spend? So therefore it's 'stupid'?
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> No individual entity -- person, place or corporation -- needs a TLD. The 'nobody needs' standard? That is what and how we think of things? Does anyone 'need' beer or football or 100,000 other things? In a market sys
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> If I write a review on TripAdvisor or Yelp or answer a question on Quora, I, the author, certainly don't get compensated for it. But you do get 'compensated' you get a good feeling from it. Along those lines there are ma
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> With a registry lock in place, your registrar cannot move your domain to another registrar on its own. Doing so requires manual contact verification by the appropriate domain registry, such as Verisign — which is the authoritative regi
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> had already protected their domain with a “registrar lock,” a service that requires the registrar to confirm any requested changes with the domain owner via whatever communications method is specified by the registrant. Wrong. That is
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> Except they might have read an article on CNBC or Fox that was based on a twitter thread. That's where it actually makes a difference, when it spills over into other media and picks up steam. Exactly (and what I said in my comment
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> and media are convinced Twitter is very important > Nothing is worse than getting criticized by the peanut gallery. Twitter can end careers, cancel television shows, bring down elected officials. Twitter is in a way like a street pr
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> I am skeptical that full self-driving cars will happen in the next few years, but he is completely wrong when it comes to the long term I think when someone says 'will never happen' they mean 'not in the foreseeable futu
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Reddit.com is not what anyone would consider a 'valuable' domain in any way. It's pretty much random. There wouldn't really isn't any good reason to not use a .com if you are going for a madeup and pretty much rando
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But why term it 'expensive'? For one you don't know the price but even assuming the cost was non trivial (and it almost certainly was I will agree to that) saying 'expensive' infers lack of value. It's almost t
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98% of Top YC Companies by valuation use a .com domain
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> I really do need to RTFM in depth for many AWS offerings Agree. But I think part of the plan with Amazon et al is that those who RTFM are locked in to the platform and therefore will be less likely to switch.
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> DigitalOcean continues to be a high-growth business with $275M in [annual recurring revenues] and more than 500,000 customers globally. Under this new organizational structure, we are positioned to accelerate profitable growth by conti
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Exactly my thought. But further I love when some well off VC (Fred Wilson does this type of thing often) will ask the community for something they could simply pay someone to write that fills 100% the need they have and is tailored toward t
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We will have to disagree on the point I guess. To me it's just a typical barrier that both tech people and attorneys throw up to keep out newbies and/or make it more difficult for them. And it's also somewhat (for lack of a b
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> The spectral signatures of the best companies I’ve invested in are remarkably similar Why is it necessary for writers to over-complicate with this type of phrasing any points that they are trying to make? My thought is it distracts. Wh
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Who is 'encouraging abuse and exploitation'? I am saying that adversity also creates opportunity. Along those lines we all know of people who grew up poor and that was the thing that made them work hard. Also what makes many immig
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> (I lasted about two months before I found a better job) because the job was so menial- and the managers so demeaning- that all joy in working was lost fairly regularly. That sounds like a good outcome though. If the job weren't so
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> to take a bus for an hour to get to your four-hour shift at a stressful minimum wage job, where your manager is abusive and the workplace is unsafe, your mental health may suffer Your statement sounds like what would be typically writt
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I remember that from the 70's as well.
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Or what would be also interesting is if PG replied to comments two ways and choose randomly his identity (by flip of a coin). He'd write a comment. Then flip a coin. One side he posts his comment (he doesn't comment anymore but le
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> Small businesses are the backbone of the American economy. And Mr. Graham is absolutely right to encourage young people to take risks early in life, to join small business startups with potentially limitless upside while they have noth
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I remember growing up old (I think it was) either Car and Driver or Road and Track letters to the editor where they would publish wacky hate letters and then reply in a funny way to the absurdity of the position or thought. So they actually

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