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811.
by gonehome 5y ago
Even in the hypothetical case of this law leading to google not providing email (neither of which I think would happen) you'd just end up on some other server run by some other corporation with all of the risks that entails. You could
812.
by gonehome 5y ago
Email is centralized on a handful of providers (mostly gmail).
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by gonehome 5y ago
We agree on the issues, but don't agree on the solution. I don't think Matrix will be able to compete. I think Signal is the best available option today for most people, but the risks you outline are real. I think Urbit is our bes
814.
by gonehome 5y ago
Agreed - at that level you're talking nearly 100M for each employee? Maybe more? Even if I'm off by a magnitude (and I think I'm not) - that's life changing money for everyone that helped him build Whatsapp.
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by gonehome 5y ago
Matrix doesn't solve these issues, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29882848 That said, I think Matrix is cool and appreciate what they're trying to do. I just think without solving the upstream problems
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by gonehome 5y ago
You may personally prefer it just as some niche audience still personally prefers to run their own email server, but your grandma will never prefer it or use it and neither will 90% of the public. Email is an example of this class of failur
817.
by gonehome 5y ago
The only reason Whatsapp was bidded up to an insane 19 Billion sale value was because Acton did not want to sell. Note that it's not insane in terms of value (in hindsight this was clearly a good buy for FB), but insane when consider
818.
by gonehome 5y ago
Moxie's post that your Matrix link was a response to: https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/ I think Moxie is right, federation will lead back to recentralized services (for the reasons Moxie outlin
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by gonehome 5y ago
My take on Marie Kondo was people were more willing to listen to an outsider that told them to get rid of old things and clean up their house than someone they knew. If your local friend came over and said “clean up your shit” you’d just ig
820.
by gonehome 5y ago
It’s a speech issue and the ability for private companies to exercise their own moderation is the free speech position. A government forcing private companies to implement policies around speech is a violation of their speech. My take on
821.
by gonehome 5y ago
Yeah, most people I know have a lot of respect for Thiel (myself included) even if they have serious political disagreements with his trump support.
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by gonehome 5y ago
It's worth learning and really doesn't take that much time to get to a decent wpm. It makes it way easier to communicate via text.
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by gonehome 5y ago
I'd argue it's a different kind of learning though. QWERTY is more 'what you see is what you get' - you push a key and you get that letter. Sure the layout is weird and learning to type takes some effort, but there'
824.
by gonehome 5y ago
Large, hard to store and carry upstairs, often stolen, more limited in where you can easily ride them. I’ve been tempted by an ebike and have a fancy bike for long cycling rides, but the Onewheel is just easier for lots of quick small stuff
825.
by gonehome 5y ago
The OneWheel is great in SF, I can take it 1.2mi to drop something off at the UPS store and back in 15min. Doing this with mass transit would take an hour, walking would take an hour, driving would be a pain because of parking. It's gr
826.
by gonehome 5y ago
Is it possible to take the money and just not do any of that? Just increase your runway? I’d guess it’s socially impossible even if it’d be legally allowed. PG alludes to this idea with the treasury comment, but I really wonder about it. Ma
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by gonehome 5y ago
Yeah, I ran linux on the desktop (and laptop) for years and I learned a lot, but it sucks. Occasionally I see comments on HN and I’m inspired to try again. It still sucks every time. Basic stuff like bad trackpad support, laptop failing to
828.
by gonehome 5y ago
I grew up in Western New York before moving to the Bay Area for work. People really love my hometown. It’s okay, you can adapt to any place and make the most of it. But I think the coastal cities are much better places to live. More opportu
829.
by gonehome 5y ago
Most of us live with roommates.
830.
by gonehome 5y ago
There are a large amount of people that think the Republican subservience to trump is a “political train wreck” and also hate the progressive politics of the far left. A lot of people that would have preferred Bloomberg, some center left,
831.
by gonehome 5y ago
The bad reasoning is what makes me uncomfortable. Most of the time it doesn’t matter, but sometimes it matters a lot. It’s the “if you have a problem with fundamentalists, maybe there is something wrong with your fundamentals?” When otherwi
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by gonehome 5y ago
I’d guess it’s obvious to others (and probably you) given one in the example is a lot more efficient, but for clarity the M1 Max was the Tesla.
833.
by gonehome 5y ago
Ubiquiti Unifi setup is the sweet spot, good hardware and software at a decent price.
834.
by gonehome 5y ago
Flighty - far and away the best app for flights, not even close. The plus subscription is worth every cent. Bottomless - my internet connected coffee scale, I love this thing. Stratechery - probably the best tech/software newsletter av
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by gonehome 5y ago
More like a Tesla vs a gas guzzling rocket car. Rocket car may be technically faster under optimal conditions - but everything else about it sucks.
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by gonehome 5y ago
Apples iOS contact whitelist (silence unknown callers) fixes this. I’d request two features. - Some API that allows apps to get through (like door dash) - Ability to disable for a brief period (30min? A day?) when expecting a call from an u
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by gonehome 5y ago
> “ These things are all inevitable consequences of federated communications systems.” Only of ones that have historically existed with these flaws. One of the reasons I think urbit is cool is that the non zero (but low) ID cost solves t
838.
by gonehome 5y ago
The US is a big and varied place and the culture is interesting - though I’m biased. People are free to meet their ambitions and achieve great things without as much cultural cynicism. That said, even across states that have wildly differen
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by gonehome 5y ago
I got my booster shot scheduled in one of the Walgreens about a week before it closed (300 gough st), this is anecdotal but it's what it felt like there. I live in dogpatch and like SF (the area I live is nice). The shelves were 90% em
840.
by gonehome 5y ago
I just modify it directly in the console (I have to search to look up the command every time).

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