gtf21

31 ms·

301.
by gtf21 11y ago
I don't agree with this (EF#3 Cohort Member). I was pretty sceptical of accelerators before joining EF, and remain sceptical of VCs, but I found EF really useful for things that I just would not have seen coming (someone else has menti
302.
by gtf21 11y ago
Does anyone know of an independent audit/confirmation of the robustness of their privacy / security? I don't really know enough about crypto or security to be able to tell.
303.
by gtf21 11y ago
There's a behavioural difference here. If I don't see someone speak on a TV channel, then I don't assume they don't exist / aren't important. If I search for someone via Google / other search engine, and t
304.
by gtf21 11y ago
It's unfortunate that so much emphasis has been placed on biometrics (especially fingerprints) as a security measure, more so because of their convenience which lulls users into a false sense of security. Not only can biometrics not be
305.
by gtf21 11y ago
People are still having windoze vs. unix fights? In this day and age?
306.
by gtf21 11y ago
+1 for GUI-based configuration being a pain, having a dotfiles repo that I can edit, clone, fork, etc. is magical (and far more flexible).
307.
by gtf21 11y ago
The potential for Google to therefore decide who gets to speak, and therefore who doesn't, is terrifying.
308.
by gtf21 11y ago
git + symlinks ( https://github.com/gfarrell/dotfiles ). I use a makefile to set everything up
309.
France's Diminished Liberties(nytimes.com)
3 points by gtf21 11y ago|0 comments
310.
by gtf21 11y ago
I was talking about the homeschooling ;)
311.
by gtf21 11y ago
This article can't be serious... > Grad school on your resume is a formal announcement of a mistake. Studying something is a mistake if you don't dedicate the rest of your life to it, really? > She lives on a farm in Wiscons
312.
by gtf21 11y ago
Telegram has the same problem with "Secret Chats" which can only be read on the device from which they are initiated.
313.
by gtf21 11y ago
> The system should just disregard the touch That's exactly what I meant, should have been a bit clearer!
314.
by gtf21 11y ago
> schools are going to have to pay more attention to careers and what employers want I think it's time that we stopped seeing education as the means to get a job. Education != training and universities shouldn't exist just to g
315.
by gtf21 11y ago
I encounter this problem all the time, incidentally also with calls. Often I'll doing something at the same moment as someone else calls me, I end up hanging up the incoming call by mistake. A delay in "screen change" would b
316.
Judge tosses Wikimedia’s anti-NSA lawsuit because Wikipedia isn’t big enough(arstechnica.com)
3 points by gtf21 11y ago|2 comments
317.
by gtf21 11y ago
This is a really interesting idea that I hadn't thought of. It could have implications for the ability of people to express their ideas, and thus on their imaginations. It reminds me a little of Newspeak. Not that I'm suggesting t
318.
by gtf21 11y ago
Couldn't help it either. Their margins must be amazing.
319.
by gtf21 11y ago
But it's really quite hard to make using a one-time pad illegal, and even harder to make maths illegal, so practically, while they could install all the backdoors in the world, they would struggle, practically, to prevent people ever
320.
by gtf21 11y ago
They couldn't, as this video explains https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G8dPAdmyss If two people really wanted to communicate, they could still do the encryption on paper, and transmit the garbled messages.
321.
by gtf21 11y ago
The article does not seem to be suggesting that marijuana has improved road safety (have you actually read it?) > These figures in and of themselves only indicate that the roads are getting safer; they don’t suggest that pot had anything
322.
by gtf21 11y ago
I'm pretty sure that the point of the article is merely to debunk the idea that marijuana legalisation will lead to a mob of stoned drivers careening around the roads of Colorado. From the article: > These figures in and of themselv
323.
by gtf21 11y ago
YC W16 applications are open, sounds like you could give it a go if you think that this problem could apply to all schools and that schools would be willing to pay for it.
324.
by gtf21 11y ago
That's still not "Nazi-like". There are plenty of undemocratic systems that are not equivalent to the Nazi regime.
325.
UK and US demands to access encrypted data are 'unprincipled and unworkable'(theguardian.com)
2 points by gtf21 11y ago|0 comments
326.
by gtf21 11y ago
I suppose it depends on what the purpose of democracy is. Is it better create legislation, in which case it is a flawed system and should probably be changed, or is it, which is much more likely IMO, to allow citizens to have agency in thei
327.
by gtf21 11y ago
I'm pretty sure tests like these were used to exclude black voters in the US for a long time. I seem to remember them being literacy tests. There's a good reason we should not have tests. A democratic system as we now understand i
328.
by gtf21 11y ago
> Well, don't be then. I don't get this cry about walled gardens. Feel free to roam in the jungle if you don't like them. I really don't get why people pull this "if you don't like it, leave" argument (
329.
by gtf21 11y ago
It still makes no sense to have MM/DD/YYYY.
330.
by gtf21 11y ago
I think that the point was that she had been routinely this late for a decade. At that point it's not something "running over" but rather bad time management/lack of respect for your customers. > Now on project 9, you

More ›