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by mmaunder 3y ago
There are some great non-alcoholic beers available now. I discovered a few flying friends around and not being able to drink but wanting to take them to a pub. Athletic is one, started by a hedge fund trader and is the fastest growing.
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by mmaunder 3y ago
Google has destroyed the Web by directing traffic from its SEPRPs to pages filled with their own ads that are stuffed with useless content to encourage scrolling and optimize for ranking. Google any recipe for details. Not sure if it’s any
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by mmaunder 3y ago
Woohoo.
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by mmaunder 3y ago
Everyone wants to not work for someone else and be the decision maker and lead a team. Entrepreneurship starts with being a builder.
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by mmaunder 3y ago
Is there a rule about commenting on comments about flagged posts?
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by mmaunder 3y ago
Stop pathologizing normal human feelings? If you're worried, learn how to use the tools to give yourself a competitive advantage. See steam trains, electricity, microchips, computers and the Web for historical examples of worried peopl
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Flagging. No need to provide even more clicks.
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It’s the guy collecting currency shells on the beach compared to a new Iron Age and the guy who has all the iron.
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by mmaunder 3y ago
A rebrand this early sends unhealthy signals.
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by mmaunder 3y ago
Kinda similar to DEF CON badges. Very cool!!
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Bomb threat last year caused evacuation: https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/14/def_con_bomb_scare/ In 2018 we had aggressive room searches post the Vegas shooting that caused a lot of friction: https:
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by mmaunder 3y ago
Thanks. Bailed on the motherfucker for this reason and will have to revisit.
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by mmaunder 3y ago
Haha I remember that. OG fist bump!
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by mmaunder 3y ago
Honorable mention for the ITAR regs that prevented Phil Zimmerman from exporting PGP 128 bit encryption until Zimmerman and MIT press printed the source as a book protected by the first amendment, exported it, and this enabled others to OCR
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by mmaunder 3y ago
The amount of bleeding edge innovation that is rapidly developed and deployed into production in Musks companies is incredible.
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That this is messaged and received as a net win. It’s not.
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by mmaunder 3y ago
Thing about a data breach is once the data is out there - source code in this case - it’s out there for good and you have absolutely no control over who gets it. You can do as much post incident hardening as you want, and talk about it as m
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Ask HN: Books on Brand Turnarounds
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Jeez it seems every thread on HN these days ends in a personal attack. Here’s an article unpacking the financialization at Intel. The good stuff is about halfway down. https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog&#x2
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by mmaunder 3y ago
> These companies failed because of long term financial visionaries. These are the worst because they are thinking about how the company can capture markets at all costs, diversify into all adjacent markets, etc. Long term financial visi
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by mmaunder 3y ago
Intel is just like Boeing: A company with legendary engineering roots taken over by myopic financial engineers who can’t think further than next quarters stock price, which is their only measure, their only target, and to which all their bo
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by mmaunder 3y ago
Really nice work.
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Apple is going full frontal attack and saying the DMA creates security risks in the headline, and then repeating that messaging throughout the article. Hard to believe the ECJ is going to stand by and watch Apple convince millions that the
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by mmaunder 3y ago
Trying to convince an AI it sees something and a human they don’t is probably a losing battle.
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by mmaunder 3y ago
> Do you really think oncologists (pediatric oncologists!) aren't eager to cure their patients? Don’t be bloody ridiculous.
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by mmaunder 3y ago
We need to see a much faster ramp in the pace of innovation in this space. We’re eeking out tiny wins over decades, like Rituximab and this agent. Feels like there’s an ossification of this entire sector that happened years ago and there’s
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by mmaunder 3y ago
The first line saying that Lynch’s Dune is a “misbegotten botch job” is based on the authors definition of success in art which is box office returns. And yet here we are discussing a film that turns 40 this year. And there the Wired author
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by mmaunder 3y ago
Encryption and the history around the Clipper chip is an excellent analog. “Encryption is dangerous in public hands. Let us be the only licensed provider of public encryption and we’ll backdoor it to make it safe.”
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The list of recommendations at the end starts with a moratorium on open source AI until the following controls are implemented: you’re not allowed to release a model without a government license, you have to release your training data, and
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by mmaunder 3y ago
Agreed this is a nothingburger but the side effect of having a spotlight on Boeing is helpful. There are fundamental changes needed at Boeing to move the finance guys off the helm and move engineering back into leadership roles.

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