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by moltensodium 7y ago
Not at all. It was a magical wonderland of directories, forums, and secret links you'd pass around between friends. For the first time ever you could type in an address at the top of a window and just go there. We had never seen anythi
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by moltensodium 7y ago
It's quite amusing how in a week the valuation dropped from $47B to $10B (-79%) and now it appears it may in fact be worth nothing. Time to put an end to the ponzi schemes. We all know We is not the only company that just moves purely
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WeWork Employees Treated to DMC Performance and Tequila After Mass Layoffs(spin.com)
2 points by moltensodium 7y ago|0 comments
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by moltensodium 7y ago
I spent years browsing the web before it had any advertising on it at all. I remember the first ads, they were called "banners" and everyone raged out about how awful they were. But we had no idea just how truly awful they could b
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by moltensodium 7y ago
Can I just rant for 5 minutes about how the majority of the time when I pull up social media and open a trending topic or what have you, 90% of the posts are just people trying to come up with the perfect reaction gif and zinger. I often ju
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by moltensodium 7y ago
You managed to take an article about ageism and somehow transform it into a UX problem because that's the prism you wanted to see the world through. Wow, that's really something else. You see this a lot on HN but this comment is r
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by moltensodium 7y ago
Ever been arrested while poor? It's a completely life-changing and world-disrupting experience, even if charges are dropped, even if you never need to appear in court.
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Farmers Who Don’t Trust U.S. Data Vow to Hoard Until Prices Rise(bloomberg.com)
2 points by moltensodium 7y ago|0 comments
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by moltensodium 7y ago
"Hating on Musk is really popular these days" is exactly the sort of meaningless nonsense people used to post about Elizabeth Holmes. Stop worrying about what is hip and trendy and trying to dismiss things that sounds like other t
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San Jose, Santa Rosa, Petaluma Poised to Follow Berkeley's Natural Gas Ban(sfchronicle.com)
2 points by moltensodium 7y ago|0 comments
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by moltensodium 7y ago
In the olden days, you could sum up the entire information security knowledge and posture of many companies with "we're behind a firewall, so everything is fine". Some companies have not evolved much beyond this attitude, and
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by moltensodium 7y ago
I can't ever think of a time I opened up SO to figure out the correct algorithm to use for a specific problem, for me the use case 90% of the time is "This library/module/system does not work like it supposed to and now
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by moltensodium 7y ago
They forced the one guy who is over 30 to post and say he's over 30, so they managed to fight their age discrimination with a 31 year old. This is the most unintentionally depressing post I have read in a long, long time. I really don&
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Extreme climate change has arrived in America(washingtonpost.com)
155 points by moltensodium 7y ago|158 comments
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by moltensodium 7y ago
The telecom companies have been semi-nationalized since 2001. This isn't new to Trump. The one company that tried to fight getting completely absorbed into the national security apparatus (Qwest/Joseph Nacchio) doesn't exist
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by moltensodium 7y ago
Can we just shut down the Department of Corrections? They are, at best, massively incompetent and negligent, and at worst, massively corrupt and negligent.
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by moltensodium 7y ago
All the investors are already counting their winnings. They've been out for months, years. Seems like they are now just burning through a billion a month in stock option compensation before it all comes crashing down. It's bizarre
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Ring Told People to Snitch on Their Neighbors in Exchange for Free Stuff(vice.com)
2 points by moltensodium 7y ago|0 comments
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by moltensodium 7y ago
The clock is ticking and they seem to have no plan at all. So weird to see such a massive company go public with no ideas or serious attempts at becoming profitable, ever. Congrats to all the investors and employees who were able to cash ou
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by moltensodium 7y ago
I think we have reached peak meaningless symbolic gesture. Hard to top this.
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ESPN pulls Apex Legends tournament from broadcast after mass shootings(polygon.com)
2 points by moltensodium 7y ago|2 comments
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by moltensodium 7y ago
It's truly amazing how bloated and slow most of Google's products have become, you can tell that they have hired literally zero people who came from poor places with slow internet. I think they just get too caught up in their tool
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by moltensodium 7y ago
You can't browse the web securely if you're being served third party ads. I'm not sure why this is considered acceptable and why the onus is always on the user to find and report the "bad" ads that a site owner has
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New bill would ban autoplay videos and endless scrolling(theverge.com)
169 points by moltensodium 7y ago|238 comments
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by moltensodium 7y ago
I wish I had the option of not using Equifax (or Experian, or Transunion, or the secret telecom one), but apparently there is no way to opt out of all your most personal data being the product they sell in these private systems.
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by moltensodium 7y ago
My post is obviously sardonic to some extent, there are lots of situations where you need to worry about security. I think I'm just more angry about these "too big to fail" companies that are apparently immune from any oversi
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by moltensodium 7y ago
There is no reason to spend one dime on infosec after the big Equifax breach and the numerous Facebook hacks/intentional spreading of data. They already lost all the most important data for every American and both companies are doing f
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Uber Lays Off 400(nytimes.com)
515 points by moltensodium 7y ago|297 comments
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by moltensodium 7y ago
This was submitted last week under a different site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20507529 But this has more research and followup.
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Google’s ‘field research’ offered people $5 to scan their faces for the Pixel 4(theverge.com)
2 points by moltensodium 7y ago|1 comments

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