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by my_first_acct 8y ago
From the abstract: > The ease of new firm formation and the enormous amount of capital available has resulted in to a situation within which new firms can afford to run massive losses for long periods in an effort to dislodge incumbents
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Unicorns, Cheshire Cats, and the New Dilemmas of Entrepreneurial Finance (2018)(papers.ssrn.com)
1 points by my_first_acct 8y ago|1 comments
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by my_first_acct 8y ago
You are right, of course. I have corrected the parent comment.
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by my_first_acct 8y ago
The article mentions Yubikeys, but it doesn't mention that Yubikeys implement U2F. The article reports that Google internally switched from TOTP, but doesn't report what Google switched to: U2F. The article describes, in some deta
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by my_first_acct 8y ago
This is what I have gotten out of the various reviews of this book that have shown up on HN lately: We, all of us, even the most rational and hard-headed, have buttons that can be pushed. Google and Facebook have gotten, and will continue
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by my_first_acct 8y ago
Sure, you can find extremists on both sides: the "nationalize Facebook" people, and the "nothing on the internet should ever be regulated" folks. Not having read the book under review ("Surveillance Capitalism&quot
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by my_first_acct 8y ago
> The real problem is that people are selling this bullshit that the only alternatives are someone spying on you through your metaphorical bedroom window or you blindfold every company that interacts with you. There's a middle groun
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by my_first_acct 8y ago
Network TV might be a better analogy, since it is free to watch as long as you are willing to sit through the ads. The business model is the same as Facebook's: advertisers paying for the right to attempt to modify viewers' behavi
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by my_first_acct 8y ago
English-language article in Frankfurter Allgemeine by Shoshana Zuboff, whose book "Surveillance Capitalism" just came out.
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The Secrets of Surveillance Capitalism (2016)(faz.net)
3 points by my_first_acct 8y ago|3 comments
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by my_first_acct 8y ago
Depends on what you are worried about. The book (if I understand the review correctly) is concerned not just with loss of privacy, but with how your personal data can be used to modify your behavior. Quoting from the review: > “The goa
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by my_first_acct 8y ago
According to the abstract (I haven't tried to access the full article), the researchers take standard academic climate models (for instance, HadCM3 [1]), plug in some assumptions about future CO2 emissions, and compare the results to w
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by my_first_acct 8y ago
About the author (from the bottom of the article): > Steven Strogatz is professor of mathematics at Cornell and author of the forthcoming “Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe,” from which this essay is adapt
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One Giant Step for a Chess-Playing Machine(nytimes.com)
69 points by my_first_acct 8y ago|51 comments
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by my_first_acct 8y ago
> "We're advocating for privacy, but we aren't going to try to offer you any." Your tl;dr is not quite accurate. All companies, including FastMail, have to cooperate with local law enforcement. But there are differen
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Nashville’s Star Rises as Midsize Cities Break into Winners and Losers(nytimes.com)
5 points by my_first_acct 8y ago|0 comments
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by my_first_acct 8y ago
(Since it is too late to edit my parent comment): Just to clarify, my parent comment was not a complaint that this article was posted to HN; rather, it was to justify my posting the article in the first place.
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by my_first_acct 8y ago
From the Hacker News guidelines [1]: "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." (IIRC, this particular guideline dates back to when Hacker News was called Startup News). The linked article, from the New Y
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Australian Gag Order Stokes Global Debate on Secrecy(nytimes.com)
143 points by my_first_acct 8y ago|74 comments
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by my_first_acct 8y ago
One risk is that the other investors might suddenly decide for some reason (say a sudden wave of panic) to cash out their holdings in the fund. This would force the fund manager to immediately sell some of the bonds, perhaps at an unfavora
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Chase for Talent Pushes Tech Giants Far Beyond West Coast(nytimes.com)
2 points by my_first_acct 8y ago|0 comments
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by my_first_acct 8y ago
Maybe. [1] [2] [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/digitalnomad/comments/7931a5/what_y... [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/digitalnomad/comments/8tz1hc/i_aske...
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by my_first_acct 8y ago
As far as I can tell, it changes nothing, assuming that your email was sent as plain text. Although Fastmail stores your email on encrypted disks [1], it of course has the encryption keys for these disks. Even before the new law, they wou
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by my_first_acct 8y ago
You may be right that your Namecheap account balance is a kind of token. But not all tokens are securities. The SEC is only interested in ones that are.
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by my_first_acct 8y ago
Here is an article on the subject: http://pinyin.info/readings/texts/moser.html ("Why Chinese is So Damn Hard") And evin bad spelers can riit undrstandabbel englush.
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by my_first_acct 8y ago
Because of the difficult writing system (thousands of characters to memorize, rather than a mere 26), Mandarin is unlikely to replace English as a world language.
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by my_first_acct 8y ago
The fight against racism has spanned decades, but your statement, "Racism as a concept that needed a word was barely present in the early 60s" does not seem correct. To select an example from popular culture: the musical "Sou
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by my_first_acct 8y ago
There is an NYT article to that effect: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/07/upshot/in-superstar-citie...
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In Superstar Cities, the Rich Get Richer, and They Get Amazon(nytimes.com)
3 points by my_first_acct 8y ago|0 comments
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by my_first_acct 8y ago
It took 7 years for this particular incident to come to light. Until I learned about it, I thought that Google/Waymo was pretty good about disclosures, but now I have to wonder what present-day incidents we will only be finding out ab

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