not_that_noob

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Slum kids win startup pitchfest(old.reddit.com)
2 points by not_that_noob 3y ago|0 comments
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by not_that_noob 7y ago
YouTube also leads you down radical rabbit holes as that keeps the algorithm happy. How many of the recent terror attacks (ISIS or New Zealand type incidents) were fostered by YouTube watching?
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by not_that_noob 7y ago
No mention of the purchase price - tho Looker was likely flying in unicorn heights.
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by not_that_noob 7y ago
There are investors out there who don’t insist on control. I know of at least two - IndieVC and Earnest Capital. Their investment can be paid back in cash over time from earnings.
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by not_that_noob 7y ago
I mean, mass immigration with no borders is exactly how humans spread out from Africa to populate the world. Seems it’s worked out great for humanity. And speaking as a resident of the Bay Area, I greatly appreciate the diverse people I mee
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by not_that_noob 8y ago
Real estate remains one of last few asset classes where ownership can be obfuscated reliably. This makes it ideal to park money of dubious provenance. If you bring transparency to the system - much like know-your-customer did to banking - t
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by not_that_noob 8y ago
I wonder if the type of instrumental music makes a difference. I find that soft techno like dub techno helps me focus, while classical does not.
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by not_that_noob 8y ago
+1. I feel you. The only upside - it made me read everything more carefully. Significant deal points can be missing, or subtle giveaways that negate the actual deal term two paragraphs up. And the best part - they charge you by the hour for
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by not_that_noob 8y ago
@justin - congrats! How do the fees compare vs a traditional law firm? I love the price-predictability part, but can you shed a bit more light?
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by not_that_noob 8y ago
Index funds have beaten most active management over the long run. If you think about it, YC is a huge index fund in startups. The problem is not data-based prediction - just that it is impossible to pick winners a priori, no matter how much
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by not_that_noob 8y ago
This is one of the best articles I've seen on climate change. We are now looking to a 3 degree rise in surface temps by the middle of this century - well within our lifetimes. Miami is headed underwater. I wouldn't be buying real
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by not_that_noob 8y ago
Jobs was IMO a High-Functioning Sociopath - http://www.md-health.com/Sociopath-Traits.html He turned his charm on when he need to accomplish something, but there is no real empathy for anyone who was not useful to him in so
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by not_that_noob 8y ago
Some of this is of course the Chinese government placing its thumb on the scales in favor of local businesses. It does this for a lot of reasons, but it's clear it happens. However, compare the situation to other more open countries (e
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by not_that_noob 8y ago
I wonder how much of the European decline was driven by GDPR rules, especially opt-in requirements. GDPR-like laws are being debated on and passed here in the US by individual states. Probably a tough environment to expand on MAU right now.
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by not_that_noob 8y ago
The parallel to the fall of the Soviet Union is interesting. The state slowly ran out of money, and couldn’t pay the military complex, including the army. The army’s loyalty to the leadership essentially disappeared, and then the empire fel
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by not_that_noob 8y ago
I don’t know man - the Internet is distributed and last I checked it was doing great.
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by not_that_noob 8y ago
This one I think has legs. Quite a few content creators are upset with YouTube policies, and can drive users to PeerTube using other social services. Once you have a core group of users, others see that it’s viable and adoption rises.
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by not_that_noob 8y ago
It's not a problem that can be fixed. The endpoints - encoding at the transmitter and decoding at the device - can be with the efforts underway made somewhat equivalent between both modes. However, the problem is the path between them
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by not_that_noob 8y ago
The number one thing that kills a startup is lack of market demand. His real genius is in determining market demand ahead of time, and in a low-cost way. This separates true entrepreneurs from the wannabes.
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The Critical Importance of Time Restricted Feeding in Weight Loss(medium.com)
4 points by not_that_noob 8y ago|0 comments
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by not_that_noob 8y ago
Excellent guide - rings true.
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by not_that_noob 8y ago
Yeah - he could have been nicer. No question. But notice his guy didn't quit. People who worked for him seemed to actually admire his ability to be dedicated to the product and make decisions based on what was best for the product. Tha
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by not_that_noob 8y ago
What Jobs does here is truly impressive, for the following reasons: * he listens carefully to the customer - not just pretend, but truly understand the issue from the customer's point of view * he then allows his engineering manager to
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by not_that_noob 8y ago
Not finding fault. The point of Webauthn is convenience - but the trade off is that if CTAP is compromised, it’s convenient for the attacker too.
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by not_that_noob 8y ago
See my reply to your other comment and review CTAP in the spec.
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by not_that_noob 8y ago
See CTAP in FIDO2 - something needs to determine you are the user before opening up the key set. The attack point will be at this step.
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by not_that_noob 8y ago
They might call in and say they lost their token, and a competent attacker will usually have all the necessary info. Happens all the time with credit card fraud. Sure, you can notify the target that a credential was reissued, but that happe
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by not_that_noob 8y ago
This is the misunderstanding attackers can exploit. Credentials need to be reissued because people lose them ocassionally. So that process now becomes a pathway for exploits.
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by not_that_noob 8y ago
Credential reissue (lost token) would be a much easier path for an attacker. The weakest point is always the point of compromise. For the smart attacker therefore, they have been handed the whole set of accounts. So yes the original point s
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by not_that_noob 8y ago
I think you misunderstand how the CTAP portion of Webauthn works - once the root credential authenticates the user, they no longer have to use passwords for the user’s various accounts. The simple point is that if this credential became com

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