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by pas 6mo ago
a very entertaining, highly-recommended, and intense gonzo video essay on the topic of the courses scams https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=biYciU1uiUw
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by pas 6mo ago
local small business should offer local specialty, if it's doing the exact same thing as the big business but with higher overhead, then why not find something much more productive for the folks there? small local economies that are st
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by pas 6mo ago
in some sense yes, as long as there are sources of good enough cheaper alternatives millions of people won't ever pay for Spotify (or even use the free version with ads, but the free-with-ads version is in itself a good enough for many
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by pas 6mo ago
I base my claims on this review of the 2015 Musk biography by Ashlee Vance: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/book-review-elon-musk
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by pas 6mo ago
people's character also changes over time, and everyone's work is built on other people's (of course usually people try to make sure those people are credited correctly) he is more of an extremely driven and singularly lucky
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by pas 6mo ago
the larger plan people are not the historians, IMHO that's clearly a description of people who spent a bit too much time reading about conspiracy theories (and generally are too partisanal) but yes, including this snark seems unnecessa
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by pas 6mo ago
facebook.com does this as a first party site, shit sites trying to squeeze eyeball time from visitors should be put on Google's malware sites list, but apparently those are the best sites nowadays... :/
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by pas 6mo ago
if the project already has positive revenue then arguably the ability to capture new users is worth a lot, which requires acceptable performance even when a big traffic surge is happening (like a HN hug of attention) if the scalability is i
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by pas 6mo ago
people love solving problems, but most solutions are not VC fundable (fortunately/unfortunately) sometimes it's just wait until your kid grows up and learns to put the LEGO away there's a lot of people working on hard problem
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by pas 6mo ago
Thanks for the details! I assumed he had at least some access, control or leverage. (But losing keys is very easy, especially if the feds take your devices and your means of buying new ones, and freely accessing potential backups.)
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by pas 6mo ago
if he has the key he could buy security (move the money to a multisig, etc) if he doesn't have the key then of course he's motivated to make sure bad people don't think otherwise (but the usual thing about bad people is they
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by pas 6mo ago
it seems he pursued Theranos when it was hot, but he had not much to do with the background work https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47698933
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by pas 6mo ago
Le Roux was not in prison before 2020, it makes no sense to me that he was spending his time trafficking drugs when he was sitting on billions. Of course at this point the only "sane" reasons for someone to not touch the wallet is
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by pas 6mo ago
can you give some examples? I'm very interested in this. (after all we had about a decade of crying "fake news" - and as far as I understand the verdict was that big traditional outlets get the basic facts right - who what wh
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by pas 6mo ago
brought to you by the post-truth society! which in turn is brought to us by the good old days of our shared delusions, like divine right of kings (thx magic sky daddy and all his faithful unbiased selfless worldly interpreters!)
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by pas 6mo ago
sure, as the oil wells and the pumping stations and everything not underground, but right now there's not even an option to try. (also loss of a pipe section compared to the loss of a tanker is much better economically, easy to replace
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by pas 6mo ago
pipelines, railway, etc. had the US had any real plan to empower the Gulf states against Iran there would already be backup routes
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by pas 6mo ago
> The court ordered Levison to be fined $5,000 a day beginning 6 August until he handed over electronic copies of the keys. Two days later Levison handed over the keys hours after he shuttered Lavabit.
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by pas 6mo ago
finally the coverage is actually increasing ~53% now, +12pp (270k users) during 2025 https://www.berlin.de/sen/web/presse/pressemitteilungen/2026...
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by pas 6mo ago
Ukraine also seems to have solved this pretty well. NFC in the plastic card, selfie video confirmation, etc. Hungary is also rolling out a "digital citizenship" app. (Also can be bootstrapped via newer plastic cards, so no need to
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by pas 6mo ago
Brits also voted to leave the EU where they had the absurdly privileged position of picking (almost freely) which rules applies to them, while benefiting from others applying them fully. ... Democracy is only as good as the people doing the
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by pas 6mo ago
what is old Outlook? for me that's Outlook Express 6 :D
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by pas 6mo ago
yes, so situational awareness is even more fundamental than communication especially because people hired by people hired by people (....) hired by founders (or delegated by some board that's voted by successful business people) did no
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by pas 6mo ago
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jzhiqz7fb5dj6h7cydluryvn/po... for anyone else who hasn't seen it
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by pas 6mo ago
matters less than we would like it to after all startups/scaleups/bigtech companies that make a lot of money can run on Python for ages, or make infinite money with Perl scripts ( cough aws) and it matters even less in non-tech co
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by pas 6mo ago
and what's with the parents? for running containers?
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by pas 6mo ago
what's CAS?
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by pas 6mo ago
they can simply make an app that requires tapping a button, so people don't end up with TOTP seeds stored in their password manager on the same notebook where they run 'publish' from
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by pas 6mo ago
code becomes trusted by review, but these crowd sourcing efforts to do so fizzled out, so in practice we have weak proxies like number of downloads the implicit trust we have in maintainers is easily faked as we see
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by pas 6mo ago
2FA was mandated by npm they had 2FA, but likely software TOTP (so it was either autofilled via 1password (or similar), or they were able to steal the seed) at this point I think publishing an npm app and asking people to scan a QR with it

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