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A 1970s Essay Predicted Silicon Valley's High-Minded Tyranny(wired.com)
42 points by rayvy 8y ago|0 comments
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by rayvy 8y ago
Slight tangent, but @jammygit mentioned in this thread: > "All I want is to be able to give companies my money in exchange for not being spied on, manipulated, or locked into some walled garden....Is my money not good enough for the
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by rayvy 8y ago
Haven't come across these guys before, thanks
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by rayvy 8y ago
> I like to call this Michael Jackson Syndrome. Uhh I definitely wouldn't compare Michael Jackson to a Zuckerbot/Sandberg (the latter were raised in seemingly wholesome suburban families and just seem to have ego/greed iss
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Ask HN: Can you recommend cloud storage providers?
4 points by rayvy 8y ago|5 comments
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by rayvy 8y ago
Outline.com is a godsend. I use it for most paywall content. It's gonna be a sad day when/if they eventually take it down
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by rayvy 8y ago
Be prepared to be on a support team, if that's your choice. You'll always play second fiddle to the main product/platform folks and the revenue generating folks. It's not a life in the spotlight type of job, but if y
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Ask HN: Any people who work at a small shop, and prefer AWS?
5 points by rayvy 8y ago|4 comments
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Ask HN: What do you think of “Initiative Q”?
5 points by rayvy 8y ago|1 comments
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by rayvy 8y ago
> I think bootcamps are a social signal as much as anything else, if you get a private tutor it's basically invisible. This ^
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by rayvy 8y ago
1) Identify the absolute worst thing that can happen if this individual does truly have a significant exploit on your site. What is the absolute worst thing? 2) Accept that #1 might happen. As in truly accept this as a possibility 3)
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by rayvy 8y ago
Read the whole thing through. Awesome stuff, not too crazy/low-level, and presented in a easy-to-understand, sequential way. Great stuff
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Ask HN: How does outline.com work?
2 points by rayvy 8y ago|1 comments
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by rayvy 8y ago
In the strangest of ways, I hope that ISPs do get the ability to "exercise editorial control" - because I think that will be the proverbial straw that breaks the camels back (i.e., sparks the kind of innovation needed to break the
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Oath will soon be rebranded as Verizon Media Group(theverge.com)
1 points by rayvy 8y ago|0 comments
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by rayvy 8y ago
> "there are old pilots, and there are bold pilots, but there are no old, bold pilots." First time ever hearing this. What an interesting expression
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by rayvy 8y ago
As someone who works at a company similar to Google (not FAANG, but just below), this is hilariously accurate. > You cannot get promoted beyond a certain level in this place unless you... YES! It's soooo not about smarts/(true)
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2018 midterm elections on pace to be most expensive ever(abcnews.go.com)
1 points by rayvy 8y ago|0 comments
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by rayvy 8y ago
> If I apply for a company and they don't get back to me, or pull some stunts as described I assume they have better candidates in the pipeline. I'm not their priority. This! I'm reading in the thread here about people not
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Apple Used to Be an Inventor. Now It’s Mainly a Landlord(bloomberg.com)
298 points by rayvy 8y ago|372 comments
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by rayvy 8y ago
> Human beings are explorers Um and why is that exactly? The rest of your comment is pretty off base from the parent, so I won't address.
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by rayvy 8y ago
I personally think both of the RECODE interviewers (don't know their names) try to be a little too cool for school when interviewing these once-a-generation people.
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by rayvy 8y ago
> I think the thing that people really like about Elon Musk is that he just doesn't care about the interpersonal social status dynamics at play with his position in the world At least from what you've quoted, I have a hard time
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by rayvy 8y ago
As much as I hate Google, this is pretty cool. They even have donuts for everyone.
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by rayvy 8y ago
Original title (too long): Google walkout live: Pictures of Google workers leaving their desks in protest over sexual misconduct
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Google walkout live: Pictures of Google workers leaving their desks in protest(businessinsider.com)
35 points by rayvy 8y ago|18 comments
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by rayvy 8y ago
My question would be...why exactly would you want to help do this? Um, have you not seen what we've done to earth? Why would you want to help spread our human-ness to Mars? I'm always so confused by people who want us to go to Mar
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by rayvy 8y ago
I read this in Randy's voice and laughed out loud.
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Technology preview: Sealed sender for Signal(signal.org)
292 points by rayvy 8y ago|154 comments
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by rayvy 8y ago
Someone with more info please correct me: But from what I read it sounds as if Google had to pay him the $90MM+, else be sued by him right? Because if they didn't pay him, he'd sue, then they [Google] would have to prove that he [

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