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by staunch 9y ago
Drew Houston was rejected by YC when they interviewed him for his previous idea. When they attempted to judge him as a founder, prior to any success, they completely failed to identify one of the best candidates they had ever seen. After an
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by staunch 9y ago
Almost as stupid as trying to hire hackers that will agree to never consume caffeine.
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by staunch 9y ago
Facebook and Google provide very basic internet services that really should be provided by open systems. But through luck and timing they managed to establish monopolies. They abuse their position to extract hundreds of billions of dollars
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by staunch 9y ago
When the FSB exposes NSA/CIA hacking, that's an NSA/CIA failure. Their (very technically difficult) job includes not allowing enemy agencies to expose their activities. Cold War 2.0 rages on.
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by staunch 9y ago
It's just not good for the world that a single company controls a basic fundamental function of the internet. It needs fixing. Google Search needs to be replaced by an open source decentralized system. And then users themselves can con
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by staunch 9y ago
Just because the boy cried wolf last time doesn't mean there isn't an actual wolf this time. You're comparing the hysteria around Japan to the hysteria around China. If you compare the facts about Japan to the facts about Chi
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by staunch 9y ago
Repetition is the secret to audio or visual learning, at least for me. If I like an audiobook/podcast/documentary/movie, I'll listen/watch it multiple times. I've listened to my very favorite stuff dozens and e
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by staunch 9y ago
YouTube should add Wikipedia citations next to every video. It should be an information resource and not source of disinformation. YouTube also needs to fix search so that results are not full of computer-generated spam results. It's
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by staunch 9y ago
Nothing can take away the time they shared in life together. This is the only fact that comforts me when confronted with the tragedy of our existence.
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by staunch 9y ago
Mark Zuckerberg tried to screw his co-founder by diluting his co-founder's shares. His co-founder then sued him successfully. Stockholders have strong legal protections in many jurisdictions. You definitely need a lawyer to fix this fo
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by staunch 9y ago
Why do you think it fails? The articles seem to disprove that idea. It may not be easy/simple/straightforward but it seems self-evident that it works.
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by staunch 9y ago
The problem is centralized sources of information like televsion stations and newspaper companies. Wikipedia is the answer. It's already the definitive place where the battle for ideas takes place, and the results are generally excelle
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by staunch 9y ago
Exactly right that the proprietary nature of Google and Dropbox are the problem. Proprietary software suffers from a fundamental flaw that limits its usefulness as a technology. It's a technical problem.
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by staunch 9y ago
I suspect Google, YouTube, YC, and many other Silicon Valley companies have followed a similar pattern: Step #1 Discriminate against the lower classes through a biased hiring process that favors upper class people over more qualified member
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by staunch 9y ago
> The module supports up to 32 GB of DDR4 memory with optional ECC support. One huge benefit of AMD vs Intel. While Intel is busy milking their customers, AMD is innovating to offer more for less.
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by staunch 9y ago
This criticism boils down to a disappointment in humanity's progress. It's true that humanity could be Star Trek-level in 2018, if things had gone a bit better for us historically. But we'll get there in 2118 or whatever. It&
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by staunch 9y ago
Then why not use your 1985 Rotel poweramp instead of the Sonos? If you added the functionality of the Sonos to the Rotel poweramp, it would have the same complexity-based problems.
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Steve Jobs “The Big Secret is Apple views itself as a software company” (2007)(youtube.com)
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by staunch 9y ago
"If you look at the reason that the iPod exists, it's because these really great Japanese consumer electronics companies who kind of own the portable music market, invented it and owned it, couldn't do the appropriate softwa
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by staunch 9y ago
But the default does not protect users. Putting the onus on users to protect themselves is the problem.
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by staunch 9y ago
This is the same fundamental flaw that dooms Paul Graham's startup essays to near irrelevance for 99% of people. He was seemingly oblivious to how much financially security and Ivy League pedigree assisted him at every turn of his star
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by staunch 9y ago
This is an example of bad technology failing its user. These programs should protect user privacy by stripping identifying information by default, allowing the user the option to preserve it. All technology should protect its users by defau
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by staunch 9y ago
Cryptocurrencies are not an "asset class" but a new technology that will ultimately replace all other financial instruments. ICOs will replace the entire VC industry. Watching VCs struggle to involve themselves in an industry th
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by staunch 9y ago
VCs have their own investors (LPs) that they have to justify every investment to, particularly when they fail. That means VCs are generally cowardly, investing only in startups that already appear to be successful in some way. Usually this
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Interviews with Elderly People Throughout the US (1929)(youtube.com)
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by staunch 9y ago
The phenomenon of decentralization won't slow until the wildly inefficient businesses of Washington, Hollywood, New York, and Silicon Valley have been broken into thousands of pieces. Bitcoin and the rest are coming for New York/S
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Nothing new under the sun: PTSD in the ancient world. (2014)(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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by staunch 9y ago
We need off-grid housing with SpaceX satellite internet, Tesla car pods, Tesla Solar, and Amazon Prime deliveries.
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by staunch 9y ago
Nothing new under the sun: post-traumatic stress disorders in the ancient world. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25577928/ This paper provides evidence that ancient people also suffered from PTSD, disproving
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News from the Front (2007)(paulgraham.com)
1 points by staunch 9y ago|1 comments

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