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by staunch 9y ago
I agree with the sentiment but not this example. Sharing people's browsing data with third-parties can threaten their lives in some circumstances. There's no excuse for a developer creating browser extensions not to take this thre
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by staunch 9y ago
There's nothing for HN to see. It's a $50 PDF paywall. Paul Graham's advice is worth far more, he's a YC founder, and it's entirely free: http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html
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by staunch 9y ago
You did not get consent. You did violate people's privacy. Your extension got removed by Google and Mozilla.
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by staunch 9y ago
It's not awkward to violate people's privacy, it's wrong. Maybe you didn't know that before, but you still don't seem to get it.
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by staunch 9y ago
Physical sports are a completely different thing. Games simply don't require the same kind of physical effort and so physiological-enhancements probably won't help. Other than stimulants to keep people awake for long periods of ti
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by staunch 9y ago
If the problem isn't modern technology such as Facebook and smartphones, then why didn't we have this problem in the past? And if it is modern technology, then why couldn't it be the solution? As one example, why can't w
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by staunch 9y ago
If the current technology services are like cigarettes, then the solution is to solve the disease and addiction problems, so people can smoke in a safe way. That's kind of what vaporizer technology is attempting. Facebook and Google ar
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by staunch 9y ago
It doesn't make sense to worry about what happens if humanity become immortal and nothing else changes. Technology is going to change everything about the world, and immortality may be the least of it. There's every reason to thin
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by staunch 9y ago
This is exactly right but it just shows how terrible the default Slack configuration is. It's probably somewhat broken by design. Being noisy and distracting surely increases Slack's usage numbers.
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by staunch 9y ago
Big Brother Google has a new definition of "ad blocker" with the novel feature of not blocking ads. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublespeak
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by staunch 9y ago
Most companies don't provide a work environment even half as good as an average home office. I think remote working may be the first killer app for VR but it would probably require a $3k HMD today to be viable. Most tech companies coul
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by staunch 9y ago
Similar to the trick of putting mirrors in and around elevators so that people can just "ape out" while they're waiting. Cracks me up when I see people doing it. Especially when it's me.
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by staunch 9y ago
Middlebox is a technically imprecise term that is not in common usage among technical people anywhere. Why people in this thread are trotting it out is anyone's guess.
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TechCrunch Staff in Phantom AI Car Accident(youtube.com)
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by staunch 9y ago
Except your list of misfeatures is actually a missing feature and a list of bugs. No one would claim Steve Jobs or Apple was ever perfect, just that he wouldn't have released these blatantly obvious misfeatures. Can you think of anythi
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by staunch 9y ago
For me, life is about projects. Surviving school is a project. Learning how to ride a motorcycle is a project. Having a marriage is a project. Having a baby with someone is a project. Getting a job is a project. Each job is a project. Learn
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by staunch 9y ago
If a major service blocks Firefox users it could lead to a massive boycott. Users could rally around Mozilla if it stopped selling out their interests. More people use ad-blockers than Firefox has users. The best way to attract more users i
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by staunch 9y ago
No. I obviously mean real ad blocking that users are currently required to install as a third-party Firefox extension. You don't find it curious that Mozilla has made the decision not to implement the most user-demanded browser feature
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by staunch 9y ago
Apple did a good job of executing on a bad idea with the iPhone X notches. But I don't believe Steve Jobs would've let the iPhone X (or Touchbar) out the door because they're so clearly half-measures. Apple is implementing te
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by staunch 9y ago
If Mozilla genuinely prioritized its users' interest it would block ads and tracking networks, which are the major way people's private information is leaked and also a primary vector for hacking. And yet for some mysterious reaso
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by staunch 9y ago
1. Internet advertising is 20 years old, which is the business model that is at risk. 2. It doesn't make sense to suggest that the future will be like the past, particularly in the modern world of rapidly accelerating technological pro
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by staunch 9y ago
1. Are you suggesting that Google doesn't have a SPOF? All of their other businesses, which cost hundreds of billions investment to create, generate just ~$15 billion/year in revenue . They will never be ROI positive and if they
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by staunch 9y ago
Google and Facebook are propping open the internet advertising door, against the forces of technological progress. Google only controls Chrome so that they can ensure it never incorporates real ad-blocking. Google controls Firefox by bribin
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by staunch 9y ago
YC's mission is ostensibly to create more startups than would otherwise exist. So how many startups would not exist in 2018 if YC didn't exist? A hundred maybe? The number can't be large because they don't do anything at
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by staunch 9y ago
There's no need for ads at all though. If you don't have many listeners, then there's not much ad revenue anyway. And once you have a lot of listeners, you only need a tiny percentage to fund the entire thing. It's total
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by staunch 9y ago
YC is surprisingly unambitious. They have access to unlimited amounts of capital and do almost nothing with it. Maybe because they compare themselves to the truly terrible investors they're surrounded by, and so it feels ambitious by c
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by staunch 9y ago
> In the UK, class consciousness is woven into the national identity. In America, however, people often like to pretend that a class system doesn’t really exist. But, of course, it does. This is the most insidious part. The media in th
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by staunch 9y ago
I learn a lot more from audiobooks, podcasts, and youtube videos these days than from any other source. I listen at 1.5 or 2x speed and find it as close to an "I know kung fu" experience as it gets.
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by staunch 9y ago
It's easier to just have 10% of listeners pay $10/year and go ad-free. Advertising is a pollutant and no longer necessary in the new at-scale world. When you have a small podcast, you can just do it for the love of it and not worr
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by staunch 9y ago
Or maybe he set podcasting back 5 years by giving up on it ;-) If he was a true believer, he'd have realized Medium isn't the long-form content he was looking for. He didn't fully commit to Odeo, and that's why he gave u

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