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691.
by staunch 9y ago
To the people working on this: please keep at it. You can do it!
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by staunch 9y ago
Pretty soon the US could afford to give every person 1 x autonomous cars, 1 x off-grid solar paneled home, 1 x unlimited low earth orbit (low latency) satellite internet.
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CIA Cryptonyms(maryferrell.org)
3 points by staunch 9y ago|0 comments
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by staunch 9y ago
"Historical evidence" does not exist! There are new decentralized protocols being launched every ~day now. This is how decentralization really works, it's crazy and wild, and not at all planned by anyone. Even just an evolved
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by staunch 9y ago
You're confused, I didn't just call him confused, I also said why he was confused.
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by staunch 9y ago
A comparison to oil monopolies confirms that he's entirely confused. There is absolutely no historical analog to Google or Facebook. Everything about the internet and computer technology is uncharted territory. The most technical human
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by staunch 9y ago
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by staunch 9y ago
If the human race was a bit more functional, we might already be living in a Star Trek-level near-utopia. A great thing about being alive today is knowing how much less humans will suffer in the future. A tough part of being alive today is
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by staunch 9y ago
Are you including the cable company's data cap tax of $50-$200+ per month? These evil megacorps are running people into into the data cap (as streaming quantity/quality increases) and will adjust rates until they're sheering
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by staunch 9y ago
There's no other way to learn than to play the game. You should expect to try, try, and try again. Really try to win on every attempt but be happily surprised when you do. Relevant PG essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/br
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by staunch 9y ago
Many of us knew about the Home Loan Fraud the Prescription Drug Fraud for years before it "exploded" and yet there didn't seem to be anything to do about it. The media and government proved their incompetence and corruption w
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by staunch 9y ago
We've never seen a new internet technology this big before, and no organization is powerful enough to put the ICO genie back in the bottle. What we need is a framework for users so that they can make informed decisions about what to in
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by staunch 9y ago
You're doing great! Being a self-starter and educating yourself works just fine in the new world, especially for programmers. School can be useful but is by no means required for many people. Now go read some job descriptions, build up
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by staunch 9y ago
YC is still the best and most open gateway to Silicon Valley investors. But that's only true because they have no real competition and it's a closed system. An open system wouldn't require gateways. There wouldn't be a n
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by staunch 9y ago
I absolutely love this stuff and nothing has stoked my interest in it as much as the Townsends (formerly "Jas Townsend & Son") channel on YouTube Townsend "explores the 18th century" through food. There's a lot
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by staunch 9y ago
If you want to spend your time on earth helping to destroy the lives of poor people, work at a bank like Bank of America or Wells Fargo. They've got evil corruption down to a science. > A 2014 CFPB study showed that about 8 percent
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2012 National Reconnaissance Office Space Telescope Donation to NASA(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by staunch 9y ago|0 comments
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Voice-matching technology was developed by MIT/Lincoln Labs under NSA contract [pdf](assets.documentcloud.org)
60 points by staunch 9y ago|11 comments
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by staunch 9y ago
1. Realizing how life short is, how precious it is, and how much you don't want your life to have been about causing other people pain. 2. Realizing that everyone is doing their best, because no one chooses their genetics or environmen
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by staunch 9y ago
I'm not home until I've taken a shower. I'm in there within 60 seconds. Oh shower, how I love thee.
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by staunch 9y ago
True. But in practice, a software company that's making money from users has a lot of incentive not to harm their brand, or open themselves up to competition, by being shady. It does happen but users are waking up to the problem and co
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by staunch 9y ago
The Mozilla board of directors should be entirely replaced as either corrupt or incompetent. What they have done is squandered billions and personally pocketed millions. What they haven't done is build a functional organization or comp
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by staunch 9y ago
More like "How Slack Thinks It Stays Secure..." A sophisticated attack against Slack would be for the purpose of maintaining long-term access to chat data. There's no reason to believe Slack would ever be able to detect som
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by staunch 9y ago
VR is still like tablets and PDAs before the iPhone and iPad. No surprise that Zuck hasn't done what Jobs did. I'm enjoying (in a friendly way) that many people have already given up on the technology and think it's going t
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by staunch 9y ago
> white, male, nerds who’ve dropped out of Harvard or Stanford," Literally 99% of white, male, nerds don't fit this description. Every day in Silicon Valley people show favoritism to individuals that, for purely economic rea
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by staunch 9y ago
Ignore the fact that investors lie to themselves and everyone else about how they actually choose which companies to invest in. If you want help from Silicon Valley investors, you must have either: 1) a rapidly growing business (traction) 2
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by staunch 9y ago
It's basically all real and fairly accurately portrayed by movies from what I can tell. There are "The Goodfella Tapes" but here's a random JFK doc that has informant info: https://www.archives.gov/files&
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by staunch 9y ago
I've been using Google since 1998. I recently switched off Google Search and don't miss it at all. Google is in big trouble.
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by staunch 9y ago
I recently switched off Google Search and it's totally fine. If it disappeared I wouldn't be too upset.
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by staunch 9y ago
Do those municipalities have data caps? AT&T fiber has a 1 TB data cap. That's effectively a 3 megabit average connection if you use it 24/7 with security cameras, cloud backups, etc. Judged accurately like this, AT&T fibe

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