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by staunch 9y ago
Yes, and I'm clearly blaming programmers at Mozilla for the problem ;-) I hope you find Mozilla better run that it appears, and I hope you can do more great work there, despite its flaws, but it seems to me like you don't have t
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by staunch 9y ago
1. I blame a corrupt board of directors for not making Mozilla a great organization that can attract great altruistic leaders that don't need to take so much. 2. Mozilla has blown almost every dollar it has ever earned. Hundreds of mil
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by staunch 9y ago
Steve Jobs spent his entire life working on, and talking about, personal computing technology. How many world class experts lack confidence in their area of expertise? It almost doesn't make sense to ask. Very few people will ever put
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by staunch 9y ago
He was fired because he gave up control of his company and for no other reason. Founders don't get fired because employees find them unbearable or sabotaging. Those employees get fired or quit...unless the founder gives up control and
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by staunch 9y ago
The Mozilla Treasurer and Chair are still taking $1M each, right? Why is this scandal going unreported? Are there really no experienced managers willing to run this potentially great organization for $300k/year? Why would we want peopl
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by staunch 9y ago
In which major European city could you leave your laptop or purse on a table while you use the bathroom? Japan is incredibly different from Europe and America in thousands of important ways. The idea that it's even similar is absurd.
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by staunch 9y ago
Yeah, unfortunately, there are de facto voting blocs on HN these days. It wasn't always like this. But now there are 10,000 YC affiliated people, 50,000 from Google/Microsoft/Amazon, etc and so it totally skews the results to
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by staunch 9y ago
> - They raised from the public Not quite right. They raised from their own investors and the public, which may be part of the problem. If their own investors bought into their own ICO to "seed" it, which tricked the public
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by staunch 9y ago
> I don't see the argument that compels such companies to include X in their service based on whether its "fair" or not. If our system worked, Google would almost certainly broken up and most of their databases (full of
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by staunch 9y ago
"The savage beasts," said he, "in Italy, have their particular dens, they have their places of repose and refuge; but the men who bear arms, and expose their lives for the safety of their country, enjoy in the meantime nothi
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by staunch 9y ago
1. The US told its allies that it would handle MAD. The US system relies primarily on aging land-based ICBMs. None of the US' trusted allies have significant nuclear forces of their own. 2. The US has every reason to publicize and brag
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by staunch 9y ago
Fantastical, is it? Oh...really. Then why are there Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse? Donald Trump + Xi Jinping + Vladimir Putin + and Kim Jun Un Checkmate.
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by staunch 9y ago
Creativity seems unimpeded when the one being creative is at the very top of the hierarchy. It doesn't really work for anyone else unless they have a direct contribution and connection to the dictator though. Any requirement that new s
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by staunch 9y ago
Basically, the US military declared itself the victor of the cold war and stopped worrying about China/Russia. After 9/11, it reoriented its resources around anti-terrorism and and smaller "rogue states" like NK and Iran
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by staunch 9y ago
This is a confused video. NK has ICBMs today. Look at their launches. What they don't have is advanced reentry vehicles and the large numbers of ICBMs necessary to really scare the US. A reentry vehicle isn't even necessary for an
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by staunch 9y ago
Those interceptors are almost useless, especially against high altitude EMP attacks. There are 44 interceptors total and it takes 4 interceptors per incoming missile. NK could easily end up with dozens and then hundreds of ICBMs. Plus those
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by staunch 9y ago
1. Doesn't look like there were runs of iperf over UDP and TCP, with simulated buffer sizes, so hard to know what the network connection is even capable of. 2. Also, how reliable is the network connection? Maybe it fluctuates every min
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by staunch 9y ago
/r/gonewild /r/honesty lol
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“Losing an hour of sleep impacts my work significantly.” - John Carmack(mobile.twitter.com)
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by staunch 9y ago
Apple needs to buy Tesla and run it better than Elon Musk can right now. He's overloaded himself with responsibilities. Apple could do a lot of good by applying their skills to such an important problem. And Tesla's have been call
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by staunch 9y ago
Because it's "backup" hardware. Like a lot of insurance, it's often just a false sense of security. It would be interesting to run a datacenter completely on batteries that are charged from solar + the grid + gas generat
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by staunch 9y ago
Solomon Hykes. Another inspiring example of an "outsider" succeeding in Silicon Valley.
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by staunch 9y ago
Why not base it on the actual product and skills/experience of the founders, like they claim they do? Palmer Luckey would have trouble getting funded with his VR headset in his hands, based on his background. VCs would sooner fund any
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by staunch 9y ago
Sure he is. He just has flaws like anyone. Einstein treated women badly.
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by staunch 9y ago
It's shocking how class-based Silicon Valley is. You would assume investors look for innovative ideas and capable people to execute on them, but nope. Ideas don't matter and it turns out when investors say "team" they me
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by staunch 9y ago
Elon Musk did with Tesla what Steve Jobs did with the iPhone. Musk had long wanted to solve renewable transport, and Jobs had spent his life creating personal computing devices. Their insight was based on observing that the underlying techn
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by staunch 9y ago
Digital drug dealers let you have the first one free. That's how they get you hooked! I can't play Starcraft (or chess, poker) for fear of being sucked into the competition and waking up years later. Gone down that rabbit hole eno
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by staunch 9y ago
This is all just tax loophole money anyway thanks to the carried interest scam. They're fighting over money that rightfully belongs to schools and the needy. These seem like particularly greedy thieves.
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by staunch 9y ago
Technology. More specifically, new "public ledger" or "blockchain" technology inspired by Satoshi's implementation of bitcoin. This is what it looks like when a new important field of technology comes into being.
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by staunch 9y ago
When that theme song played we got so quiet and so excited. It still has an incredible effect on me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa1RMD1f5Es

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