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by staunch 9y ago
The real problem is that apps can get data off your device too easily. An app that phishes your password isn't actually dangerous until it uploads it to a server somewhere. Apple should provide an API that limits an app's internet
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by staunch 9y ago
> "...Money’s sexy I guess" The founder really summed his sole motivation right there. This is a mercenary company that could have been created by a hedge fund. Unlike Amazon, no one would want to work at Flexport except peop
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by staunch 9y ago
Agreed that it's not malicious. But it is insidious and should be prevented. There's only a half dozen large Silicon Valley orgs worth worrying about. Maybe a dozen domains.
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by staunch 9y ago
Any post having to do with YC, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, etc are voting ringed to hell by their thousands of employees. As the site has grown, HN has become a bit of a mouthpiece for large organizations through these de facto voti
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by staunch 9y ago
Okay, fact updated. Doesn't change his point at all. I don't see the "goodbye peter" blog post though so not sure how anyone would know he left. https://blog.ycombinator.com/welcome-peter/
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by staunch 9y ago
My guess is that the VCs are betting on this being another Twilio, which did go public. And it seems like the founders are okay with hedging their bet by taking so much money so early. Perhaps a genuine (and still rare) example of 1999 styl
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by staunch 9y ago
> It's not an insurance policy at all. It's a crazy tournament. It's a zero-sum tournament. If you were the president of Harvard or Stanford and you wanted to get a lynch mob of students, alumni, and faculty to come after
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by staunch 9y ago
You don't have to trust anyone with access to your pension not to steal from it, because no one has access to it. The promise that is your pension would be cryptographically enshrined in a blockchain, with full transparency.
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by staunch 9y ago
You're just claiming it's impractical today, not technically infeasible for any reason. 1. Pensions don't currently work like this There are many thousands of different pension systems across the world. It stands to reason th
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by staunch 9y ago
One of Larry Wall's slogans for Perl is "Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible." In its own way, that's what has made Go the kind of success that Perl once was. Perl was the glue language of th
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by staunch 9y ago
It doesn't magically solve all problems, just the most important one. Trust.
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by staunch 9y ago
What's missing from your claim is any justification for it all. You're just claiming, on zero authority, that it's not possible. So enlighten us. Why do you think it's impossible to encode the mechanics of a pension in a
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by staunch 9y ago
To the extent they are funded, that money could never be rescinded. And you could negotiate early funding as a feature now, because it would actually mean something to the recipients. There are no untrustworthy promises required. And you co
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by staunch 9y ago
Pensions are a great use-case for smart contracts. I would feel much safer having my retirement assured by a blockchain than a bureaucrat.
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by staunch 9y ago
It sounds like you're confused...I'm saying the NSA may have chat logs of the hacking group itself. These "hacking groups" range from script kiddies that can barely phish, to world class programmers working with billio
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by staunch 9y ago
"The person or persons responsible are unknown, but let’s assume that CrowdStrike is correct and the responsible party are Russian hackers employed by one or more of Russia’s intelligence services. They used APT28 malware developed an
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by staunch 9y ago
I'm referring to dumps of the hackers themselves, detailing their chat logs, emails, bitcoin transactions, ssh traffic, etc. Not just the exploit-based traffic. If I ran the NSA, I'd have every hacker group I could find under tota
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by staunch 9y ago
Steve Balmer is no Bill Gates. Tim Cook is no Steve jobs. Not exactly their fault for failing to live up to some of the most impressive founders in history. At least Tim Cook is humble and wise enough to know his limits.
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by staunch 9y ago
It's not as certain as the moon landings. I agree Russia is almost certainly responsible. There is a ton of publicly available circumstantial evidence that points to them. But without libpcap dumps showing what really went down, we c
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by staunch 9y ago
Yes, it's a master's in business administration not business innovation . Amazon is the perfect example of where MBAs can be extremely effective. The way Tim Cook helped Apple optimize and improve its operations a great example
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by staunch 9y ago
Fair point, I am using a modern phone, but I think most phones created in the last ~3 years are at this point now.
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by staunch 9y ago
Ah, technically correct, the best kind of correct ;-) It's true they have some people who will talk to you if you're a big customer, and even let you use the VIP room, etc. But, it's nothing like the model that A16Z promotes,
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by staunch 9y ago
Why? Because sales people are good at sales! Their whole job is negotiating the highest possible compensation for the value they provide. Apple doesn't need sales people to move millions of their products into "the Enterprise,&quo
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by staunch 9y ago
All of the exclusive universities sell degrees for a fortune. Their delivery rate is their graduation rate. The admissions process is gamed to hell by wealthy people and the graduation rate is still 95%+. Hmmm... The whole thing is a scam
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by staunch 9y ago
There aren't many grand designs in computing systems in general. Most evolve from humble beginnings. The web has been evolving since the 90s, and it can keep going.
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by staunch 9y ago
Yes, that was a reasonable and accurate explanation in 2007 or 2009. It's decade later. I'm using Safari for hours at a time in web apps with video and JavaScript. Performance is excellent. Battery life is sufficient. Now let me r
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by staunch 9y ago
We already have a native and universal computing platform, the web, and yet we're stuck in 2007 writing code for Apple and Google! Is there any real movement on iPhone or Android moving to replace native apps with offline web apps? Any
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by staunch 9y ago
I guess that's my question.
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by staunch 9y ago
Why does he have to agree to the ToS to use the public API? Would it have been okay if he didn't use the API but accessed the same functionality just like you can with a web browser?
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by staunch 9y ago
The platform here is the internet. YouTube is trying to say you can't write custom software that accesses their publicly accessible service. ProTube is nothing more than an alternative user agent that users are choosing to use to inter

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