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by uola 10y ago
Because they aren't really "startup cities". They are just popular cities that feel the need to market themselves to justify their high cost of living. It's how every big city now has a "fashion week" were rich
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by uola 10y ago
I agree it's not perfect but it is proxy for life style. The US or UK is great if your want to have a career, work for (or trying to sell to) a big company and be part of something bigger than yourself. Southern Europe is has sunshine,
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by uola 10y ago
"Nowhere else in the United States - or the world - has quite the unique mix of red-blooded capitalism, concentrated wealth, and a culture of innovation." China is a serious contender to SV.
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by uola 10y ago
There's already plenty of smart decent people in the military and even more at defense companies. It's a structural, not a people, problem. What the US military does (both offline and online) mostly has widespread support among po
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by uola 10y ago
Why do think covert operations, black sites, secret courts and hidden budgets exist? Or chain of command, court martials and censorship? It's not a democratic organisation of individual actions. It's easy to say that he's of
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by uola 10y ago
Eh, what do you think the military is doing when they run into IEDs? The reasons to remove IEDs is of course to grant yourself movement to fight the enemy.
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by uola 10y ago
Because "we" want to raise the standard of programming so "our" experience is actually valued? Depending how driven you are, you can "max out" a programmer career in 5-15 years today.
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by uola 10y ago
Now? The only thing opensource advocates, hobbyist developers, large tech companies, the "security" industry and the government have been able to consistently agree on for the last 15 years is that there should be little enforceme
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by uola 10y ago
"If someone made me choose between the Bay Area and Toronto, I would pick Toronto" The thing is that for most people this wouldn't be the candidates. Toronto is probably a third tier city for startups, meaning there are more
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by uola 10y ago
While I think Germans, and people of culturally similar countries (Austria, Switzerland) are usually quite nice I have a hard time saying they genuine care about other people. Since rationalizing others misfortunes (or most things really) s
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by uola 10y ago
It's funny because the people I know of personally that has ended up on the cover of vogue was quite awkward in elementary/high school. Being a head taller and skinnier than everyone else wasn't exactly a recipe for being pop
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by uola 10y ago
Not only is the computer lab cooler than being into books or playing an instrument these days, but "nerds" themselves are much "cooler" in that they enforce all sort of arbitrary social rules. When I got in to computers
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by uola 10y ago
I don't see your point. The US government has a long history of overthrowing governments (even democratically elected ones) in the middle east and other parts of the world. If you're trying to justify killing thousands of civilian
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by uola 10y ago
People do care about privacy and openness, not just in the way technologists expect them to. Using Google for mail over some random company or running your own mail server is reasonable for the threats against privacy most people face. Comm
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by uola 10y ago
It would be an excellent example in a security talk 10 years ago. If anything it should be used to promote better authentication solutions.
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by uola 10y ago
Basically the government put up much of the financing but gave a private company monopoly on traffic until 2040. It was sold to venture capital which because of tax planning are paying little to no tax. The Wikipedia article is fairly compl
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by uola 10y ago
Because they are jelous they can't make as bad a deal as Stockholm did with Arlanda. Express? More seriously, to finance populistic reforms to increase the power of their own party.
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by uola 10y ago
I'm sure these lists are well meant, but these days I find that quality and especially quality in relation to time that's the problem when learning new things. What I've been doing for years is to look at the course curriculu
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by uola 10y ago
Not really. It already happened in some countries where with high development but still low salaries, like big cities in China. How/if cities will be able to deal with all the increase in traffic from self-driving cars without signific
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by uola 10y ago
I think that train already left the station as Apple, Google and Facebook are building new sprawling campuses. There's unlikely to be any significant infrastructure growth without dense business districts.
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by uola 10y ago
As an outsider I have a hard time seeing how the people living in and the people wanting to live in the bay area are of different cultures for any meaningful sense of the world. This is largely a political issue over priorities and not a fe
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by uola 10y ago
"There's a difference between freedom of speech, and freedom to violate privacy of others." I think that is a very dangerous way to look at thing. The right to privacy is a limitation to freedom of speech. You might think tha
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by uola 10y ago
The other phrases (like rave or game) is fun because it represent a dream as in wishing one could only do that. "Eat, sleep, code, repeat" is very much something you can do while working at Google or any other tech company. In fac
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by uola 10y ago
In my book a "graphical shell and a widget toolkit" (and its associated ecosystem) is what makes a "desktop" different from e.g. a video game system. ChromeOS wouldn't de facto be very different for users nor applic
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by uola 10y ago
Not really though. What has happened is that the web has come closer to the desktop not the other way around. It's almost the antithesis to desktop Linux. It's like "the only way we could make Linux mainstream is to ignore an
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by uola 10y ago
"Another part of the article says almost 3/4 of the square footage in Manhattan was built between 1900 and 1930" That isn't exactly unexpected when pretty much every factor in construction says that it gets harder to bui
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by uola 10y ago
Google is (in)famous for their application process and hiring fairly young people from "top" school. That gets them a lot of brilliant people, but not necessarily good leaders nor energetic followers. The company itself is a comfo
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by uola 10y ago
"Signal is probably the only one that has a chance of relevance 5 years from now" Which is exactly why I, even though I don't care much for drama (infosec drama especially), find myself "complaining" about Signal fr
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by uola 10y ago
It's pretty hard to reach a conclusion on this issue without spending some (more than I'm willing to) time looking at the code. I'm not sure I like the claiming of copyright on other implementations. I guess this is because t
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by uola 10y ago
"I think there's a serious market for good feature phones" No, because a really good feature phone would be a premium product. Custom form factor and parts (not manufactured in as large a volume), custom operating system with

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