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by vonklaus 10y ago
The kind that grants a monopoly to ISPs which allows Avg. Americans to have 1-2 choices for internet >10mbs. There was a 1 Trillion or greater global roll up in the last 2ish years. I think that google was likely meeting friction somewhe
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by vonklaus 10y ago
That is a loaded question, but still the answer is "of course". If ICANN can seize a domain for a clerical error, they can seize one for a crime. If measured by the American standard of innocence first, then a 3rd party would make
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by vonklaus 10y ago
I think that is political.
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by vonklaus 10y ago
Hey man, didn't realize you left Stripe but did sort of notice Jepsen getting more serious. Jepsen has phenomenal reach: Interesting and hilarious coverage of technical complexity which assumes just enough knowledge to engage a keen no
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by vonklaus 10y ago
Wow. Probably fundraising and getting out front of googles new consumer spanner service. I just started experimenting w/ cockroachdb and it sounds/seems great. They def are campaigning hard, landing a Jepsen test and a lot of post
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by vonklaus 10y ago
Not even close to Google caliber engineer and I was also struck by that mis-characterization
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by vonklaus 10y ago
I agree with the premise but not the conclusion. Worked at/have seen a few start-ups close up; people don't know what they are doing-- I mean this in a "cliff jump build parachute" way not pejoratively. With that in mind
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by vonklaus 10y ago
I am saying the profitabls challenger is just a server probably hosted nearly free on AWS or Azure through sponsorships. Being profitable is great and I applaud that, but my point is what is the magnitude of success? This likely is a lifest
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by vonklaus 10y ago
I almost always fight the SV meme that largely founders focus on throwaway trivial ideas. I just think this is so stupid. Craigslist is one of the few companies that isnt greedy, is community driven, and if there are examples using there ou
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by vonklaus 10y ago
Not sure if hyperbole, or if you missed the U.S. election cycle. However, I assure you, many people can imagine most dysfunctional, deceitful, lunatic-filled version of politics and are in fact watching it unfold in front of them...
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by vonklaus 10y ago
I just watched zero days, a great documentary about stuxnet. It is important to realize-- and this seems to be the films thesis, that secrecy is extremely damaging. It took 20-30 years for bioweapons, nuclear weapons, and chemical weapons t
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by vonklaus 10y ago
it's unclear if you do not realize thousands of people make their living full-time as promoters on social media. They literally pay rent with money that was paid to them proportionate to their retweets. Or if this was hyperbole to un
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by vonklaus 10y ago
Look, I am pro-snowden and I am very skeptical of the DNC hack being Russia. That said, the shadow brokers got the equation group tools from somewhere. Do I think this is the "official story", No. Of course not. But in terms of
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by vonklaus 10y ago
This appears to work. The "settings" tab appears to say that safesearch is on but this overrides it. Not sure if for the session or just a oneoff but nice to know and gets the job done. Going to check out some other "bangs&qu
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by vonklaus 10y ago
These are hardly comparable. Petraeus should likely have been punished more and clearly got special treatment, but if we are to believe the article this was certainly a security breakdown. This seems to have spanned 2 decades and was a much
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by vonklaus 10y ago
Working in the office is something I have always wanted as a frequent remote employee. I think it is great for communication and for the culture. This specifically is very heavy handed. IBM apparently had a culture that supports this, so
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by vonklaus 10y ago
but then Vizio wouldn't make a profit. The FTC has to make sure these companies continue to be profitable while itself appears to be semi-competent. Similarly, Verizons supercookie "crackdown" was laughable. FTC stands for Fu
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by vonklaus 10y ago
I use ddg for search. I like it but it is a hassle to have to toggle safe mode every time. I wish they had a url/alternative to toggle this literally every browser load.
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by vonklaus 10y ago
Used parrotOS 2 years ago. I think it was newish then. Liked it a lot. Was fairly polished then. What do you use it for and what features do you like most?
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by vonklaus 10y ago
Went into the article assuming it was another anti free speech whine piece. Was pleasantly surprised that it was more generally about social media, MH, and a dependency cycle. This pervades social media culture and as is noted in the articl
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by vonklaus 10y ago
Counterpoint: Maybe the agreement is breakable or they know they can resell the resources. This metric could be a good way to trick "tech savvy" analysts who don't care about total users. I assume spending this much would giv
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by vonklaus 10y ago
I made & deleted a profile on Facebook ysterday for branding a product. Yelp and google biz as well. In my experience, it provides little value for startups except in narrow arenas (cause or nprofit/physical consumer product) and i
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by vonklaus 10y ago
I just really like gitlab. I am not personally affected by the outage, but as far as collosul fuckups go, I think they will do their level best to fix the issue, be transparent about it and do what they can to make it right. We'll get
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by vonklaus 10y ago
Uber has a >2$B burn rate. I agree with you. I think GM can win if the execute the complex coordinatiom of Lyft, Cruise & Car Manufacturing but I don't see uber winning as anything but an acquisition
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by vonklaus 10y ago
Labels are the problem. Democrats and Republicans, liberals, conservatives ect is creating a false sense of choice. The problem has a solution: states right. ~400 million people will never agree on a leader or have their beliefs encapsulate
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by vonklaus 10y ago
> make destruction of the system hard One might argue it already is. Then you have a bad system with a lot of friction to change it.
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by vonklaus 10y ago
After looking this over again, it kind of seems like a blogging platform. I'm going to DL it later, but looks like it could be a sneaky way for them to enter the content publishing space.
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by vonklaus 10y ago
Finally, they released google docs. I jest, buy I am going to give them (Dropbox) another shot. Google docs is very frustrating. From dumping me into an unorganized pile of text w/o folders to just enough features to make it complica
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by vonklaus 10y ago
Hollywood isn't over. The "we" in the article title is hollywood, i.e how it understands itself. We as HN, and pretty much everyone else knew this in 2010.
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by vonklaus 10y ago
A key takeaway from this; and one of the main reasons parse failed-- don't name a company or service after an extremely generic programming term. Parse failed for a lot of reasons but I hated it because the documentation was terrible a

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