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by vonklaus 11y ago
Few Nice Words about Stripe before the "But" ------------------------------------------------ The Stripe team straddle technology, trust and finance at scale. I have seen almost every interview PC has done and the insights the guy
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by vonklaus 11y ago
Sorry it was a flippant guess, which frankly I still stand behind as likely to be correct, but if unclear it was a guess.
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by vonklaus 11y ago
hahaha awesome! Glad you spoke up, exciting news. Just started using spotify a few weeks ago, but it is an awesome product. Cheers.
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by vonklaus 11y ago
I thought this as well. They have. This is Androids answer to Apple Music. edit: This also seemingly posted from a shelf account. Front page on HN, account 530+ days old, 0 comments, 0 posts. Reads like an acquisition. I am not sure what
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by vonklaus 11y ago
> Media world dominated by big conglomerates. True in a sense. I would frame it that the media world is the internet and there are many channels on it. Larger organizations have fared quite poorly in this environment, especially in a non
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by vonklaus 11y ago
A friend of mine helped out in Uganda and you are correct. If India, or wherever they are targeting is similar they will have limited electricity and limited clean water. It was my understanding that the village my friend worked at had a ra
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by vonklaus 11y ago
Snowden's strategy, or at least whoever managed information for the team, was super smart about the first 12 weeks. They kept the government mostly in yhe dark about the depth of what they knew, and executed s perfect slow burn. The ag
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by vonklaus 11y ago
I cant tell if you are legitimately messing with me or not. I screencapped the url and it is a "document not found screen". Edit: http://imgur.com/rd6Jl3f Edit 2: The IRS stated that section 1 and Section 11 are t
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by vonklaus 11y ago
To be fair, they aren't frivilous. In fact, taxes were illegal or temporary(given americas hostory). See my above comment for one of the "rebuttals".
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by vonklaus 11y ago
Couple things. I think it is pretty cool that a college social network has morphed into a horrifyingly privacy invading intelligience company just as much ad the next guy, but seriously WTF? I assume there is a good reason they are using dr
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by vonklaus 11y ago
I actually thought/think a merger of twitter and yahoo would make sense, and I also said a while back they should have merged(square & twitter) but that is off topic. The thing about twitter is that it has 1/2 of the problems
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by vonklaus 11y ago
It would have been really really hard to save Yahoo, but it could have been done. Obviously it will play poorly for everyone short term as many will lose their jobs. However, just like the fail fast & learn, I dont think she will, nor s
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by vonklaus 11y ago
I don't have time to find the source right now but there was speculation that a structure could be found that achieves this. While I may not capture the exact method, it was essentially something like: * Yahoo would sell the core &quot
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by vonklaus 11y ago
> I'm skeptical. Search is a huge problem just because of the bizarre amount of resources you need to throw at it. I can't afford to build my own datacenter(s) to host my custom search system. There might be huge advances ahead
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by vonklaus 11y ago
It is my position that search can never be decoupled from the browser and when I say "search" in the statement you are referring to I mean Google, as it is Peerless for english lang search. Search is in fact massively expanding as
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by vonklaus 11y ago
Sounds like they call customer support and order a software modification for the entire system...
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by vonklaus 11y ago
While I don't love google, I thought I made the claim rediculous enough that everyone would be able to realize it os satire and google could probably do 10x of what any govt could with the money.
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by vonklaus 11y ago
<satire> This makes me fucking sick. Google is a beautocratic monolith and doesn't deserve to be subsidized by the people. They should pay the government in full so we can finally get back to making progress. I don't want to
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by vonklaus 11y ago
> Small note - in the case of this particular phone it doesn’t have a secure enclave. Correct. Should have said this explicitly. They could use the precedent of bypass functionality in this instance to have it ship with new phones bypass
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by vonklaus 11y ago
This was raised and discussed in another thread and I believe this to be the case. Walt Mossberg, a pretty well known verge reporter who wrote one of the articles that was circulating a few weeks ago about the decline in Apple software, was
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by vonklaus 11y ago
Right, that was my point. I actually did include code CDN and fonts in the original list, but regardless I think google is an awesome company but as a community it is just downright irresponsible to fork this level of control to an entity.
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by vonklaus 11y ago
> ...Theranos also played a role in the passage of an Arizona law that allows people to get blood tests without a doctor’s order. Carreyrou: That was controversial, because there are many in the medical profession [...] who say, "We
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by vonklaus 11y ago
Its a false choice without a conpelling alternative. Like saying, anyone upset with the status quo should vote. I was joking a bit, but I also wasn't. Google has end to emd control over some users internet experience, and much of it in
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by vonklaus 11y ago
The Verge podcast walt-ctrl-delete was talking about this. Nilay Patel, editor at the verge, raised a pretty interesting point which was Supreme Court cases are often picked. Actors can pick what case they want to appeal or prosecute. They
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by vonklaus 11y ago
conversely, everyone should actively cloak and use random generated numbers to dynamically serve variants of their content similar to how mapmakers use trap streets. That way, like, another company wouldn't be profiting directly off of
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by vonklaus 11y ago
That's a good idea! What if we repeatedly scraped their site and then display it to some of the users on our site. Then, we could charge them some small fee to click on the link. We could sell them some of the data around who clicked o
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by vonklaus 11y ago
I would say Yahoo is not yet a massive anti-capitalist prank of a company like Radioshack, but I would say it is reminiscient of blockbuster. August 29th, 1997 Netflix was founded and on Aug 31 of 2011 Blockbuster announced no one wanted to
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Ask HN: Is anyone working on a browser or search engine/search?
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by vonklaus 11y ago
edit: I spoke to my inside guy at Apple. iVoice and the internal messaging system (called eMessage, or iMessage?) requires the user remember a 10-11 digit code for each person they want to contact, so no real help there.
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by vonklaus 11y ago
i emailed who I believe to be the lead dev. edit: email bounced to support. Since the email was a super autistic and sarcastic look at the ecosystem as I made a case for continued development, the support guy whose desk it bounced to from t

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