wahsd

61 ms·

481.
by wahsd 12y ago
Along with several things that Peter Thiel has said recently that made me think "well, that surely decreases his authority in my mind" when he recently professed his love and addiction to the Drudge Report I could not help thinkin
482.
by wahsd 12y ago
"Security in internet software and protocols were often just not considered at all in that time..." I find that a rather perplexing issue with many, especially software based products and research. How do you, in early, usually ti
483.
by wahsd 12y ago
I don't know that making Scotland pay in the short term is all that smart and could significantly backfire on the English elite just like every single thing they have said and done in the last couple days has. Scotland separating from
484.
by wahsd 12y ago
Being afraid of the future is for pansies. I think pansies grow in England, right?
485.
by wahsd 12y ago
Am I missing something? I don't see an indication that they will be laid off. It really doesn't make any sense to have that kind of staff in Silicon Valley anymore. In reality, it makes no sense to have people in expensive locatio
486.
by wahsd 12y ago
I am not sure I see the brilliance in their actions. It's rather expected. Not only is what you described true, but government and finance are also the main two sectors that are most interested in violating and usurping through unfair
487.
by wahsd 12y ago
"cagey" is the perfect one word description for Palantir. I am not quite sure if even this community quite understands what Palantir is and does. Things aren't quite what they appear to be.
488.
by wahsd 12y ago
That almost sounds like an admission of guilt. I get that their overall security process is rather patchy and has huge holes, but it is still up to the user to choose between a secure and hugely annoying password, or an easy and convenient
489.
by wahsd 12y ago
I see the bigger issue being that the security questions or answers are not usually properly encrypted or securely handled in the same way that we at least expect passwords to be handled. The other issue is that security questions should be
490.
by wahsd 12y ago
If you have ever taken one of those courses, whether brick and mortar or online, you will understand that it's simply a con job that the driving school industry has pushed through. If the intent were really to penalize and disincentivi
491.
by wahsd 12y ago
Well, I can scratch him off my list of insightful individuals. I don't know what it is with "success" but it seems to really mess with your mind. I wonder if it's that certain types of "successful" people live
492.
by wahsd 12y ago
I know some will balk out of fear and comfort, but we are approaching a boundary that will force these schemes to expand into the socio-economic strata that you also belong to. Sure it's easy to ignore the brewing storm because it&#x27
493.
by wahsd 12y ago
European countries are largely far less fraud based economies and thus do not allow so many practices that are permitted in the USA.
494.
by wahsd 12y ago
I'm always amazed at how low our businesses will stoop in a specious claim of free market and competition. Our business are monopolistic, corrupt and corrupting, and like Über is revealing itself....grotesquely, rapaciously, and insati
495.
by wahsd 12y ago
I think you should understand that America's economy has a long an illustrious history of "snakeoil barons becoming rich on bullshit". It's kind of the very basis of our whole system.
496.
by wahsd 12y ago
That is probably precisely the reason why it's not available for Android, there are hundreds of different physical form factors and many more configurations.
497.
by wahsd 12y ago
I totally agree. The thing that makes iOS even worse for larger screen sizes than the bad experience on Android is that iOS icons auto-align themselves about in the worse possible place, the top left of the screen. I've argued with a s
498.
by wahsd 12y ago
Let's be real, the vast majority, even much of what is and comes out of YC is barely more than what used to be snake oil salesmen and infomercial scam artists. (sorry, YCers, for causing that cognitive dissonance, but I would also like
499.
by wahsd 12y ago
This is interesting because it touches on a larger topic, what I call the Google bias. It is the bias that assumes that the search results from Google are the correct and most relevant results, when, in fact, they are simply the results tha
500.
by wahsd 12y ago
What hope is there for humanity if war mongering tyrants are at the very least not honored and worshiped. War and organized murder should not be a virtue, it should be a necessity for defense; after which you lay down your arms while still
501.
by wahsd 12y ago
They are inherently in this business through Google Apps, they even offer the appointment making feature and functionality. It's just poorly executed, just like so much at Google.
502.
by wahsd 12y ago
Another example of Google squandering a good thing. They had appointments built into calendar, pushed Google apps to businesses, then promptly shut down appointments. I just recently noticed They slipped appointments back in to Google Apps
503.
by wahsd 12y ago
I find it interesting that this article was yanked from Hacker News just as quickly as I saw it. I clicked on the link, wanted to go to the discussion and had to find it through search in spite of its high vote count and recent submission.
504.
by wahsd 12y ago
It doesn't even make any sense regarding highways. Ignoring their embarrassingly flawed standard for setting speed limits based on a percentile of speed limited traffic, there are so many other factors that go into the danger of traffi
505.
by wahsd 12y ago
If people only realized how our government is the vampire squid that is hell-bent on world domination. Embrace your future state of slavery, it is invariable.
506.
by wahsd 12y ago
You might find interesting that Palantir is basically an extension of the CIA and NSA.
507.
by wahsd 12y ago
I hope this catches on and it can be used to shame and blame hotel chains. I can't recall a single instance where hotel wifi, let alone wire, as even remotely fast. These hotels normally charge $20-50 per day of internet and they provi
508.
by wahsd 12y ago
try http://www.speekof.me
509.
by wahsd 12y ago
I hope there will be a way to manage the bandwidth and load properly. I think it will be a critical point for this project to be successful. If, e.g., I have an open wifi network access point in an apartment complex or even neighborhood, wi
510.
by wahsd 12y ago
LOL The irony of someone getting fired at Facebook for not delivering something of tangible value is so juicy.

More ›