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1. 691.▲
   by wand3r 9y ago

   This is Ubers fault for leaving themselves open, but this will play out like a hostile takeover w/ Google upping their 6percent stake to controlling or wholly owning Uber
2. 692.▲
   by wand3r 9y ago

   Google will acquire them. They already own shares from a Google venture round
3. 693.▲
   by wand3r 10y ago

   A $900 hackintosh could have a modest GPU and Skylake i7.
4. 694.▲
   by wand3r 10y ago

   As of last week newer (newest?) NVIDIA GPUs work and are supported for hackintosh and presumably Mac desktops
5. 695.▲
   by wand3r 10y ago

   This is the first military payload but they have landed and recovered the first stage several times. I guess the NSA should do more technical demos because no one seems to find this NRO tech unethical if it's coupled with an amazing te
6. 696.▲
   by wand3r 10y ago

   You almost forget that it was an NRO spy sat payload.
7. 697.▲
   by wand3r 10y ago

   I believe they "hacked" it by physically editing the SD card. If someone has unfettered access to your email server you're in bad shape. Iirc the payload required navigating to a link and downloading a malicious file...Each t
8. 698.▲
   by wand3r 10y ago

   The nomx response was here yesterday. Apparently the guy flashed the SD card, rooted the device and used a payload written by a friend. According to their account none of this was reproduced w/ an off the shelf device rooted by nomx an
9. 699.▲
   by wand3r 10y ago

   Iirc Zuckerberg allowed profile pics but realized people kept changing them all the time so they implemented photos
10. 700.▲
    by wand3r 10y ago

    Profit. Edit: & security.
11. 701.▲
    by wand3r 10y ago

    I didn't expect it to be a great article, it was ok, just pretty reasonable title on a scale from 1-HuffPo it was a 4 for ckickbait
12. 702.▲
    by wand3r 10y ago

    > click bait title No. I went in expecting it to be about a guy who lost his own password to Reddit and had to crack it. Spoiler: That's what the article was about.
13. 703.▲
    by wand3r 10y ago

    > only use eBay to buy prescription meds from overseas What?
14. 704.▲
    by wand3r 10y ago

    Correct. I think Google will be replaced but due to their investment it won't be easy.
15. 705.▲
    by wand3r 10y ago

    I think the parent is wrong in "easily replaceable" but I think it will be replaced soon. For $5 I would pay for a private customizable search engine, someone will build it
16. 706.▲
    by wand3r 10y ago

    I don't think they would trust Amazon again
17. 707.▲
    by wand3r 10y ago

    I didn't read it that way. I think he mentioned it as an explanation of how his uncle got in touch and why.
18. 708.▲
    by wand3r 10y ago

    Yep, faulty memory. Still similar point though: Elon Musk bought in to Tesla and fired one of the founders. Obv, a Lotus Chassis and a car kit is much different than the product now but once you sell, you give up control. AC prop still exis
19. 709.▲
    by wand3r 10y ago

    For what it's worth I think Steve Jurvetson is the smartest investor in the biz.
20. 710.▲
    by wand3r 10y ago

    It could go poorly. Those are good points. It was a decent but if they retain talent and deprive competitors. Takes a long time to start a company and Tesla is likely attractive place for engineers so they will prob retain employees and IP
21. 711.▲
    by wand3r 10y ago

    This is a common occurrence in business even if ugly. Similar circumstances happened to Tesla with Mobile Eye and Google, FB, Microsoft do this regularly. Potentially it did come up and he was mislead to make the sale, maybe their strategy
22. 712.▲
    by wand3r 10y ago

    I have seen almost every interview he's done. Admire a lot about him. Not discrediting him at all, just saying Uber might be too close to call. The one thing I would say is that he is pretty flashy and a bit of a braggard which many ar
23. 713.▲
    by wand3r 10y ago

    He's a broke <20 years old and lives in Croatia. Stripe was created to solve the payment problem because it's HUGE and doubly difficult outside north America and on a tiny budget. His first "real" game. Sure, you&#x27
24. 714.▲
    by wand3r 10y ago

    Obviously some did.
25. 715.▲
    by wand3r 10y ago

    I think it's public he owns Uber and owned it early. I think it's early to say if that was a "win"; I reckon he got in at a good val but Uber ain't public and w/ a braindrain, 2 lawsuits, likely death of their
26. 716.▲
    by wand3r 10y ago

    This is how to do an honest sunset of an app. We tried, we hustled and it sucks but we have to stop work. We'll still do more though, so you can keep your data, but this has been stressful as hell. Thanks for supporting us. It just fee
27. 717.▲
    by wand3r 10y ago

    exactly that. thank you.
28. 718.▲
    by wand3r 10y ago

    Thats the nature of the beast; everyone wants to release new garbage; which itself was clean until it had to put just a few bits of old rubbish in until it became trash. Can't find it now but someone posted a Linux mailing list where T
29. 719.▲
    by wand3r 10y ago

    Interesting. I agree with almost everything. Still think search is huge. A highly customizable, secure private search engine. Your own pagerank. I also think we agree that there was a lot of verticals to explore and strategies to employ but
30. 720.▲
    by wand3r 10y ago

    I am a very mediocre programmer and certainly not qualified to run a public company, but I think Yahoo could've been saved. Simply because it had a lot of capital (relative to startups) and with her there, the ability to attract and