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by jdreyfuss 7y ago
Sqreen (YC W18) is one counterexample, but they came into YC at a later stage of maturity than your average YC company. As to why there aren't many others, that's a great question. It's a hard space to get started in, since s
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How Sqreen blocked a major ATO attack against themselves(link.sqreen.com)
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by jdreyfuss 7y ago
This article makes two assumptions that need more support. One, that having a particular "threshold brain structure" is a necessary condition for consciousness. And two, that consciousness is a binary, as opposed to a spectrum.
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by jdreyfuss 7y ago
These kinds of sites are exactly that: niche Craigslists. Since they are marketplaces, they see their job as connecting two groups that want to engage with each other (in this case, camera owners and people who want to rent a camera), and a
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by jdreyfuss 7y ago
Definitely thought provoking. I hadn't thought much about how the effects of the fear of retribution reverberate in how people and companies interact with governments, employers, and suppliers. I feel like this is usually discussed on
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by jdreyfuss 7y ago
Right. Outlier success is heavily driven by randomness, sometimes with a real differentiator edge thrown it. It doesn't last because randomness is never permanently positive over a sufficient sample size and whatever edge someone may h
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by jdreyfuss 7y ago
Joking that a reasonable leaving hour == too early isn't a good joke. It plants the idea that the reasonable hour maybe isn't reasonable in other peoples' minds. That kind of thing only works as a joke when it's about an
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by jdreyfuss 7y ago
Yes, this fits closer to reality. Most people want to spend as little as possible on rent for a situation that matches their needs. Just because fancier apartments become available at higher prices doesn't mean people will move into th
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by jdreyfuss 7y ago
I assumed this was going to be about avoiding flow while doing actual work, but this is only in the context of practice and training. I can see the argument for avoiding flow and focusing on your weaknesses when your goal is self-improvemen
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by jdreyfuss 7y ago
Yeah Bird's rollout in SF put them in a very negative light for a lot people (myself included). Perhaps there's more acceptance for scooters this time around, so it'll go better for them.
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by jdreyfuss 7y ago
This specific law may not have a large effect in and of itself, but having something like this out there can set the stage for future change as well. Momentum is very much a thing in politics, so anything that takes steps in the right direc
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by jdreyfuss 7y ago
Right, this makes sense to me. If you can cut down on customers' needs to make a decision, you'll increase the likelihood that someone makes a purchase. Building consumer trust by recommending actually good products is in Amazon&#
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by jdreyfuss 7y ago
In SF at least, Ubers and Lyfts often treat unprotected bike lanes as drop-off and pick-up zones as well, which adds another dangerous wrinkle for bikers
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by jdreyfuss 7y ago
Definitely an intentional strategy on Medium's part. Guess they think the increase in revenue will outweigh the decline in the number of new articles and readership. They might be right, but the experience for both publishers and reade
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by jdreyfuss 7y ago
Cool idea! I like the self-assessment angle. We wrote this for CTOs since prior to hiring a dedicated security engineer, security responsibilities in a company often fall to the CTO. But really, any more technical person in a company with s
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by jdreyfuss 7y ago
It's not something we hardcore enforce, since it's more about having a fun way to build good security habits with your devices. Being lightly called out in Slack has an impact in and of itself. The actual cookies are just a bonus.
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by jdreyfuss 7y ago
Checklist author here. Glad you liked the idea! Figuring out a clean shorthand way to group these best practices was something we definitely thought about. The idea behind using funding rounds was to find something that can work as an easil
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by jdreyfuss 7y ago
Yes, it feels like it would be a fairly straightforward econ model actually. If the combined price for all the platforms gets too high and the user experience too terrible, then it's an easy flip to piracy. I get that all these publish
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by jdreyfuss 7y ago
Good food for thought. A lot to consider there. I think besides the dichotomy of finding your in-group necessitating more clearly defining the out-groups and the harm that can come with that, there's also an underlying question of whet
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by jdreyfuss 7y ago
No, the article feels like it's not communicating the reason that this is potentially important very well. If I'm reading this right, the whole opening takeaway about the Atlantic ocean shrinking doesn't seem like the point h
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by jdreyfuss 7y ago
I think this is an important point. The fact that some countries have started to impose regulation against some of the tactics these gaming companies use (like Belgium banning loot boxes[0]) suggests that this is starting to be recognized.
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by jdreyfuss 7y ago
Yeah agreed. As I've gotten older, my tolerance for putting up with experiences and tactics I don't like has decreased. I dislike Epic attempting to strong-arm me into using their platform while still dealing with ongoing security
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by jdreyfuss 7y ago
Vacant properties have a lot of negative externalities -- higher safety risks, reduction in the quality of a neighborhood and in foot traffic (harming other businesses), higher incidences of squatting/homeless encampments, etc. A vacan
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by jdreyfuss 7y ago
San Francisco: on the verge of pricing everybody out since 1850
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by jdreyfuss 7y ago
I think when a lot of people made their "maps provider" decision, there weren't a lot of these other options available. Many people use Google Maps because it was the best maps option at the time they were first figuring out
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by jdreyfuss 7y ago
I would imagine that it's a mix. A rise in reports (thanks to the availability of the 311 mobile app and such), as well as a rise in incidents. I don't have much to back up the rise in incidents (besides everyone's general fe
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by jdreyfuss 7y ago
I like the idea of "slow news." I imagine my ideal state would be a combination of slow news and rapid fire updates. You get depth on the things that deserve depth, as well as a shallow horizontal understanding of the most current
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by jdreyfuss 7y ago
Interesting article. I like the re-framing of questioning gaming (and other uses of technology) from the basis of what it adds rather than what it subtracts. I believe there is value in gaming. There's value in storytelling, in masteri
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by jdreyfuss 7y ago
And they do make money off of dongles[0]. It is obviously a small percentage of their overall revenue, but even a couple percentage points is sizable at Apple's size. [0] https://9to5mac.com/2018/08/24/don
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by jdreyfuss 7y ago
This is just another entry in the "Apple: a Dongle Company" narrative. Apple has long had a philosophy of designing things their way and making the consumer adapt to their whims, rather than accepting standards or designing for th

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