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by nugget 1y ago
The Navy has conducted some extremely consequential wiretaps. A fantastic book about the subject: https://www.amazon.com/Blind-Mans-Bluff-Submarine-Espionage/...
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Is humanoid robot startup Figure AI exaggerating their work with BMW?(fortune.com)
1 points by nugget 1y ago|0 comments
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by nugget 2y ago
Have you considered pursuing them in small claims court?
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by nugget 3y ago
I’d say brain drain is the root problem. It’s hard to build a competitive ecosystem when the most ambitious and skilled people move away. From Europe, they move to the US. From within the US, they move to one of a few cities, most notabl
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by nugget 3y ago
In my experience as a founder, excitement to work in a particular area is way more important than experience/skills. Ideally you have both. But lack of enthusiasm for a product, especially a niche product, kills a culture.
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by nugget 3y ago
I’m pretty sure the opioid epidemic is the leading cause of death in the US. Enormous numbers of Americans are dying from fentanyl and other poisons, but the media doesn’t like to cover it and the Government doesn’t like to talk about it.
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Project Unifree – migrate Unity projects to other game engines(github.com)
84 points by nugget 3y ago|0 comments
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by nugget 3y ago
Unity seems to be attempting this in the most deceptive and deceitful way possible, establishing the new Runtime Fee and then offering a temporary 100% "waiver" of the fee if you use their other (presumably inferior) products. As
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by nugget 3y ago
The Unity CEO and management team seem actively hostile to game developers. They view them more as adversaries than allies. Their first principle may be something like "How can we extract more revenue from our developers?" rathe
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by nugget 3y ago
Most of the talent from IronSource has left or checked out, and they started to slip in competitiveness and lose clients as a result. This pricing model seems designed to slow those losses, but if it increases developer adoption of Godot o
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by nugget 3y ago
For point #1, it's the exit price that matters. Whether the exit takes the form of an acquisition or an IPO, is incidental. I've done both multiple times. Acquisitions tend to be faster, cleaner, and easier exits. IPOs are tou
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by nugget 3y ago
As a young teenager learning to code in the mid/late 90s I distinctly remember two influential movies: Office Space and Hackers. It wasn’t until the dot com boom that I realized you could have a lot of fun and stay out of prison.
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by nugget 3y ago
If SES is the worst, who is the best? By implication, simply the most expensive providers?
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by nugget 3y ago
I'm a casual daily/weekly user of reddit but rarely post and have never been a moderator. I only access the website via my desktop or mobile browser. I don't care about API prices per se. However: this whole episode has lef
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by nugget 3y ago
Toolbar, Chrome, other software partnerships and many enterprise search deals besides Firefox and Safari.
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by nugget 3y ago
Neeva failed because they didn’t understand distribution. Sundar became a rising star and ultimately CEO of Google because he directly managed more paid distribution and user acquisition for Google search than anyone else. Not a coinciden
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by nugget 3y ago
There are privacy "promises" and then there are privacy laws like CCPA in California which companies are supposed to comply with. CCPA requires data brokers and large tech companies to maintain at least two channels by which user
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by nugget 3y ago
Demographics are destiny. America can probably attract and assimilate enough immigrants to be OK. That has always been and continues to be America’s superpower. As global birth rates continue to plummet, most of the rest of the world see
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by nugget 3y ago
I'm surprised the malware origins weren't scrutinized more in the press when the deal was announced. Ultimately it seems like the Unity CEO was trying to buy his way to profitability, without realizing that the two companies were
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by nugget 3y ago
Once you’re hooked on Google or Bing search ads for revenue, they can control everything you are allowed to do within a product via compliance requirements. It’s a clever and effective form of regulatory capture.
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by nugget 3y ago
The search index is relatively easy, the ad marketplace is hard. DDG is likely hooked on tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in Bing revenue which is a tough habit to kick.
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by nugget 3y ago
“They say sufferings are misfortunes, but if I was asked whether I would stay as I was before I was taken prisoner, Or go through it all again, I would say, "For God's sake, let me be a prisoner again”. For me, when our lives are
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by nugget 3y ago
Watch the exchange between Sen Lankford and Sec Yellen yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bcvl104tyRY Yellen says unsecured depositors at TBTF banks will always be bailed out, but those at smaller banks are on their
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by nugget 4y ago
The short answer would be because the SVB brand is essentially owned by the bank's unsecured depositors at this point. You have to balance their recovery against the moral hazards of too earnestly sweeping failure under the rug.
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by nugget 4y ago
They didn't act fast enough to save any of the SVB brand value which is now probably negative. I look forward to the SVB employee Halloween costumes reminiscent of Lehman Brothers in 2008.
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by nugget 4y ago
I heard from a well-placed source that over 50% of SVB's balance sheet has already been liquidated by the FDIC. This matches up with what Bill Ackman tweeted. We'll find out early next week.
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by nugget 4y ago
Based on internal data I have from similar companies my guess would be the first 50 employees average about $15-20m each and the next 100 average about $5-10m each just from their initial 4 year grants, with a lot of variation based on team
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by nugget 4y ago
I don't view the move to opt-in as a meaningful one because it's trivial to content-lock certain features to the point where the vast majority of users will opt-in even if they don't understand what is going on. At that poin
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by nugget 4y ago
If you're interested in advancing more effective privacy legislation (or just curious in general about what's going on out there), drop me an email and I can loop you into some interesting (and real-world-productive, not academic
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by nugget 4y ago
As a rule, if law enforcement has a warrant then it's going to be difficult to prevent them from gaining access. You can self-host and encrypt but that's difficult for mainstream users to do, and even for experts, it limits the t

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