quantumsequoia

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by quantumsequoia 18d ago
You say that like it's a bad thing. If I am trusting Google with all sorts of personal information, I expect robust access controls to data and systems
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by quantumsequoia 7mo ago
Test
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by quantumsequoia 1y ago
Most people overestimate the prevalence of malice, und underestimate the prevalence of incompetence
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by quantumsequoia 1y ago
He's being a salesman, he wants to convince enterprises they need Box AI
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by quantumsequoia 1y ago
"Everyone" as in financial companies and governments
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by quantumsequoia 1y ago
Nothing aspires to be Apple. They're all about design. I can't see them getting invested in a nerdy philosophical cause like this
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by quantumsequoia 1y ago
It's called pooled hiring, and it makes sense when a company is hiring lots of people for lots of teams. Most large companies do this when hiring rates are high. You end up with better employee-team match when you interview a candidate
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by quantumsequoia 2y ago
My library has one, but it's only open for 1 hour a week, which is a shame because most 3d prints take longer than that
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by quantumsequoia 2y ago
> Tiktok is actively suppressing the stories. Is there any evidence of this? FWIW, I saw plenty of tiktoks talking about the China hack
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by quantumsequoia 3y ago
San Francisco seems to be missing from the cities list
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by quantumsequoia 3y ago
I'm most impressed by the domain name. How much does time.fyi cost you?
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by quantumsequoia 3y ago
If they kept coming back, that means you never really exterminated the population, just got their numbers low. You need to make the population go extinct
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by quantumsequoia 3y ago
> It's not like apple only allows iphone to iphone texting. Because of the limitations of SMS (not supporting high res pictures, no groupchats over 10 people, etc) it effectively is only for iphones. People with Android phones in t
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by quantumsequoia 3y ago
The /r/beeper subreddit is full of people coming in to complain about beeper. Even if people don't think what beeper is trying to do is worthwhile, I don't understand what makes people emotionally invested to the point w
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by quantumsequoia 3y ago
They are a for-profit company, but they want to make their profit by filling a demand people are willing to pay for
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by quantumsequoia 3y ago
Among non-technical lay people, the perception is Android can't interoperate with iPhones due to inferior technology. (For example, people call low resolution photos android photos. They don't realize photos sent over sms were dow
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by quantumsequoia 3y ago
Can you sue someone for violating TOS? It's not illegal, and Apple doesn't have any damages. Terms of Service are just... the terms you need to follow in exchange for service. If you violate the terms, you get cut off from service
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by quantumsequoia 3y ago
Interestingly, in the groupchat I'm in (N=67, mostly software engineers in the Bay Area), I've noticed a high correlation between people taking Pro-Beeper and Pro-Palestine stances, and those taking Pro-Apple and Pro-Israel stance
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by quantumsequoia 3y ago
iMessage isn't dominant because it's "better". It's dominant because it's the default. Doesn't matter how good a chat app is, iMessage users aren't going to switch
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by quantumsequoia 3y ago
Considering beeper is coming after Google's closed chat networks too, I doubt it.
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by quantumsequoia 3y ago
What grounds can they sue them on?
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by quantumsequoia 3y ago
Beeper's ultimate goal is to promote the Matrix protocol, and bridge proprietary networks to the open protocol
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by quantumsequoia 3y ago
Do you get 2FA codes when logging in from am actual Apple device? Because it might be an issue with how your apple account is set up to do 2FA that has nothing to do with beeper
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by quantumsequoia 3y ago
Sue them on what grounds?
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by quantumsequoia 3y ago
SMS doesn't support emoji reactions, read receipts, typing indicators, high quality pictures/video, or groupchats over 10 people. These are deal-breaker for anyone that texts regularly
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by quantumsequoia 3y ago
> it uses the exact same authorization mechanism as a real iOS device and grants the user access to no more than a real device would. And a hacker that social engineers someone's bank password is entering just like the account owner
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by quantumsequoia 3y ago
> but the solution is to get everyone to use a different chat app And how do you do that?
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by quantumsequoia 3y ago
I had to purchase an iPhone solely to use iMessage. Believe me, I would have loved to use any other internet-based chat app. But I just can't move my entire social circle to a different app. The network effects and friction are too hig
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by quantumsequoia 3y ago
None of the existing chat apps have established themselves as viable alternatives Meta has trashed their privacy image so FB Messenger/WhatsApp non-starters for lots of Americans. Signal, telegram don't have enough PR, 90% of Amer
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by quantumsequoia 3y ago
Many Americans have Facebook/WhatsApp accounts they haven't used in years. I'd be skeptical they surpass iMessage in terms of volume of messages

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