throwawayapples

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by throwawayapples 3y ago
> I wouldn't hold up GrapheneOS as a good example of more freedom compared to Apple or Google tbh. I don't see why we can't have both, but this doesn't really a fair criticism of GP's comment. The specific word G
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by throwawayapples 3y ago
We're commenting, not stating something as fact. And if that's the closest we'll get to a fact, then what if it's not? .. it's actually worse than no fact at all.
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by throwawayapples 3y ago
no way even ChatGPT is this nuts. Ok, well, maybe it is. but a magic 8-ball would have been better than this.
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by throwawayapples 3y ago
and the Apple (II etc) vs Mac teams warring with each other.
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by throwawayapples 3y ago
Kara Swisher gets in big public fights with CEOs and wears dark sunglasses in order to be cool. In other words, she's definitely not immune to bias and might easily want to shape the story to her own ends or to favor her own friends. W
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by throwawayapples 3y ago
Texas has a larger up-front cost (about $300 one-time), but no annual fees at all, no income tax for corporations or individuals. Unlike Wyoming and Nevada, Texas does have franchise tax, but that is 0 until you exceed $1.23M in revenue, an
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by throwawayapples 3y ago
The Court of Chancery nearly always rules with the board (VCs) over shareholders (founders). VCs like that.
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by throwawayapples 3y ago
Oh, no, that's not true at all. An invention might not even be possible, let alone having a clear and (literally, provably) correct specification of inputs and outputs. Just seeing that it exists, to say nothing of getting the correct
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by throwawayapples 3y ago
I'd settle for a source analysis and reproducible builds for just our myriad open source dependencies. All it takes is a single developer to be compromised in the thousands throughout a typical stack..
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by throwawayapples 3y ago
> If we look at university performance at the margin, we would really be expecting some of these people to have won a Fields Medal or a Nobel Prize-winning discovery. At the highest-level universities, nearly every applicant is already e
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by throwawayapples 3y ago
Yes; you might have seen mosquito "dunks" that are small donut shaped things that you can drop into flower pots or other areas that don't drain properly. They dissolve over time. There are also mosquito traps (bird-house size
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by throwawayapples 3y ago
Here's what it's focused on, targeting Themelio cryptocurrency's requirements: > In a blockchain, the behavior we almost always want is for all transactions on the database to be serializable and for database integrity to
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by throwawayapples 3y ago
>>> you do not have a constitutional right to spouting off in the public square without consequence. What you say publicly can & will be used against you in the court of law. "spouting off..used against you in a court of l
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by throwawayapples 3y ago
"Spouting off" is an idiom that means, essentially, "angrily complaining". It does not mean publicly confessing to a crime.
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by throwawayapples 3y ago
Of course, if you incriminate yourself while spouting off (or while engaged in any other activity, like writing in your diary), then you are producing evidence of a different crime, but spouting off is not a crime in itself.
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by throwawayapples 3y ago
The next sentence: "What you say publicly can & will be used against you in the court of law", so governmental consequences is what the OP was referring to. It seems like the OP might have been conflating free speech with admi
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by throwawayapples 3y ago
> you do not have a constitutional right to spouting off in the public square without consequence Actually, in the U.S., you literally have that specific constitutional right. The First Amendment protects "spouting off in the publ
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by throwawayapples 3y ago
Unpopular opinion (and so strange that a red state like Texas did it this way), but: Texas is far too dependent on wind power, fossil fuel plants (even natural gas!) being shut down at the behest of the federal govt, and definitely not enou
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by throwawayapples 3y ago
North Korea is a nice foil, because then you don't have to cast aspersions onto trading partners. "Look, see? NK. We even copied some Korean words into the comments."
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by throwawayapples 3y ago
> Upon discovery, all identified websites and domains are added to Safe Browsing to protect users from further exploitation. dbgsymbol.com is NOT showing up with warning in Safe Browsing on my Brave browser. (warning, unknown vector)
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by throwawayapples 3y ago
Extortionist medical insurers coupled with regulatory capture.
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by throwawayapples 3y ago
Terror Form has a nice ring to it.
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by throwawayapples 3y ago
> Most companies with 20 servers aren't going to turn into 2000 server companies. But companies with 20 servers might actually turn into 2000 server companies once they close their seed round or series A, and you risk throwing out t
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Ask HN: Are SaaS free tiers disappearing?
6 points by throwawayapples 3y ago|7 comments
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Pricing :((userify.com)
2 points by throwawayapples 3y ago|0 comments
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by throwawayapples 3y ago
Pets aren't that bad if your pets are a few elephants.
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by throwawayapples 3y ago
only this one instance? what about port randomization or Curve25519?
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by throwawayapples 3y ago
Yep. It's not like either sysadmin or devops are harder than or easier than the other... they're just different. Actually, seems like managing k8s is an order of time expenditure greater than managing an old-school F5 with a bunch
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by throwawayapples 3y ago
Matamoros is.. not in Texas? The Texas side of the border is way safer than Matamoros.
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by throwawayapples 3y ago
> I'm not sure which I want less - the phone company getting data from my car, or the car company getting data from the phone. Insane and creepy. but at least Google knows something of security. Most car manufacturers do not.

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