The automated clearing house system, our current means of settling payments, is pretty secure. The bigger threats are someone getting ahold of your credit card or checking account info, which is the same threat level…
Which only further demonstrates the gap between a 4-yr Comp Sci degree and software development. Which, don't get me wrong, I'm a university snob and think software engineers should understand things all the way down to…
This is interesting because while Apple's (comparative) dedication to privacy is endearing, it's a long-term existential threat. Google knows all about me and its assistant is, usually, great. Amazon has troves of data…
I'm presupposing the contact card has their job position/title, and therefore still answers the question – also presupposing the original (odd) premise of wondering who someone already saved in your phone is. The Venn…
I don't see it as humblebragging (any of us could create a Cook contact / ReCode readers likely know Walt Mossberg's relationship to Apple) but, worse, a faulty premise. Odds are, if you have them in your contact…
a16z is getting punished (at least, in the article) for marking their paper gains more conservatively than other funds. Their LPs are likely smart enough to realize this.
I mentioned this to someone else who made the same point (albeit with the ACLU instead of the EFF): Hm, that's an interesting point that I'll have to noodle over. Thanks for pointing it out.
Hm, that's an interesting point that I'll have to noodle over. Thanks for pointing it out.
I'm not defending Gawker; I'm saying there's a better way to have this debate. We don’t have to accept or excuse Gawker’s worst stories to protest Thiel’s dangerous playbook for attacks on institutions of civil society.
My mistake, I misread. I edited my post to address this.
You defend VA downthread while only decrying Gawker as being unethical. One takes photos of girls without their consent/knowledge while the other blurs the line of good journalistic taste. Yet it's only the latter…
There's a certain, perverse form of cognitive dissonance in thinking what Gawker did to Hogan was wrong, but ViolentAcrez and his posting of creepshots of underage girls was somehow unimpeachable free speech – and…
>and in fact was illegal for a long time Yeah, no. NYTimes v. Sullivan determined that public figures sacrifice a good deal of their privacy when they when they enter the public sphere. For instance, the same such video…
An LBO of a home is called "getting a mortgage." And yet, one's car or home isn't exactly a share-issuing company. You can form a company to own it – but that's not private equity. Are you familiar with what "private…
One doesn't exactly "start [their] own private equity firm." Tens of (more often: hundreds of) millions of dollars must be raised and even then, they must bid (or acquire by other means) on companies. Anyone with a net…
>At least they will do everything possible to maximize profits. Yes, sometimes this involves slower ambulances or slow internet. This is especially the case when there is no/few alternatives. What are you going to do...…
>However, conflating private equity with wall st., and making a distinction between how firms under private equity ownership behave vs. public equity or closely held (no financial sponsor) seems pointless other than to…
>Everybody that has spent more than 3 hours on the internet already knows that everyone is out there to get you. Yes, just like every adult knows thieves are out there to get to your valuables. It means you should…
That's fair. The comparison was a little unexpected, stark, and a detour from normal HN fare, but I still thought it was apt. (YMMV)
Indeed. Moreover, this is what political parties do! They try to influence elections; they don't rig them such that votes aren't counted, like some banana republic. (Sanders supporters will no doubt point out some…
Ah, that makes much more sense.
It's not Wikileaks' job to save the DNC, but they could claim more moral authority if they didn't so brazenly also play a role in disseminating donor financial information. That's essentially what Snowden is saying. Go…
>The reason a lot of people (especially young people) have been flocking to walkable cities has a lot more to do with self-identity and lifestyle choices than with just merely commuting time. These are drivers to be…
I couldn't agree more. I think if everyone just got to experience this dramatic difference, even briefly, there'd be no obesity epidemic.
Holy hell, that's quite a transformation. Congrats to you. Yes, that's the biggest thing that's under-stressed about exercise: the benefits are not just physical/health related. Like you, exercise has made me far less…
The automated clearing house system, our current means of settling payments, is pretty secure. The bigger threats are someone getting ahold of your credit card or checking account info, which is the same threat level…
Which only further demonstrates the gap between a 4-yr Comp Sci degree and software development. Which, don't get me wrong, I'm a university snob and think software engineers should understand things all the way down to…
This is interesting because while Apple's (comparative) dedication to privacy is endearing, it's a long-term existential threat. Google knows all about me and its assistant is, usually, great. Amazon has troves of data…
I'm presupposing the contact card has their job position/title, and therefore still answers the question – also presupposing the original (odd) premise of wondering who someone already saved in your phone is. The Venn…
I don't see it as humblebragging (any of us could create a Cook contact / ReCode readers likely know Walt Mossberg's relationship to Apple) but, worse, a faulty premise. Odds are, if you have them in your contact…
a16z is getting punished (at least, in the article) for marking their paper gains more conservatively than other funds. Their LPs are likely smart enough to realize this.
I mentioned this to someone else who made the same point (albeit with the ACLU instead of the EFF): Hm, that's an interesting point that I'll have to noodle over. Thanks for pointing it out.
Hm, that's an interesting point that I'll have to noodle over. Thanks for pointing it out.
I'm not defending Gawker; I'm saying there's a better way to have this debate. We don’t have to accept or excuse Gawker’s worst stories to protest Thiel’s dangerous playbook for attacks on institutions of civil society.
My mistake, I misread. I edited my post to address this.
You defend VA downthread while only decrying Gawker as being unethical. One takes photos of girls without their consent/knowledge while the other blurs the line of good journalistic taste. Yet it's only the latter…
There's a certain, perverse form of cognitive dissonance in thinking what Gawker did to Hogan was wrong, but ViolentAcrez and his posting of creepshots of underage girls was somehow unimpeachable free speech – and…
>and in fact was illegal for a long time Yeah, no. NYTimes v. Sullivan determined that public figures sacrifice a good deal of their privacy when they when they enter the public sphere. For instance, the same such video…
An LBO of a home is called "getting a mortgage." And yet, one's car or home isn't exactly a share-issuing company. You can form a company to own it – but that's not private equity. Are you familiar with what "private…
One doesn't exactly "start [their] own private equity firm." Tens of (more often: hundreds of) millions of dollars must be raised and even then, they must bid (or acquire by other means) on companies. Anyone with a net…
>At least they will do everything possible to maximize profits. Yes, sometimes this involves slower ambulances or slow internet. This is especially the case when there is no/few alternatives. What are you going to do...…
>However, conflating private equity with wall st., and making a distinction between how firms under private equity ownership behave vs. public equity or closely held (no financial sponsor) seems pointless other than to…
>Everybody that has spent more than 3 hours on the internet already knows that everyone is out there to get you. Yes, just like every adult knows thieves are out there to get to your valuables. It means you should…
That's fair. The comparison was a little unexpected, stark, and a detour from normal HN fare, but I still thought it was apt. (YMMV)
Indeed. Moreover, this is what political parties do! They try to influence elections; they don't rig them such that votes aren't counted, like some banana republic. (Sanders supporters will no doubt point out some…
Ah, that makes much more sense.
It's not Wikileaks' job to save the DNC, but they could claim more moral authority if they didn't so brazenly also play a role in disseminating donor financial information. That's essentially what Snowden is saying. Go…
>The reason a lot of people (especially young people) have been flocking to walkable cities has a lot more to do with self-identity and lifestyle choices than with just merely commuting time. These are drivers to be…
I couldn't agree more. I think if everyone just got to experience this dramatic difference, even briefly, there'd be no obesity epidemic.
Holy hell, that's quite a transformation. Congrats to you. Yes, that's the biggest thing that's under-stressed about exercise: the benefits are not just physical/health related. Like you, exercise has made me far less…