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Comment · 1 year ago
Most wars involve deception at some level and then loyalty is vital. You need to prove that to the command center in stages. But when you get in you're rewarded handsomely.

Many low quality engineers have accidently stumbled upon this lucrative truth, simply because they had low optionality to move elsewhere and therefore also rank ethical considerations very low as a motivating criterion.

Comment · 1 year ago
The ultimate internet "kill switch": revoke all certificates. Modern browsers refuse to render the page.
Comment · 1 year ago
This would have worked very well 2014 to 2020 or so when many F500s were migrating workloads to the cloud, and the expertise was still considered a niche.

Now everyone working in tech has cloud experience. AWS offers a support contract to all accounts at sign up time, it also has a consulting business that will integrate with clients teams, and the LLMs are not great but getting there.

If you’re single go to Europe and get a masters degree in mechatronics instead.

Comment · 1 year ago
Correct. Ask anyone who plays blitz/bullet chess online. Games are won and lost in the final second of gameplay.
Comment · 1 year ago
How many other stats we see are faked?

She claimed 4.25m users only 300k real.

Startup idea: zero knowledge proof audit mechanism for investors to verify usage stats.

Comment · 1 year ago
P2P in-game voice chat? Sweet.
Comment · 1 year ago
Qownnotes. Syncs with cloud for multi device.
Comment · 1 year ago
It's morning in America - pmarca
Comment · 1 year ago
The President is the head of the executive branch. If _anyone_ in the executive branch has access to information, it feels like the presidents office should too.

Why is this hard to accept?

Comment · 1 year ago
A court in China found her guilty. Think about this for a second. A court in a country where state run companies compete with Tesla, found her guilty. Says a lot, to me at least.

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