cameronbrown

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Comment · 4 months ago
In the UK, gas & electric is also privatised and in a poor state too :)

Almost like private investment generates return for investors, not customers. Sometimes those align.

Comment · 6 months ago
I’m in the UK and we recently got the Online Safety Act. We failed, this legislation is very popular with voters and not getting rolled back. Those that dislike it use a VPN and aren’t interested in fighting. I’d say most of the public here is exhausted with cost of living and internet freedom just isn’t relevant to their voting habits.

I grew up around a lot of the hacker ethos, open internet, Information Wants To Be Free etc… feels like a part of my identity is being striped away by my government.

Comment · 6 months ago
> I also wonder if they are glad they published it

https://youtu.be/ue9MWfvMylE

Jeff Dean is asked this question by Geoffrey Hinton at 37:35 - might worth watching. Overall an interesting video.

Comment · 6 months ago
Comment · 4 years ago
Try watching until Season 2 if you can. The show got much better and it's honestly a shame it was cancelled when it just got good.
Comment · 5 years ago
The best carbon capture technology is to plant trees. As in, billions of trees per year, which is carbon negative only if the net number of trees is growing. Maybe even get creative on the biology side of things to make them easier to plant in harsh environments.
Comment · 5 years ago
Good luck!
Comment · 5 years ago
As other people have mentioned, landing pages + waitlists aren't the best nowadays. I do think a better way to get traction is to go and find 1-2 customers who will work closely with you to build a product. You mention this is for creators, so if possible, leverage their follower base to drive viral growth.
Comment · 5 years ago
Far easier to develop a culture of using something physical like yubikeys - over flimsy cardboard QR codes. The key metaphor makes a lot more sense that way, too.
Comment · 5 years ago
I think a lot of these things are less important by the day though. Are VPNs or advanced security software even necessary if everything is in Notion/Google Docs and something like Codespaces is being used?
Comment · 5 years ago
(Opinions are my own.)

It used to be entirely custom, but is currently being re-based on VSCode. Overall very similar feel to Codespaces, just tailed for how Google works.

Comment · 5 years ago
Is there anything like this, but for visualising the connections between git commits, files, GitHub issues, maybe even classes etc...?

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