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Hey nerdraging moron I obviously don’t mean every company did. I mean it was common. Many companies, prior to Stripe, did create their own gateways or custom systems on top of gate…

Before Stripe every company had to hack together their own payment gateway. Before PagerDuty every company had to hack together their own incident response system. What problems li…

Stripe’s entire business is built on credit card transactions. They added half assed bitcoin support and then killed it. This makes sense for a company that has every incentive to …

China is always “working on” whatever the US is. Issue comes down to timing.

It’s almost so bad (even for gov work) that one wonders if it wasn’t designed like this recently as an excuse to run this “false alarm” exercise. This is the kind of thing we would…

“However, Aboulafia noted, such a capability could also be considered a destabilizing development if a U.S. adversary decided to react preemptively to such an aircraft’s existence.…

Oracle is downright evil in the most corporate way. No one with other options should be a customer or employee. Oracle needs to die with Comcast and the rest.

Good time to start a Soylent competitor if you’ve been thinking of it.

Microsoft hires thousands of H1B workers for generic roles like project manager and software developer. Do you really think there aren’t Americans that could fill those roles? Of c…

Connections matter mostly before . Once you have a rapidly growing business, everyone is your friend, and “connections” fly in.

Social metrics. Would make the Social Capital name genuinely meaningful :-) The “social response” (HN, GitHub, reddit, ...) to a new project, product, or service is all you should …

The flaw here is using the wrong metrics. Once a company has found a repeatable and growing business model, it’s trivial to raise money and there’s no reason to pick Social Capital…

How about a super EMP that wipes out millions of Americans and brings it down to Russia's level? Russia started helping North Korea with ICBM and super EMP technology after Bush pu…

The US can probably see the position of every sub on the planet using magnetic imaging.

You blow a hole in the border with the first plane. Then fly the rest through. EMP attacks can also blow a hole.

Nothing to do with START. It's all about the NK war. Do you also believe the story that they recalled 1000 retired pilots due to shortages in recruiting? And that this weeks evacua…

The reason for the 24/7 bombers is to counter any Russian or Chinese aggression during the US attack on North Korea. We can't risk them thinking we're vulnerable to a preemptive st…

Design by committee vs design by vision. Takes guts to have strong opionions and stick to them. At almost every company, the primary background motivation is not getting fired. Vir…

Privilege is wealth. The idea that there are a number of privileges is a lie people who have wealth tell. If you have money, you have privilege. If you don't, you don't. Everything…

It's not related to crypto/tls or net/http. This has to do with sending mail via SMTP. It's totally worth fixing but probably had close to zero real world effect. Go has an incredi…

Bank robbery is not a capital crime either but cops shoot as soon as they see an armed gang. Isn't this a good comparison?

All the money spent on patent wars will be paid for by consumers. Abolish all patents. Let the free market sort things out.