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To some extent, but I also think people severely overestimate what it takes to be notable. We live in such an extreme consumer culture that even a small amount of effort added to w…

> if you give $5k to someone living on $20k vs $200k annual income, the $20k person is much more likely to spend most or all of that $5k on food, housing, etc. That would normally …

This seems to be mostly about random startup topics e.g. "how do I sell my product?", a little bit about hardware startups and not a lot about "hard tech". Which they also seem to …

There are reasons to believe that the free market isn't healthy at all when it comes to labor. Low salaries for low-skilled labor enable companies to delay modernization, automatio…

> I suggest reading the introduction to the book in Amazon. Plenty of "scare quotes" there too, just pushing an opposing narrative. I don't see the relevance of the tone of the boo…

This also helped with reverting to username from real name after unlinking.

> Still, he makes plenty of other good points. Could you summarize, or mention a few? Because I struggle to see much of any merit to the article. It starts out with scare quote eve…

I mostly disagree. Saying "this should be like that" isn't a problem. When you are saying "this should be like that because it is proven by x" you have to actually prove your theor…

It is straight forward to compromise the BMC, it isn't straight forward to hide a backdoor in the BMC in front of some of the best security researchers in the world. Especially wit…

I just don't think the relationship between those two things you are describing exists. If the Chinese government approaches a Chinese manufacturer with the goal of compromising US…

I don't really see why everyone is calling this implausible. Modchips have been around for at least 15 years. The idea of the clipper chip is 25 years old. At every hacker conferen…

I just don't get the narrative. I can appreciate walking away from, and not being part of, something you don't like. But at that point the damage was already done. Seemingly they m…

How to regulate this is up to each and every country, just like it is up to each country how to regulate things like pollution, traffic and infrastructure. That a bank who can't ha…

"Do you accept cookies" is only relevant because there isn't a separate login mechanism in HTTP. Actually knowing whether you are sharing data with the website, and what website th…

> The parent was arguing that security is hard [...] It isn't though, at least not compared to the state of things. Pretty much any government would be competent enough to mandate …

I can't disagree from a technical perspective, nor should everyone else. But that just isn't that relevant. Sure, you could hack the entire world 20 years ago, but there just weren…

> "as to enforce equality of income". This is what puts me off of Europe! It is one of the few ways to have an equal society. With to large income inequality the welfare state beco…

While I find your perspective interesting I disagree with some of your conclusions. > It's effectively cap to enforce equality of outcome. It isn't so much to enforce equality of o…

I think that outlook was more likely a few years ago. In the grand scheme of things it seems like places like Stockholm and Berlin have largely capped out. I think it is getting ha…

I don't know about Switzerland (nor that much about Lambda School), but even the most flexible schools in Europe tends to be quite rigid. Apply months in advance, study for years, …

Freelancing, starting companies and the NHR scheme (which is sort of an exception but still) seems to have a lot of deductions, conditions and exceptions that require more guidance…

I have had my eye on Portugal for a number of years, but there are a few things that seem less than ideal. * Cost of living for a good quality of life still being relatively high o…