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petraeus··on Sundar Pichai Should Resign as Google’s C.E.O
But the question is, why would he do that? He made the best possible choice out of many bad choices forced by the anti-diversity memo guy himself.
petraeus··on Evidence of Google blacklisting of left and progressive sites continues to mount
Go google!
petraeus··on Why Google’s firing terrifies social conservatives so much
Its an attack on the status quo, white males are terrified, understandably...
petraeus··on Claude Shannon: How a Genius Thinks, Works, and Lives
I bet there would be many more geniuses with ubi
petraeus··on Ask HN: How to tell someone they are not doing well at work?
Just remember, when you point a finger there are 3 pointing back
petraeus··on On the Perceived Value of EV Certs, Commercial CAs, Phishing and Let's Encrypt
You may be right but I worked for a certificate reseller for years and those we persuaded to adopt EVs saw an increase in conversion rate, so theres that.
petraeus··on On the Perceived Value of EV Certs, Commercial CAs, Phishing and Let's Encrypt
Basically you're right but missing context. Small businesses for the most part are not technically oriented enough to appreciate or even know about the existence of EV certs. But I can guarantee you that through my years of working for a certificate reseller, those SMBs who adopted an EV saw a increase in conversion rate.

In this case the numbers do not tell the whole story.

petraeus··on On the Perceived Value of EV Certs, Commercial CAs, Phishing and Let's Encrypt
Why not have both?
petraeus··on Pentagon study declares American Empire is 'collapsing'
Theres a easy cure that will be the norm in 100 or 200 years, whenever we get sick of capitalism. You're right capitalism is not currently recognized as a form of government, but in reality it is the dominant form of government in the west.

The cure is, get this, transparency. It'll take some effort to get to a true transparent government and im calling this new form Transparentism.

petraeus··on The Curious Comeback of the Dreaded QR Code
How can something that never left .. come back?
petraeus··on On the Perceived Value of EV Certs, Commercial CAs, Phishing and Let's Encrypt
If you are a top 10 site you won't need an EV, but if you are in a small business in a competitive market it could help.
petraeus··on Without Flash the current web tech stack might look different
The problem with flash wasn't that it didn't create great animations, it did. The problem was it was not web friendly, you can't build a seo site in flash, you cannot build a maintainable database driven project in flash. You cannot build security into flash. Its great for doing little animations but thats it.
petraeus··on Why Canada Is Able to Do Things Better
Specifically, it is imagined that even severe and abruptly implemented tax cuts will serve to actually increase government revenue, thanks to the turbo-charging effect on economy growth.

- a conservative

petraeus··on Things Hackers don’t tell you about Hackathons
replace hack with work and you're closer to representing what a workathon is.
petraeus··on Uber Backers Discuss Stock Sale to SoftBank, Others
Its that old adage, what did children do before smart-phones?

How did people live before flushing toilets? I guess we will never know because life is uber. If uber doesnt provide it it must be impossible.

petraeus··on Uber Backers Discuss Stock Sale to SoftBank, Others
Why would Google Amazon enter a market with 1 massive competitor losing billions subsidizing its rides?

Why wouldn't they develop their own self-driving technology while at the same time assisting in the building of using ride sharing as a habit, and simply wait until uber goes out of business or retreats even further into "profitable" markets before unleashing their low cost self-driving fleet into those markets previously dominated by a heavily subsidized uber?

oh wait a minute ...

petraeus··on Uber Backers Discuss Stock Sale to SoftBank, Others
Leaving Russia was a pre-flop fold, you just don't do it unless you've already conceded your hand will can't win.

Uber is dead in 5 years.

petraeus··on I Have No Enemies: My Final Statement (2009)
Culture-lock is the very reason China is having such a hard time become a modern technology leading state.

Its the same as in martial arts, the fixed form practices got absolutely decimated by MMA, diversity is a strength and modern cultures are very bad at accepting outsiders.

petraeus··on Ask HN: What is your password management solution?
You can use 1 password stand alone with dropbox as the storage.
petraeus··on The State of Developer Ecosystem in 2017
For some people writing clever clean code is much more important than making $10 million profit a year.

What type of person are you?

petraeus··on UK plans age verification for porn websites from 2018
Its a red herring used by the government to build a stronger surveillance state.

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety

petraeus··on The Hard Thing About Software Development
Once you are experienced enough you'll realize two things, that all programming languages let you solve problems and that programming in itself is not the problem, but rather applying it to solve business requirements is the true problem to solve.
petraeus··on What to know when your car is melted by 7,500 pounds of slime eels
Headline is typical Verge clickbait
petraeus··on A Simulated Stable Planetary System with 416 Planets in the Habitable Zone
I'd imagine each one of the planets would have an artificial gravity generator itself able to correct for gravitational disturbances
petraeus··on Who moved my cheese, 1Password?
The 1Password app is a good product but the subscription model they are pushing is going to turn people off in droves all of whom will go seek out the next stand-alone password app.
petraeus··on Simply Secure PHP Cryptography
Until then php composer.phar require defuse/php-encryption
petraeus··on Show HN: Ancap News, a Chrome/FF extension to bring out HN's true colors
In your blind attempt to stereo-type the HN community, you've missed the obvious answer, there are many many sub-groups ranging from anarchists to full on communists.
petraeus··on Some Uber drivers make so little, they have to live in their cars
Anyone driving for Uber is really dumb, these people simply take the cake.
petraeus··on MySQL utf8 vs. utf8mb4 – What's the difference?
SELECT CONCAT ( 'ALTER TABLE ', t1.TABLE_SCHEMA, '.', t1.table_name, ' MODIFY ', t1.column_name, ' ', t1.data_type, '(' , CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH, ')', ' CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;' ) FROM information_schema.columns t1

WHERE t1.TABLE_SCHEMA like 'omtest' AND t1.COLLATION_NAME IS NOT NULL AND t1.COLLATION_NAME NOT IN ('utf8mb4_unicode_ci')

AND table_name = 'emails';

petraeus··on Seattle City Council unanimously approves income tax for the rich
Rich / Successful people don't leave money on the table lmao
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