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Well. Aren't Velvet Underground basically a Genghis Khan of 20th century western music, as in 95% of people who attended their shows started a band, and roughly 37% of contemporary bands carry their DNA? :)

That said, baity title but the subtitle is better in terms of Roxy not really sounding like anyone before (or since). Also grateful that the universe allowed Bryan Ferry and Brian Eno to occupy the same space long enough to make choice music without collapsing into a singularity.

Occam's Razor.

You typed a lot of words when the truth is obvious. Billionaires don't acquire media outlets to make money (directly).

The title now is "In praise of Tesla’s bankruptcy."

Did Tesla file for bankruptcy? I'm confused. Nikolai Tesla filed for bankruptcy in 1916.

This is phenomenally irresponsible of TechCrunch generally, and Jon Evans specifically.

Case further in point, MJ with "The Shrug Game"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daP4JysFcUg

Is Eugene Kaspersky going the way of Julian Assange, or is he just another Deep State 33rd Degree Freemason casualty? Who knows.

Either way the flavor of the comments on this thread are really, really unusual for Hacker News and YCombinator in general.

> Edit: I’m not saying that Ive’s a bad designer. Not at all.

No, that's exactly what you're saying. Would you mind providing an example of your Platonic ideal of a designer?

They are artificially manipulating the market. That's about as textbook rigging as putting three masts on a ship.

Link to the article, published in Nature, so we can judge it on its merits rather than via the NYT summary: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-00957-y

Either way awesome NYT article title.

I'm impressed by a great product. What are you doing with all those FLOPs?

knowing what i know about fiserv your thesis is either laughable or horrifying, the truth likely lying somewhere in between as it does

> In this talk we'll draw a direct connection between this ubiquitous insecurity and basic computer science concepts of Turing completeness and theory of languages. We will show how well-meant protocol designs are doomed to their implementations becoming clusters of 0day, and will show where to look for these 0day. We will also discuss simple principles of how to avoid designing such protocols.

Sounds like you want the next-gen version of what https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu was supposed to be. Unfortunately while you were discussing the above with like-minded peers other people were shipping things that users (not designers, users) want. The latter always trumps the former.

I agree with you philosophically - how could you not - but how do you have your cake and eat it, too, in this regard? Xanadu was impossible enough, and expecting to have all its trappings with the best parts of TimBL seems like the recipe for a classic Borges tragicomic short story.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivocation

The fact that I couldn't read this because it redirected me to a Medium web app that I wasn't logged into told me everything I needed to know about the article.

The medium remains the massage.

Sorry, but how is that any more non-electronic than storing your ATM PIN in a safe? Given that the weakest security link is invariably human.

Correction: the best UI is no UI. A UI doesn't have to be point and click; it can be 4 confusing refuse receptacles.

The best UX is happiness, beauty, convenience, pleasure, security, justice, idealism, power and so on. Did you really mean to say the best UX is no UX? :)

sounds like you experienced a 0th world problem

I'll go on the record and say that Equifax makes subpar quantitative decisions; i.e. cannot do the math.

And also that their attorneys, and their attorneys' attorneys, and their attorneys' attorneys' attorneys are very busy right now.

"The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in... shit."

- Mark "Citation Needed" Twain

John Sculley.

"Jeff [Immelt], do you want to sell planned-obsolescence dryers and weather derivatives the rest of your life?"

If everywhere you go smells like shit, maybe it's time to check your shoes.

Awesome vision, product and person. I started using RescueTime back in '09 and it has helped me immensely over the years. I would say incalculably but I can actually calculate the impact quite well. :)

RIP and best to his family, friends and team.

It would be really fantastic to hear more if you're willing to share!

it is always easier to criticize than to create

The first time I tried to read a Feynman Diagram as a kid I had to put it down -- the incessant "ME! ME! ME!" dripping from every subatomic particle was a little too much.

> The tech who services my car at the premium car dealership said he has another job in addition to this full time job and still cant afford stake [sic] at home.

Qu'ils mangent de la brioche?

You're comparing Vanguard to Enron & MCI / WorldCom. Would you mind explaining your analogy? It doesn't make sense to me. I don't think, for example, my investments in Vanguard funds are precarious because they are over-leveraged in bespoke weather derivatives.

What sample size or methodology for the question at hand would satisfy you at this point?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Exactitude_in_Science