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The take away, even assuming that "on paper" solo founding is better, if you want to start a VC-backed company (or a company which will eventually raise VC money) this really isn't the topic to get quixotic about and you should get at least one co-founder so you can improve your chances.

A VC-backed company, as opposed to a kickstarter project, is a company which starts from zero and then is worth a billion dollars in five years. That involves exponential growth and stress which, unless you've attempted it, you can't even imagine.

Potential solo founders: knock yourselves out, but when you've gotten your 100th "no" and your cash reserves are running on fumes, this author and their flawed research paper they are citing out of context will be of little comfort.

"The research is based on a survey of creators for thousands of Kickstarter projects between 2009 and May 2015." Article is using kickstarter data, which was questionable in the beginning but now as kickstarter has greyed out would be even more questionable. What about using actual VC-backed company data? If you look there, solo founders are not only the (extremely large) exception, but they also have lower valuations and success rates.

Founding a company is extremely difficult and there is a huge amount of stuff to take care of. If you cannot find someone(s) you can delegate a portion of that work to, you will suffer. It's a signal for investors because it's a huge buy-in to become a co-founder, and solo founders burn out all the time.

Using kickstarter to share advice on VC isn't just misleading, it's downright harmful.

This makes it extremely difficult for me to believe that any sort of intellectual rigor went into any of it. Not that I believe firing guns in the air is a good idea, mind you, but this is lazy.

Taking aside advertisement for a moment, what you're suggesting is that the level of control should go as far as which clients are allowed to speak a given protocol. This would be similar to the landline system during the monopoly days, where you were only allowed to connect an officially-approved phone (with a correspondingly high ongoing rental cost) to the copper lines.

From my perspective, there is no 3rd party involved here: there is an API surface which is developed and supported, and there is a client/customer who is interacting with the service through that API. Advertising either needs to be implemented into the API (good luck--see the demise of RSS), or the 1st party needs another business model.

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Each one either directly or indirectly related to a known breach (i.e. haveibeenpwned). It's not just selling your email that could happen, but also careless IT security resulting in your email getting in the hands of spammers.

Is this a retention activity, or do they honestly think that creating their own programming languages and tooling will help them meet their goals?

In recent years, however, crappy cannabis adulterated with synthetic cannaboids have become pervasive--they're inferior to the real stuff, addictive, and deeply connected with organized crime. Legalization will likely result in a safer supply for everyone, while also removing a huge money source for criminals.

I just bought one with more-or-less the same wishlist, and threw Lineage on it, and it's perfect for me.

There are actually a lot of patented ways to prevent relay attacks, mine is only one of them. And most of them are patented by NXP :)

Ultimately, this is a failure of prioritization on behalf of the car companies, or a sacrifice of security for usability, or both.

This isn't true, and I have the patent(s) to show it.

I developed (along with some truly talented security professionals and cryptographers) the active RFID security system for KIWI, a residential access control system here in Germany. One of the requirements, aside from not keeping a central log of access, was that the system should not work if you were further than 10 meters from the door you were trying to open. Things like measuring signal strength, etc. were not an option, as you might imagine repeaters render that moot.

Ultimately, it comes down to fairly tight timings, the speed of light and the rules of physics, but we could restrict things such that the cryptographic handshake would fail if you were more than about 30 meters away, corresponding to a timing window of about 0.0000001 seconds.

We offered to license the technology to car companies, but they weren't interested.

These days, I buy phones based on whether or not they're suppored by Lineage, and if they have a headphone jack or not. That's it; that's the criteria.

Curious to know the third side with regards to clear victim/aggressor situations (domestic violence, x*phobia, Russia in Ukraine, etc.)

Which is besides the point; why do you think Elon will do any of this, when the previous board/company/ownershop did not?

Unreal is a FPS engine with a gorgeous renderer. Unity is a rendering pipeline, physics engine, with a C# interface.

Are you making a movie? Unreal. Making a FPS (or third-person, I guess. an ego shooter? whatever.) Unreal.

Making literally anything else: Unity. It's that simple.

I'm not sure that getting the manufacturers to open source the ROM code is the right solution, per se, as even if it was known beforehand that there was an issue here, you would still be left with the same solution space: disable the affected code paths, and prevent access to them with additional (external) integrity checking.

This is an .. amazingly shortsighted take, especially when taking into consideration the resource (over-)utilization and flat-out exploitative extraction which was required just to get us this far. 1/13 of all people that have ever lived are alive right now. Maybe--just maybe--it's a good thing that the world's population will shrink over the coming decades, and quite possibly we need to disconnect our economies from unbounded growth while we're at it.

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