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Re:On loyalty to Your Employer on Thursday April 24, 2025 @08:22AM (#43781856)
Most wars involve deception at some level and then loyalty is vital. You need to prove that to the command center in stages. But when you get in you're rewarded handsomely.

Many low quality engineers have accidently stumbled upon this lucrative truth, simply because they had low optionality to move elsewhere and therefore also rank ethical considerations very low as a motivating criterion.

Ask HN: What is this cyber attack scenario?

Klaus Schwab warned, “We all know, but still pay insufficient attention to, the frightening scenario of a comprehensive cyber attack, which would bring a complete halt to the power supply, transportation, hospital services, our society as a whole.”I think one vector might be global root CAs. Banks stop so you cant transfer cash, ATMs stop dispensing cash, flights cant be booked. The only thing...

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The ultimate internet "kill switch": revoke all certificates. Modern browsers refuse to render the page.
Re: on Sunday April 13, 2025 @03:52AM (#43670926)
This would have worked very well 2014 to 2020 or so when many F500s were migrating workloads to the cloud, and the expertise was still considered a niche.

Now everyone working in tech has cloud experience. AWS offers a support contract to all accounts at sign up time, it also has a consulting business that will integrate with clients teams, and the LLMs are not great but getting there.

If you’re single go to Europe and get a masters degree in mechatronics instead.

Re:Electron Band Structure in Germanium, My Ass on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @06:03PM (#43551804)
Correct. Ask anyone who plays blitz/bullet chess online. Games are won and lost in the final second of gameplay.
How many other stats we see are faked?

She claimed 4.25m users only 300k real.

Startup idea: zero knowledge proof audit mechanism for investors to verify usage stats.

Re:Palantir.ts on Friday March 28, 2025 @02:56AM (#43502343)
P2P in-game voice chat? Sweet.
Qownnotes. Syncs with cloud for multi device.
It's morning in America - pmarca

Ask HN: Who's Pre-seed Investing? (March 2025)

Share your information if you are interested in "sliding in a cheque" to pre-seed founders with a MVP and pilot users.Given that YC probably receives ~50,000 applications annualy, this should be viewed as feeding the ecosystem to get such companies into a fundable state, and therefore allowed.Standard Terms: You get a fixed N percent post-money SAFE. N is negotiated between investor and seed...

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Re:DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data on Thursday February 20, 2025 @06:02AM (#43113338)
The President is the head of the executive branch. If _anyone_ in the executive branch has access to information, it feels like the presidents office should too.

Why is this hard to accept?

A court in China found her guilty. Think about this for a second. A court in a country where state run companies compete with Tesla, found her guilty. Says a lot, to me at least.