mrlanderson - Hackdot

Re:Edward Snowden Slams Sam Altman's Worldcoin: 'Don't Catalogue Eyeba... on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @09:57AM (#29000433)

Despite what Michael Douglas thinks, greed is not good.

Re:It is easier to educate a Do-er than to motivate the educated on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @05:15PM (#28765717)

Interesting. Can you elaborate on the last sentence you wrote? Where is it from?

Re:Hyper – Sell Memberships to Discord and Telegram on Monday October 04, 2021 @09:29PM (#28754506)

Plus one

Re:AI tools have been built to catch Covid, but none of them helped on Friday July 30, 2021 @11:37PM (#28015054)

bcuz a lot of hacker news readers have no sense of humor or sarcasm detection

Re:Clubhouse Is Loud, Incoherent, and Packed with Suckers on Friday April 23, 2021 @09:08PM (#26921221)

Clubhouse is for Eric weinstein

Re:Show HN: Preql – a database query language that compiles to SQL on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @03:38PM (#26495897)

Good stuff

Re:Why our economy may be headed for a decade of depression on Friday May 22, 2020 @01:03PM (#23274312)

sorry but lmao at people who think small daytrading drives these markets.

The author has zero credibility. Never listen to this dangerous moron ever again. He doesn't deserve a conversation thread.

Re:Toronto is gathering cellphone location data to find people congreg... on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @07:28PM (#22689409)

Such a selfish argument

Re:Airbnb’s loss nearly doubles in fourth quarter, before virus on Thursday March 12, 2020 @08:13PM (#22563439)

good. Airbnb is a horrible co

Re:Tesla shares soar 40% in 2 days and short sellers get squeezed on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @10:38AM (#22247654)

I know it's just an example, but buying ford or bmw in this case just wouldn't work

Re:Instagram took down private unofficial APIs via DMCA on Sunday February 02, 2020 @12:00AM (#22215233)

[email protected]

Shoot me an email.

Re:Authoritarian nations are turning the internet into a weapon on Thursday January 02, 2020 @03:31AM (#21933797)

The Western Firewall is forming.

Re:Privacy analysis of Tiktok’s app and website on Saturday December 07, 2019 @04:37PM (#21732730)

If anyone wants to work on a project that works against this in a completely different way, shoot me an email.

We are growing a community of people who don't trust our fragile governments to figure this out, and instead want to democratize these tools and level the playing field rather than attempting prohibition yet again..

Re:Digital Tools I Wish Existed on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @08:41AM (#21692130)

A little complicated. Good for engineers though.

Would love to chat about how to build something for consumers. The web is shit and needs stuff like this to pull us out of it..

Re:Ask HN: Who's Looking for a Co-Founder? on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @04:27AM (#21332460)

Two projects:

1. The web is completely broken. We need the equivalent of an immune system for it to filter through the rapidly-increasing pathogens and misinformation. Facebook sucks, but so does Google.

2. A tech community centered around collaborative research, curation and content discovery. This turns out to be a good way to connect smart, capable people together.

Email in profile.

Re:Facebook: Another three billion fake profiles culled on Saturday May 25, 2019 @06:36PM (#20011915)

Your backwards email doesn't work yo

Re:Facebook: Another three billion fake profiles culled on Saturday May 25, 2019 @02:59AM (#20007524)

Full email address in profile?