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The only reason we're paying attention to this is because of the drama.

The fact that rust is likely more interesting than zig (which is also interesting) is indictated by community size (and other signs like linux kernel inclusion).

The fact that anthropic is very likely overselling their timeline and max-utility for an IPO is generally well accepted as well.

Also that us tech bros are somewhat annoying is also well understood.

But who doesn't love a good street fight?

Author is trying to improve their social skills and is noticing that some toxic traits have advantages.

It's okay to dazzle people though. I'm not sure you have to make it a core part of your personality but like, maybe as a hobby, a little razzledazzle here and there.

My issue isn't whether or not it's possible for hardware to be insecure or whether or not it's possible for exploits to exist.

My issue is this Chinese undetectable super chip creating unpreventable wide-scale vulnerabilities.

For what it's worth, I've worked in hardware security and I own a hardware quality control startup.

Thanks for doing this, I'm definitely going to consider it since we're implementing token based authentication and my friends have told me XSS is what I should be concerned about there.

How did you choose to go with a trial period instead of a freemium model like slack?

The issue my startup has with trial periods is that it's like "you have 14 days to start generating revenue". Freemium is better for us because it's like "You can learn about our service, and use our service while your staging your release, and when you launch if you're viable (traffic+revenue), we'll be your partner (ie. charge you)".

That's how slack kept us, and Salesforce lost us.

We shouldn't have to worry about paying while we're still learning how to use your service. If I haven't on-boarded it by the time the trial runs out, I'm going to cancel it.

Then again, I don't know your costs, so forgive me if I'm wrong.