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Context: court filing today and first substantive response from Automattic / Matt Mullenweg in the case WP Engine filed against them.

More unbanking the banked recently

It's crazy how much of a marketing footprint they have considering they're only the 19/20th largest exchange

I think the chances of them seeing out their stadium sponsorship are near 0%

I found this tweet very naive and an indication that Musk really doesn't know what he's getting into.

I don't see how he thinks tweet content alone will be enough to verify the 5% of monthly monetizable users

The other poor indicator was his tweet about sampling _100_ of his own replies to detect bots. That's a horribly small sample and horrible selection bias

The firehose is terabytes a day, add storage + indexes and it's pretty far from "fitting on an USB stick" in order to analyze.

in terms of CO2 emissions

CH4 is the larger concern with natural gas

This paper explains it:

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.0c00437

If you use anything but the Tor Browser on the Tor network you're going to stand out like a flare

Further - many of the privacy enhancements in Firefox, such as fingerprint protection, were adopted from the work on Tor Browser

This argument has been done to death. I personally find the conga line of analysts and hedge fund managers who appear on CNBC and talk up their book of shit picks a lot worse than the best short selling shops.

There are so many bad companies that are public today, they really need somebody nipping at their heels.

Carbonite - which is rarely mentioned on hn, had a $300M+ run-rate when they were acquired in 2019

I think brand awareness of Backblaze is insular - I remember Carbonite had the strategy of advertising on right-wing radio in the 00's which seems to have worked for them.

How did you ever think backing up 80TB for $60 a year was good for the company? You didn't need financial filings to know it wasn't.

Is see this as a positive for Cloudflare

I still think it was Hal Finney

Finney didn't mix British and American English the way Satoshi did in his writing.

Finney was also an experienced and much better developer[0] than Satoshi[1]

[0] https://github.com/halfinney/bitcoin/commit/dc411b51e0a3cffc...

[1] https://github.com/Maguines/Bitcoin-v0.1/blob/master/bitcoin...

I was at the TC conference - wanted to buy the stock then!

Have bought since the IPO and am super bullish. It seems most Wall St analysts really don't understand the company or business.

You can have one ass and buy a thousand rolls of toilet paper. You can't have one car and buy a thousand liters of fuel.

This is pure supply shock

They had to change it from shots of drone footage because they kept failing click on the terrorists

the setup is such a pleasure to use - they've really nailed the onboarding and are a great example for other startups

I was on the site yesterday looking at the watch - the array of options is also confusing

Wordpress with a bunch of plugins and a theme from themeforest. Figures.

I wouldn't be poking any bears had I been running that setup.

He cut her a personal check for $100k when she was 19 and didn't have much of a company because he liked her.

Not following up on that investment is a pretty strong signal

kudos to them for reclaiming it. always found it ironic that the alt-right co-opted the creation of trans women

If you use youtube-dl and haven't noticed that it hasn't been receiving updates it's worth aliasing youtube-dl with this project

Thanks for the link - checking it out now

We want to ship the users a USB stick which they'll then plugin during setup and it'll save a (password protected) private key to it for long-term backup along with some metadata

So the goal would be that we can read the stick if plugged in again after a year, or two or three even after it has rattled around the bottom of a drawer or cabinet somewhere

I've found that it doesn't require much in terms of minimum unit order numbers to get a custom build - but I'd like to have a source of reliability data that is independent.

I'm contemplating doing a test lab ourselves - buying a bunch of keys and putting them through their paces, as there seems to be a real gap in comprehensive testing+benchmarks here

Thought his Scotland trip was a bit reckless. Ironically he caught covid last week.

Or they have become emboldened because there has been a vacuum in global moral leadership the past 4 years

I’ve also noticed an ironic overlap between the “solar is toxic” and “windmills can’t be recycled” crowd with being pro-nuclear

Not to mention that the post-911 NSA surveillance program leaked to the NYTimes within a few years

No country has run on a high percentage of wind/solar/battery for a long period of time.

Only because it's early. The first grid-scale battery only went online 3 years ago.

In that example (South Australia) you only have to look at this chart[0] to see what it done to grid renewable demand and where the trend is heading.

There are multiple GW more of additional battery coming online over the next few years

[0] https://opennem.org.au/stripes/sa1/?metric=renewablesProport...

You don't have to supply the entire grid demand - only smooth out the brownouts, which something the size of Hornsdale would likely be able to do for Costa Rica

Note that Hornsdale is also tiny compared to batteries currently being developed in Australia. The new battery in the Hunter will be 1200MW - which is enough to nullify the need for all gas-generated peaking capacity in that state

This is straight up "is you taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy" from The Wire

That column is pretty much always a must-read

Nathaniel Brown, [..] repeatedly tipped Infinera’s unannounced quarterly earnings and financial performance to his best friend, Benjamin Wylam

Wylam, [..] and also tipped Naveen Sood

Sood allegedly traded on this information and tipped his three friends Marcus Bannon, Matthew Rauch, and Naresh Ramaiya

It's less a ring and more a tree

One of the issues with leaking the info - you have no control over what is done with it and who acts on it, and it all potentially leads back to you

There was a case in Australia where a gov insider was leaking government data. He thought he had a partnership with a co-conspirator where they would make low-tens-of-thousands

He only found out after his arrest that his co-conspirator who was placing the trades was making millions - which is what got them noticed (he was one of the largest individual currency traders in the country - and never missed)