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cyrrus··on U.S. to give ransomware hacks similar priority as terrorism, official says
As someone who isn’t a security expert, If you had a magic wand, what does this future look like to you?

What is properly implemented security?

cyrrus··on Labor shortage or terrible jobs?
Except it’s those on minimum wage that spend most or all of their paycheck stimulating the economy.

Middle class have record savings at the moment.

cyrrus··on Labor shortage or terrible jobs?
Just raise the price of the burgers... its not that hard. If everyone raises wages at once then they’ll also raise their prices at once.

And the people you’re hiring won’t have to live off the dollar menu at fast food restaurants anymore.

cyrrus··on Ask HN: Why there are so many ads on YouTube?
I don’t think pihole blocks YouTube ads because they originate from their own server
cyrrus··on Supreme Court Rejects Trump Bid to Overturn Election Results
Who’s Trump?
cyrrus··on Unilever to try out four-day working week in New Zealand
They should do four work days and then a whole day of pointless zoom calls.

Oh wait that’s basically the normal arrangement isn’t it

cyrrus··on Ask HN: How does WhatsApp make money?
Those are some big words but.... the chat market is flooded. I barely use Whats App as well as most people I know so they are far from ubiquitous.

Why then? Why not any other chat app, or even messenger with far greater reach and just as many resources?

cyrrus··on Tab, Coca-Cola’s Diet-Soda Pioneer and a ’70s Icon, Is Going Away
Unless they’re a Silicon Valley burner... except for the thirsty part I suppose
cyrrus··on Zeptoseconds: New world record in short time measurement
This is somebodies scope creep

“Of course it should communicate detailed chemical bonds and protein folding!”

cyrrus··on Google sues me for using the word “droid” in my company name Orpheusdroid
If it’s to cover them in case they lost who does it go to?
cyrrus··on We scaled Nginx and saved the world 54 years every day
I’m glad it wasn’t just me thinking that
cyrrus··on YouTubers are upscaling the past to 4K, but historians want them to stop
Academic historians are just annoyed because they didn’t do it first.
cyrrus··on Google's Sundar Pichai says future of office is employee 'on-sites'
Just do it...

I moved 3 hours from the CBD and still did 2 days a week, you just need a friend place to crash at one night a week.

No more excuses.

cyrrus··on Hyperloop: Pipes of Fancy
Seismic activity is apparently not really an issue.

The damage from earthquakes tends to be a ripple of the ground in the first few meters and that’s it.

cyrrus··on SpaceX and ULA win billions in Pentagon rocket contracts
It couldn’t be much more different.

Before Congress said let’s buy a suit for a wedding. There was only really one tailor.

Tailor says how much have you got.

Congress says $1 billion but that’s all I’ve got so not a dollar more.

Tailor says ‘sure I can make that work’...

Fast forward, suit is half way done, wedding is tomorrow, tailor says ‘It’s gonna cost your another billion’ or you get nothing. Congress pays and hopes the wife won’t notice. This happens over and over again.

Fast forward to 2020. Finally there’s more than one tailor. Several in fact. The suits are already made and bought off the rack and simply adjusted to fit.

Now congress gets to go shopping and has a range of suits to choose from. Original tailor is in deep shit.

Instead is spending billions on a suit and waiting forever, they pop down to ZOZO and pick one out and pay $100m. What a bargain I’ll take ten.

New tailors in this case - SpaceX, Rocket Lab, Blue Origin in this case.