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The First Web Page, Amazingly, Is Lost
“Given the World Wide Web’s ubiquity, you might be tempted to believe that everything is online. But there’s one important piece of the Web’s own history that can’t be found through a search engine: the very first Web page.”
Read more at NPR.
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As someone who also regretted what money had done to the hacker community, I was largely sympathetic with AntiSec. If I’m really honest with myself, though, my interest in the preservation of 0day was also because there was something fun about an insecure Internet at the time, particularly since that insecurity predominately tended to be leveraged by a class of people that I generally liked against a class of people that I generally disliked.
In short, there was something about not publishing 0day that signaled affiliation with the “hacker community” rather than the “security industry.”
In many ways, it’s possible that we’re still largely operating based on those original dynamics. Somewhere between then and now, however, there was an inflection point. It’s hard to say exactly when it happened, but these days, the insecurity of the internet is now more predominantly leveraged by people that I dislike against people that I like. More often than not, that’s by governments against people.
"— Moxie Marlinspike » Blog » A Saudi Arabia Telecom’s Surveillance Pitch
The Speculation Trap
Don’t ever answer a question that forces you to speculate.
Forcing you to speculate is a tactic that reporters, investors, executives, and spouses use to put you on the defensive. Don’t play the game. You can’t win.
As soon as you accept the invitation to speculation, the boundaries of the hypothetical problem you need to solve are beyond your control. The other person can change the situation as needed to throw you off your balance. For example:
“What would you do if Google launched a competitor?”
- Every Investor, Ever.
No direct answer will make you look good. There’s a bear trap behind every door you open:
“But Google has billions of dollars in cash, you don’t.”
“Google can instantly scale their product because of their vast technical resources.”
“Google could have a hundred top engineers working on this by lunch.”
It’s impossible to answer a question like this without complete context, and if you start speculating, the context is whatever the investor wants it to be.
How do you answer, then?
Use the question as an opportunity to re-iterate your message. You’ve got a message, right? When asking for money, my message is usually: “This is a huge market opportunity, and my team is perfectly suited to tackle it.”
When I get the “what-if competition” question, my response is:
“Well, who knows if that will ever happen, but I’ll say this: with such a big opportunity in front of us, there are tons of challenges. My team and I love difficult problems, and we’ve already done some amazing things that nobody else has pulled off, for example, ….”
Shut down the speculation and get back on message. Yes, this it the “non-answer answer” you see on TV all the time. You see it on TV because the people giving these answers have had media training and have learned how to completely own the conversation.
It feels corny the first time, but it’s a cheat code for any adversarial conversation.
(Source: Spotify)
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In February 2012, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek decided to go public with a strange and, he worried, somewhat embarrassing idea. Impossible as it seemed, Wilczek had developed an apparent proof of “time crystals” — physical structures that move in a repeating pattern, like minute hands rounding clocks, without expending energy or ever winding down. Unlike clocks or any other known objects, time crystals derive their movement not from stored energy but from a break in the symmetry of time, enabling a special form of perpetual motion.
“Most research in physics is continuations of things that have gone before,” said Wilczek, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This, he said, was “kind of outside the box.”
"— ‘Time Crystals’ Could Upend Physicists’ Theory of Time | Wired Science
