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by akarma 5y ago
I love this! My one request that would enable me to recommend this to my musician friends is an export feature, along with a promise of adequate notice before a shutdown of the app, to allow people to export their recordings in a worst-case
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by akarma 5y ago
> Plaid would retain access to their credentials and use them to mine, aggregate and then sell users’ financial transaction data to third parties (including to the fintech apps that use its services) for purposes unrelated to the plainti
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by akarma 5y ago
(IANAL either) I understand and agree that part of the issue is that they, allegedly, underhandedly collected this data. My question is focused around the potential selling of that data, which took place according to the lawsuit and was lik
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by akarma 5y ago
Thank you for the response — I know you're likely very restricted in what you can say here, but: You just settled a claim that you sold customer transaction histories, and from the article linked, the plaintiffs' lawyers claim tha
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by akarma 5y ago
The link mentions third party firms: > Plaid has settled a $58 million class action lawsuit over claims that the fintech firm passed on personal banking data to third party firms without user consent. and selling transaction histories: &
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by akarma 5y ago
I actually mentioned in a thread about Plaid in 2018 that they sold transaction history to third parties, and the cofounder came onto HN to explicitly deny that [1]. I actually felt convinced they didn't afterwards, as I couldn't
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by akarma 5y ago
> certain illegal acts (like breaking into certain websites, illegally obtaining documents, etc.) should be legal if done for the purpose of proper journalism This isn't the case in any country and almost certainly should not be. In
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by akarma 5y ago
> If a stranger mentions being into crypto but then does not actually seem to know much about it, consider that they may simply be fishing for a specific type of victim. Or, more likely, they're just trying to impress you and find c
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by akarma 5y ago
In one of the biggest heists ever (still unsolved) at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum [1], alarms went off before the theft occurred. Interesting to hear this being validated as a tactic in another art theft. [1] https://en.w
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by akarma 5y ago
This is quite a bit of misinformation. From the article: > The account has also shown a preference for cultural conservatives in its “likes”, which these include ... Roger Scruton, a man known for making a career out of his prejudice; an
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by akarma 5y ago
Yes, and that being OK is the magic of how emotions work! That's the exact valid point being ignored. If you don't have a better response to a catastrophic nuclear disaster than "well, it killed people but coal definitely kil
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by akarma 5y ago
I agree with you that your comment wasn't condescending like the above commenter suggested, but disagree about modern reactor designs. They'll always carry this risk. Sure, reactor design has changed since Chernobyl in various way
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by akarma 5y ago
I think that's exactly what the above commenter was saying in: "European nuclear advocates really don’t have a satisfactory political response to Chernobyl and Fukushima." If a country experiences a nuclear accident like Cher
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by akarma 5y ago
I think degrees are remaining a requirement because a hiring manager and recruiter at a large company are risk averse. There's an old saying: "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM." It basically means that, if you use IBM for
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by akarma 5y ago
Parent comment was responding to a comment that used the term "male." Responding with equivalent phrasing and saying "female" in that context makes a lot more sense.
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by akarma 5y ago
It's fair to point out because people not in finance colloquially think of "bank president" as leader, not as "not leader, and not even actual president of the whole bank." As for the influence of a Federal Reserve
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by akarma 5y ago
> Dogecoin branded as Ponzi by the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneaopolis. Important to note that this is the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (misspelled in the article), not the Chair of the Federal R
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by akarma 5y ago
This is true, and it wouldn't suggest anything is amiss. In the US for example, there's a lot of factors in increasing labor supply: (1) From 1955 to today, women have gone from 36% labor force participation to 59%. (2) The percen
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by akarma 5y ago
As someone quite into fashion (and worked in the space before), this is a very astute comment! Fashion trends in the past few years have often progressed increasingly into a level of irony. It's become about what level of craziness&#x2
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by akarma 5y ago
> Jeff Bezos wants to pay the least for the most amount of work, and the workers want the most money for the least amount of work. It sounds like both parties should meet themselves half-way as opposed to living in what is effectively mo
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by akarma 5y ago
Good point! There's an old quote: "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM." Large companies tend to be more risk-averse, so if there are two companies you can use for a service — $PromisingStartup and IBM — large companies will
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by akarma 5y ago
America is certainly the country with the most opportunity for the most people. A shift that has occurred from the 1950s to present is that there is less of a guarantee of an upper-middle-class lifestyle through a moderate [1] amount of e
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by akarma 5y ago
If you're conspiratorial about everybody who supports free speech not really supporting free speech, and instead just saying it in bad faith(?), you're going to have a tough time with meaningful debate and enjoying HN. One of the
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by akarma 5y ago
This is great content, and much of it applies to other roles as well! I've been trying to summarize for my partner (a UX designer) what helps in doing a senior role well and gradually growing into leadership, and this says much of it b
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by akarma 5y ago
I'm choosing a specific sentence that has been highlighted as unacceptable and is meant to disgust. I'm sure there is much more to the book Chaos Monkeys than "SF women weak," yet he was fired for that comment within his
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by akarma 5y ago
In my case, I almost always want paste to override most formatting — if I copy something from a website, I want it to match my formatting. What I'm looking for, though, is particularly for the font itself, the font color and maybe the
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by akarma 5y ago
Being reassigned as opposed to fired is quite the privilege. Everyone in the comments is viewing it as completely different than the Damore fiasco because this racist blog post was written in 2007, but are we forgetting that Antonio Martine
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by akarma 5y ago
> It preys on and fuels women’s insecurities to sell them throwaway products made by borderline-enslaved Cambodians. It sounds like you've never used Depop or learned about it before writing this comment. Depop is the exact opposit
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by akarma 5y ago
(I'm not the above commenter but also disagreed with your prior comment) > The creators just sold it, private company, private service they could have sold it to anyone they wanted. I understand and agree with your take now, but thi
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by akarma 5y ago
I'm not looking to argue for or against either side here, but: "How I raised a $5.1M seed as a first-time, female founder" =/= simply referring to a woman as a woman. "How I raised a $5.1M seed as a first-time, male

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