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Show HN: Worldfixture – An OSS fake company your software can interact with(worldfixture.com)
1 points by benja123 10d ago|0 comments
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The age of the generalist is finally here(ben.cates.fm)
2 points by benja123 4mo ago|0 comments
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by benja123 6mo ago
That slogan has been around since 2002. The U.S. carried out a targeted strike against a leader of Al-Qaeda in Yemen, an enemy of the Houthi movement. Using U.S. foreign policy to somehow excuse a flag calling for "death to America, de
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Show HN: Happy Passover – Passover Game(ben.cates.fm)
2 points by benja123 6mo ago|0 comments
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How I setup my Hetzner server with Coolify, Tailscale, UFW, and Cloudflare(ben.cates.fm)
2 points by benja123 6mo ago|1 comments
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by benja123 6mo ago
This is the setup I use for running Coolify on a Hetzner server, with Tailscale keeping non-public services behind the tailnet. It was my first time using Tailscale and overall the experience was good, though I did hit a few Coolify and Doc
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Show HN: I wrote an application to help me practice speaking slower(steady.cates.fm)
2 points by benja123 6mo ago|0 comments
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by benja123 2y ago
I'm not going to defend Bibi and his government. They have made and continue to make many decisions I disagree with. Like the vast majority of Israelis, I think we should go to elections sooner rather than later. However, this does not
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by benja123 2y ago
I should know better, my wife is a UX specialist! You make a good point. What I should have said is that it won’t stop people who really want to watch it.
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by benja123 2y ago
I personally don't support blocking Al Jazeera. It's not that I'm a fan of them or any news station operated under a dictatorship without free press. It's clear that Al Jazeera acts as the propaganda wing of the Qatari g
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by benja123 2y ago
Israeli here - I just checked and I can still access the site in both English and Arabic. My guess is you won’t actually see the site being blocked.
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by benja123 3y ago
You realize the wealthier a society, the fewer kids? It’s 100% a cultural norm issue. I was raised in Canada but have lived in Israel for the past 20 years. The vast majority of my Canadian friends have no kids, and the ones that do have at
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by benja123 3y ago
I think it is likely the complete opposite of trouble. It helped them write their comment faster and in such a way that it was easy to understand. This is one of the best use cases for chatgpt. Rather than spend minutes trying to get the
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by benja123 4y ago
This is part of progress (be it good or bad progress). It used to be that the majority of the US population worked in agriculture and today thanks to automation - it’s around 1% of the population. Same goes for numerous roles (secretaries,
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by benja123 4y ago
I love hackathons and before having kids I use to do them quite often. I usually placed in the top three and from my experience at least you are a 100% right! Personally I love building things and seeing people use them, but then I get bor
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by benja123 4y ago
I am not sure where I read this or who told this to me, but my favorite piece of advice (prior to having kids) was "don't waste your time with people that don't give you positive energy". It's really easy to get br
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Pollen’s enormous debt left behind: exclusive details(blog.pragmaticengineer.com)
3 points by benja123 4y ago|0 comments
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by benja123 4y ago
I think some people are being a bit too harsh about how the author goes about explaining how you can't prevent all fraud without hurting good users - or in other words, some fraud is just the cost of doing business. Overall it is a goo
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by benja123 4y ago
I say this a lot and I will keep saying it. Conversion != customer obsession. There is a place for A/B testing. It is necessary and can be extremely beneficial in helping your customers enjoy and use your product more successfully.
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by benja123 4y ago
I don’t think this necessarily means anything. App download count will always favor newer apps that are still in their growth stage (TikTok is a good example of this). Facebook is post growth stage and is probably at the point where it’s a
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by benja123 5y ago
True, forgot about that. Makes it harder and more expensive for a small business to support Europe unless they are based in the EU from day one.
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by benja123 5y ago
Most of the polls in the US tend to be done by American Jewish organizations such as the AJC. The AJC polls actually specifically ask about support for Israel. Regardless all of the major Jewish denominations in the US (reform movement, co
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by benja123 5y ago
I maybe in the minority here, but I believe that this is not good for the average European and definitely not good for the European tech scene. Europe is already a more complicated place to launch a new company as you have to support multi
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by benja123 5y ago
This is factually incorrect. Every poll of the US Jewish community has shown that between 80% to 90% are supporters of Israel. At most a few thousand US Jews are not fans of Israel, and they are very vocal about it.
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by benja123 5y ago
A couple of years ago there was a talk at defcon by Nina Kollars where she described how in her search for cheap Nespresso she came across a large number of eBay merchants selling Nespresso at prices that were significantly below the market
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by benja123 5y ago
Honestly I don’t think this will end well for the regulator. I am not a lawyer, but I am guessing that if Facebook blocks giphy usage in the UK there is very little the UK regulator can do to them. I see that as the likeliest scenario as t
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by benja123 5y ago
Israeli here. I don’t want to get into an argument here about the six NGOs, Israel and NSO group. I personally don’t have enough information to make an informed decision on it. There is one thing I want to clarify though. Hasbara is Hebre
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U.S. Blacklists NSO and Candiru for Harming 'National Security and Interests'(haaretz.com)
5 points by benja123 5y ago|1 comments
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by benja123 5y ago
NSO is an Israeli company, which means they need to follow Israeli export laws when it comes to weapons. All of NSO contracts will first go through the Israel Defense Ministry. The US has a similar process, where companies that sell weapon
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by benja123 5y ago
I know this is a popular belief but it’s actually the exact opposite… The reason PayPal holds funds is that a consumer is allowed to reverse a bank and credit card transaction for a few months after the transaction happened. This ability ex

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