dangrossman

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Fraud investigation is believing your lying eyes(bitsaboutmoney.com)
169 points by dangrossman 7mo ago|202 comments
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by dangrossman 1y ago
Thanks for the heads-up! HN Replies is up and running though, and notified me of a test comment I just made. If anyone would like to troubleshoot their subscription, feel free to email me.
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by dangrossman 1y ago
The WH website switched from Drupal to WordPress in 2017.
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by dangrossman 1y ago
"Show HN" posts announcing a new tech startup/tool are a core part of this site. https://news.ycombinator.com/shownew I see nothing wrong with this post. They're sharing something they've made and g
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by dangrossman 1y ago
Gmail is the only product you listed that Google started itself. Google Maps was built on the acquisitions of Where 2 Technologies, Keyhole and ZipDash. Chrome is based on WebKit, built at Apple. Waymo's hardware came from the acquisit
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by dangrossman 1y ago
Almost all the things in this list were acquired from someone else that built them, rebranded, and then given away for free, taking much of the money out of the market that allowed that product to be built. Without Google giving away the on
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by dangrossman 1y ago
From Reddit discussions, if they can be trusted, there is nobody who can remove Matt from any position. It's a private company and the investors were given non-voting shares.
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by dangrossman 2y ago
I remember that fondly, that was the time period when I first got online and made my own GeoCities page. I first learned HTML from a page in the Athens neighborhood, on lot 2090. 30 years and I still have that address memorized. https:&#x2
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Two Americas, one bank branch, and $50k cash(bitsaboutmoney.com)
78 points by dangrossman 2y ago|66 comments
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Changes in brain's 'sugar shield' could be key to understanding effects of aging(news.stanford.edu)
42 points by dangrossman 2y ago|1 comments
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by dangrossman 2y ago
I'm surprised they're not just refunding all the purchases. I thought Amazon was still that kind of place. When they discontinued Amazon Cloud Cam in 2022, they sent out a replacement Blink camera for every Cloud Cam I had purchas
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by dangrossman 2y ago
About 40% of lithium is "mined" from brine rather than hard rock sources, at least. Much less destructive and less carbon intensive.
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by dangrossman 2y ago
A date picker widget I tossed on NPM 13 years ago gets 32,000 downloads per week. 510 a week is background activity, that's indexing bots or one org's CI system.
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by dangrossman 2y ago
Confinity is the company that developed the PayPal website that survived that merger. Elon Musk was not on the Confinity side, he was trying to pivot his x.com bank into a PayPal clone and buy users ($30 per signup) faster than them until t
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by dangrossman 2y ago
> "While 5 CFR 315 does permit immediate termination, it does not permit arbitrary termination. The termination must be related to unsatisfactory performance or conduct (section 804) or conditions arising before employment, which us
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by dangrossman 2y ago
I don't think it's a mental breakdown, I think this is a (poorly executed) long pivot into Matt's companies having tighter control over the ecosystem and keeping more of the profits from hosting, plugin and theme sales. He&#x
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by dangrossman 2y ago
I just got rid of my 2013 Microsoft Surface Pro. It was still being used daily in my workshop, 11 years old. Core i5 processor, running Windows 10. I only got rid of it because the battery decided to become a spicy pillow one night, expandi
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Registration Data Access Protocol(icannwiki.org)
3 points by dangrossman 2y ago|0 comments
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WordPress: Joost/Karim Fork(wordpress.org)
35 points by dangrossman 2y ago|9 comments
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Aligning Automattic's Sponsored Contributions to WordPress(automattic.com)
98 points by dangrossman 2y ago|54 comments
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by dangrossman 2y ago
You can filter this list to see 200+ GDPR fines assigned to sole proprietors, the smallest of small businesses, individuals that haven't even registered a separate entity for their business: https://www.enforcementtracker.co
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by dangrossman 2y ago
I followed the "Launch HN" of Yotta 4 years ago and deposited some money. Evolve Bank says "we have determined that we are not holding your funds and you will not be receiving a payment from Evolve" (reconciliationbyevol
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by dangrossman 2y ago
Look at the site in 2020, when many of those people signed up: https://web.archive.org/web/20200630201639/https://www.withy... The idea was just an online bank that paid interest on savings in the form o
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by dangrossman 2y ago
https://www.pitchdeckhunt.com/
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by dangrossman 2y ago
Coincidentally, Webasto supplies the home EV charging equipment for many of the major brands including VW, Ford, GM.
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by dangrossman 2y ago
Maybe I have? Could you explain your understanding of it? If it doesn't extend past the software the hardware vendor directly wrote, then it doesn't result in hardware owners being able to continue running the hardware after the m
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by dangrossman 2y ago
Few companies write 100% of the software that runs on their hardware. If some insulin pump uses proprietary firmware licensed from Johnson & Johnson for some part of its operation, does Johnson & Johnson lose its entire firmware lic
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by dangrossman 2y ago
Residential rooftop solar in the US already produces enough energy to cover the charging of every EV currently on the road, and we're adding capacity each year faster than new EVs are consuming it, so that'll continue to be true.
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by dangrossman 2y ago
Potentially FROM 2035 only electric vehicles would be for sale on new car lots. Most gas cars already on the road will still be there for 10-20 years after that. By then, Edison Electric Institute (a trade-group for utility companies) predi
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by dangrossman 2y ago
The 800,000 American homes that added solar to their roofs last year cover 100% of the electric used by every EV that's ever been sold in the US. They cover the electric usage by the EVs purchased last year by multiples. At this rate,

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