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by j245 1y ago
Applies to eBay and Amazon too ..
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by j245 2y ago
Previous article has pictures https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41143322
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by j245 3y ago
The trends for HS and Dropout are also negative. To me it implies education across the board is getting worse (assuming IQ is a good measure of “good” education).
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by j245 3y ago
> But most people aren't YouTubers. In my experience, people who aren't into tech usually have no idea their upload speeds are any slower than their download speeds, much less 25 times slower. People who aren’t into tech aren’t
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by j245 3y ago
That’s interesting. I thought maybe it’s a resource constraint issue, where companies prioritise investment in other areas and do the minimum to “get certified” but it sounds like finding a good provider can be extremely difficult.
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by j245 3y ago
What a shame, HackerNews typically has more insightful comments than garbage like this. Edit: thanks to everyone who wrote some insightful responses, and there are indeed many. Faith in HackerNews restored !
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by j245 3y ago
From my understanding as a non security expert: Pentest comes across more as checking all the common attack vectors don’t exist. Getting out of bed to do the so-called “real stuff” is typically called a bug bounty program or security resear
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by j245 3y ago
The true failure is government. Mozilla shouldn’t have to lead this. The prosecutor should be the regulator.
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by j245 3y ago
No, because he is not telling you.. but he might tell someone he knows or cares about ? Or his descendants might find a reference to it or figure out it was him ?
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by j245 3y ago
Bringing up lack of access to sanitation hardly matters in this context. Almost everything can be deemed as not worth doing because we need to fix sanitation first. The author of the post is probably implicitly trying to say ‘everyone [who
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by j245 3y ago
Less than 50% doesn’t qualify as most if the statement is about something binary and mutually exclusive. If more than or equal to 46% qualifies as most, then both the statements would be correct: (1) Most people don’t have access to sanitat
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by j245 3y ago
On the subject of paying twice, it’s always irked me that we have income tax and then sales tax on the taxed income.
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by j245 4y ago
> You seem to miss how the system works… Yea, the way it works with hedge funds is, do whatever it takes to make a profit, underlying company be damned - see naked shorting GME. Where is the “financing” in that? What about all the compan
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by j245 4y ago
You’ve missed the point… An entity that puts nothing into the host system, but consumes resources from the host to fatten itself is a parasite. In the case of hedge funds, it’s a zero-sum game. Either you or the counter party lose depending
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by j245 4y ago
This is a common argument I hear, it just doesn’t hold water. We should absolutely hold Big Tech accountable for their business models and actions. On the whole though, they have released many orders of magnitude more useful things than Hed
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by j245 4y ago
Hedge funds are parasites, they are an edge case in capitalism that needs to be patched. I can’t think of anything else that takes so much, while adding nothing to society.
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by j245 4y ago
> Companies could do their job This is quite a naive view of how the world works. Their actual “job” is to make the most amount of money possible. A realistic option has to be one that is both technically superior and something a company
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by j245 4y ago
My guess is that it’s in response to the EU bill that will force them to allow other app stores on iOS, and they don’t want to lose developers. There is no way they would improve out of the goodness of their heart. That kind of behaviour i
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by j245 4y ago
Ironically if you linked your projects here, you would see more traffic :)
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by j245 4y ago
> made more money in hours than many free software You’re sad that free software didn’t make money ?
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by j245 4y ago
> insufficient immigration I was told they were stealing our jobs.
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by j245 4y ago
“Lost” can also mean - no longer exists. If someone says.. we lost 10 men in that battle, it doesn’t mean we never knew who they were.
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by j245 4y ago
No. It’s in Pakistan. Double check your map.
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by j245 4y ago
> That's capitalism. Don’t worry too much about capitalist ideals, we should be willing to bend the rules as needed to promote a system where there is healthy competition and innovation. If we can do un-capitalistic things like bail
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by j245 4y ago
I just don’t agree that financial data and health data are “related” simply because they were both generated on a single platform. It’s pretty easy to link any type of data at that point. All you need is for Apple to develop two apps and li
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by j245 4y ago
That’s a pretty loose standard for the word “related” If you play around with definitions enough, nobody is collecting unrelated data I suppose.
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by j245 4y ago
Firstly it’s not coping. Secondly it’s only odd if you have a profound mis-understanding of the situation. When I read removing fundamental woman's rights I thought you were talking about the Roe vs. Wade overturn. Maybe them catching
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by j245 4y ago
> Once they catch up with the 17th century I wish people would have more empathy for Afghanistan instead of berating them. They’ve just been through 20 years of foreign occupation and a decade of being used as a battlefield for a proxy w
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by j245 4y ago
No that’s not my underlying assumption > have time to persue The scenario is commute takes time, you save 2 hours commuting. All other things being equal that is your time to peruse hobbies. > have opportunities near me Not my assumpt
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by j245 4y ago
Your underlying assumption is I am saying WFH is better for socialising. I’m not. I’m challenging the narrative that you are strictly socially worse off by working remote. I think for a lot of people, that social fix is easily within reach

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