lilsoso

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by lilsoso 10mo ago
Thanks for the browser recommendations. I switched to the Mullvad browser. The other recommendation, LibreWolf, provides the following warning on install which scared me away: "Warning: librewolf has been deprecated because it does not
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by lilsoso 11mo ago
The article is light on details of the substance of these lectures. While I couldn't find the referenced lecture, the following lecture might be similar: Hoover Institution: Apocalypse Now? Peter Thiel on Ancient Prophecies and Modern
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by lilsoso 1y ago
Could you kindly support that statement and explain why you feel that way.
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by lilsoso 1y ago
To dismiss him as being “devoid of information” is lazy and cheap. He had scholars on his team shape his message.
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by lilsoso 1y ago
You can buy prepaid SIM cards with cash, and without hassle, in the US as well. You can do this in many countries, I believe, as well as online through services offered in exchange for crypto. You didn't define where "here" i
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by lilsoso 1y ago
In Mexico you can buy prepaid SIM cards with cash, and without an ID, at convenience stores such as 7-11 or Oxxo.
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by lilsoso 1y ago
> Is this actually a problem you see? I'm going on 15 years in the industry and haven't seen any issues training people up on a new language in just a couple months. Some years ago the largest company using Elixir in the US, or
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by lilsoso 2y ago
No, they're going 20-something mph in perhaps a 20mph zone: the author stated kilometers per hour.
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by lilsoso 2y ago
Would be interesting to know how much data leaks on a new iPhone with some of the iOS privacy settings enabled and a handful of popular apps installed (WhatsApp, Instagram, Google Maps, Uber, etc). And then if you use a commercial VPN with
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by lilsoso 2y ago
I added a response to this question in another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42254263
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by lilsoso 2y ago
Marc Andreessen mentioned what's called "Operation Chokepoint 2.0" in relation to many tech founders being debanked. In the crypto industry you can find many examples of this, however they're often not so public. Here&#x
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by lilsoso 2y ago
Tailscale is not a good option for this (hiding your geo-location from work). As the article states, 'Additionally, in the case of a DERP-relayed connection, if one were to run a “traceroute” on your connection, they would see the publ
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by lilsoso 2y ago
Here's a number of articles outlining the A16z support for Trump: - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/17/co-f... - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/article
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by lilsoso 2y ago
Why am I being voted down for pointing out, validly, that many people disagree? Why the rush to censor?
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by lilsoso 2y ago
Not according to Marc Andreessen & Ben Horowitz [1], Chamath Palihapitiya & David Sacks [2], possibly Zuckerberg [3], and others. And of course Elon, Thiel. Many such cases. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_sNc
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by lilsoso 2y ago
There are four censored comments in that thread that cannot be read along with a few benign downvoted comments. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that at least someone behaved poorly, but this is HN -- the thread is not littered.
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by lilsoso 2y ago
[citation needed]
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by lilsoso 2y ago
We should enforce rigorous qualifications for doctors. We've relaxed the standards far too much already.
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by lilsoso 3y ago
Thanks, I didn't know that. So if you have a VPN server at home and you bounce through it from a foreign location to a corporate job then perhaps the employer could identify the connection is a relay. I'm talking about the part of
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by lilsoso 3y ago
They can determine a connection to their network is through an OpenVPN server even if that server has a clean/normal IP address? Is there some otherwise basic tell that the host is running a VPN server? Could Palo Alto Network also ide
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by lilsoso 3y ago
The startups you're describing are bad deals -- excluding the rare unicorn liquidity event. The DEIA candidates can afford to be pickier, as their applications are boosted in cushier companies (explicit quotas, etc). Bay Area web app d
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by lilsoso 3y ago
Yes, startup culture is bullshit although not for the cliched reasons outlined in the article. The author displays a lack of familiarity with US startup culture: "seventy-hour weeks", "Selection biases filter out most women,
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by lilsoso 3y ago
Forward all your Gmail email to a more private service like Mailbox.org and read your Gmail from there. Then you won't be logged into Google products nearly as often. Watch Youtube with various browser plugins to skip ads etc. Though,
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by lilsoso 3y ago
In corporate-type environments, I've seen individuals working within the company be put on something like a secret discrimination list for not passing enough underrepresented candidates (even when there are not many options): you are f
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by lilsoso 3y ago
A transcribed quote from the above video: "Let me go deeper into Red Hat, multiple leaders over the last year plus that were held accountable to the point that they're no longer here at Red Hat because they were not willing to liv
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by lilsoso 3y ago
Thank you, I was looking for this answer. Signal, therefore, as a I understand it, is not vulnerable to this issue.
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by lilsoso 3y ago
thanks, egregious error I made in haste =)
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by lilsoso 3y ago
(lol i have to edit this mistake I've seen before)
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by lilsoso 3y ago
While scanning your comment history looking for unusual interests, I found an intriguing comment that's unrelated to this topic: "Cash is already heavily monitored and most petty criminals have already moved on to Amazon gift card
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by lilsoso 3y ago
Can you share what you're referring to when you say it's proven to not have privacy?

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