matt_f

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by matt_f 4y ago
Agreed. I can't understand how that's supposed to work: Texas citizens sue Facebook for not operating in their state, under Texas state laws? Surely state laws and thus lawsuits based on them can only be applied to entities operat
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by matt_f 5y ago
I looked into the source of the above link and it's a collaborative git-managed team effort. https://standardebooks.org/about What an awesome project.
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by matt_f 5y ago
Are there any legal security issues to be concerned about as a developer of this kind of anonymous service? I wonder every time I see a project like this, namely anonymous or transient hosting of any kind of user data, whether the developer
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by matt_f 5y ago
How do you know the above commenter not posting anything that's being censored? Do you know what they are posting? If he/she "doesn't see it because he's not beingu censored", as you seem to imply that perhaps
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by matt_f 5y ago
This strikes me as entirely being exactly the things of which you are accuse the parent post's author. > "people like you are part of the problem" > "such judgemental bullshit" > "judgmental jerks who
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by matt_f 5y ago
Question! Is there any reason this technique could not be applied to solve the Oregon wildfires?
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by matt_f 5y ago
It looks like Google 2FA will support using a Yubikey or something like it, which in my mind is preferable to being required to use the Google mobile app. > You'll enter your password [...] Then, a code will be sent to your phone vi
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by matt_f 5y ago
Really? How is this activated or enabled?
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by matt_f 5y ago
Are there any viable alternatives to shopify for developers that don't have these issues?
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by matt_f 6y ago
Annoying.
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by matt_f 6y ago
Most interesting line if this article for me: > The ape cost £300, about £25,000 in today’s money (or about $34,000USD). Holy cow, has there been a 10,000% inflation of the value of a pound in one century?
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What's up with spam site returning in tech question Google top results?
2 points by matt_f 6y ago|3 comments
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by matt_f 6y ago
Whoah!! That's frikkin awesome! Has this made front page in HN yet at any point?
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by matt_f 6y ago
I want to love this. But, in trying to imagine any scenario in which tech corporations might conceivably start hosting their internal user data on these external "Solid Pods", I'm left drawing a blank. Until we have a way t
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by matt_f 6y ago
I suspect he/she means we have the ability to vote in our political system, which _does_ have the ability to influence what corporations are/aren't allowed to do.
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by matt_f 6y ago
That's gonna be a FRICKIN NOPE.
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by matt_f 6y ago
Question: Is there any mechanism in place (aside from upvotes ranking, and astute HN commenters) to prevent endless duplicate submissions? What safety guardrail would prevent a malicious/selfish/merely annoying self-promoter from
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by matt_f 6y ago
Interesting side note: It seems like a lot of people in this thread have an interest in retaining a "replayable timeline" of their own browsing/reading history. There's probably enough support here to gather a few contri
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by matt_f 6y ago
"WILLLLLLSOOOONNNNNN!!!!"
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by matt_f 6y ago
This is a really good thing. I know a lot of the people who are overwhelmed by debt don't have the spare mental or emotional space to deal with something else equally overwhelming, which is visualizing their path out of it. Should be h
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by matt_f 6y ago
This is cool.
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by matt_f 6y ago
The "great migration" of post-slavery African Americans from around 1916-1970. Millions left the South under threat of death and worse to escape continuing slavery-like conditions and oppression of the Jim Crow era, radically alte
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by matt_f 6y ago
This was beautiful.
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by matt_f 6y ago
There was a novel written on exactly that idea. In the story this idea results in exactly what the above poster was proposing to avoid. http://prosecraft.io/library/robby-akart/yellowstone-hellfir...
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by matt_f 6y ago
That's awesome stuff there
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by matt_f 6y ago
*scrape
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by matt_f 6y ago
Applaud you for that effort. They're an underserved community.
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Ask HN: What good have you done writing software?
2 points by matt_f 6y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: What good have you done writing software?
2 points by matt_f 6y ago|0 comments
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by matt_f 6y ago
For those looking for how to request your information: This is what I've found so far on the privacy policy page. It sounds like it may be available only for california residents. > In addition to the information, controls and right

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