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Ask HN: What loophole are you currently exploiting?

• dusted 4y ago
  You start.
  • Raed667 4y ago
    Fair enough, don't know if this qualifies as a loophole; I setup a SaaS subscription using a student account, then +8 years later and they still bill me using the student pricing (50% discount) and never asked about it.
• znpy 4y ago
  I am employed, but I went back to university (while working) so I’m technically a student. I managed to get the acm student subscription, because I wanted to check it out. I’m glad I did that because after one year or cacm and xrds, I don’t really aee the point of it. 80% of the cacm issues are either opinions, shallow essays, marketing or self-congratulatory celebrations. The remaining 20% is advertising. Meh.
  • Raed667 4y ago
    I feel a valid student email and card, when you also have a salary, are the best economic loophole.
    • znpy 4y ago
      Well, to be fair, i am both formally and actually a student… so yeah. Not sure how much of a loophole that is, given the cost of the tuition.
• pthr 4y ago
  Python bytecode was shipped in a commercial application; I once took half an hour to figure out what arguments the scripts were accepting (by decompiling the bytecode). This has allowed me to generate some license-free objects to be used externally, an option supposed to be only available at additional cost (an add-on my org didn't purchase). I'm still undecided between "that's what you get when you are ignorant enough to ship confidential code as Python bytecode" and "let's be nice and report an issue". In the meanwhile I've been using this for about 2 years now and never told anyone about it.