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0xmohit
10y ago
Also, why isn't there an option to delete previous trip data? Uber has your data even if you delete your account. I'm not sure if they can be convinced into deleting it, but they don't do that by default.
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0xmohit
10y ago
Your bank has information about your accounts. So it should be ok to make it public, right?
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10y ago
Remember that not all hacks are made public.
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10y ago
Would you be willing to share information about what % of Uber's revenue is accrued from monetizing user information? EDIT: BTW, did you hear from your support that there are users who aren't pleased with the new feature ?
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10y ago
Why can't you let the feature be opt-in? Your iOS app effectively turns useless when choosing "Never". You can't do anything other than booking a cab. No access to account information, ride information, anything else
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10y ago
The linked article mentions that you can select "Never" so as not to share your location with Uber. However, on iOS at least, the latest version of the app is pretty much unusable when you do so. I did write to Uber regarding thi
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10y ago
I wrote to Uber a week back or so regarding this and this how they responded: My name is Pratik from Uber support, I hope you doing well ! Sorry to hear about about your experience.. I completely understand that this wasn't the
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10y ago
There may be even lesser activity now, given that the author has moved to Google.
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Vuvuzela: private messaging system that protects metadata
(vuvuzela.io)
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10y ago
Isn't $80 for a 2-core processor a bit high especially if they are competing with Digital Ocean?
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10y ago
I've seen the explained series. It's fantastic. Pleased to meet you, Peter.
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10y ago
The best message [0] in the thread: IMHO you must consider nodeJs. [0] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/Golang-nuts/_6K8S...
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10y ago
# delete a bunch of matching files and print the name find . -name whatever\* -type f | perl -ne 'print;chomp;unlink' Can't you use `rm` instead (ask it to be verbose): find . -name whatever\* -type f -exec rm -
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10y ago
Reminds of sed and awk one liners: http://sed.sourceforge.net/sed1line.txt http://www.pement.org/awk/awk1line.txt
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10y ago
RT switched to HTTPS a while back. https://www.rt.com/ > I'm not surprised that they are worried about the financial impact of https on their (very modest) revenue. I don't see anything to that effect in the ar
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10y ago
The primary reason is SEO: It also gives us other benefits such as a potential increase in search results. For the reasons mentioned above Google has announced that it will favour https content. It is also helping us decipher traf
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10y ago
> Writing latex is painful to say the least. One feels that the pain was worth it when their existing .doc files render differently using another Word version.
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10y ago
It might also be worthwhile to try ConTeXt [0], especially if your reports contain floats. [0] http://wiki.contextgarden.net/What_is_ConTeXt
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Mark Taimanov, World-Class Chess and Piano Player, Dies at 90
(nytimes.com)
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10y ago
Or maybe: Pwning coworkers thanks to arbitrary code.
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10y ago
In short, run pdflatex in a VM. Shouldn't it rather say that pdflatex shouldn't be run on arbitrary inputs? I suppose that funny things can happen upon opening arbitrary PDF files as well, or opening arbitrary image forma
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10y ago
In that event, wouldn't it better to pull down the post? Better than edits, no?
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Funny. They site says that they don't do that. Quoting from Reddit Help: Will you remove something defamatory about me or my friend? [0]: The best way to deal with incorrect information on the Internet is to post the correct inf
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10y ago
And what were the changes like? Curious.
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Indian court orders to block 1250 “pirate” sites
(torrentfreak.com)
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10y ago
> It's a suspension, not a deletion I'd doubt that the underlying data is deleted even if you choose to delete your account.
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Malware is making ATMs 'spit cash'
(bbc.com)
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Why Aren't Donald Trump's Epic Conflicts of Interest Illegal?
(fortune.com)
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10y ago
Looks really good. Will sign up shortly.
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10y ago
I'm not so sure if the best practices for prevention would be of any good.
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