LaurentS

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by LaurentS 6y ago
Not exactly answering the question, but I recently used aliexpress.com and their captcha system is super easy: it shows a sliding button like the one to answer a call on a phone. The prompt just asks you to slide it to validate your input.
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by LaurentS 6y ago
The cable was tagged with its name, it was very easy to read, probably brand new
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by LaurentS 6y ago
A few years ago, while strolling along the beach in Myanmar, I happened upon SeaMeWe-5, which was accessible to anyone willing to peek into a manhole (why I peeked down that manhole, I'll never know). At the time, the cable was pumping
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by LaurentS 7y ago
Hi kantord, congratulations on the site! I tried something similar about 10 years ago, called wikibabel. I then joined with another site called wikiotics.org. We were very focused on libre everything. In the end, we gave up after several ye
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by LaurentS 7y ago
I have all my mailboxes with gandi.net. Each domain you buy from them comes with 2 fully managed emails, and I think 3GB storage each, for just over $1/month. I basically never get spam, nor blocked emails. They have 2 webmail interfac
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by LaurentS 7y ago
I actually wonder about this. SO's typical user is tech-savvy, and I would imagine many access the site with adblockers on (I do). So I suspect my value to the site in terms of ads is close to zero. I would happily pay a monthly subscr
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by LaurentS 8y ago
I know someone who looked into the fake propaganda spread around social networks in Myanmar (WhatsApp is essentially not used there, but Facebook and Viber are the big ones). It turned out it was virtually impossible to trace the origin of
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by LaurentS 8y ago
Same here. I had never heard of them. Turns out they're a YC'15 startup ( https://www.apollo.io/company/ ). There are no passwords in the data they lost according to HIBP. They seem to collect personal data fro
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by LaurentS 8y ago
page 7 of this has the details of who voted what. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-%2f%2f...
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by LaurentS 8y ago
From my limited experience with calling MEPs, they don't always get the entire picture. Who could blame them for not being experts in web, nuclear energy, agricultural policies and more all at the same time? One way to help them is by
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by LaurentS 8y ago
ZigWay | Several roles | Yangon, Myanmar | ONSITE or REMOTE, FULL-TIME | $20k-45k + equity | https://www.zigway.co/ ZigWay is an early stage fintech social enterprise. We help low income families break free of debt traps an
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by LaurentS 8y ago
I've just put together a simple list of MEPs and their voting intentions (far from complete, it's only the few I've heard about more or less directly). It would be great if you can add what you've heard from MEPs you&#x2
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by LaurentS 8y ago
ZigWay | Several roles | Yangon, Myanmar | ONSITE or REMOTE, FULL-TIME | $20k-45k | https://www.zigway.co/ ZigWay is an early stage fintech social enterprise. We help low income families break free of debt traps and poverty
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by LaurentS 8y ago
ZigWay | Several roles | Yangon, Myanmar | ONSITE or REMOTE, FULL-TIME | $20k-45k | https://www.zigway.co/ ZigWay is an early stage fintech social enterprise. We help low income families break free of debt traps and poverty
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by LaurentS 9y ago
Great to see Myanmar people on HN! Are you in Yangon?
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by LaurentS 9y ago
ZigWay | Mobile/front-end developer or full-stack | Yangon, Myanmar | ONSITE or REMOTE, FULL-TIME | $25k-40k | https://www.zigway.co/ ZigWay is an early stage social fintech startup helping poor families get out of deb