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by Meekro 6y ago
That whole post is based on a misunderstanding of what OneClickPolitics does: it manages websites, paid ads, and social media campaigns for advocacy groups. These websites look cookie-cutter because the OneClickPolitics platform auto-genera
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If it was just health insurance and similarly "risky" industries that required the 6000 pages, it wouldn't be so bad. Earlier this year Lambda School (an online school where you watch videos and learn things) got fined $75k b
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by Meekro 7y ago
The article describes this as a lending program, which is misleading. The SBA Paycheck Protection Program straight-up gives free money to cover small business (less than 500 employees) payroll for 2 months. All the business has to do is n
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by Meekro 7y ago
They actually are doing both of those points. Everyone's heard of the $1200 checks to individuals, but they also created the Paycheck Protection Program[1] which advertises itself as a small business loan program but "will forgive
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Calling this a "scam" is misleading and inflammatory. eToro is exactly what it claims to be: a cryptocurrency exchange. Certainly there have been scammy exchanges that run off with people's money, but the author hasn't p
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I haven't seen any discussion here of the actual virus risks in these large gatherings, so I thought I'd bring up the question. I admit I haven't read too much about this particular virus, but my belief is that the average de
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I'm a long-time Stripe user who processes ~$40k per month, and I think you're being too harsh. From a business owner's perspective, PayPal is the kind of company that would shut down your account and steal the balance for 6 m
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I have a grandfathered account from 2016, and I'm still getting the fee refunds.
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Back when the GDPR was still pending, the consensus on HN was that there was nothing to fear because European regulators emphasize the spirit of the law, rather than beating people over the head with the letter of the law like American re
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The sheer speed with which this happened undermines many theories about what's causing it. People talk about idle desk jobs, a car-dominated culture, and abundant cheap food. Those things were just as true in 1990, though, and far fewe
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Which cruise line did you go on? I've stopped going on Carnival because the food is worse than it was 10 years ago. This video was Royal Caribbean, which I think is still great!
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There is absolutely no way to 51% attack a major coin like Bitcoin for as little as $700k an hour. They are extrapolating from Nicehash's mining rental prices, but Nicehash doesn't have anything like the capacity you'd need
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We all agree that ethics matter, but would we really expect students to be more ethical after the class than they were before? Take Mozilla's firing of Brendan Eich-- we had several massive debates here about it. One side was saying th
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Why is becoming dependent on US-supplied liquefied natural gas any better? If Germany has two or more reliable suppliers of natural gas (Russia and US), neither one can extort them by threatening to flip the switch.
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Digital Ocean is a great company in a brutal, low-margin industry. Based on having run a similar (now mostly defunct) company in the past, I would guess that 80% of their customers are on the $5/mo plan. That $5/mo has to cover th
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Out of the millions of (completely true) things the media could tell you each day, who decides which 20 or so we have time for? Whose interest is being served by that choice? This isn't just newspapers and TV; there is a similar kind o
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The origins of that quote are dubious. Author Dan Baum claims that Nixon lawyer John Ehrlichman made this confession to him back in 1994, but Dan waited until 2016 to publish it-- long enough that most people in Nixon's inner circle (i
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by Meekro 7y ago
'Years ago, I interviewed Kweisi Mfume, then the president of the NAACP. "As between the presence of white racism and the absence of black fathers," I asked, "Which poses the bigger threat to the black community?"
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by Meekro 7y ago
Writing good rules to prevent this stuff is hard. Insurers have to create networks so they can negotiate fair rates with doctors and hospitals. These rates often end up being more than medicare would have paid, but not wildly more. Sounds
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I don't blame you guys, and don't envy the position you're in. Near as I can tell, the mainstream media has spent years telling conservatives that their voices are being silenced at a disproportionate rate by left-leaning Fac
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Google Stadia launch review: Gaming’s “future” looks rough in the present(arstechnica.com)
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I wonder what happens if you're accused of a serious crime and the bail is set to $100,000. Do you have to bring them a fancy briefcase full of cash, since they won't take a check?
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The employees "chafe" because they're prevented from personally attacking and name-calling coworkers? Pretty much every workplace has similar rules.
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That's a good point! I don't use use Twitter, so that hadn't occurred to me!
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I love the appearance of it, but there are very few cases where sharing un-copyable blocks of code is actually what you want. Let's say you're making a programming tutorial, or you're publishing an open source library and wan
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It's difficult because they are both private companies. The Internet Research Agency is a private Russian company that was indicted by Mueller for election interference activities, among them paying people to tweet in support of some U
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I've had people telling me for the last 3 years that it's definitely election interference if a private Russian company pays some people to write tweets about US politicians. But now, apparently it's not election interference
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That's a fair point. Sounds like this can be resolved with a simple new rule: if you're blind, you can get online-only deals over the phone.
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If you're blind, can't you just call up a Dominos to order your pizza? "Talk to a human and order your pizza" sounds like a friendlier approach than the automated screen reader or whatever they'll come up with to re
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The problem is, "respected fact checkers" are anything but. The HN discussion you linked to actually mentions some interesting things that these fact checkers omitted. Factcheck.org claims: "there is no evidence that Hunter B

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