Meekro

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by Meekro 7y ago
Others here have pointed out, quite correctly, that this ruling follows a long string of precedents. But with the new conservative majority on the Supreme Court, I wouldn't be surprised if we see affirmative action knocked down in the
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> She then published the exploit publicly and they sued her So you're saying that a bunch of volunteer open source developers collectively sued a security researcher? That sounds like it would have made for an epic Hacker News story
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I'm sorry you have to put up with all of that, and I don't want to be part of the problem for folks like you. But here's the other side of the coin: I ran a small VPS hosting company for many years, and the "small, poor,
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Check out some screenshots of Discord, that basically looks like "Slack with a dark theme."
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My company was auto-enrolled in the Stripe Capital beta some weeks/months ago (not sure when). I never accepted the money. Here's what they offered: $12,500 advance; $1,250 fixed fee; 3.8% of sales towards repayment. $18,500 advan
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In his dissent in Roper v Simmons, Justice Scalia gave a couple examples of brutal crimes committed by juveniles: "Defendant Christopher Simmons of this case, who was only seven months shy of his 18th birthday when he murdered Shirley
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Oops, my mistake! That's worse than I thought!
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From the article: " All essays scored by E-rater are also graded by a human and discrepancies are sent to a second human for a final grade. Because of that system, ETS does not believe any students have been adversely affected by the
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Man allegedly told YouTubers: Pay up or I'll file bogus takedowns(arstechnica.com)
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The founders of OkCupid researched this sort of thing quite a bit before their site was sold off. One of their studies showed that, for men, having any sort of animal in your profile pic is the best thing you can do to get women's atte
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vBulletin (a forum package like phpBB, but not open source and you had to pay for it) had a shadowban feature they called "Tachy Goes to Coventry" and there are references to it as far back as 2003. https://forum.vbulle
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You're right that obesity causes low testosterone, but low testosterone also causes obesity (plus factors that lead to obesity, like lethargy). Chicken/egg problem?
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When I was much younger, I remember being filled with wonder when I learned about the Skokie case[1], where the ACLU went to court to protect the rights of Nazis to hold a rally in a mostly-Jewish town. "Wait, they faced down criticism
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Little known fact about the phrase "fire in a crowded theater": it was coined in a criminal case against a man who was distributing leaflets criticizing the draft during World War 1. The Supreme Court upheld his conviction by comp
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My first attempt to find one blew up in my face. =( I lived in LA at the time, so I looked for highly-rated local accountants on Yelp. The search led me to this one[1], who proceeded to make a series of nasty mistakes that led to a taxation
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I run a game server hosting business that does ~$600k in ARR, and I love focusing on the software side of it. I have a simple payroll with 2 recipients, and I love how Gusto is something I never have to think about. I enabled automatic payr
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I'm actually a customer of Bench.co, but I've been somewhat frustrated and thinking about leaving. First, they are very slow-- the books for a given month are usually finalized at least a month later (so your May books won't
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One nice feature of these cars is that they have always-on 360-degree video, which should make it trivial to determine fault in the case of accidents. Even if the self-driving car itself wasn't hit, the video could be provided to shed
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I love it when I don't have to think about things, and Gusto combined with Stripe (Atlas and card processing) have made it possible for me to not ever think about a whole lot of things. Now if only there was a company as good as Stripe
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I've definitely seen what you're describing, but not all of our supermarkets are like that. If you visit higher-end supermarkets (like HEB or Trader Joe), you'll see fresh breads baked in-store, gourmet cheeses, top quality m
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For those out of the loop, this week has seen an outage from a bunch of major US internet companies: Cloudflare, Slack, Google Cloud, Azure, Facebook (including Instagram and WhatsApp), and now iCloud.
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I think this is actually a great point. To expand on it a bit further, imagine that the US ceased to exist tomorrow. Europe would have to massively increase its own defense spending, or else risk that China or Russia would decide to walk
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Just last week, we found out that they sat on a severe vulnerability for 2 months, only bothering to patch it after someone used it to try to pwn Coinbase[1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20233952
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The majority of ad revenue goes to the site, not to Brave[1]. The user gets a cut for having to see the ad, and Brave gets a cut as well. But even if you're right, why is it unethical for me to install software on my own computer to re
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> Judge Stephens was bound by West Virginia law to weigh secrecy against transparency and provide in the court record his reasoning. Like many judges in his position, he did neither. "This case was sealed because both sides agreed a
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Dancard works for local payments, but the discussion here is about the growing demand to transact with foreign companies online. For example, if you're in Denmark and you want to buy a SaaS subscription from a US company, you're s
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I see a lot of these articles about Facebook and privacy lately, but I'm still wondering what, precisely, Facebook is doing that people object to and what kinds of changes would satisfy those who are upset. Near as I can tell, this is
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I'm usually the biggest advocate for personal responsibility, reaping what you sow, etc. but I think you may be being too hard on the parent. For one thing, parents lose a lot of power as kids age-- how exactly do you punish a 25 year
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Visa and Mastercard have a pretty effective duopoly, too! Their fees and chargeback procedures are a drag on the entire economy. Getting banned by them effectively kills your ability to accept payments, and many legal but politically unpopu
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Thank you for your many detailed replies here! This idea that parent brought up is one I've heard before: Stripe declines payments that a local gateway service would have accepted, for reasons unrelated to fraud protection. That's

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