RoyGBivCap

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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
And the pipelines feed Germany, the NATO ally.
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
Maybe. Maybe not. I used to work in health insurance. HIPAA protected information is "Personally identifying information" (name, email, etc) plus a medical diagnosis, treatment, or cost of treatment. It might be PII. It might be
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
A web app can only do what the browser can do. A native app? All bets are off.
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
> You push a button, and suddenly a whole class of difficult problems disappears. This corroborates something I read that I'm paraphrasing: If you want a successful business, solve a problem and sell it.
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
I have a 6 digit /. id and somehow never knew this. Thanks!
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
It's still a false positive, which is what we're talking about, unless cloudflare itself is the bad actor and they're deliberately blocking normal VPN users. Which I'm sure there's money if you dig. Governments for
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
So the conversation of what might happen occurred before the site was created?
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
Politics is very much on HN. It's a part of the same filter bubble as the rest of big tech: https://i.imgur.com/taGzsZP.jpg It's thinly veiled behind more passive aggressively written prose than reddit, but it&#x2
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
How do you create the name for a website by trying to tell someone how to get to it over the phone? Doesn't the DNS entry have to exist first?
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
> I get blocked or forced into captchas at least three times per week. Same. I get blocked on websites I have accounts on if I use a VPN. I'm not just a visitor, I'm a member, and still get blocked by cloudflare. Other times i
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
Some electric toothbrushes really are better than a manual one. Very light pressure and let the super high cyclic rate do the job. I love my sonicare. The only thing I would change is the 2 minute shutoff. I have all of my wisdom teeth and
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
It is not the same website.
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
What? Reddit has been privately owned since 2006: https://www.crunchbase.com/acquisition/condenast-acquires-re... And it's been a shitshow since they pulled their free speech bait & switch in 2015, so good rid
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
The downside is that the reason Apollo is great is reddit employees have little control over it. Were they to acquire it I'm sure the enshittification would start shortly after.
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
I feel like it's the same thing with people who have a youtube channel. If you're in a situation where all of your income comes from a company, but you don't have an employer/employee contract with that company. It seems
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
Reddit is a sexist, racist, free speech bait & switching website owned by Newhouse family: https://www.tharawat-magazine.com/fbl/newhouse-family/ The sooner it's gone, the better.
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
Reddit is a sexist, racist, free speech bait & switching website owned by the second richest family on the planet. The sooner it's gone, the better.
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
so? They Musk open sourced tesla patents 9 years ago: https://www.tesla.com/en_GB/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-y...
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
Because the people rich enough to own big copyrights can afford politicians.
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
I made a crude map of their sub-3 hour training route, it's mind boggling: https://i.imgur.com/ZwcgwsI.jpg
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
Are you?
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
At least 14%. From their own page: "Federal funding is essential to public radio's service to the American public and its continuation is critical for both stations and program producers, including NPR." >7% Federal approp
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
Right, that's the propaganda game, to make normies think that these left wing trolls are the average opinion.
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
Based on what quantifiable criteria? All of twitter's usage records were broken after he bought it. All of them.
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
...ongoing collapse? Every usage record twitter has broken has been since he took over.
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
> (1) seeing less content from people I actually follow This is the Following tab. It's only the people you follow. The "For you" tab is stuff from the edge of your filter bubble.
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
And the God(damn) Particle also comes to mind.
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
It's lego all the way down to the clock cycle.
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
...whereas the rampaging horde of google maps and waze users are ubiquitous.
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
Google maps isn't so good because google is good* but because google feeds their maps with data from their users, which is a huge privacy concern that most people simply don't care about. I use Apple's notably inferior maps b

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