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by Sebb767 5y ago
Didn't Spotify also have extremely loud ads?
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by Sebb767 5y ago
> What exactly is the point of phone verification of the official answer is “lie to us about your identity”? Phone number is not about identity, but about reducing spam (they're also not at all tied to your identity, at least not un
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by Sebb767 5y ago
> You don't need a mobile phone, you can use a friend's phone, or use a landline. Sure, because what's the chance the friend also has a Google account? And who doesn't have a personal landline, especially these days?
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by Sebb767 5y ago
Don't get me wrong - if you're perfectly happy with your lifestyle despite spending very little money, that's absolutely okay. My point is, you can not just overspend, you can also oversave - if you have the money to make you
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by Sebb767 5y ago
> Many just want analytics and GA is the most convenient option. Though with GDPR now website owners (many offering free content and hosting a site where a user explicity browses into with their own will) need to learn law to make sure
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by Sebb767 5y ago
Well, you only need one honest police officer to get wind of it and you'll be in a very bad situation. Plus, you still need good conditions etc.. If you're going for that kind of money, it probably makes more sense to make the r
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by Sebb767 5y ago
Speed limits also vary, cars and technology gets better and even minor things like weather can absolutely affect times. Sure, COVID changed the circumstances, but this is an highly unregulated race with very varying circumstances anyway.
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by Sebb767 5y ago
> Rest is just making life of web developers/admins/tech company owners harder. Seriously? People spend tons money and time to track users. If you want to be GDPR-compliant, simply don't save unnecessary userdata and if yo
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by Sebb767 5y ago
The reason most people want to be rich is to have a good lifestyle. Sure, lifestyle inflation is a thing and you want to have money in the bank for emergency and retirement, but being the old guy with lots of money is no better than being t
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by Sebb767 5y ago
> 2200 (yes, 78 years from now) So, what's the current state of cars in your time? ;)
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by Sebb767 5y ago
Keeping your people happy does not only impact your productivity, but it also impacts motivation (people who love their job are more likely to try and improve beyond their job), the overall churn and, as a second-order effect, even stuff li
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by Sebb767 5y ago
> As an employee: I found that the office felt empty and dead which made me question commuting in. Nobody was really around to go to happy hours or have events. A significant portion of the people I wanted to be around were opting to sta
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by Sebb767 5y ago
I'm in exactly the same boat. Working from home has a lot of advantages (as a longer sleeper, I can get up later, I can eat at home, I don't need to travel, I have a really nice setup etc) but I really miss having a coffee break w
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by Sebb767 5y ago
> I don't see how that quote addresses it. Wouldn't the relevant right be a "right not to hear", which he doesn't mention? You're right, I misread your comment. He really does not differenciate this clearly,
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by Sebb767 5y ago
Yes, these articles lead to flame wars (just look here for enough examples) and don't really have anything to add to the topic of hn.
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by Sebb767 5y ago
The problem is that this doesn't work. The exact point of free speech is that you need to allow people to say things you don't consider true. Back then, you could've easily argued that he spreads scientific nonsense by saying
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by Sebb767 5y ago
He actually handles that distinction early in the article as a quote: > [...] he noted that there exists not just a right to speak but a right to hear. “To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as w
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by Sebb767 5y ago
I assume because it's still a great position for a base (wide stretch of easily defendable flat land) and the infrastructure is already there. Plus, anyone capable of seriously surveilling such a well-positioned base will most likely a
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by Sebb767 5y ago
Technically, to black them out, you'd need to recognize them first - which would violate that patent.
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by Sebb767 5y ago
> I'm sure I saw cars with an option to read speed limit signs about 10 years back. To be fair, those systems were just best-effort. I'm pretty sure Teslas can handle far harder sign situations than those. The problem is the ed
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by Sebb767 5y ago
I assume they're going to expand their laptop offering either way, but adding a larger model is probably not want they mean with more ambitious :)
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by Sebb767 5y ago
> We’re not ready to share what the next products are just yet, but this funding unlocks categories even more ambitious than our first one. We have a detailed plan in place for the next two years and napkin sketch ideas going out a coupl
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by Sebb767 5y ago
Still, buying a company that's half your size is quite a chunk. And Activision is anything but a save purchase with the recent scandals. I highly doubt Sony would take such a risk.
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by Sebb767 5y ago
> Again, that was my point. Life will be fine. Well, some humans sit in bunkers built to withstand direct hits with a nuke and others built self-sustaining ecosystems. A massive catastrophe might wipe out 99+% percent of humans, but a sm
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by Sebb767 5y ago
> _life_ will be perfectly fine, barring our Sun going supernova. I'm pretty sure a completely f-ed up climate or a full-on nuclear war will be quite a problem for live. The planet will be fine and some liveform will probably rema
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by Sebb767 5y ago
> See DAO hack. Of course, that did defeat the whole purpose of smart contracts but nobody was willing to notice Of course a lot of people noticed. The problem is that cryptocurrencies are currently primarily functioning as investment ob
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by Sebb767 5y ago
> Communication campaigns, making it a subject in schools... Both of those are basically so delayed and holey that you can forget using it for anything but the most basic points. Just look at how bad some people are at math and that&#x27
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by Sebb767 5y ago
A lot of easy things suddenly become very complex if you need to deal with high availability and/or a lot of distributed computers.
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by Sebb767 5y ago
> I say that because I've never seen a standard so easy and seamless for a developer to get his code running. You deploy using extremely long YAML files, your app interacts with a lot of complex software (secret storage, ingress con
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by Sebb767 5y ago
If anyone else is wondering, the only somewhat concise explanation I found was this[0]: > Non-toxic is essentially a placebo term and unlike food-safe or food-grade products, has little to no government regulation in terms of its accurac

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