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by SergeAx 3y ago
I live in Europe (non-EU) and can't wrap my head around the fact that selling PD is legal in the US.
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by SergeAx 3y ago
In today's ubiquitos tracking reality the right to pay cash is a basic human right for privacy.
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by SergeAx 3y ago
> [Gaselles] repeatedly jump as high as they can, springing vertically into the air with all four feet raised. > The signal this sends to predators is essentially: “I’m so fit that I can afford to expend valuable energy to show you ho
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by SergeAx 3y ago
That should be named "co2levels.fyi"
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by SergeAx 3y ago
I don't see any question on morality of blocking ads. Under no circumstances any living soul may be forced to view any kind of displeasing content. Web is an open protocol, anything accessible on the web with http code 200 is free to d
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by SergeAx 3y ago
2022, discussed then (120+ comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32071349
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by SergeAx 3y ago
Every time I visit Switzerland, I notice how wealthy this country is indeed.
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by SergeAx 3y ago
PEG here is polyethylene glycol. It is used as a laxative agent and also as a bulking agent for making other medications. I wish it was deciphered right in the headline.
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by SergeAx 3y ago
Croats committed ethnic cleansing against Serbs, which led to mass exodus: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Storm#Refugee_cris... Interestingly, Croatian football hooligans still using this fact to insult Serb
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by SergeAx 3y ago
The one with quite selective memory, obviously)
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by SergeAx 3y ago
All ex-Yugoslav republics are speaking the same Serbo-Croatian language, despite calling it Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian etc. Even today, after 20 years of separation, their languages are closer to each other than some South and North Italian
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by SergeAx 3y ago
I had to google what the author is talking about. It is rich animated advertising surfaces mounted on top of food retail refrigerator doors. How atrocious, and no uBlock to turn it off.
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by SergeAx 3y ago
And this is why, kids, you need to enforce certificate pinning on your critical infrastructure!
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by SergeAx 3y ago
Context: Gaza is ruled by Hamas. Literally, legally speaking. So "Palestinian official" in this case is Hamas official. Hamas is designated as terrorist group by EU, UK, US, Canada, Australia and Japan. So, NYT was literally quote
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by SergeAx 3y ago
Your case shows exactly this: you can march into a brick and mortar bank with your lawyer in tow and chances are everything will be unfrozen in minutes. So it is a kind of guarantee.
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by SergeAx 3y ago
I consider all internet neobanks totally unreliable and never trust them with large sums. However, Wise could be quite useful in some cases. For example, last year I needed to rescue my money from Turkish bank. My contractee send it there b
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by SergeAx 3y ago
My goodness. The guy put in at least a man-year of design, product management and software engineering, which is no less than $250k US market value, and somehow dumped it because of 499 USD/month bill for the finance data, the foundati
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by SergeAx 3y ago
What I saw is that role isn't working either way. TLM don't have manager's power (can't reward and cannot punish) and at the same time expected to churn out production code, carving continuous focus hours out of manager&
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by SergeAx 3y ago
On the other hand, manager writing production code is a terrible footgun for the team. Time/resource conflict between helping a team and shipping code has no good outcome, either I let team down by decrease their productivity, or I let
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by SergeAx 3y ago
Not that I am rooting for this product, but... "For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted file
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by SergeAx 3y ago
This messaging app already exists, it called Telegram. I was on a boat around Aeolian Islands and Telegram started working once my phone got Edge (=2G) coverage. Slack and WhatsApp were unable even to connect to server without at least 3G.
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by SergeAx 3y ago
This is why I do my own secrets backup: VeraCrypt volume syncing between several devices and cloud storages.
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by SergeAx 3y ago
There is a knowledge that you have to hold your USB cable with the logo upwards. Unfortunately, it is too arcane, so lots of cable and even device manufacturers just not aware of it. Also I it becomes quirky when the socket is vertically or
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by SergeAx 3y ago
I cannot comprehend how people are using web in 2023 without ad-blocking.
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by SergeAx 3y ago
> Polyamory seems to be a tremendous amount of work that also requires a high degree of emotional maturity So is real friendship (not like in "we just having fun together eventually").
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by SergeAx 3y ago
Marriage is not a social construct, it is an economical and legal institution.
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by SergeAx 3y ago
There are negative values of kinkiness in that survey results. Before Mother Theresa are Bambi, Samwise Gamgee and Captain America. The most kinky character is Willi Wonka. https://twitter.com/Aella_Girl/status/155
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by SergeAx 3y ago
I am all in for training data being fair use as long as ML-infered data are not copyrighted.
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by SergeAx 3y ago
Today algos can identify people by their walking habits. (cue Ministry of Silly Walks)
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by SergeAx 3y ago
Imagine you entering a non-crowded venue and prices on wireless e-Ink tags are changing according to your profile got by face-recognition camera at the front door.

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