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by absolutelyrad 6y ago
Would recommend Bunny CDN to anyone. It's super fast and super cheap.
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by absolutelyrad 6y ago
Update: it appears that there is a reason for it. DDG doesn't show results if there isn't an exact match for the query it seems. It requires you to search the same query again for some reason. Maybe this is an experiment of some s
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by absolutelyrad 6y ago
https://prisma.io I love their Prisma 2 product. And it lives up to the hype, it is indeed a next generation ORM. Very useful when you're rushing to iterate.
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by absolutelyrad 6y ago
FYI, I'm also a software developer/engineer. I do understand when glitches happen, but this seems too off. If it works on a VPN, or a proxy server but not your own ip address. Are you really sure it's just a "glitch&quot
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by absolutelyrad 6y ago
I attached the proof pic. edit: To the comment below saying I'm lying. Yes it does query. The first time I query, it doesnt give results. Then I query it again and it shows all results (same query, pressing the search icon again). This
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by absolutelyrad 6y ago
The founder of DDG was also the founder of a privacy invading company. This has been scrubbed off most parts of the internet. Edit: changed from spyware to privacy invading
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by absolutelyrad 6y ago
https://www.weforum.org/great-reset/ Overall I agree with much of the tone that they set and some of the things are long overdue. --- Edit: duckduckgo censor the search query "the great reset" when you search
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by absolutelyrad 6y ago
Isn't it already known?
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by absolutelyrad 6y ago
Tencent is an investor. So yes.
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by absolutelyrad 6y ago
Damn, stop criticizing my taste in Taylor Swift's music!
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by absolutelyrad 6y ago
No wonder Sergey Brin And Larry Page Step Down last year. The tide would change as soon as the cat was out of the bag.. https://www.npr.org/2019/12/03/784570156/google-founders-bri...
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Google hit with 2 new antitrust lawsuits from 4 private publishers(foxbusiness.com)
1 points by absolutelyrad 6y ago|1 comments
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Discuss HN: The Last 10 Years
20 points by absolutelyrad 6y ago|8 comments
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by absolutelyrad 6y ago
> but it will signal that the US is diehard anti-crypto. From the article: SEC officials have declared Bitcoin and Ether to be currencies, as they are decentralized in their management, but have left the door open for others to qualif
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by absolutelyrad 6y ago
> The limitations of what can be done without the iOS/Android APIs are too high to make the app useful, as can be seen in the official documentation: https://github.com/corona-warn-app/cwa-documentation/bl
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by absolutelyrad 6y ago
Apple is a labor exploitation company.
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by absolutelyrad 6y ago
Someone like TikTok, yes, but TikTok is the exception, not the norm. Maybe this works when the content quality difference is limited between top and bottom creators. Instagram could pull off what TikTok did, but not YouTube.
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by absolutelyrad 6y ago
> The fact of the matter is that any media platform where the cost of production is minimal is going to have shit power laws. Interesting observation.
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by absolutelyrad 6y ago
> "equality of opportunity" for future generations. What a bullshit idea. Different people start with different advantages in life. Some with wealth, some with looks, some with none. In your bid to make an equal society, will
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by absolutelyrad 6y ago
I consider Facebook, Google, Cloudflare, Amazon, Tencent, Tesla and Apple to be collaborators. Remember the anti-poaching agreement. Especially Tencent, Google and Cloudflare, they do work together, and they hide it bad. Several of Google a
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Ask HN: Can mods be contacted without an email
2 points by absolutelyrad 6y ago|0 comments
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China’s Nata Opto-Electronic Gains as Photoresist Product Passes Tests(yicaiglobal.com)
1 points by absolutelyrad 6y ago|0 comments
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by absolutelyrad 6y ago
Indeed. If most others know, good for them I guess. I didn't know, so I mentioned for others. I'm not well versed in Chinese history. And my impression wasn't wrong, most people would've thought that way too given the pi
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by absolutelyrad 6y ago
When an image gives the wrong first impression/is misleading, indeed they are. When doing with good intent, they're not. Since the US and China are rivals at this point and neither side wants to chill, and given the history of tro
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by absolutelyrad 6y ago
When I first saw the images I thought the tanks killed him/ran over him. That's what the first impression was. Then saw the video. Anyways, HN is not the place for geopolitical talk like this. And I dislike the trend of polluting
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by absolutelyrad 6y ago
The tank image has been debunked. The tanks stopped for the man, and didn't kill him.
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by absolutelyrad 6y ago
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by absolutelyrad 6y ago
I'd like to think that in 10 years, Bitcoin or some other cryptocurrency would be one of the reserve currencies held by central banks. But there's no going back. Cryptocurrencies have their place, and they're here to stay.
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by absolutelyrad 6y ago
Chrome/Chromium/Edge has more features, does more things. Why would I use Firefox except for being stubborn? I personally moved to Edge from Chrome after they forked Chromium because of better integration with Windows. I wouldn&#x
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by absolutelyrad 6y ago
> Common Crawl Not even close. I've used Common Crawl, it has nowhere near the breadth that Google has in their index. Problem no. 1 is that website owners block non Google crawlers because of limited bandwidth. So you can't

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