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by bdibs 6y ago
I didn’t mean to imply that no companies actually care about privacy and security, I meant companies affected by a public incident like this.
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by bdibs 6y ago
> We take the privacy of our customers’ data and personal information very seriously I wish companies would actually mean this and apply it proactively instead of just copy and pasting this in their apology after something like this happ
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SoftBank would buy about 25% of Adam Neumann’s stake in WeWork for $480M(cnbc.com)
1 points by bdibs 6y ago|0 comments
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by bdibs 6y ago
Decided to make this after this thread[0] earlier today, thinking it would be an easy way to see what it takes to make a web extension. It ended up being pretty underwhelming, but it works so I decided to release it. It hides karma from the
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Show HN: DeKarmaHN, a Chrome extension to hide karma and more(github.com)
10 points by bdibs 6y ago|2 comments
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by bdibs 6y ago
I thought that sounded like a fun project to learn web extensions and decided to make a Chrome extension for that today: https://github.com/bdibs/DeKarmaHN . Hope it works for you.
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by bdibs 6y ago
Who's the they here? I thought they were hacked, not deplatformed by any of their service providers.
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Social Network Gab Goes Offline, Disappears from Twitter(newsweek.com)
12 points by bdibs 6y ago|5 comments
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by bdibs 6y ago
It looks that way. Looks like some of it was archived though at https://web.archive.org/web/20210216153239/https://github.co... . Also still live at PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/end
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by bdibs 6y ago
Thanks, I tried that before posting and it said everything was fine so I wondered if it was a regional issue.
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by bdibs 6y ago
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
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by bdibs 6y ago
Monopoly of what though, social media? They don't have any bearing on my life, and I'm sure that's shared with many people here specifically. They aren't murdering people and they aren't stopping the water supply, f
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by bdibs 6y ago
Freedom goes both ways, folks. You don't have to like it, most people usually don't.
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by bdibs 6y ago
I posted this here a few days ago, I believe it’s talking about the same patent and seems to still be up: https://pitchfork.com/news/new-spotify-patent-involves-monit...
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New Spotify Patent Involves Monitoring Users’ Speech to Recommend Music(pitchfork.com)
13 points by bdibs 6y ago|4 comments
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Biden will elevate White House science office to Cabinet-level(washingtonpost.com)
4 points by bdibs 6y ago|1 comments
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by bdibs 6y ago
That private businesses can keep people off of their properties?
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by bdibs 6y ago
Absolutely, otherwise they can shut down your account with $15k in it and hold it for 6 months. Ask me how I know, haha.
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by bdibs 6y ago
Are you worried at all about sites abusing the transparency to rank higher, given they would know what to focus on to do so?
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by bdibs 6y ago
Thank you, dang! Keep up the great work.
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by bdibs 6y ago
> He dismisses fears that the surcharge will drive companies out of the city, saying the tax is modest in comparison to the cost of moving a business. It doesn't seem like they're too worried about new businesses, they're
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by bdibs 6y ago
Except Rogan’s podcast is full length and unedited, which is exactly why he chose the format.
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by bdibs 6y ago
Pitter patter.
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by bdibs 6y ago
I’ve had a lot of success with https://hex.pm/packages/stripity_stripe .
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by bdibs 6y ago
I’m aware that Ruby/Rails isn’t that quick, but it seems mind boggling that an 800ms server response time is considered tolerated, and 200ms is satisfying. I’ve never used Ruby in production so maybe my reference point is off and this
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by bdibs 6y ago
They mentioned caching full HTML responses so I'm guessing that's what they're doing.
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by bdibs 6y ago
Posted a list, have a nice hike!
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by bdibs 6y ago
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24147486 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24146902 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24143346 https://news.ycombinato
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by bdibs 6y ago
And is that with their javac or is it reserved only for their native image generation?
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by bdibs 6y ago
In that situation an email would have been nice, but just raising the price with no feature changes doesn’t warrant notification. Especially since existing customers would be charged their current rate anyways.

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