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by billme 6y ago
“Super users” in this case is relative, as in the super users of Ubuntu’s community are the users to most likely have an issue with this and willing to leave to another distro if needed. Beyond that, increasingly common to see Ubuntu used i
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by billme 6y ago
Honestly, unless you’re able to find a way to exploit the downturn related to the global pandemic, in a way that you’re able to maintain growth post pandemic, my advice would be to pick a new industry, since this is one of the industries th
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by billme 6y ago
Largest issue I have with Snap is that it appears to assume the owner of a system is not in best position to make choices for their own systems. Sure, this might be true for the average user, but it is toxic to the “super user” community th
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by billme 6y ago
My advice to avoid issues like this is to focus on being aware of why you’re reply is reasonable, your emotional state as it relates to the reply - and what reasoning you might present as to why you expect the receiver or others readers of
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Ask HN: Dark Patterns on HN
4 points by billme 6y ago|6 comments
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by billme 6y ago
Might be helpful to state: - what your current business model is; - business models you attempted, but abandoned; - reasoning of why the current model is broken besides an existing company having a monopoly; - what you’re break even profit
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A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors (2018)(github.com)
673 points by billme 6y ago|266 comments
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by billme 6y ago
No problem, agree with your intent, but appears you understand it more likely than not will result in problems. Thanks! PS - While it unclear in this situation, other issues with proxies & mini-URLs is that they might easily be used to
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by billme 6y ago
Agree that the official source link is the link to post, which you appear to understand - yet then claim to violate due to the reasoning you described. Once the blocks happen, all the links you posted will be broken, please stop doing this.
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by billme 6y ago
Raising VC funds outside of greater Bay Area is not only harder, but generally per equity traded, you get less in return. Generally, these cluster investors cluster around an asset-type, industry, jurisdiction, and proximity. Bay Area star
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by billme 6y ago
Curious, in the article, you mentioned - “we believe that open source will eat SaaS's lunch in many product categories” — what to you is the core filter for “SaaS vs Open Source” product market fit?
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by billme 6y ago
While I would be the first to agree the world increasingly makes it easier to go on “auto-pilot” - this largely is by choice for the average person and I would argue has been around as long as written history. Being critical of people for d
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by billme 6y ago
No, under the assumption the pizza business is laundering money, they are real pizzas. Key to business laundering money to appear real to audits, surveillance, etc. Reason to give away pizzas would be to cutdown on marketing costs, since t
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by billme 6y ago
Thanks, good point, was aware of that, but others might not be; never seen a good explanation for their legal structure, both as it relates to the present & future. I have checked both URLs for 990s, only way I found it was via a link i
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by billme 6y ago
Yes, that’s correct; meaning if you go to your profile, click “show dead” then click “comments” on the main navigation, then keep scrolling down, clicking more until you find a comment marked [DEAD] but not also [FLAGGED] — then click the u
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by billme 6y ago
Yes, that’s correct, if you have enough rep you’re able to “unghost the dead” and “see the dead” at any rep simply by creating an account, clicking “show dead” — though always assumed a user would notice or they’d just stop posting. Though
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Ask HN: HN user ghosted 5 years, why?
7 points by billme 6y ago|7 comments
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by billme 6y ago
Thanks, makes sense, though guess I would expect a non-profit to communicate this; don’t believe Signal even links to the 990 I linked to on their own website; possible they don’t want the public to (easily) know salaries, assets, etc - but
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by billme 6y ago
Right, here’s another comment on the topic by Signal staff too: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pthatcherg
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by billme 6y ago
Putting aside Signal officially declining to the add option to discover or manually add a server via the client, theirs nothing stopping anyone from going to GitHub, downloading the code for the server and client, editing the code however t
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by billme 6y ago
Curious, where’s the “last use” in the documentation or code? Ask because I have seen other issues with the PIN vs docs and haven’t gotten to testing the recovery mode. EDIT: Found the related docs, appears they had been edited since I last
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by billme 6y ago
As far as I know, while the DevOps code is not open source, the server and app code are on GitHub; that is you’re able to roll your own version however it defined by the licensing; recent attack on Signal by security researcher used a self-
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by billme 6y ago
PIN only stops registration for a fixed amount of time, believe 7-days, then the entity controlling the number would be able to reclaim the account. If the “attacker” maintained control, new devices that add the number from their contact l
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by billme 6y ago
Signal’s official statement on the EARN It Act is here: https://signal.org/blog/earn-it/
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by billme 6y ago
Anyone have a link to Signal’s 2019 IRS Form 990? Most recent I was able to find was this 2018 version: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23431076
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by billme 6y ago
How is this related to the topic of Signal’s financials?
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by billme 6y ago
Anyone wondering what this is, a “Form 990 is a United States Internal Revenue Service form that provides the public with financial information about a nonprofit organization. It is often the only source of such information.” https:/&
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Signal’s IRS Form 990 (2018) [pdf](pp-990.s3.amazonaws.com)
2 points by billme 6y ago|5 comments
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by billme 6y ago
Might be wrong, but believe the point was not that $1500 is unbelievable, but per the data you linked to - that the “median household income worldwide is $9733“; that and the OP posted $1500 is above and beyond there needs; worth highlighti
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by billme 6y ago
>> “ since group chats are using Telegram's servers the encryption is not client-to-client” That is, it is not end-to-end-encrypted (E2EE) — which is the whole point of apps like this.

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