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by billme 6y ago
Let me be more clear, using an example. Appears Brave only attempts to contact the Whois email after the funds in escrow exceed $100 USD. Let’s say the have million in escrow, they invest it, don’t lose any of the funds, and 5 years later e
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by billme 6y ago
Wow!!! - Brave is holding payments in escrow for parties that did not even sign up for the service, that’s not shady at all. Even makes me wonder what’s happening to all the funds in escrow.
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by billme 6y ago
Never looked at Brave’s business model - and agree, it’s possibly more toxic than ADs. That being Brave wants you to buy their currency to pay creators then the creators pay them to get paid. On top of that, they created their own AD netw
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by billme 6y ago
Curious, which two YC companies went public?
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by billme 6y ago
No, understanding “open source” is not just for programmers, and yet another example of elitism.
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by billme 6y ago
Both Wikipedia & Oxford appear for some reason to adopted what is at best a subjective understanding of the term “open source” — since no one in plain English would ever think some person, place, or thing being “open” would mean free to
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by billme 6y ago
Anyone know what is causing the humps in the graphs of “confirmed cases” ? Looked at this before, at first I thought it was weekends being under reported, then people going out on weekends, etc. — but now starting to think it might be the R
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by billme 6y ago
Infographic in the link article is worth a click: https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/369/bmj.m1932/F1.large.jpg It is timeline graphic of the growth of the virus per country and actions taken by each countr
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by billme 6y ago
Appears local law enforcement already knows about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23222004
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by billme 6y ago
Appears likely that someone that has access to the hotel’s customer CC data might be behind this and the local police are aware of it too... “Not only is this hotel horrible, our guests had their credit card stolen and $500 worth of purchas
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by billme 6y ago
Couchsurfing die at some point long ago. I forget exactly what happened, but globally all their volunteers per city left.
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by billme 6y ago
No, there is not just one top-level comment. Minimize that comment, then click “more” to see additional top-level comments. As for the comment you commented on, that comment would be better placed as a child comment, but it’s about intersta
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by billme 6y ago
Microsoft’s marketing department should leverage the opportunity to host graduations for free.
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by billme 6y ago
Unless there’s significant clearly defined differences - in my opinion (2018) should be added to the title. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17877616
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by billme 6y ago
For the rest of her life?
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by billme 6y ago
Hacker mindset to me is the predictable ability to swap between divergent and convergent thinking at will to discover optimal paths to desired outcomes regardless of means, context, biases, etc. — frequently just for the fun of it, to learn
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by billme 6y ago
Anyone know of any reasons DOJ might be going after Google for reasons unrelated to antitrust issues? Globally, how does breaking up Google benefit the US?
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by billme 6y ago
Here’s a recent example: https://www.csis.org/analysis/wtos-first-ruling-national-sec...
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by billme 6y ago
Depends on how you define extinct; for example: how many bovine are there in the wild? Are domestic bovine genetically equivalent to prior wild bovine populations? Etc.
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by billme 6y ago
All national security has a cost, access to TSMC is obviously national security issue, and appears US is positioning itself to reduce the cost of access to TSMC and increase it for China. National security is an ends, not a means; its ultim
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by billme 6y ago
Pure speculation... All of this is about national security. US & Taiwan’s TSMC are in talks to open a TSMC factory in the US. Chairman of TSMC has publicly stated if the US gives them enough money, they’ll do it. Appears US (Trump) is
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Ask HN: Flag Reasonings
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by billme 6y ago
Simple Google explains why: - non printable character - no single keyboard key - intended for systems, not people - etc
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by billme 6y ago
What exactly is the problem?
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by billme 6y ago
“(G) if the target of the electronic surveillance is an elected Federal official or a candidate in a Federal election, that the Attorney General has approved in writing of the investigation;“ Exactly.
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by billme 6y ago
“(G) if the target of the electronic surveillance is an elected Federal official or a candidate in a Federal election, that the Attorney General has approved in writing of the investigation;“
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by billme 6y ago
What is your relationship with Hyperdrive & the Beaker Browser?
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by billme 6y ago
Using regex on email is a horrible idea unless there are very well defined blocks - such as only allowing a given top level domain.
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by billme 6y ago
This assumes the “+” is not a trick to see if they are stripping the “+” from the username of the email address; which then is automatically flagged as SPAM. Of course this assumes you’re creating a new email per contact, not just using a f
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by billme 6y ago
Comment you replied to clearly says: “Fannie & Freddie are fine with tacking all deferred payments to the end of the loans instead of requiring a lump sump payment.” Meaning the payments missed would not be due when payments restart, bu

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