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by bryan_w 3y ago
>more well-thought-out comments Oh really? this one couldn't be bothered for a single complete sentence: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37030073 Don't kid yourself, this place is filled with karma farmers
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by bryan_w 3y ago
> You can be a baker and make the best cakes in the world, but if your shop is located in the wrong place (like a dark alley with no foot traffic) where no one knows it exists, your business can fail Who's responsible for deciding w
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by bryan_w 3y ago
> because a much higher percent of people who click on it convert. And even better (for the consumer), a higher percentage of people who _see_ the ad are likely to actually be interested in the topic. This compared to the annoying ShaneC
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by bryan_w 3y ago
I think we should tackle this problem by collectively teaching people not to steal. Legit resale people can be contacted. People who were tasked with destroying equipment, but trying to resale should be upfront about their operations and ge
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by bryan_w 3y ago
Let me guess, you think cloudflare is the devil, right? This is happening because you are basically leaving your PoS system open and unattended while a scammer walks by with a wheelbarrow full of freshly stolen credit cards. Throw a captcha
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by bryan_w 3y ago
FB Groups :(
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by bryan_w 3y ago
The problem was that some (news) sites were/are designed by myspace profile artists. Elements jump around the screen 15 seconds after the content loaded. How many display ads do we want to show on a page? Yes.
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by bryan_w 3y ago
It seem like he would be fine with whatever restrictions they placed as long as it applied to all the companies equally. It seems like his major gripe was that it wouldn't affect tiktok
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by bryan_w 3y ago
Nurses make solid money.
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by bryan_w 3y ago
Yes, that does keep being brought up, but I'm worried people will see this as an apple vs Facebook thing when Facebook isn't really involved. Other developers have complained about the fees, the arbitrary rejections and not being
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by bryan_w 3y ago
It's always surprising how many times Facebook comes up in these conversations, even though Facebook has not said anything about creating its own store and Epic was the one that brought suit originally. It's almost like a talking
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by bryan_w 4y ago
These are the same people that influenced most of the recent opinions around Google, Amazon, Meta, etc. I'm not saying everything is peachy keen at those companies, but just keep this in mind next time you see the next "Google eat
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by bryan_w 4y ago
That sounds like a username/password with extra steps
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by bryan_w 4y ago
Nope, it was implemented after purchase. It's been (optional) in messenger too for almost as long.
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by bryan_w 4y ago
I think it's an interesting idea to explore. I think if a platform makes a good faith effort to know their users that it would be able to defer liability onto them. Ideally this would be coupled with a privacy aware proof of identity s
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by bryan_w 4y ago
This is what I'm referring to: https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/17/23560097/apple-ar-vr-glas...
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by bryan_w 4y ago
And they failed to hire enough people to bring their AR headset to market which is the other side of the coin.
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by bryan_w 4y ago
> just first-party advertising for App Store, News+ And stocks and weather. They also have a video platform they could expand into, and music oh don't forget books. Don't they also make a web browser? Hmmm.... Yeah, i guess it&
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by bryan_w 4y ago
"Cone of Safety" is already a standard for anyone who drives a vehicle bigger than a golf cart professionally
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by bryan_w 4y ago
So we ship all the homeless to Finland and that solves the issue. I'm sure we could do that for the same amount we spend on homeless programs today.
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by bryan_w 4y ago
Eh, I tried to take that view but then I started hearing those wrong pithy responses reflected back at me via my real life friends, which showed that their campaign worked. Now I don't argue to try to change the person's mind, but
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by bryan_w 4y ago
I don't know the exact workings, but usually the authentication popup should popup with at least 1 other factor to challenge(e.g. touchid or password) if it hasn't asked recently. That way it uses 1) something you are (touchID) an
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by bryan_w 4y ago
No, it's the RAID vs Backup distinction. If you have 2 disks in Raid 1, you have a system that can survive one drive dying (high availability), but you also need a backup system (offline). It sounds like their high availability system
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by bryan_w 4y ago
For once, the answer is actually The First Amendment. It prevents the government from interfering with speech and association. If there was an amendment about freedom of road/air travel, then those would no longer be "privileges&q
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by bryan_w 4y ago
The big thing would be disk failures followed by cert expiration. A handful of months, tops
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by bryan_w 4y ago
And if "the gods" decided your part of the world was to be stricken with drought, well, it was game over for you.
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by bryan_w 4y ago
This would be like apple blocking your stockbroker app because they charge $2 per trade but the broker allows you to use the cash sitting in your account.
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by bryan_w 4y ago
What's weird is that there was a freakanomics episode that basically mirrors this comment section: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/is-google-getting-worse/
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by bryan_w 4y ago
There was a story recently about how a bank was using the presence of Teamviewer as part of their fraud detection. Seems like they were on to something...
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by bryan_w 4y ago
Well, I guess we finally settled the question of, "Is scraping legal?". I expect there will be more anti-scraping techniques rolled out across various sites in the EU. I can see a lot more captchas in EU user's future.

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