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Ask HN: Is Vivoo the Next Theranos?
9 points by cbeach 4y ago|8 comments
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by cbeach 4y ago
I created a caption competition website seventeen years ago: https://www.caption.me/ Pulls funny photos from a Flickr group. People write funny captions and vote for their favourite. Some of today's active users have b
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by cbeach 7y ago
Removing / banning encryption will hurt us all, including (I hope) the ignorant and authoritarian politicians responsible for eroding our privacy. I eagerly await the publication of these politicians’ private communications.
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by cbeach 7y ago
Was it a double blind study?
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by cbeach 8y ago
Perhaps you could stop the implications that I'm being irresponsible with data, or that I plan to be. The GDPR is a flawed, ambiguous law that will not turn all website creators into responsible actors overnight. Instead, the GDPR will
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by cbeach 8y ago
> The often quoted "4% of revenue" fines are the last step after warnings and smaller fines. Are you making a legally binding guarantee there?
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by cbeach 8y ago
> You want to launch something online and collect user data? Be responsible with it. You imply I should "be responsible" in return for the value I'm getting from the user data? If so, you're wrong about the value part
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by cbeach 8y ago
Note that a reference to the closure of StreetLend is included on this page about the shutdown of CoinTouch. No shenanigans intended. Thanks for linking to the prior discussion.
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CoinTouch.com shuts down, citing EU GDPR regulations(cointouch.com)
10 points by cbeach 8y ago|41 comments
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by cbeach 9y ago
> Except this isn’t really true. Streetlend made its money by selling your privacy data to advertisers through Amazon. So when you put up a power drill for lend, people would see power drills for sale at local shops, based on their onlin
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StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations(streetlend.com)
724 points by cbeach 9y ago|1123 comments
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by cbeach 9y ago
I’m really sad at the deterioration of the HN community into a place where reasonable and inoffensive comments are flagged and downvoted simply because people disagree on a political level. I’ve found myself spending less time on HN. Other
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Show HN: Measure Civility of a Discourse Forum Using the Google Perspective API(github.com)
5 points by cbeach 9y ago|0 comments
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by cbeach 9y ago
Why would the developers of Uber pay employer’s NI for people using their smartphone app? Uber drivers are self-employed and pay tax accordingly.
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by cbeach 9y ago
It’s not a race to the bottom. People who provide services using apps like Uber, AirBnB etc could have chose other ways to sell their services. They choose those apps because they offered the best balance of compensation and flexibility. If
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by cbeach 9y ago
Drivers choose Uber when other options are available. So why would you judge that, and imagine that your view of “societal consequences” should trump their right to freely choose the best employment option for them and their personal situat
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by cbeach 9y ago
As a contractor I don’t feel I opted out of a “social contract.” Instead, I opting in to a tailored package of benefits that I choose myself. I fund (at very reasonable cost) my insurances directly. The phrase “social contract” sounds like
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Minimal Scala multi-module project using Bazel (Google's next-gen build tool)(github.com)
2 points by cbeach 9y ago|0 comments
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by cbeach 9y ago
http://www.caption.me I built it 12 years ago and have fostered a small but hugely loyal community of caption writers ever since. Automatically loads three funny photos every day from a Flickr group, and is an ongoing caption c
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by cbeach 9y ago
Good points. I have removed the scare quotes (not intended as such)
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by cbeach 9y ago
It's a pity isn't it? I hoped the HN community would still see the value in "diversity of opinion" - even if said notion was uttered by a "haram" individual. The leftist, tribal mindset is clearly a powerful an
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by cbeach 9y ago
"Viewpoint diversity is arguably the most important type of diversity and political orientation is one of the most fundamental and significant ways in which people view things differently." As an experiment, I'd like to see i
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Fisker's Tesla competitor has 400 mile range and charges in just 9 minutes(bgr.com)
1 points by cbeach 9y ago|1 comments
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by cbeach 10y ago
https://twitter.com/ev I'm not sure this is the right man to lead the "curation" of opinions. Or at least, if he does, he needs to be upfront about his own political leanings. Social justice warfare and anti-
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IntelliJ team contemplating one-click Scala+IntelliJ bundle. Vote if you agree(youtrack.jetbrains.com)
3 points by cbeach 10y ago|0 comments
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by cbeach 10y ago
>> Source Well documented all over YouTube. Here's one summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_TwEaF5Jh0
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by cbeach 10y ago
If the UK had been able to read the rants of Omar Bakri Muhammad beforehand, we could have avoided him immigrating from Syria. Once here, he fostered the notorious Hizb Ut-Tahrir and Al-Muhajiroun movements. Both these movements have made
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Show HN: Mind maps to aid learning Scala and JVM / coding concepts(github.com)
6 points by cbeach 10y ago|0 comments
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by cbeach 10y ago
"Germany provides a brilliant example of how this could be done: its federal agency for civic education publishes authoritative but accessible guides to the key political issues" A single, govt led agency for "educating"
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by cbeach 10y ago
I didn't claim she was elected by populous. I said she was "selected," and I'm well aware of how my country's Parliament works thanks.

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