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by cgb223 5y ago
Hi Chris, Hamish, Jairaj, and Sachin! I'm a huge fan of your platform, and love that its empowered some of my favorite journalists and other others to write freely while continuing to be able to provide for themselves. One question I h
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by cgb223 5y ago
How do I set up uBlock to get around the sign in wall? Or is zapper a separate add on?
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Ask HN: Has anyone been hired from the “Who wants to be hired” threads?
75 points by cgb223 5y ago|25 comments
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Page seems to be down. Can’t connect to server
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by cgb223 5y ago
What I don’t get is if stable coins aren’t backed by dollars somewhere, and their market cap is billions of dollars, and those stable coins are exchanged for actual dollars, did we not just print billions of extra dollars out of thin air…?
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If MMS works like email, does something exist where you can go through all your MMS messages and view or delete them from the SMTP server they’re stored on? Or, if I delete a MMS message on my phone, does it automatically delete it in said
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by cgb223 5y ago
Come on, this is hacker news. Some of our skulls are so thick you’d need at least a $10 wrench
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> However, users receiving these warnings have stated that their passwords are unique to LastPass and not used elsewhere. So it’s not just bots trying passwords from other database leaks The whole premise of LastPass is that they can’t e
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Ask HN: What companies are taking on the current supply chain issues?
1 points by cgb223 5y ago|1 comments
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It makes me imagine creative ways to quit my job and run away to an island somewhere ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I own a Boox Note Air 2. Bought it when I was looking for a large screen eReader for the technical epubs and pdfs I’ve amassed over the years that require a big screen (big pages on the pdfs) pros and cons of this company are pretty clear P
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by cgb223 5y ago
If bots are hosted in China (or any non-US country), and purchase products to be delivered to China does this law prevent any scalping of product at all in that case? If so, how is it enforced?
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Ask HN: If you could work remote in any city in the US, where would live? Why?
6 points by cgb223 5y ago|3 comments
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How good is the N64 emulation? Been waiting for handhelds to get powerful enough to do that Can it do Ocarina of Time/Majora’s Mask/Goldeneye reasonably well?
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by cgb223 5y ago
> VIA email or API Isn’t this an example of a centralized bottleneck?
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So if I’m a single supplier and I want to act as a hostile actor in order to negotiate better terms or something, does my refusing to sign mean that _all_ supplier transactions are reversed or at least slowed on chain? Is there an actual at
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by cgb223 5y ago
SC
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Ask HN: What is the tech scene like in Charleston?
6 points by cgb223 5y ago|3 comments
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by cgb223 5y ago
Non ML/AI coder here: Why does ML/AI work need to be written in a scripting language? Why can’t it be something like C++ etc instead?
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Ask HN: What caused the Comcast outage across California last night?
10 points by cgb223 5y ago|1 comments
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Has any startup attempted to solve this problem by creating new chip making hardware? I know it takes years to even get one out the door but crazier moonshots have been funded and the ROI potential to break up a relative monopoly must be hu
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What’s something you wish you’d known before starting your startup?
4 points by cgb223 5y ago|0 comments
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I wonder how Signal did with net new users
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Ask HN: Do you believe the SF Housing Market will recover post-pandemic?
5 points by cgb223 5y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Will remote work be a forever trend? Why or why not?
4 points by cgb223 5y ago|2 comments
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Oh boy, welcome to the grind The most effective way to get a foot in the door, and the thing I wish I did when I was in college was go to all those different career fairs that your college likely hosts. Talk to the different representatives
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Ask HN: Non-Reddit place to discuss hobby related interests?
10 points by cgb223 5y ago|7 comments
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Alcatraz almost has this! Due to the pandemic they made an app where you can follow along and listen to different parts of the tour It’s not very “smart” I.e. not location aware to start the next prompt but honestly much better than those c
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Ask HN: What is it like working in tech internationally?
25 points by cgb223 5y ago|21 comments
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As long as 1Password keeps their policy of not selling usage data to 3rd parties like LastPass does, I’ll keep using this service Self hosting would be nice to keep though. Been thinking about setting up a server to hold all that stuff

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