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by cyphunk 10y ago
Do Taxi services with employeed drivers simply not exist in the US anymore? So curious why people complain about how Uber treats their drivers when they could support Taxi companies that employ drivers. They may even have app's for gen
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by cyphunk 10y ago
https://twitter.com/embassycat/status/729596974903767040
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by cyphunk 10y ago
I'm sure if you can do it with a `make custon-config` command, but here are the changes one makes to the parameters file: https://github.com/glebd/Iosevka/commit/b72d75c07543b204c22a...
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by cyphunk 10y ago
Found it [1]. tldr: First message from TelegramApp has some marketing copy ("acm winner phds") but not horrible. The TelegramApp user remains calm/careful and mostly polite in every message after that. There are only a few ca
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by cyphunk 10y ago
can you point to some examples where the resisted critical feedback? I've heard people mention this but haven't actually seen anything convincing yet
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by cyphunk 10y ago
Unions are great. It's also great the whole world isn't run by unions. Meaning, I don't understand why a less union friendly city in the US, china, UAE, anywhere, doesn't pick up his equipment and run with it. After year
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by cyphunk 10y ago
The hardest thing for me to explain to my American family, as someone living in the EU, is that a tax or burden that is evenly distributed has near 0 negative impact on collective productivity. A society where everyone is missing one leg wi
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by cyphunk 10y ago
if there are any farmers or lawyers here... I'm a hardware reverse engineer based in the EU that would looove to work on a tracktor :)
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by cyphunk 10y ago
Upward mobility in the US is a myth fed through fables. Measured by % of population that transitions from the lower 5th economic ladder to the top 5th the US ranks lower than the large majority of OECD peers [1] http://www.busine
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by cyphunk 10y ago
> The least a CEO could have said is to thank the driver for his feedback and promise to look into it. saying "thank you, I'll look into it" is politics. I think many appreciate honesty more. In this case that honesty cos
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Balaji Srinivasan at Startup School 2013 – Voice Through Exit [video](youtube.com)
3 points by cyphunk 10y ago|0 comments
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by cyphunk 10y ago
I've always found the pro-privacy argument "well let me see your email than" to be weak. But when someone responds to this "here, no problem" this indicates exactly what the problem is: Apathy. A lack of privacy ind
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by cyphunk 10y ago
These consumer products are ‘peace of mind’ devices, not part of TSA’s aviation security regime. A bump key could open the majority of locks and yet we still put such locks into new doors? These flawed locks just serve the pu
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by cyphunk 10y ago
This article and much of the conversation here-in reminds me of THX 1138. There is a disconnect between how-to-manage and how-to-be-productive discussions on HN. Definitely daily mails, and also probably weekly's with intense liability
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by cyphunk 10y ago
tldr; this article is arguing for skeuomorphism. Actually I'm not sure this isn't a satire. It made me rotflmao. But also, it's good to see that there are people out there (perhaps many, perhaps most!?) that see the world o
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by cyphunk 10y ago
Read the Greenpeace response in the update shown at the end of the article. They might be right.
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by cyphunk 10y ago
3000 miles is still a relevant clue if the target users continental location isn't already known. Additionally even in this very weak form it provides useful data for anti-fraud metrics. For example by payment processors like Paypal th
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by cyphunk 10y ago
A lot of this is very true. Though it doesn't factor highly talented looking at quality of living beyond disposable income. The one thing I would say is a shared motivation for many of these types moving to Berlin is they are looking f
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by cyphunk 10y ago
How about this one: should we have cars at all? Is the tech-topia of self driving cars going to actually cut down the parking lot landscape of US cities or increase it?
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by cyphunk 10y ago
I think, from watching this happen in Berlin, most property investors are not looking for short gains. In Berlin I think the rent-protection laws pretty much force you to be a long term investor, if you are going to invest. I'd assume
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by cyphunk 10y ago
The middle-class seems to be something tied to a different era, of industrialization and lifetime jobs. The dwindling middle-class may have more to do with our changing work behavior and desires, than it does cost of living?
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by cyphunk 10y ago
I'll second that. I lived in both the US and Israel, eventually settling in the EU precisely because the culture here is much less risk-friendly. People value security more than potential in much of middle EU.
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by cyphunk 10y ago
While GeoIP databases might be more accurate this method may in some situations provide location information of users behind proxies. lame self-reference, discussion on the topic: https://deadhacker.com/2011/03/1
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by cyphunk 11y ago
Perhaps? I'm looking for systems that attempt to address such perceived advantages. Perhaps this example is clearer: A system where user reputation tapers off over time. This would impact the early adopter advantage. This would probabl
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Ask HN: Reputation systems that balance incumbency
1 points by cyphunk 11y ago|2 comments
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Homeland Is Not a Series [video](theintercept.com)
2 points by cyphunk 11y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: What is known about recent Telegram security claims?
4 points by cyphunk 11y ago|0 comments
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by cyphunk 11y ago
Ptacek claims that "all" messages are stored in the clear. It's a rather big statement. I'm still waiting for moxie and tqbf to backup their claim somehow. That one finds in an API a string object called "message&qu
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by cyphunk 11y ago
on the other hand, just installing updates to existing packages in a linux distro such as linux will break everything. I guess we forget that despite OSX getting worse over the past 6 or 7 years nothing else has really gotten any better.
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by cyphunk 11y ago
I used to say I moved to OSX because with who wants to spend N days configuring a window manager that could be spent on something productive. Now, every *.Nth OSX update I have to spend a day or two just unconfiguring the feature creap.

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