damnencryption

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by damnencryption 6y ago
Same way google and big tech companies fund pro-privacy groups. The intent is not to have stronger privacy laws that doesn't benefit them.
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by damnencryption 6y ago
No, GDPR explicitly carve out exception if for reasonable purposes. DDOS and abuse protection would fall under that. Marketing however won't.
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by damnencryption 6y ago
No. Residential areas are different from commercial areas in good parts of the world for a reason. This is not a bad example. Many people took loans to buy airbnb to aggressively rent them. Criminal activity go through roof with tourists in
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by damnencryption 6y ago
PG was cheering lambda school's free 4 weeks developer intern trial a while ago. If he doesn't think that is exploitative, maybe huge difference in morality. Airbnb spamming forums early on, sketchy marketing techniques, avoiding
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by damnencryption 6y ago
Maybe they want some employees to implement scary backdoors or portals and it's easier to control an immigrant dependent on Facebook or with different sense of morality.
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by damnencryption 6y ago
Yes. I have the same iPhone too. I just don't get why so many people here are fixated on chipset differences when average people care more about having better quality mic, speakers, etc. Even camera is good enough on most devices these
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by damnencryption 6y ago
No, notifications have changed a lot in the recent years. And you can get unified clipboard by installing app for your OS (windows or linux) through playstore. You should try a new pixel device to see the improvement. Some apps are better o
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by damnencryption 6y ago
I don't know that's true anymore. Overall experience feels better on android. Few things that make difference for me. 1. Notifications are leagues ahead of anything on iOS. 2. Little accessibility features like sound search, autom
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by damnencryption 6y ago
I think the definition of democracy exclude many countries today. One of the major point of democracy which I was taught in my social class was that we need enough choices in our parties and candidates. India doesn't have that. There a
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by damnencryption 6y ago
How many big startups/companies in India are making enough profit to self sustain themselves currently? Jio, swiggy, Zomato, Tata motors, Amazon, flipkart, ola, big basket, oyo, Paytm, and the list goes on. Maybe we should shut them al
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by damnencryption 6y ago
Can you explain more?
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by damnencryption 6y ago
India is trying to be china or to some extent US but without having the development of either of those countries.
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by damnencryption 6y ago
Ali express? C'mon. If I could find my electronics elsewhere and for a reasonable price, I would choose that but I can't. Government butchered the manufacturing industry, imposed ridiculous taxes (even increased them during the pa
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WhiteHat Jr files Rs 14 crore defamation suit against investor Aniruddha Malpani(moneycontrol.com)
2 points by damnencryption 6y ago|0 comments
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by damnencryption 6y ago
I have to agree with the assertion. The political will to change anything decreases with the number of people in the area. It's hard to break compatibility between versions when you have a language used by almost everyone (javascript)
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by damnencryption 6y ago
It is if they are used abusively and sarcastically regularly.
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by damnencryption 6y ago
What's the point of separating it? Why not just increase the price of the food and service charges to compensate for the salaries? It feels like some kind of psychological hack where they want price of food to appear cheap on paper til
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by damnencryption 6y ago
See the CEO talking on slack about creating an app: https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/jyt7et/whitehatjr_fi...
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by damnencryption 6y ago
Here are the investors in the parent company, byjus: https://byjus.com/our-investors/ Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, Tencent, Sequoia Capital India, Sofina, Verlinvest, Owl Ventures, Naspers Ventures and others.
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by damnencryption 6y ago
Average person in developed countries spend more than few hours consuming media every day even more so in the US. Why do we think this is sustainable? I have always wondered the second order effect of binging so much media and it kind of sh
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by damnencryption 6y ago
What changed in the recent years is the amount of media time nutjobs on the internet get that everyone ignored back then. Nothing else. If you checked qanon groups before and after media attention, you will notice a steep increase in member
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by damnencryption 6y ago
> Humans tend to trust the first thing they hear and we tend to be less skeptical about news media especially if they seem very confident or persuasive. This has been widely studied and seems to be surprisingly effective. When there is l
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by damnencryption 6y ago
I agree with the sentiment solely because most sides of the political spectrum are doing the same. Donald trump rose to the fame with calling everything fake news. Somehow everyone now believes there is fake news so they don't trust ou
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by damnencryption 6y ago
The only problem with that is how googles tries to have one single privacy policy for all their products and use it in their points for services which have separate policies. :/ It's messy and often misleading for an average consu
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Ask HN: What caused the anti-GMO sentiment?
3 points by damnencryption 6y ago|6 comments
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by damnencryption 6y ago
> So, I'm somehow developing a pro-Apple bias these days Everytime this happens to me, I remind myself to visit their accessories store on the Apple website. As an example, the new magsafe seems like a clear way to extract more mone
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by damnencryption 6y ago
Interesting. Time to buy $AAPL
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by damnencryption 6y ago
I spent a year of my starting teenage years tinkering with my android phone. Custom ROM and stuff. Then I got a better PC and spent time trying to make website to earn money because everyone was doing it. I failed. AdSense didn't pay m
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by damnencryption 6y ago
I think you can blame compilation time for that. If you only use tailwind utility classes, there is no need for recompilation on every change but with @apply directive and external CSS file, the thing gets compiled every time you make a cha
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by damnencryption 6y ago
Yes. You can use tailwind with sass as well though it's not recommended. Think of tailwind as a framework for all your styling needs while sass is more a functional language to generate CSS for you.

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