danielhua

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by danielhua 6y ago
Ctrl+f'd "terms"...unpleasantly surprised that no one else in the thread seems to have got this result :)
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by danielhua 6y ago
There's a hilarious map projection on the lobby TV in the 8th image. Massive unified red Korean peninsula (practically the size of Australia on the map), tiny sliver for the Japanese islands, and places Korea at the absolute center w
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by danielhua 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24470530 Looks like it was a real Facebook login webview.
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by danielhua 6y ago
I was surprised too since OP's writeup indicates that he has 2FA on everything. You would think that you'd at least get an email or push notification if you get removed from an ad account/notification settings get changed, so
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by danielhua 6y ago
As someone who's fairly involved with the e-commerce/digital marketing space, let me just say I'm amazed by how brazenly nasty this scam is. The TikTok promotional program is actually a real thing that does give around that
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by danielhua 6y ago
It's actually even nastier than that. If you fail their automated checks for fake accounts, they'll lock your account and require you to submit a photo of your face and ID card.
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by danielhua 6y ago
He had a Facebook ads account with PayPal linked, and the hacker used his login info to run their own (apparently Vietnamese aluminum product) ad campaign and spend using his account.
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by danielhua 6y ago
Fascinating! I'll update my nomenclature, that's some quality digging.
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by danielhua 6y ago
Ha. I'm stealing that joke, that's quality. I wonder if anybody's managed financial success on Medium/Substack yet with a "hustler inspiration" focused GPT masquerading as a guru. I'd love to read that pos
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by danielhua 6y ago
I sincerely thought the author was joking at first. My lived experience is similar - some folks just genuinely act crappy just because they can, not because of "is actually caused by the systematic inequalities and injustice those armi
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by danielhua 6y ago
You have a good point about making the desktop experience more painless and idiot-proof. The real problem for me though is that snaps are slow as hell. I mean like taking 4-5+ seconds to open on a box with an SSD, i7, and 64GB of RAM. Tha
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by danielhua 6y ago
"Let’s admit it, we are all in the persuasion business. Technologists build products meant to persuade people to do what we want them to do. We call these people 'users' and even if we don’t say it aloud, we secretly wish eve