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by dgut 5y ago
To me it was cursor: pointer; that made me interact with the image.
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by dgut 5y ago
Because not all programmers are made equal. For some method(thing a, thing b) thing { return a * b } is not better than method a * b end If you're an "artist" type that care about the aesthetics of y
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by dgut 5y ago
Cuba is only one example. Most of Latin America and East Asia is in the 65-80%. It's first in Africa you find very low numbers, down to 0.2% in the Congo.
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by dgut 5y ago
Ugh. Many global south countries have more vaccinated as a percentage of the population than the US. The reason some countries are having a very low percentage of vaccinated is not IP but lack of organizational will. As an example, dirt-poo
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by dgut 5y ago
Hey. Thanks man! It's just pronounced like its spelled. In IPA: okeˈanɔ.
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by dgut 5y ago
That's an incredible site and airplane design. Would be awesome if the last scene in the promo video shows the plane flying & gaining altitude just above orcas speeding and jumping over the water right before it says Fly freely. Pr
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by dgut 5y ago
Thanks!
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by dgut 5y ago
Since I watched Free Willy and later seeing one at close range on the coast of Cuba (Cojimar) I've been so fascinated by orcas, I made them the logo and somewhat end goal of my startup [1]. [1] https://okeano.com
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by dgut 5y ago
Just keep it simple. This is our privacy policy at Okeano: https://okeano.com/privacy . It contains 1075 characters.
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by dgut 5y ago
There are three types: - CS person who has in-depth understanding of how computers works and mathematics. Typically writes code in a low-level language, can write a compiler, mostly will solve computer problems that indirectly solve problem
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by dgut 5y ago
It means they are designed to be rendered at approximately 24x24 pixels.
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by dgut 5y ago
This is something people here either choose to ignore or can't understand. "Cuba has free healthcare" -- at a very high human cost. When the government controls all resources and gets to make all decisions, it's easy to
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by dgut 5y ago
Anybody above 160 cm consumes too much energy so we only hire below that for a greener planet.
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by dgut 5y ago
Shameless plug: I run okeano.com, a privacy friendly search engine. We support natively blocklists [0]. [0] https://okeano.com/blocklist
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by dgut 5y ago
> Not according to the console view (F12) for images in the browser. You can also verify this with your firewall and dns lookups. Are you talking about the DDG browser? On the website, icos and other external content is proxied. > Als
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by dgut 5y ago
Icons are proxied by DDG, so no data leaking there. Bing's API requires you provide them with an IP address and results are personalized to that address. Because DDG shows the same results to everybody, I assume they have a special dea
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by dgut 5y ago
That assumes government wants less of itself...
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by dgut 5y ago
With * government.
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by dgut 5y ago
Shameless plug: https://okeano.com is a search engine that respects your privacy, doesn't require an extension and aims to spend 80% of profits to purchase river interceptors and deploy them to the most polluting rivers in
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by dgut 5y ago
Shameless plug,.. I run Okeano [1], a privacy friendly [2] search engine. We support domain blocklisting [3] natively and have !waves (similar to !bangs). [1] https://okeano.com [2] https://okeano.com/privacy [3
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by dgut 6y ago
Hi. Thank you! I try to keep the UI clean and simple. It's nice to hear somebody appreciates that. Regarding results, I wrote an answer to that question here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25717814 That 4chan re
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by dgut 6y ago
Hi, good catch. I have answered this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25724252
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by dgut 6y ago
Hi. We are not making money yet so no reports to show -- but I agree a 404 is a terrible way to explain that. Will fix, thanks.
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by dgut 6y ago
Thank you. Yes, working on it.
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by dgut 6y ago
It's only 22 kb of JS and at least 2/3 of that is Axios which I'm about to replace with Fetch.. but I understand :) In the pipeline!
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by dgut 6y ago
Hi. Thank you. We don't serve ads yet, but when we do the answer is yes. More users give the search engine more leverage when negotiating with advertisers and also the networking effect is important. That is, even if you don't cli
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by dgut 6y ago
It uses Bing as a backup and for most general search. We have our own index that focuses on specific communities, including HN. Eventually you'll see more tailored search for that index, including a "privacy rank" and page si
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by dgut 6y ago
Yes, I think this is a good idea. Might make this optional or as an alternative. Added to the pipeline.
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by dgut 6y ago
In the pipeline!
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by dgut 6y ago
We aren't running ads.. yet. Need more users before we can make a contract where we aren't required by the ad company to send user data. Paid plan has been on my mind for a while now.. and as you said, it's complicated. It&#x

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