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by dibt 4y ago
Since it looks for similar word usage, false positives seem to appear more often when specific topics are talked about, like stocks or crypto. Does this ignore stop words? Or do all words have the same weighting? I wonder if only focusing o
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by dibt 4y ago
Looks like that might be the case. I might have been confusing Gumroad with Braintree. I was only attempting to give an example, not advocating for one specific processor.
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by dibt 4y ago
An alternate processor while stripe figures out the mess - revenue keeps coming in. Gumroad has their own failures, but if ANY issue with payment processing is intolerable, don’t bother running a business.
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by dibt 4y ago
One reason might be that the founders and some key employees are active on hn. Also, they have services like Atlas that may help the typical HN crowd.
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by dibt 4y ago
Why? Can’t you have a dormant or lightly used gumroad account integrated into your site/app. It’s not trivial, but could be worth it. Most frameworks have these services already integrated.
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by dibt 4y ago
It was already scheduled, but also why wouldn’t they want him to appear? It’s an on going story. They’re obviously not endorsing crime or fraud. They’d interview Bernie Madoff the week he was caught too.
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by dibt 4y ago
None of this addresses the quote in parent comment. My point is the distinction is irrelevant. People deceive people all the time. There's no consolation in knowing that a scammer was human, or frustration that they were AI. Either way
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by dibt 4y ago
"AI ethics" Are these a new type of luddite? Why aren't there "computer ethicists" complaining about real issues with the use of technology in general? I'm being tracked at all times without my consent. These &
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by dibt 4y ago
Are there other products that were traditionally a one-time purchase that transitioned to subscription model successfully besides software? You can at least make the case that an online service requires an on-going cost.
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by dibt 4y ago
> I once lived in a world where I could have confidence that I wasn't being fundamentally deceived by literal dei ex machina. What difference does it make that it's a computer doing it? https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by dibt 4y ago
curl, sqlite, awk, etc. They're all free. Am I the product?
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by dibt 4y ago
Data also needs to not be shipped to a third-party (e.g. Google) to be correlated with other activity outside the app sending the telemetry. There's likely lots of data going to Google Analytics that the software/service owner nev
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by dibt 4y ago
What's HN's stance on tracking links? This post is filled with them. I thought I remember Dang saying something about it.
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by dibt 4y ago
Remember Toys-To-Life? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toys-to-life I wonder if that was Bob Iger. Or maybe he was smart enough to dump it.
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by dibt 4y ago
The stock has been under performing the S&P 500 since 2015, when Iger was CEO. There was a bit of out performance when Disney+ was released, but then resumed under performance. Chapek wasn't the only reason for this. I wouldn'
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by dibt 4y ago
It's been discussed here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14857944 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14902630 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19018037
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by dibt 4y ago
Good riddance. I still remember how they were phoning-home without being 100% transparent about it, and the injection of ads. > We failed to build a business because our product did not monetize, and it took too long to figure that out.
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by dibt 4y ago
how many people need to flag it to have it not appear in rankings? Is there a way for users to 'unflag' it?
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by dibt 4y ago
Thread number 3... will it get flagged too?
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by dibt 4y ago
Why do these threads keep getting flagged? There should be a clear explanation.
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by dibt 4y ago
Why is this flagged?
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by dibt 4y ago
> If you use an address under someone elses domain, they can. I suppose that's true. Google can ban a gmail account that is inappropriate on a Google Groups list, or a university can ban a student's account that represents the
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by dibt 4y ago
> Mastodon isn't decentralized The title for the official site ( https://joinmastodon.org/ ) states: "Mastodon - Decentralized social media" Also, I was using the root commenter's terminology, not my ow
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by dibt 4y ago
It seems like a mailing list is still the more decentralized form of decentralized social media. Nobody can stop you from using the same email address (ie identity) on a different mailing list. I remember there being an attempt to make impl
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by dibt 4y ago
>redirect after reaching out to the mods That's the thing I find noteworthy about the incident. I guess it's a disagreement with the definition of "decentralized." I suppose the mods were kind enough to allow it after
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by dibt 4y ago
from a reply: "As for server rules they changed in the 5 years I joined the server. I first joined it in 2017." The surprising thing is that one instance can ban you, which prevents the account from being moved to another instance
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by dibt 4y ago
>If you apply the "Mastodon instance is a Subreddit" model, this makes more sense. Shouldn't this mean a ban on one instance allows you to still access other instances? That was not the case here. Even moving the account w
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Mastodon account suspended for being “capitalist”(twitter.com)
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by dibt 4y ago
I heard she went to hong kong shortly after the collapse started. She then went to Dubai to avoid extradition. I don’t have a source. I heard it in an interview with someone following the case.
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by dibt 4y ago
Cloudflare can do this. Even for domains you don't buy there. You can use a free account. Their Security Center scans warn you of this and other configuration issues you may not consider. Edit: Sorry, you did say "one click way.&q

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