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by disbelief 13y ago
I don't think the author is saying "treat my rights as your primary motiviation", nor is he saying "you should be more concerned about other people's rights than your own." What he is saying is that the America
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by disbelief 13y ago
When you send an email with Gmail's SMTP servers, Gmail automatically stores a copy of that message in your "sent" IMAP folder. This is what the author was talking about.
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by disbelief 13y ago
I said "want" in the context of the _sender_ not the recipient. Ie. the person who is using Close.io to send a sales email to a recipient. In this case, the _sender_ would want to know if the email was opened or not.
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by disbelief 13y ago
I'm saying that the question of (lack of) permission is a different topic from the specific SMTP technique described in the article. The SMTP technique doesn't change anything with respect to privacy compared to standard tracking
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by disbelief 13y ago
I don't get the "without their knowledge or permission" part. That could go for anyone who puts a tracking pixel into an email. It doesn't apply specifically to the "technical loophole" discussed in this articl
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by disbelief 13y ago
The emails would be personalized and tracked regardless, all that this does is improve the tracking by identifying which recipient opened the message instead of a more general "email was opened" tracking event. It's not exact
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by disbelief 13y ago
In hip hop and electronic music, "producer" is pretty much synonymous with "artist". In hip hop the MC is the one whose voice you hear, and the producer is, well, everything else: the beats and melodies in addition to th
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by disbelief 13y ago
That ratio of men to women can't be right, can it? It's a lot closer to parity in that graph than it seems to be in real life (more men than women).
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by disbelief 13y ago
I see! So maybe it decides which media-query it should be using and then makes the one necessary request?
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by disbelief 13y ago
Could someone explain to me why this is better/easier than just using CSS media queries myself? Also: > Whatever image you put inside the src of the image element will render by default. Then, the Javascript will progressively load larg
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by disbelief 13y ago
Exactly. Just because you're trying to accomplish something "no one has done yet" doesn't mean that you aren't going to be building on top of things (software, frameworks, paradigms) that have been around, at scale, for years. The older eng
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by disbelief 13y ago
Thanks for the feedback! (Minbox developer here) > 1. How about transparent GZIP-ing files. This is an interesting idea! We've been mostly focused on receiving zipped files and extracting their contents, but I could see a "auto-zip" fea
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by disbelief 13y ago
Among probably a couple dozen other sci-fi books. But Rainbows End was a good one nonetheless.
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by disbelief 14y ago
If I could add a 12th item to this list, it would be that one brother accidentally killed the other by running him over with the stolen car while trying to get away.
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by disbelief 14y ago
When I first heard about how easy it was to look up a person's income in Norway, I was blown away. I'd personally hate for that information to be public. I think perhaps in Norway, there is a bit less disparity in incomes, it's a little clo
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by disbelief 14y ago
I also got 29, but I'm 33. You click like a 33 year old! ;)
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by disbelief 14y ago
Lots of NYTimes articles on HN lately. While I think most of the topics are worthy of the front page, it really sucks when you hit their "10 articles a month" pay wall. Wish posters would look for alternative, free versions of some of these
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by disbelief 14y ago
In one slide it says he used MongoDB 2.2 on his mac.
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by disbelief 14y ago
Honestly, even with a more comfortable in-air experience and a streamlined check-in and check-out process, the fact is that air travel will always involve being crammed inside an airtight container with a few hundred other people coping wit
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by disbelief 14y ago
Sill, the embedded arm rest controls must be the most frustrating and antiquated "solution" to this problem. Put a touch pad on the armrest with a retractable cover, or something — anything but the idiotic circa 80s atari controller on the
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by disbelief 14y ago
I'm a little confused by the "10,000 years is plenty of time" argument, particularly when the crickets in Hawaii or lactase persistence examples are used as evidence. To me, these were relatively minor evolutionary steps. I'd even go as far
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by disbelief 14y ago
Well, when your life starts to fall apart at the seams and you start exhibiting any one of the behaviours mentioned in OP's article, that's a pretty good indicator you've reached "complete moron" status. However I think you're over simplify
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by disbelief 14y ago
Could be a pretty handy service. Though an intruder cutting the power would essentially render the cameras useless unless you're running your home computer off a UPS. Not sure how common that scenario would be, but don't standard alarm syst
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by disbelief 14y ago
meh. "Most Terrifying" is a bit of hyperbole I suppose. I was expecting to see actual Assassination By Drone footage or a drone "liquidation" on US soil or something. Did anyone really not see this coming? Pervasive, ubiquitous surveillance
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by disbelief 14y ago
This is the first conclusion I came to as well. Some entity in the US would have the strongest motive. Possibly number two could be IME, if there's something they're trying to hide. Claims that it was perpetrated by China and/or the Singapo
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by disbelief 14y ago
Just wondering who had more at stake here: the Chinese Gov't or the US Gov't? If he was the one guy with the skills and knowledge (at IME) capable of operating this device, and his work was a potential national security threat to the US, th
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by disbelief 14y ago
There is some hand-wavy mention towards the end of Intel going to "Hollywood" with a bunch of money. Whatever and whomever that means.
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by disbelief 14y ago
I completely agree with you. My point was more along the lines of: don't look at Tokyo as an example of building upwards in an earthquake-prone zone to combat housing shortages. Tokyo has sprawled, and built said public transportation netwo
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by disbelief 14y ago
Actually, that photo is a little misleading. Sure, there are some tall buildings in Tokyo, but for a city that size the number of skyscraper class buildings is actually quite low. Tokyo is more an endless sprawl of lowrises and single famil

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