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> Grubhub registered 23,000 internet domains, many of them resembling the names of restaurants Emphasis added. Further, in The New Food Economy article [1]: > Grubhub purchased three different domains containing versions of Shivane’
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i'm sorry but i'm really not convinced by this argument. there are many frameworks available in various languages/platforms, some created specifically to be light and fast (in the PHP example above, lumen is a possible choic
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was just about to comment along these lines! i never understood those eschewing frameworks... in the above example a PHP framework like Laravel is in constant development by lots of people, with security updates and refinements pushed out o
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From what I've read, increased abortion and infanticide rates for females due to a cultural preference for males was the primary cause of the gender imbalance, not the one-child policy. However，the one-child policy may have other negat
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For me it's more related to why i became a developer- i love coming up with elegant solutions to interesting, challenging problems. trying to figure out why some inane CSS rule isn't working in an old version of IE due to some arc
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Hong Kong has just gotten to that point. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/26/technology/hong-kong-prot... https://gizmodo.com/how-hong-kong-s-protestors-are-hindering...
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while i don't disagree with ethics courses (for everyone!), it's a bit like telling individuals to recycle more in order to solve climate change. until meaningful regulations are put in place to punish companies for ethics &
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or email to/from/cc in ios mail, where only the person's name is shown. clicking on the name displays a contact card. for people with multiple addresses, there's no way to tell which address is being used.
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I completely agree, and I myself use GH stars for those meaningful purposes. But it's completely naive to assume that entities won't continue to gamify or politicize GH stars. In fact we know that's happening, and because o
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In my more paranoid moments I wonder- Despite the appearance of ineptitude and racist undertones, is the US government's push to build a Wall actually part of a long-term strategy put in place by the true strategists in the US governme
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An increasingly large percentage of Americans live in "food deserts" where the only options are small convenience stores or somewhat larger Dollar Generals where there are no fresh foods except perhaps milk and eggs. We can blame
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I love seeing artists and designers overcome obstacles and the limits of their medium. In this case, the need for highly-visible, easily understandable signage and the use of duct-tape leads to some wonderful results. Although very differ
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A while back I tried to sign up for Airbnb, but it was impossible to verify my identity without providing social media accounts. (At the time I didn't use Facebook, LinkedIn, etc., and the photo ID upload verification failed.) Due thi
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Completely Apple's own fault, too. A rating of only 1 on iFixit's "Laptop Repairability Scores": "The top case assembly, including the keyboard, battery, speakers, and Touch Bar, is glued together—making all those
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One reason I would add is archiving. Having managed some large, archived mailing lists, one of the headaches is dealing with formatted text. Even plaintext can be a pain in this regard (differences between email chain formatting, fixed-wi
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ha! and i really love the design of this site- just the right amount of design & css styling to elegantly communicate the message..
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can you append a random querystring to the url or something? i'm on mobile where the full url isn't immediately visible in the browser, and i found the link quite confusing, as i assumed i was already on the front page.
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there's definitely a market for an easy-to-use security product like this
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One year after Trump’s Foxconn groundbreaking, almost nothing to show for it(theverge.com)
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I've been looking for a good HN-type OSS for a long time. There have been a number of clones on Github but seem unreliable or unmaintained. Surprisingly, this is the first I've heard of lobsters, and it looks great. I really wi
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on top of what others have said, continuing to put the onus on average individuals to stop climate change is not only insulting but also counter-productive. most of us who are educated about the issues are already doing what little we can t
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i'm just a little younger than you. i'm not sure if there's some way to avoid age-discrimination issues, but i've been dreaming of a remote consulting company that only staffs 40+ (or even 35+) year old consultants an
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The recent renaissance in Chinese (and Chinese-American) Science Fiction has been incredible, and as the article mentions, much of this work is a tool of "subtle dissent". I've been surprised as to how much Mainland authors
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While the film version was cancelled, apparently a TV series is in the works: A TV adaptation of Chinese sci-fi novel The Three-Body Problem is in development https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/21/18700675/c
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Nice Reply All podcast about the locksmith scam: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/o2ho87 NY Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/business/fake-online-locks..
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i'm a regular vim user and my muscle-memory still tells my finger to "press" the ESC button. without that tactile response something just feels a little off. i frequently find myself hitting it a second time while logged in
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I've just been browsing the author's website, some really good examples of D3 usage and all the code is on Github: https://wattenberger.com/ https://github.com/Wattenberger/Wattenberger-2016&#
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Yes, it was a simpler time :) There was a job position known as "webmaster" who was basically a god. User expectations were low because users didn't know what to expect . Everything was so new. Putting formerly locked-aw
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Funny you mention that, seems China is now further limiting Hollywood films within China and firing American actors: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/06/09/chinese-cinema-e...
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From the article: "The subcontractor's network was then hacked, though CBP said its own systems had not been compromised." No, actually your system was compromised by allowing the subcontractor to copy the data to another,

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