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by dwild 7y ago
Theses are pretty good ways to anonymize theses fields, but they are still just good if only that field is used. Let say that you got 20,000 inhabitants, you'll only need about 14 fields that are binary, much less fields if they are no
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by dwild 7y ago
> In the end what happens is people use text overlays in the IMAGES in order to reply to each other. That doesn't sound optimum use of image at all. > Or you can make the message memorable. And use image that make it even more me
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by dwild 7y ago
> On the other hand, the whole article reeks of privilege, both by the rich-kid author and the guy. I So what? Is that the guy had more privilege than you what's wrong? What about everyone that has less privilege than you? > But
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by dwild 7y ago
> We can write re-usable components in pretty much any language with as bit of file organisation. Sure you can, but only in that specific language, which sadly your browser won't understands. I'm working with Struts 2 at my job
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by dwild 7y ago
> The concern here is that you're just selling a camera that they were already going to buy. Are you sure of that? Why would he not buy it on Amazon instead of Best Buy? Why would he choose that Sony camera instead of that Nikon one
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by dwild 7y ago
I have a pretty hard time believing it contextual ads works just as well as targeted ads because the ONLY time an ads ever worked for me, was because it was targeted. When the netbook trends started, I was interested in buying one. I made a
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by dwild 7y ago
The thing with certificate is that they not only add security, but they also act as a signature. If Verisign deliver a certificate with the wrong domain, you'll be able to know that Verisign signed that certificate. They could certainl
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by dwild 7y ago
> Most customers will be able to tell that something is off when camera gear is that cheap. It's Amazon, I expect them not to make any mistake. Theses prices are crazy, but they advertise Prime Day as a day of crazy deals.
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by dwild 7y ago
For sure it won't works for every kind of service, but we are talking about a free trial over a prepaid service. Once you no longer pay, you no longer have the service. It's not a debt. For an actual annual membership, that's
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by dwild 7y ago
> encrypted GPS Encrypting what? Except if you want people not to be able to use the GPS signal, which sure make sense in military context (and even then, it's pretty meaningless, except if you change the key pretty regularly and yo
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by dwild 7y ago
Your service is exactly what I wanted for a pretty long time for an accessible price. Are you going to offer bigger package too? The hobby one is most probably more than enough for me for a long time but I may need more later on. The templa
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by dwild 7y ago
> I highly doubt if car2go renter provides less personal information than AirBnB renter. The article is pretty clear about theses instances happening when they deactivated their background check. They may still provide more, but if they
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by dwild 7y ago
> There's two people in my household and we both are very conscience of being wasteful > if we produce more than 2.5 garbage bags of waste in a 2-week period, we have to hold on to it for another garbage pickup It's pretty e
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by dwild 7y ago
>My mother-in-law would run the cans and bottles through the dishwasher before putting them in the rcycle bin. That seems to be the issue, not the recycling program. > Just driving the truck around the neighborhood to pick up the bins
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by dwild 7y ago
Recyclable stuff make that connected though. Paper can be recycled a bunch of time, plastic too. Sure we can't reuse 100% of what we waste, but any percent is better than none.
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by dwild 7y ago
> I'll go against the grain and defend this. People mostly complains about how they handled the situation, not about the product directly (there's many people that say that the product is superior yet will migrate because of th
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by dwild 7y ago
> with more or less liquid assets What's more liquid than cash itself? I also have an hard time it's backed with MORE value and whether that value is fictional or not. The 2008 crash has shown that it wasn't actually backe
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by dwild 7y ago
> The emotion you feel in Roulette is not because you find roulette spinning beautiful but because you think you can win money when you can't. I still don't understand Sure that emotion is simulated, you won't actually win
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by dwild 7y ago
I don't stress that much personnaly. I'm in Quebec and I use Communauto. They don't care about scratch or dent in the car. They also answer the phone quite quickly, it certainly wouldn't take 30 minutes. Their insurance
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by dwild 7y ago
The car sharing service I use here in Quebec, does have a "Cosmetic damage ok. As long as there’s no functional damage, you’re good". I would probably still spend 10 minutes on the phone to make sure it's alright, but they ar
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by dwild 7y ago
> It is not 100% certain you will lose long term. Thus can be pleasurable to me. Is betting your job or an entertainment for you? If you see it as a job, a means to make money, I feel like that's unhealthy. When I go see a movie, ev
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by dwild 7y ago
> I just gave you a first-hand account of exactly that happening, and you keep dismissing that, claiming that it does not happen. You means the popup that force you to force-close your iPhone browser app? I already answered that: > Th
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by dwild 7y ago
> You just get the malware Javascript served. Which happens on any link you click on Reddit, Hacker News or Facebook. Unless you don't click on them and only visit website that you consider trustworthy, you get the exact same risk.
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by dwild 7y ago
Sure but that price that you suggest is for everyone, not only ad-block users or people that doesn't click on ads. At the end of the day, if it cost them more than an ecpm of 0.50$ to produce that content (and I'm pretty sure it d
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by dwild 7y ago
> to regain control of your browser is to either reboot the iPad (that's what many normal people do) or you force-close Safari... That's seems more like a browser issue, but none the less, any links on Hacker News could do the
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by dwild 7y ago
> It doesn't matter. It does matter, you used the word often, that word has a meaning. > Uhh... what are you talking about? HN has minimal JS, and they wrote it. Some ad networks are injecting JavaScript into your browser that th
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by dwild 7y ago
Same for me, if your website cause excessive bloat with their ads, then I'll just avoid it (unless that content is worth the excessive bloat, like Youtube ads). As soon as I can pay for the content instead, I do it. Ads is just another
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by dwild 7y ago
> often includes malware. Can you define often? It seems quite rare actually for a malware to be distributed online without user intervention, with the recent Firefox 0-day being one of theses cases and only touched a small proportion of
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by dwild 7y ago
Seriously? You never use StackOverflow? You never enjoyed anything on Youtube? You are definitely in a tiny minority if that's actually the case.
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by dwild 7y ago
> I want to pay as I go, at the rates ads pay. 50¢ per thousand pages sounds ok to me. You often get a ecpm of 50 cents? That seems quite awful, even more so from the US. It should be closer to 10x that.

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