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by dwild 4y ago
One of his goal was to get rid of spams bots and fake accounts. If you go that far to buy something because you think you can make it better by fixing an issue, you don't do it because that issue only represents 5% of it... I remember
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by dwild 4y ago
> What's far more likely is that visible downvotes are a signal for people to not watch a video, and Youtube wants people to watch more videos, so they watch more ads. I think you are also overestimating how much people look at down
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by dwild 4y ago
No I meant Oracle vs Google. It's a copyright lawsuit, DMCA protect the middle man (Github here as they are the ones distributing the potentially copyrighted content) against being involved in copyright lawsuits.
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by dwild 4y ago
How can you afford to make it free?
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by dwild 4y ago
The thing is, YNAB increased pricing recently and that didn't went well, it caused a pretty negative outlash... Actual was actually a pretty good alternative that was pushed by many people on Reddit, they got quite a bit of free advert
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by dwild 4y ago
> Syncing was broken for a really really long time. We finally reported it, and it was working the next time we checked. Well they use Plaid, they aren't really responsible for syncing. Most competitor will also use Plaid and have t
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by dwild 4y ago
Based on the post, he was on his 4th year, and his current number of monthly paid subscriber was 810 for 4$ a month (thus less than 40k$ a year)... I got a feeling that he just didn't see an opening toward making this viable against YN
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by dwild 4y ago
I remember a guy in a community that I frequent that build a small trailer that had fixed solar panels, he had build one for a reason I don't remember and afterward some companies were interested and that post was showing his second on
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by dwild 4y ago
> the company can deliberately choose to stand up to superficially-valid DMCA takedowns that it thinks are frivolous, without necessarily posing an existential risk to the entire company. We all seen the Oracle vs Google lawsuit... sure
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by dwild 4y ago
No monopoly gets to 100% by simply existing, people chose to go toward that company... until it was so big that no one could compete with them any longer.
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by dwild 4y ago
> The problem is when using Docker, you can't tell what the dependencies are for your app. That's all in the Dockerfile though... it's a simple and standard way to show how to install something. It's just like a makef
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by dwild 4y ago
I don't know that much about SVG, but if it's vectorial, why even have decimal points? I guess 1 represents 1 pixel, but why? 100 could means 1 pixel too... and if that's enough precision to you, you'll even save a few h
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by dwild 4y ago
His point is that because of SRV record, using the default port is not needed, thus it's make it more likely that a server wouldn't mind being on another port.
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by dwild 4y ago
How do you charge back usually? You contact your credit card provider right? You don't just avoid paying your credit card... you contact the ones that credited you the money. In this case this is Affirm the creditor (I know you got 2 c
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by dwild 5y ago
> even offered to transfer me to his supervisor, which is not something a scammer would usually be able to do, but I had not yet actually challenged any of it. This tactic is actually used by so many scammer, it's weird that a scam
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by dwild 5y ago
> Yes, I really hate this argument that cosmetics are not gameplay. I don't disagree that they do add something, but theses ones are not something that I want, nor that I need. > if games shipped without textures and shaders and
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by dwild 5y ago
> Remember how revolutionary pwn2own was? "Wow, find a vulnerability and win $1000!". These days vulnerabilities of that magnitude are worth way more money, because of how secure the browser environment has become. Theses amoun
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by dwild 5y ago
I agree with you completely. I just want to add for people that do care about domain privacy that there's many certificate provider that do publish the generated certificate over https://crt.sh/ . I did find a few stag
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by dwild 5y ago
> I don't get pleasure out of hurting my father or showing him up - I like my father. Sure but there's way to say something that may hurt someone... even if you don't intend to. I think it's something that happens mor
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by dwild 5y ago
Can you point to your source? From a quick glance on their documentation, it seems like you got it backward. > A robots.txt file tells search engine crawlers which URLs the crawler can access on your site. This is used mainly to avoid ov
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by dwild 5y ago
> This sounds really americentric His whole comment was about how he want to let traffic route through Russia even though he doesn't like it... but it's really Americentric? Could you explain that point please?
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by dwild 5y ago
There's a choice missing. I prefer working from the office but I also prefer saving the 350 hours of daily travel a year (god damn it, just realized that it's literally 10 weeks of works for me...).
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by dwild 5y ago
> There are people still on HackerNews right now, who were back then talking about overreactions, and it just being a flu, What? It just being a flu is an argument that I only seen from anti-vax... never been a thing here but would be ha
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by dwild 5y ago
> I know where to find it. Then it will be from known source right? And not from new source like this system is blocking you from, right? This is against NEW content, from people that are not known. Once more people see them, once you ke
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by dwild 5y ago
I believe your misunderstood OP point... > Also I had a new group of friends who didn't drink You had an alternative... you had something better. Stopping alcohol won't give you an alternative to alcohol, it will merely allow f
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by dwild 5y ago
There's definitely some that are. I pet sitted the cat of a friend which had a feeder and the cat always tried to do the same technic of putting his paw into it and it never worked. The crazy thing is that it was clearly a cheap produc
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by dwild 5y ago
> So if they come tomorrow and say now in order to keep using your @gmail.com account you now have to pay $100 a month, that would be ok for you? Where did I say any of this was ok? I'm saying you simply can't trust them. You c
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by dwild 5y ago
The maintenance cost per user is much higher. I also feel like this is not that much a matter of cash but mostly a matter of having to consider Legacy accounts each time they want to do anything over Google Workspace. It's just more tr
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by dwild 5y ago
Let me correct you, this is why any FREE product can't be trusted. I can't understands how people can expect free stuff to be forever... even more so here in Hacker News.
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by dwild 5y ago
He would have made a similar comment but instead would complains of late fees.

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