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by ecf 4y ago
> From buying food to paying for their cell phone plan or covering health and auto insurance, half of parents with a child over 18 provide them with at least some financial support, according to a report by Savings.com. I’d imagine mobil
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by ecf 4y ago
What a bunch of absolute complainers posting here.
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by ecf 4y ago
Pretty sure 99/100 people would assume it’s Bolt and not some startup from Estonia.
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by ecf 4y ago
> (My first HN comment, via Orion Browser) Did you manually type that out or is this some “Sent from my iPhone”-esque growth-hacking strategy by the Orion team?
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by ecf 4y ago
Their six item-long “Definition of Done” checklist has one dedicated to telemetry. Take this as you will.
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by ecf 4y ago
Modern security engineering is a lot like marketing where people “work” by bouncing around between tools that provide “actionable insights”. I immediately tune out when anyone describes themselves as a security engineer.
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by ecf 4y ago
Verizon is still violating “click to subscribe, call to cancel” routinely with their 5G Home services. You can get the modem delivered to your door with a couple clicks but you have to chat with support to get the line cancelled. You can’t
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by ecf 4y ago
> Reasonable response I scrolled down pretty far and didn’t see a single top-level comment anywhere close to what you’re describing about people blindly advocating Macs. Maybe you joined early, but comments like yours bringing up a probl
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by ecf 4y ago
> What business is this of the California government? What business of this is yours?
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by ecf 4y ago
Shocking how I’m going back to my childhood Limewire days and torrenting everything now after I’ve been burned by streaming services and offline downloads. Here are my attempts… 1) Apple TV - Some weird DRM issue prevented playback of a mov
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by ecf 4y ago
> What is it about the US telecoms system that makes it so susceptible to spam? Probably some C-Suite mandated KPI that involves # of raw calls/texts per day, network wide. Eliminating spam would make the number go down, which is “e
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by ecf 5y ago
The word “pharmaceutical” doesn’t appear anywhere in the article and it’s clearly about financial predictions when you’re focusing on masks and lockdowns. So uh, get lost troll?
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by ecf 5y ago
Narrator: And that was a lie.
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by ecf 5y ago
Something feels off about DDG, especially once I found out that they funnel you into downloading their iOS app in order to sign up for their new browser’s waitlist. It’s like a dark pattern that an advertiser would use, not a privacy-focuse
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by ecf 5y ago
> This might arguably end up being the thing that brings society together talking again… Twitter shutting down would be a pretty good way of starting down that path. Instead, it’s being taken over by someone who loves (and profits greatl
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by ecf 5y ago
Now you understand why Musk followers are a cult.
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by ecf 5y ago
Every second my brain spends thinking about this man is unsolicited.
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by ecf 5y ago
I’d probably feel some form of shame if I was a highly compensated engineer at M$ and our manager was giving the “its too hard” excuse.
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by ecf 5y ago
The main thing Covid has shown, imo, is that there exists a segment of the population that will do everything in their power to sabotage good-faith efforts of beating the virus in an effort to prove they’re right.
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by ecf 5y ago
> I met up last month with a bunch of CISOs and incident responders, to discuss the havoc that was this zero-day threat. You can’t get over Log4j because you’re monetarily incentivized by it’s existence. I really detest what the “securit
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by ecf 5y ago
> How are you supposed to validate hardware? Ah, you’ve discovered the zero trust trap. Don’t worry, advocates will be happy to sell you an ultra expensive security option that breaks more often than it works.
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by ecf 5y ago
There are entire industries built around designing systems to automate the process of resume review BECAUSE people like this have lists of “What I want (and don’t want) to see”.
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by ecf 5y ago
Maybe a benefit of web3 with a centralized identity would be the ability to completely block all mentions of a person. My days are much better when I can avoid the egotistical pet projects of out-of-touch billionaires.
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by ecf 5y ago
> They love living in their world but hate themselves for it. I can’t help but think this is sarcasm.
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by ecf 5y ago
Evidenced by how many fintech startups that “lend” money to “those in need” that YC loves to accept. It all seems extraordinarily predatory.
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by ecf 5y ago
Unfortunately this is hacker news where even upvoted comments are flagged and removed if they go against the hive mind.
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by ecf 5y ago
Verge author compares the Magic Mouse, with their only complaint being the underside charging port, to a Logitech mouse + charging mousepad. I can’t figure out if this is yet another Apple-bash article by them or a shitty-advertisement for
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by ecf 5y ago
Pedantic. Every Windows OEM is doing this and M$ seems to encourage it to make their windows devices cheaper.
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by ecf 5y ago
Insulin is going to be cheaper after this. It’s not perfect, it’s not fully subsidized, it’s not single payer healthcare. But it’s SOMETHING, which is a refreshing thing after years and years of the do-nothing R-controlled senate.
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by ecf 5y ago
Absolute disgrace. I hope Waymo fails miserably after pulling this stunt.

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