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by ironmagma 2y ago
How? Most of the services I use, from Walgreens to banks to retirement accounts, require a phone number either for 2FA or just to verify that you’re you when signing up. After changing my phone number this year and having to go through the
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by ironmagma 2y ago
Just like a quine ;-) Slightly more contentful posts here, although I don’t know what my audience wants yet so am taking requests and suggestions. https://blog.quineglobal.com/
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What Is Quine?(blog.quineglobal.com)
1 points by ironmagma 2y ago|2 comments
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by ironmagma 2y ago
I know someone who was (in my opinion, clearly) taken in to the witness protection program. That’s the only time I’ve seen every trace of a person disappear. Yes, there are a few stray dangling references to that person in a few documents I
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What Is Quine?(blog.quineglobal.com)
1 points by ironmagma 2y ago|0 comments
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by ironmagma 2y ago
For a sufficiently advanced shareholder, the two are equivalent. Unfortunately too many shareholders are short-sighted.
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by ironmagma 2y ago
A billion is a big number. Add a billion of anything to your life and you have a big problem. Not laughable at all.
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by ironmagma 2y ago
I'm legitimately curious what environment you're in where you notice/care about the extra DNS lookup?
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by ironmagma 2y ago
Author's note: If you click "click here" and follow the prompts, docs.rs will be rendered unusable for you. Clear cookies to restore access.
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Show HN: A crate that breaks docs.rs(docs.rs)
2 points by ironmagma 2y ago|2 comments
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by ironmagma 2y ago
That quote is one that calls attention to the limits of things that seem like they would lead to "equal opportunity." Maybe it's illegal for a rich person to sleep under a bridge, but then again, why would they want or need t
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by ironmagma 2y ago
They at least contain exactly who you worked for and the time period as well as possibly your title. None of that is provided in the WARN act.
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by ironmagma 2y ago
Once again, an employment check is not like a WARN act filing. I want to know for a given startup exactly who was fired and why, when, etc. It’s one thing to be laid off from a startup in general. Another entirely to be laid off right now.
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by ironmagma 2y ago
I worked at startups for 7 years. Interestingly, WARN acts are mostly irrelevant for startups because they are only triggered when a certain number of people are about to be laid off (100 or more, I believe). When an employer accesses your
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by ironmagma 2y ago
Glassdoor itself encourages users not to post anything factual, only opinion-based, because of the legal consequences [1]. Glassdoor is more like a Google business review than a background check anyway. Also your estimation of HN users is p
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by ironmagma 2y ago
It kind of ignores the core asymmetry of capitalism, that those with the capital are the ones with the power. Nobody can do a background check on a company to see who they laid off or fired before they work there.
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by ironmagma 2y ago
That sounds like the beginning of a story that ends with an RCE.
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by ironmagma 2y ago
It's okay . Sometimes when you click the Unsubscribe link you have to enter your email (log in), and sometimes you have to fill out a form, which may or may not be serviceable. There is room for dark patterns here, and dark patterns a
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by ironmagma 2y ago
It may be shit, but it's freedom-flavored shit. The best kind.
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by ironmagma 2y ago
Well, we also can’t get to Arctic data centers without trying and I’d argue that’s far more likely to be achievable of a goal.
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Ask HN: Datacenters in Space Before Alaska?
1 points by ironmagma 2y ago|8 comments
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by ironmagma 2y ago
The market humbles all.
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by ironmagma 2y ago
A lot easier to see than how uncomfy chairs would do the same.
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by ironmagma 2y ago
> Do you really think it is accurate to say Gitea LTD is merely gatekeeping and not actually doing a ton of work to steer and maintain this project? Absolutely not, and I never made that claim. > How much was the bounty, who funded it
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by ironmagma 2y ago
I’m actually neither. I’m a big fan of forks. If something isn’t working out well, it should be very easy to create a fork and switch to the fork (i.e. forks should be lightweight just like branches). We can’t rely on everyone to follow our
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by ironmagma 2y ago
If it’s good enough to merge into the enterprise branch, it’s good enough to merge into the community branch. It may be expensive; that’s why there was a community-funded bounty placed on it. If the complaint is that Gitea is too complex to
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by ironmagma 2y ago
Didn’t xz get backdoored through extreme cunning and an exhausted solo maintainer?
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by ironmagma 2y ago
He may be, but also contributes quite heavily to the open source repo and sponsors bounties. It may not absolve him of profit motive, but at least earns the right to critique the Gitea administration.
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by ironmagma 2y ago
There’s nothing preventing it from being dual-contributed. I agree the name isn’t great. Very awkward to pronounce using English phonetics. But anecdotally, I have seen a lot less red tape contributing there and a lot less bickering than
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by ironmagma 2y ago
Brigading? Well I definitely didn’t intend that, although I also don’t see anyone from here having commented on the thread so I don’t see how that is reality. Stall may have been a better word, although this PR has been crawling along for o

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