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by jc_811 4y ago
I have T-mobile in the Pacific Northwest and noticed very poor service with countless dead spots over the past few years. I got a tip from a friend last month to try disabling 5G and use LTE instead. It’s cleared up 90+% of the issues I was
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by jc_811 4y ago
I'm always fascinated watching the progression of companies who are so massive that seeing them decline seems almost impossible. But then one day, it happens. The tech world of the 2030's and beyond is going to look very different
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The tech boomers are showing their age(protocol.com)
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by jc_811 4y ago
Most companies I've been a part of have used either BetterCloud or Okta Workflows (assuming you're asking about on/off-boarding employees)
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Nobody Cares About OAuth or OpenID Connect (2019)(developer.okta.com)
2 points by jc_811 4y ago|1 comments
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by jc_811 4y ago
An example would be you have the right of keeping your bank account activity shielded (private) from the government by default. But, if you are participating in human trafficking you lose that right (it's not absolute) and the governme
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by jc_811 4y ago
Privacy is a right, absolute privacy is not. The issue is finding the area on the spectrum that works in our modern interconnected world.
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by jc_811 4y ago
As a millennial, I think it’s a dirty/open secret that a large majority of our generation who are able to afford buying are getting help from their boomer parents. It worries me that this is just further driving inequality and creating
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Congress Wants Answers on a ‘Significant’ Cyberattack on Courts(bloomberg.com)
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by jc_811 4y ago
I think one issue with this line of thinking is that the USA is completely and fundamentally not a company, and shouldn't be run as such. A company's goal is to maximize profits. A country's goal is to maximize the well-bei
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by jc_811 4y ago
Centralized exchanges are completely unable to exist in the original vision of Satoshi. It's literally in the 2nd sentence of the original white paper: "...but the main benefits are lost if a trusted third party is still required
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by jc_811 4y ago
Everything Everywhere Is Securities Fraud: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-26/everyt...
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by jc_811 4y ago
Would you rather have elected officials running the backbone of the entire economy? Officials who have to campaign and constantly worry about the next election cycle? Officials who will care much more about the short-term at the expense of
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The BuzzFeed SPAC Fiasco Is Only Getting Worse(nymag.com)
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by jc_811 4y ago
They were trying to raise funds at a $1B dollar evaluation 3 weeks ago. Wow
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Musk, Tesla, SpaceX Are Sued for Alleged Dogecoin Pyramid Scheme(bloomberg.com)
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by jc_811 4y ago
Something like Kable perhaps? https://www.kable.io/
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by jc_811 4y ago
It’s hard for me to not get emotional and keep my eyes clear from anger in topics like this. But does anyone else think that Facebook is just pure evil at this point? Is there anything they won’t do? Do they have any ethics at all? I don’t
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FB’s pixel tracking is way more invasive and nefarious than most realize(getrevue.co)
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Elon Musk’s Belated Disclosure of Twitter Stake Triggers Regulators’ Probes(wsj.com)
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by jc_811 4y ago
For sure, I totally get that. I'm not saying there's no value, but I can't find out where people get specific numbers from (eg. 100k per bitcoin). Where does this 100k come from? Is it just pulled out of the air because it&
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by jc_811 4y ago
Can I ask where you get the 100k price point from? I am absolutely not trying to start a flame war, or have this dive into an emotional argument about the merits BTC, but am genuinely curious where somebody gets a price point from since f
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by jc_811 4y ago
What if you were applying via the careers page, and there was an optional upload field for a cover letter?
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Ask HN: Do you still provide cover letters?
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‘Unprecendented’ Drought Restrictions Enacted in Southern California(theinertia.com)
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by jc_811 4y ago
Oh this is a great point! I'd never realized that. I know that in Spanish (and I assume many of the romance languages) we always say the day first, eg dos de febrero (2nd of February). In American English even though the day first tech
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by jc_811 5y ago
“Any sufficiently advanced tool eventually recreates the act of programming” I think that quote in your last paragraph really hits the nail on the head. I’ve become pretty adept at a few no/low-code tools and have thought after a parti
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by jc_811 5y ago
Does anyone else feel like the recent focus on gender identity/pronouns/trans is being totally driven by the extreme 5% on both sides (left and right)? Meanwhile the remaining 90% of us are under the attitude of "equal rights
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by jc_811 5y ago
I wonder if it’s the brain’s neurons offloading some functionality to other types of cells.
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BlocPower is turning every home into the equivalent of a Tesla(fastcompany.com)
2 points by jc_811 5y ago|0 comments

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