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by nathanyz 5y ago
Defaults clearly matter as evidenced by the multi-billion dollar payments that Google makes to Apple in order to keep it the default.
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by nathanyz 5y ago
Lying in both startups and even later stage companies has been way too accepted in the recent past. Granted investors should be doing better due diligence in general, but the amount of acceptable deception going on is mind blowing when you
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by nathanyz 5y ago
Is conservative leaning info spam or not spam? What about liberal leaning info? We have seen what this leads to inside the social networks as well as YouTube, and at a macro scale I think we might want to have a shared concept of what const
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by nathanyz 5y ago
Agreed, and where I think is one of the bigger failings of blockchain. We don't actually want a system where mistakes, fraud, or theft are irreversible. Some will say that you can still prosecute the crimes even if you can't initi
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by nathanyz 5y ago
Probably more correct to say that: "A group never admits they are wrong about the core identifying belief that defines the group" Groups admit being wrong about non-core beliefs all of the time. But of course if you look at the co
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by nathanyz 5y ago
This is exactly my thoughts on crypto as well. Being unable to fix a "whoopsy" is the biggest weakness. Humans make mistakes, and computers make mistakes. When it comes to money, you need to be able to apply common sense and be ab
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by nathanyz 5y ago
That is for this instance where they were caught and it took a huge amount of resources, willpower, and luck for that to be followed through on to get to the fine. Basically in this case it was breakeven minus lawyer fees if they get caught
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by nathanyz 5y ago
Fining is because you can't put a corporation in jail. It is basically an alternative meant to speak the language of profit/loss that corporations live and die by. So in this case if you don't make it so that the bad behavior
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by nathanyz 5y ago
Exactly correct. Video is on a different level of cost/complexity than images, html, etc. Video is not one of those things you can have your build pipeline automatically optimize for you as part of deploy (well at least not if you want
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by nathanyz 5y ago
I thought it was only letting them know that you were currently unavailable, not the specific Focus type you are currently in.
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L3AF-Walmart’s Production-Grade Project to Support eBPF(linuxfoundation.org)
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Silicon Valley VC Firm Leaked Deal Flow Data(bankinfosecurity.com)
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136 Countries agree to minimum corporate tax rate(cnn.com)
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by nathanyz 5y ago
Don't they maintain shadow accounts and not actually delete the account in the background. That was my understanding from prior discussions around it. Basically they hide the account, not actually delete the account and all data associ
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by nathanyz 5y ago
Is this now perhaps the easiest way to remove your Facebook account? Future guides will be like: 1) Buy an Apple device 2) Download and sign in to Facebook app 3) Click delete account button
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Brain implant relieves patient’s severe depression(ft.com)
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by nathanyz 5y ago
I feel like this explains so much about why the gcloud command works the way it does. Sometimes feels overly complicated for minor things, but given this logic, I get it.
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by nathanyz 5y ago
A highly curated list of books like this is awesome coming from Stripe. Wouldn't mind seeing a similar type of curated release from First Round(1) who also releases great info for anyone working or founding startups. (1) https:/&
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by nathanyz 5y ago
This was in desktop only web days before streamers and bots. But yes, we had a classification system to identify them and any close'ish calls were verified by humans before being dumped into the wasteland. There were certain patterns t
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by nathanyz 5y ago
Used to deal with romance scammers a long time ago on a big dating website. We ended up with a unique solution that solved our problem quickly. Our twist on ghost banning was that they could all see and message each other. We gave them full
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by nathanyz 5y ago
Interdependencies among services can cause all sorts of unexpected issues.
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by nathanyz 5y ago
Could be related to the currently ongoing Let's Encrypt certificate expiration event(1) that is causing fun for engineers today(2). (1) https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/help-thread-for-dst-root... (2) https:&#
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by nathanyz 5y ago
Unfortunately people lying under oath is typically not punished as severely as you would imagine. And a lot of times the risk/reward of the lie weighs heavily in favor of being deceitful.
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by nathanyz 5y ago
Makes Multipath TCP actually usable in the real world. Great product that not enough people know about.
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by nathanyz 5y ago
We have actually been seeing this happen to a lot of people who are now moving over to us. https://swarmify.com We provide automatic import from Vimeo and conversion of the embeds as well with just a javascript snippet. And our
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by nathanyz 5y ago
Am I correct that the Free Trial Card would essentially allow your users to generate a new credit card so that they can repeat a service's free trial period over and over and never have any intention of actually paying? I know there ar
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by nathanyz 5y ago
These little easter eggs in the IPv6 space are super interesting. Any others you happen to know of?
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Facebook has vanity IPv6 ':face:b00c'(cdn.zappy.app)
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by nathanyz 5y ago
The app could basically be anything, but in terms of where the needle is on what data would be shared and used for monetization by the service provider is the interesting part and reason for the question. Whether it is a web app, mobile app
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by nathanyz 5y ago
What if it was just the web page or app content that the user viewed which was mined and monetized, but maybe not personal information directly from your database. Does that change your answer?

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