patrickaljord

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by patrickaljord 6y ago
The problem with WhatsApp and Signal is that even though it's e2e, it uses your phone number as id which is the least privacy friendly id they could have picked.
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by patrickaljord 6y ago
> overall during the pandemic richer people got richer No, I can tell you lots of rich people lost a lot during the pandemic. Especially in the affected industries (events, airlines etc). Unless by rich you mean Jeff and Elon, this state
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by patrickaljord 6y ago
The dollar is backed by the petro-dollar, the fact that Saudi Arabia and friends only accept dollars when selling oil is one of the reason the dollar is strong. When you factor in that the US military protects the petro-dollar while at the
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by patrickaljord 6y ago
I've created a room here if anyone is up for it https://jam.systems/hn-9p1r
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by patrickaljord 6y ago
> I can certainly understand the frustration at having to deal with a community that gets annoyed at anything that changes simply because they're already so used to the garbage pile they have that they now hold the delusion that it&
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by patrickaljord 6y ago
Ever since Aaron Swartz, I wouldn't bet on scraping and then publically dumping data to be risk free legally, even if said data was public/badly protected to begin with.
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by patrickaljord 6y ago
More like testing for an infinite number of resolutions is expensive so developers only test on the main ones and the ones used by hackers on Pop_OS Linux that rotate their screen 90 degrees are out of luck and default to one of the tested
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by patrickaljord 6y ago
Don't count on PWAs. Once these free speech platforms start embracing PWAs and they become super popular, Chrome and Safari will simply censor them directly. When you will try to visit these PWAs, you will get a message that says &quot
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by patrickaljord 6y ago
CP trading chat rooms should be shut down by arresting people creating and selling content in there, not by giving someone the right to shut down any chat room they want by the click of a button. Because if you can shut down CP trading chat
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by patrickaljord 6y ago
There is no way in hell Twitter is going to give up on ads any time soon. Maintaining a service like Twitter costs hundreds of millions of dollars in infra and workers and it's highly unlikely that Revue could cover those costs. Even i
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by patrickaljord 6y ago
> "When the service launched, imagine our surprise when the Amazon CTO tweeted that the service was released in collaboration with us. It was not. And over the years, we have heard repeatedly that this confusion persists. NOT OK.&qu
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by patrickaljord 6y ago
Exactly, what Amazon did isn't just legal, it is explicitly specified as OK by the license that the elastic search team selected for their code.
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by patrickaljord 6y ago
Their license literally says they have the right to use this code as they're doing, shouldn't be mad at them for that. Imagine putting a sign on your lawn that says people can walk on your lawn and are even allowed to poop on it i
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by patrickaljord 6y ago
WhatsApp could have been coded in any language. The first version was a very simple app but it promised free SMS alternative with some great marketing campaign. Still amazing how they managed to grow the user base using this marketing when
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by patrickaljord 6y ago
> User -> RandomWifi -> VPN/SSH -> Slave -> SecondSlave/WifiHop -> VPN/SSH 2.0 -> Tor -> Market One thing I would add to the RandomWifi at starbucks is to make sure not to bring your phone as they coul
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by patrickaljord 6y ago
> You can go live on an island in Greece, or Eastern Europe, or Columbia I think you meant Colombia :)
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by patrickaljord 6y ago
"Recoil: State Management for Today's React - Dave McCabe aka @mcc_abe at @ReactEurope" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ISAA_Jt9kI Disclaimer: I co-organize the conference
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by patrickaljord 6y ago
Isn't that the case of any country around the world? Doesn't mean the whole world should join the EU.
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by patrickaljord 6y ago
Brave is open source.
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by patrickaljord 6y ago
That's like saying using linux is being dependent on redhat and intel. Big contributors to Chromium include Microsoft, Samsung and many other giant companies. If Google abandons Chromium, it will still be maintained by other companies
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by patrickaljord 6y ago
> and you can't arrange for a coworker or friend to pull the plug for you if something goes wrong? This is HN, many of us are solo founders with no coworkers or employees. Also how could a "friend" pull the plug? If it was
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by patrickaljord 6y ago
If you rely on docker you won't be able to use it until at least February unless they use a pre-release of go which they haven't say they would do. VM are a no-go too. My guess is that it should be runnable by March/May but s
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The Unintended(?) Consequences of the Stable Act(coincenter.org)
1 points by patrickaljord 6y ago|0 comments
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by patrickaljord 6y ago
Not a big fan of this account. It's gone political and completely anti-progress. They systematically denigrate any kind of IoT. I'm not anti-IoT per se, I think most IoT is bad but on the other hand I recognize that it can be pret
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by patrickaljord 6y ago
> Ideally it should let me set up port forwarding on my router to talk to the vacuum from the outside too. Imagine having to fiddle with iptables to use your vacuum. I think I'll just get up and press that button manually...
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YouTube will now show ads on all videos even if creators don’t want them(forbes.com)
974 points by patrickaljord 6y ago|758 comments
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by patrickaljord 6y ago
I don't know if it's jealousy but it really feels like a disdain for plebs. Cryptocurrencies gives access to stock-like exchanges and financial tools to plebs and that's something that should be reserved to coastal elites. Yo
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by patrickaljord 6y ago
> You say this like Clinton did badly: he got 2.9M more votes than Trump! That's because a few blue states have huge population such as California.
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by patrickaljord 6y ago
Repo is here https://github.com/cmu-snap/pigasus
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by patrickaljord 6y ago
That's because many of us consider freedom of speech to be more important than anti-racism for the simple reason that without freedom of speech, you lose everything, including anti-racism and all the rest.

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