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by saltedonion 5y ago
How is this even possible. Shouldn’t these devices be behind a NAT? How did the hacker even reach these devices.
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by saltedonion 5y ago
Doesn’t mean the free market doesn’t work. Asking people to pay before putting out the fire could be seen as a pay per use model. While a government run service funded by tax dollars could be seen as a subscription service that price discri
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by saltedonion 5y ago
SV has some of the best (by strict definition of a capitalist) and most ruthless capitalist the world has ever seen. It’s amazing and baffling that the general public still views sv as progressive.
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by saltedonion 5y ago
Indeed quite curious of the definition of an app.
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by saltedonion 5y ago
What’s the context here
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by saltedonion 5y ago
I’m confused. So YC kicked out the guy who complained about it on Twitter and not the people who advocated for lying to skip lines? Wtf?
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by saltedonion 5y ago
Can someone tldr what PayPal has been doing for the past half decade. While startups has been eating their lunch.
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by saltedonion 5y ago
Man. Time based bugs are some of the worst. I spent weeks trying to figure out what was wrong with some of my scripts running under WSL. Apparently wsl Linux kernel had a bug that could cause time to drift by minutes.
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by saltedonion 5y ago
It’s a recruitment video
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by saltedonion 5y ago
This makes me rethink the nature of a marriage.
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by saltedonion 5y ago
It doesn’t matter what the consumer prefers. This battle is about the _ability_ to implement a feature, and that power should reside with the application developer. Monopolists can often have batter products as well as charging monopolistic
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by saltedonion 5y ago
I feel like Facebook has realized that if they win in a major market and becomes a monopoly, reputation no longer matters as they are dominant anyway. This is perhaps the logic behind nonintervention.
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by saltedonion 6y ago
Can’t this also be said about windows. How do they solve this problem ?
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by saltedonion 6y ago
This is true but the solution should be anti trust action against amazon as well, as opposed to let fb be monopolistic and “give small business a chance”
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by saltedonion 6y ago
Nearly all break through inventions seem obvious in hindsight. I guess putting the pieces together and connecting the dots looking forward is what’s incredibly hard. The search space can still be immense.
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by saltedonion 6y ago
Maybe that’s the entire point
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by saltedonion 6y ago
Can someone ELI5 on the significance.
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by saltedonion 6y ago
Let’s face it. It has never been about fairness. Only profit maximization.
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by saltedonion 6y ago
Thanks for sharing. I will not be using them in the future.
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Ask HN: Can someone help with AppAnnie reports?
1 points by saltedonion 6y ago|0 comments
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by saltedonion 6y ago
Is there an audio version of this article? Seems like it was an interview?
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by saltedonion 6y ago
Thanks!!
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Ask HN: Are there any interesting social media focused blogs
2 points by saltedonion 6y ago|2 comments
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by saltedonion 6y ago
It really is a one of a kind story. The filmmaker is incredibly ambitious, much like a lot of the startup founders we see here in the Valley. He constantly held himself to such a high standard he eventually burnt out. But it’s this tenacity
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by saltedonion 6y ago
Wow that’s dirty
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by saltedonion 6y ago
How does the fraudster make money on reddit ads frauds? Reddit operates the site, so don’t any money go to them?
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by saltedonion 6y ago
Can’t wait to jump on this and binge on my favorite hyper personalized ads!
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by saltedonion 6y ago
Interestingly, the soviets were on a mission to provide housing for every person in the country. To be successful, they knew that bringing down cost will be key. This then led to entire cities and provinces to only build 1 or 2 floor plans.
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by saltedonion 6y ago
If they don’t compete on price, do they compete on service? Or simply just distribution (which insurance firm they are in network with)
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by saltedonion 6y ago
Aren’t hospital groups in the us privately owned? So isn’t there a profit incentive to cost reduction or increasing efficiency? If so how come capitalistic forces hasn’t driven the cost down?

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