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Ask HN: uBlock not blocking ads on Twitter desktop anymore?
3 points by shafyy 4y ago|5 comments
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by shafyy 4y ago
I was using Sublime, and only switched to VS Code after starting to use Gitpod. But I gotta say that the whole exentions ecosystem is much better than Sublime's.
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by shafyy 4y ago
I live in DE, and I haven't come across any merchant where there wasn't at least a PayPal option to pay. I know that many people in DE still "distrust" credit cards, but I wouldn't say IBAN payment in e-commerce is
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by shafyy 4y ago
For buying stuff online? In which EU country is this supposed to be the norm?
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Show HN: The best of Carl Sagan and other science communicators in your inbox(cassandradispatch.org)
2 points by shafyy 4y ago|0 comments
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by shafyy 4y ago
Not sure what you mean. If I buy some cryptocurrency coin for $10 somebody received $10 from me. If now the value of the crypto goes $0, I have lost $10 but the who I gave $10 to still has that money. It has not magically disappeared. Or do
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by shafyy 4y ago
IANAL but I've looked into this (I'm a Swiss citizen living in Germany) before starting my business. The upside is all digital and less bureaucracy. But then it gets complicated and unclear tax-wise. Furthermore, if you're do
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by shafyy 4y ago
Exciting! Let's see how this develops.
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by shafyy 4y ago
> Hosted in Europe and held to EU privacy laws Not only hosted in EU, but also by a EU legal entity. This is an important distinction under GDPR.
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by shafyy 4y ago
Yes, the title is wrong. The study is about "Vorstände", which means "board members".
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by shafyy 4y ago
Ah ok, because CEOs never make a public statement and then the next day literally the opposite of what they just said happens. Not saying that this will happen with Coinbase, but I would not believe that Coinbase is not at risk just because
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by shafyy 4y ago
Why wouldn't you start with Rails?
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by shafyy 4y ago
I don't think this is a good idea. JS made some extremely useful improvements starting with ES6 (so, 2015).
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by shafyy 4y ago
This looks amazing. I will be recommending from now on to people who want to learn web dev. Thanks for sharing! Side note: As a Ruby on Rails developer, it's amazing to see so many Rails-based recommendations to the question "how
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by shafyy 4y ago
Kind of funny that one of the authors is called Sam Ruby :-)
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by shafyy 4y ago
It it true, e.g. see here: https://isgoogleanalyticsillegal.com/ https://plausible.io/blog/google-analytics-illegal Law is a code that needs to be interpreted by society. This interpretation is done by
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by shafyy 4y ago
I think it's good that the EU is forcing the US to get their privacy laws in order.
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by shafyy 4y ago
It's not legal for EU companies to use Google Analytics, because of the same legal reasons.
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by shafyy 4y ago
Exactly, it wouldn't matter if Shopify signed those.
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by shafyy 4y ago
It is illegal according to many recent court verdicts, there are some examples with Google Fonts, too. Now, of course in practice you won't be sued if you only run a small business (or you might, if you get unlucky like this guy in the
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by shafyy 4y ago
Yes, you're right. If Shopify were an American company, it wouldn't even matter if they sent data to the CDNs are not - it would be illegal in any case.
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by shafyy 4y ago
All EU companies sending any PII to US-owned companies, regardless if the actual data stays in the EU or not, are in danger to be sued similarly to the author of this post. This is, among other laws, because of the US CLOUD act: > The C
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by shafyy 4y ago
> I don't understand why funding through direct sales will give a better product than funding through advertising The more the economic incentives of a business are aligned with the customer's interest, the better. Of course,
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by shafyy 4y ago
A bit off-topic, but giving everybody one dollar wouldn't change a thing in the world. However, investing that $8bn in a project/org that's effective at improving the world, would change a lot. Not sure where I'm going w
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by shafyy 4y ago
In other words, they took the very real risk of needing to fire almost all people they hired during the pandemic again knowingly, because God forbid they missed that percent of growth of they didn't.
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by shafyy 4y ago
I just don't buy that they naively thought that everything would keep growing like it did during the pandemic once the pandemic was over. It seems like a welcome excuse.
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by shafyy 4y ago
All I want is a way to quickly delete media per chat without needing to select every image and video manually.
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by shafyy 4y ago
> I’m putting my hopes on blue sky/AT which appears to solve the above pain points How does AT solve this specific pain point?
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by shafyy 4y ago
You can just forward incoming email to your old Gmail account to your new email account and take your sweet time to update your old emails all over the internet.
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by shafyy 4y ago
I think this was true but is changing. I've deleted WhatsApp and switched to Signal a few years ago, and now I use iMessage with all my friends who don't have Signal (maybe 4-5 people that I text with regularly). Interestingly eno

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