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by techsupporter 3y ago
> I thought T-Mobile significantly cracked down on SIM-swapping internally They've cracked down so hard that the only way to do SIM swaps is to talk to a human who can be (and still routinely is) socially engineered. Self-service ch
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by techsupporter 3y ago
Putting HTML inside of scripted code blocks was legendary back in the day and every web-oriented language did it. I guess people have already forgotten about ASP and ColdFusion. Being able to for each an array into table rows? Game changing
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by techsupporter 3y ago
People of a certain age will remember the GEICO ad, "Collect call from Bob...Wehadababyitsaboy" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JxhTnWrKYs
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by techsupporter 3y ago
> Should we also outlaw high-performance cars because these sometimes serve as effective getaway vehicles for criminals? What if we change the last bit after the "because" to "these sometimes are used at unsafe speeds and,
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by techsupporter 3y ago
> Why can’t people be responsible for their actions or lack of them They are responsible for their actions, same as the people implementing these ill-informed changes are responsible for theirs. What you miss, other than people who simpl
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by techsupporter 3y ago
> There's a timeout for the reverse direction, but it at least used to be fairly long. This brings up one of those cultural things: ever noticed how in movies and TV shows from the 80s and 90s, if the caller hung up, the person call
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by techsupporter 3y ago
> The problem is, it won't be anywhere near "trendy" locations. You are being very reductive and writing out entire categories of reasons why housing is unsustainably expensive. In your next two sentences: > People are
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by techsupporter 3y ago
Seattle could try (I don't think it would pass constitutional muster), but that wouldn't help here. The person is describing privately-owned parking lots. Paying for storing your private auto on the public street can still be done
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by techsupporter 3y ago
"Residents with insurance or government aid may get funds to rebuild, but those payouts could take years and recipients may find it won't be enough to pay rent or buy an alternate property in the interim." And there's th
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by techsupporter 3y ago
> I could get a nice pay bump by moving to Netherlands or the UK, but I really can't stomach the weather in that part of Europe, as someone who like going outside for walks in the sun. Sometimes there's more to life than counti
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by techsupporter 3y ago
> race to the bottom that crowded the streets with empty taxis all honking at each other Which is, to your point, exactly what has happened with Ubers and Lyfts in Seattle. In any popular neighborhood on any popular evening, public trans
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by techsupporter 3y ago
That's true for the entire language but, like a lot of other languages, there is significant overlap. For example, the American in American Sign Language means North American; it is the predominant manual language in Canada and the Un
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by techsupporter 3y ago
> I would've thought the bicyclists would have empathy and solidarity, at least against the cars ... And now we're getting dedicated bike paths often at the cost of sidewalks. I live in another HCOL area allegedly famed for its
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by techsupporter 3y ago
Two things: a) it's Din Tai F u ng; and b) nobody who's aiming for The Cheesecake Factory across the street from the convention center is going to accidentally wind up at the Pacific Place (or, worse, UVillage) Din Tai Fung. They
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by techsupporter 3y ago
> Why do you hate to say it? I think you answer your own question with this bit: > I'll admit, I loved Cheesecake Factory as a kid, but then as an adult I feel bad to say I was afflicted by a bit of the "anti-Cheesecake Fact
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by techsupporter 3y ago
The video that webwielder2 posted below from PolyMatter is a really good start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndqsvTIveR0 In short, it's about making an experience that draws people in who are looking for the comfort
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by techsupporter 3y ago
Before the current regional Internet registry system (ARIN, RIPE, LACNIC, AfriNIC, APNIC) began, organizations (and some individuals) were "given" IP addresses by emailing IANA or Jon Postel directly. Assignments that predate the
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by techsupporter 3y ago
> If you arrive by boat, you must use public transport (or good old feet) to get around. As someone who lives in a city that's popular with tourists and has a major summer cruise industry, that's...not entirely accurate. A lo
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by techsupporter 3y ago
We used to have that, at QFC/Kroger funny enough. They got rid of it because few people used it (I tried it and it was very clunky) and replaced it with more self checkout lanes.
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by techsupporter 3y ago
> In my experience, most stores are finding a reasonable balance. I hope you're right but this hasn't been the case at the grocery stores around me. QFC (a Kroger-owned brand in the Pacific Northwest) has, at least at two I us
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by techsupporter 3y ago
> I had used an iCloud Hide My Email address for the purchase so a day later I get another email from NoFraud I got hit by a merchant using "NoFraud" as well. After making an order from the merchant's site, using Apple Pa
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by techsupporter 3y ago
While that might not be what Netflix is doing, the card networks do have a process to tell recurring billing merchants about new card information: https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/download/merchants/visa-acc
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by techsupporter 3y ago
> I wish the folks who clearly do not like Google would just not use their products instead of spamming every thread about how they will kill the product, true or not. Me, upon reading something about this: "Oh, this sounds interest
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by techsupporter 3y ago
In case anyone is interested, we had a similar thread three weeks ago: "Ask HN: Which substacks do you read as soon as it hits your inbox?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36356476 ("Substacks" was
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by techsupporter 3y ago
> They want to quit but they can't. If you mean want to quit but can't in the sense that there is no other place on the Internet to have a like-minded community forum around fountain pens or a particular bank or third-tier game
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by techsupporter 3y ago
> why not just raise prices by 20%? Because if every restaurant doesn't do it, the one that holds out from doing it and hides the extra cost behind a noticed-on-the-menu-later surcharge (or simply keeps asking for tips) will get mor
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by techsupporter 3y ago
> So they don't have disposable income, arent saving for retirement, and can't go to eat at restaurants? There's a lot you can do when other expenses aren't eating up your take-home pay. For instance, they mention no
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by techsupporter 3y ago
> In the US, the waiters are constantly interrupting and bugging the customers, hoping for a bigger tip. In Europe and Japan, this doesn't happen; you need to signal to your server that you need something... There are restaurants in
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by techsupporter 3y ago
> My wife lost her life’s email despite knowing the password. Google didn’t recognize the device, asked to verify using a phone she doesn’t have access to anymore. Despite knowing her login and controlling the recovery email, she couldn’
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by techsupporter 3y ago
I guess you're being sarcastic, but no, the COVID vaccines had clinical trials. My employer, a medical group in Seattle, had some of our staff volunteer with running the trials and others of us--myself included--were members of trials.

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