thekyle

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   by thekyle 7y ago

   This is quite a difficult thing to build. Google has a whole web spam team dedicated to trying to fight SEO.
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   by thekyle 7y ago

   What are unpaid internships if not unpaid volunteer labor?
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   by thekyle 7y ago

   I seriously doubt anyone at Amazon cares.
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   by thekyle 7y ago

   Do you consider yourself a privileged elite since you're benefiting from the internet right now by being able to post this comment?
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   by thekyle 7y ago

   Could you be a little more specific? What mistakes are you referring to?
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   by thekyle 7y ago

   I got the impression that it's considered bad etiquette to torrent over Tor.
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   by thekyle 7y ago

   > Why does it have to be Android? It's another commercial closed-source OS What do you mean? Android is FOSS not closed-source.
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   by thekyle 7y ago

   According to Vanguard the 100% equities portfolio has historically outperformed all portfolios with bonds. https://personal.vanguard.com/us/insights/saving-investing/m...
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   by thekyle 7y ago

   I believe Friendica tries to behave more Facebook like and also uses the ActivityPub protocol. This site keeps track of some of the various AP projects: https://fediverse.party/
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    by thekyle 7y ago

    Please don't use these types of irrelevant personal attacks on HN. /u/lern_to_spel has a very good point that your mentioned alternatives will likely be shut down by Apple and are not officially supported. If you are going t
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    by thekyle 7y ago

    I don't think that Signal uploads the backups to the cloud though. It seems like they're stored on device and encrypted.
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    Firefox Private Network(private-network.firefox.com)

    3 points by thekyle 7y ago|1 comments
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    by thekyle 7y ago

    Update: It looks like Pocket Casts is backpedaling and giving people who paid upfront for the web app lifetime access. I appreciate them changing their minds. https://blog.pocketcasts.com/we-heard-you/
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    by thekyle 7y ago

    If by "free" they mean a monthly subscription to access the web app that I already paid for, then sure, it's free.
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    by thekyle 7y ago

    If all the ISPs are using the same infrastructure how do they compete on internet speed?
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    by thekyle 7y ago

    Yeah, I think maybe they meant to say "save money on hardware" since they already said "spend money on software" earlier in the sentence.
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    by thekyle 7y ago

    > you either spend money on software that deals with the hardware being unreliable and save money on software (pioneered by Google) or you spend money on hardware that promises to be highly reliable and save on software. Seems like the f
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    by thekyle 7y ago

    Depends on where in the U.S. where I am currently adult tickets are $11.
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    by thekyle 7y ago

    I'm not sure I would say that representative democracy is not actually democracy.
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    by thekyle 7y ago

    How much thicker?
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    by thekyle 7y ago

    Could someone elaborate on why this is interesting? The linked page doesn't have much context.
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    by thekyle 7y ago

    Well Google is certainly trying their hardest to give Apple the upper hand by discontinuing Google Play Music in favor of YouTube Music. I don't know a single person who actually likes the new YouTube Music. I ended up switching to Spo
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    by thekyle 7y ago

    > Why would he want his "performance" to be featured on proprietary video formats or platforms? Maybe so that he could reach a larger audience.
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    by thekyle 7y ago

    Technically, all GitHub repos have at least one license. That is the GitHub license: > If you set your pages and repositories to be viewed publicly, you grant each User of GitHub a nonexclusive, worldwide license to use, display, and per
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    by thekyle 7y ago

    Value stock ETFs are index funds.
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    by thekyle 7y ago

    What's the difference between going and buying 10 top goods individually and buying a bundle that contains those same 10 top goods.
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    by thekyle 7y ago

    Technically, the S&P 500 isn't actually the largest 500 companies by market cap. S&P has a committee that decides to exclude some stocks. That said, for all practical purposes it is basically the 500 largest companies.
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    by thekyle 7y ago

    > If customers ask for 1% of index funds to be sold, index funds have to sell 1% of their holdings in the exact ratios defined by the index I'd like to point out that while this may be the case for traditional mutual funds, it is no
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    by thekyle 7y ago

    This is a total straw man.
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    by thekyle 7y ago

    That's interesting. My old phone was the OnePlus 3 (I used it up until a few days ago) and it had a Snapdragon 820 running Lineage OS Pie. I can't say I really noticed webpages lagging too bad but I use Firefox with uBlock Origin