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by tlogan 4y ago
Majority of people here on HN were also convinced he will try to make Twitter better. Not everybody believed that he will succeeded but it seems like majority belived that he will at least try hard. Like improve app to purchase things (one
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I genuinely believed that he would try to allow more free speech on Twitter. There was a small chance that the experiment will succeed. I guess he never wanted that: he just lied. But why?
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> What is the chance of Google cancelling my other account, > since it was on the same card? Quite high. Majority of companies have this automated.
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I would rather suggest the following: do not buy anything worth more than $99 from companies which do not offer human support. And if you decide to do chargeback assume that that is a "nuclear option": that you will never be able
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by tlogan 4y ago
Yes - they do. In general companies will disable the account and the amount might be sold to collection agency (so you will receive unpleasant news when apply for mortgage or something like that). But majority of companies do email you and
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by tlogan 4y ago
A narcissist is a person who has an excessive interest in or admiration of themselves. A lot of people who make movies on TikTok are just trying to get noticed and maybe land some job. Not narcissist at all: just trying to survive.
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The reason is because he is a narcist. And since he is narcist, he wants to be in the news all the time. However negative news sell more. And somehow he made more enemies than Trump: Trump will not be booed in Oklahoma but Elon will be booe
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This is a tax move to stash the cash so it does not got hit by big tax bill immediatelly. That money can be then invested in twitter (thru charity), buy twitter bonds, or whatever. Or give payouts in smaller amounts to friends and family wh
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by tlogan 4y ago
I would say that it is not about being tech savvy it is more about how their brain is wired. Some people just do not do analytical thinking: break down a complex a task into smaller, more manageable parts and make a plan. In other words, th
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by tlogan 4y ago
If mass of dark matter is created by Higg effect, does it mean dark matter particle needs to interact via weak force?
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by tlogan 4y ago
It is not about liar. The owner of the web site is probably nice and all these things. Some social proof (LinkedIn, address etc) is really needed. I always check LinkedIn’s to see where that person worked, what does it do, etc. Not a good t
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by tlogan 4y ago
I searched for Sensor Station LLC. That points to this company: https://www.sensorstation.co/ This company seems to be making embedded software for sensors. Now I’m concern.
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That is not my point. My point is that you can not (and you must not) just blindly trust random entities claiming “I’m about privacy” without being transparent who they are, where they are from and all these company informations required by
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This should be listed in about page and privacy page. Note that GDPR requires physical address also to be listed on privacy page: but I guess they do not care about that stupid GDPR privacy thing.
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by tlogan 4y ago
This website does not have any information about owners or legal entity behind it. Who is running this? What is their physical address? Where are they registered? Honest question: how do I know and verify they really care about privacy and
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by tlogan 4y ago
This website does not have any information about owners or legal entity behind it. Who is running this? What is their physical address? Where are they registered? Meaning they are managing invoices: the above informantion is very important.
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by tlogan 4y ago
The problem is this: Google cloud team probably want that chrome browser has more extensions, that extensions can control network flow (security, monitoring, etc.), and that it is easy to hot fix. On the other hand, Google ads team does not
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by tlogan 4y ago
One thing what does not help is that legit companies and businesses act as scammers. I receive also a valid calls from companies and email which look 100% as scam. Just recently I got call from hospital about upcoming my procedure (I did no
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by tlogan 4y ago
What is the name of his product? He said it is “unique” and “high-end”. But in general if you are making a clone of other successful product (in this case that is HyperVolt) you do need to have the entire system to make it (fake reviews, ga
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by tlogan 4y ago
Hey - but you can get cheap Leica cameras on the streets and eBay [1]. 1 - https://petapixel.com/2022/11/28/leica-store-in-san-francisc...
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by tlogan 4y ago
If I’m reading this correctly this means that 0.6% of world population died due to COVID. Is my calculation correct?
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Burnout is a big issue. I think it is the main cause for high performing employees leaving companies (I read that somewhere - sorry I cannot find the reference). A lot companies recognize this problem but I really do not know what is the be
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I think nobody is in charge. I assume that Xi wanted to use COVID to solidify his power. But that failed and now everybody is waiting since he does not have enough power to change the narrative … There is a rumor there are a lot of official
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> switching tactics would be an > admission of failure, I think you are wrong here. This is not how dictatorship works. In proper dictatorship one can easily change the narrative. I assume there is something deeper that this: power st
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This might be a Ceausescu moment for Xi. I just do not understand why he did not “declare that China won against COVID and how CCP is great”. (If there is a problem with vaccination rates, the CCP has tools to make that happen. Yes Sinovax
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by tlogan 4y ago
I looked the results for “remote work best practices” and they all seems a valid articles. Not really SEO spam. Which article is considered as not spam? HRB one? Really?
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Effective altruism is about taking a desire to do good. So I’m not sure how criminals can be doing EA. Is el Mencho doing EA? He gave some toys and even suggested that they will stop killing priests.
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by tlogan 4y ago
In general, people (especially young adults) do not want to look stupid. So if they do not know the answer they start talking / writing about the shit they know. But senior engineers and wiser people will answer with: I do now know. Or
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This item had even weirder reviews - the reviews are about some locks, pillow cases, etc. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BKJRFZQ8/ref=cm_sw_r_api_i_58ZZZ... What is the trick here? How do they get these reviews?
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Reviews do work :) Does anybody can share an example of scam item on Amazon with majority reviews looking legit?

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