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by traek 6y ago
From HN FAQ: > In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
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by traek 6y ago
Do you read TFA? Because this info was in the first sentence.
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by traek 6y ago
In general the companies that provide those perks tend to pay top of market, not the smallest amount of money possible.
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by traek 6y ago
> you can't just steal away a successful business by throwing money at the problem and copying it. Look at zune, look at tidal, look at google+, look at bing, look at mixer. Look at instagram stories?
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by traek 6y ago
Companies at even a hundredth of Lyft's scale aren't paying 2.9%+ to Stripe, they're on cost-plus pricing based on interchange fees.
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by traek 6y ago
This is super cool. I really enjoyed the demos, and the explanation of what distortion actually does to the waveform was very clear.
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by traek 6y ago
Of the companies you named, Foursquare's business model explicitly revolves around paying apps for user location data and selling it. I doubt (and at least from my experience around SV, haven't seen) that FB/Google are paying
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by traek 6y ago
> Not bad for a 20 yo seeking independence, but humiliating for a 25 yo and a complete failure for a 30 yo. I was truly taken aback by how out of touch this comment is. A 50% cut to a $9600 monthly salary is $4800, or $57,600 annually. T
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by traek 6y ago
S/he is referring to tenant farming and sharecropping, if you search those terms you can read more about it.
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by traek 6y ago
> I don't see how could that scale. Similarly to UPS and FedEx, one would assume.
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by traek 7y ago
> Google has never been implicated in a plot to hack the U.S. presidential election. Sure they have. The very same election as Facebook (and Twitter), in fact. https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-russian-groups-did-
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by traek 7y ago
Yes, similar to that and Presto’s `ARBITRARY`.
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by traek 7y ago
> while also running a campaign to weaponize towny NIMBYism against grad-students by accusing grads of taking housing that "rightfully" belongs to "real" Berkeley residents What? Why would UC Berkeley want to do that,
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by traek 7y ago
If one is to run tests, it would much easier to use the actual nCoV diagnostic panel. The question was whether differential diagnosis for nCoV based on (early-stage) symptoms exists, which to my knowledge it doesn’t yet.
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by traek 7y ago
The bird shot is.
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by traek 7y ago
It’s pretty silly to claim that the (admittedly bad) privacy policies of Google, or even Chrome, as a whole means it “doesn’t make sense” for any team within Google to advance a pro-privacy or pro-WWW project. This all-or-nothing mindset en
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by traek 7y ago
This is not at all true. Uber only introduced upfront pricing at the end of 2017. Prior to that users were charged based on time and distance, the same way as taxis.
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YouTube suspends user's Google accounts for commenting with emojis(youtube.com)
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by traek 7y ago
> Then you do the second API call to get the hometowns of the userIDs. The result contains the new place that you should not have been able to access This is an issue with access control, not HTTP requests. The second HTTP request should
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by traek 7y ago
Yes, they were. https://www.vox.com/2018/3/17/17134072/facebook-cambridge-an...
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by traek 7y ago
> If we were friends, you could use your custom FB client to look at my page though, which would be very user friendly. Yes, this is what used to exist, and this is what Cambridge Analytica exploited. The level of access I'm talking
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by traek 7y ago
> It would just mean that the data and interactions you as a user already have in Facebook's proprietary walled garden, would be API callable from 3rd parties. This was precisely the level of access which caused the Cambridge Analyt
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by traek 7y ago
> I personally don't think the public market cares much about things like privacy and governance. If it were, Facebook would have neither investors nor users. Same goes for so many others. This is a silly take. Data privacy is a com
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by traek 7y ago
Most restaurants have an additional percent charge to provide healthcare or other benefits to their workers.
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by traek 7y ago
Instagram is also testing removing like counts. [0] [0] https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/17/20697943/instagram-hide-p...
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by traek 7y ago
> I recognize that some such tech is being utilized on the front end in this case, and that the problem is non trivial, but I see this as FB saying 'good enough' and not pushing as hard as they could to improve the tech to whe
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by traek 7y ago
I don't know why you keep using the term "abuse". There's no statute in antitrust law preventing "abuse". There isn't even a statute defining "abuse". Antitrust laws specifically address using mo
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by traek 7y ago
WKD tastes good because there's a ton of sugar in it. There's plenty of sugary alcopops in America already (Smirnoff Ice, Mike's Hard Lemonade, Four Loko, etc.). White Claw is interesting because it's low-carb.
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by traek 7y ago
An interesting case of a company shooting itself in the foot via forced arbitration is Chipotle. They convinced a court to exclude employees who agreed to arbitration from a class action, so those employees each filed individually (helped b
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by traek 7y ago
> This is just pretty standard text for any metal credit card FWIW I have four different metal cards and have not received this warning with any of them. In the case of the Apple Card, I'd say it's due more to the fact that the

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