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by ve55 5y ago
Right, I think a lot of the HN audience understands this often happens with public (or 'public') data on the Internet. I still think the article title is a bit misleading when the article is about data brokers instead of Facebook
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by ve55 5y ago
There's many terrible data brokers involved in many terrible things (especially in the US - they generally get zero headlines because they are b2b and rather secretive), so it's strange to have this headline be about Facebook, whe
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by ve55 5y ago
>Every time someone joins the waitlist using your referral link, you'll move up the leaderboard. Be first in line for early access to Coinbase NFT by referring others Interesting (but not particularly surprising) choice for ranking
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Update about the October 4th outage(engineering.fb.com)
274 points by ve55 5y ago|224 comments
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Movile Cave(en.wikipedia.org)
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by ve55 5y ago
I have some choices, but many of them require astronomical trade-offs in quality of life. For example, I do like the anonymity of cash, but using it for all of my bills, rent, online goods (not everything can be found in the city I'm
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by ve55 5y ago
I firmly believe that one of our greatest current failures as a society is the extent with which we completely accept these types of dystopic conditions - every single action we take and word we type is surveilled, permanently stored with z
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Vault (Organelle)(en.wikipedia.org)
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by ve55 5y ago
The potential costs of systemically removing correct but controversial/fringe content are extremely detrimental to scientific progress in general. Sure, we remove thousands of obviously false and likely harmful posts, and there are cas
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by ve55 5y ago
I'd hope not, but I don't think it's a necessary conclusion. Most subscribers to VPN companies pay $5 or more a month and use almost zero bandwidth (basically just opening Facebook and Twitter here and there), and so it'
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by ve55 5y ago
I spent some time looking at Youtube reccommendations in fresh browser session (no cookies or account) yesterday and was contiually amazed by the types of videos that would often have 10M or even 100M views. The clickbait styles used by nea
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by ve55 5y ago
I should add about the government ID part, that I understand why they do it. I've worked with anti-abuse in online ecosystems before, and I undertsand how difficult their challenges are at their scale, but it's nonetheless a patte
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by ve55 5y ago
The percentage of normal users that know how to (and are willing to) setup self-hosted instances of something is definitely far below 1%, as unfortunate as it may be. Discord is definitely here to stay (and IMO will continue to do extremely
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by ve55 5y ago
I'm always very thankful that we even have people that work so hard towards FOSS libraries to begin with. It must feel pretty bad to receive those responses from employees telling him about the things he should do that are 'um&#x2
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by ve55 5y ago
I feel like that a lot, so called pay-to-win games (or perhaps pay-to-progress) aren't my thing either for similar reasons, even though I could afford them. I've played GI for a bit, but very casually (even more so as it doesn&#x2
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by ve55 5y ago
That's the rough part with acquiring characters (or anything) through the equivalent of cash-funded roulette: you can set out to spend a certain amount to attain something you want, but it might not work, and if you're sufficientl
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by ve55 5y ago
This is a wonderful video that accurately describes many of the common and pioneering techniques behind this type of financial fraud, and is now my go-to link to send someone when they express amazement at any similar financial phenomenon,
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by ve55 5y ago
It would certainly be a nice time to stop using SSNs as keys, SMS as 2FA, and more importantly having next to zero consequences for this kind of stuff. At this point we just expect this to keep happening over and over again with nothing cha
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by ve55 5y ago
I used leaflet for a previous project involving maps of users ( https://tagmap.io/tag/slatestarcodex is an example of one), and my experience with it was wonderful; I'd be happy to use it again next time the need a
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by ve55 5y ago
It is particularly sad how common scenarios this are for users, especially in the US. I have known how terrible applications like Plaid (and alternatives) were, but at various points have been required to use them to do something like pay m
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by ve55 5y ago
It's worth noting that both organization's posts are factually correct, but discussing different terms. Facebook considers the advertisers their users as well and obviously sets their own ToS, so this post is a non sequitur from t
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Timeline of Senescence Research(en.wikipedia.org)
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by ve55 5y ago
I'm surprised how negative the comments here are, even if it is true that 'metaverse' is turning into a pretty silly buzzword. I think there's still coherent concepts defined by it (interfaces becoming much more inline w
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by ve55 5y ago
My partial solution to this was just learning to say 'no' to large amounts of categories of information. It sucks and I'm still discontent with it, but I cannot be an expert in everything, and the amount of time and bandwidth
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by ve55 5y ago
The consequences of requiring government IDs for basic Internet usage are much worse than just making crawling and indexing more difficult. I worry that due to government/'activist' pressure and the difficulty of dealing with
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by ve55 5y ago
This is common for political content (often that leans in any direction) due to user flagging.
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by ve55 5y ago
While there is definitely a real notable shift to be described here, I wouldn't want to go as far as saying that being an introvert is a true advantage over being an extrovert now (similarly, I wouldn't describe people like Bezos
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by ve55 5y ago
Generally agree; I mention it since from my point of view, I would have spent most of the article criticizing the rules and policies politically and finding ways to improve them, rather than constantly going on about the personal lives of s
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by ve55 5y ago
I did, but I'm not sure I have enough information to conclude if what was done should be illegal/allowed or not, since this is based on various sections of leaked documents, but it's quite possible some bad things were involv
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by ve55 5y ago
What seems most unfair here is how difficult dealing with private equity is as a normal person; the entire purpose of the Roth IRA is that you do not pay any taxes afterwards, and that is how it functions for everyone, whether you are rich

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