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They'd need to detect and store your keystrokes. If you have JavaScript enabled that's trivial, but hopefully you have JavaScript disabled.
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While there might be some edge cases (e.g. startups associated with a high profile brand/person), in most cases there are usually better things for a startup to do than obfuscate the number of users they're gaining.
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There's a Yiddish joke that illustrates the extent that Yiddish has a borrowed vocabulary. A Rabbi is at an event with the Kaiser. The Kaiser says to him 'Sprichst du Deutsch' - 'do you speak German?'. The Rabbi rep
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> How many people are poor like that? My experience is that it is a significant percentage (i.e. more than 10%)... And about your point about home owners being poor - not everybody owns their own home (stats show it's about 2/3
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I think we have very different definitions of poor. $100k with a LTV of 10% means savings of $10k (besides the other fees of buying a place). Poor people don't have that. A quick Google showed that the median savings account balance ac
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> Even the poor can get a loan from the bank and do it. You usually need a deposit for a loan. Poor people generally don't have huge amounts of savings.
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There are two kinds of contracts with property managers - one kind that only find tenants, and another that manages everything (e.g. if the boiler breaks they get a plumber). Which kind are you talking about? I'd be surprised if the di
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Call Me by My Name: Deborah Abrams Kaplan(lettersfromnj.wordpress.com)
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> It takes about three minutes of listening to him talk on the subject to understand that his singular life's mission is to figure out what is necessary to prevent totalitarianism ever again I spent some time listening to him, and t
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Was your father not allowed to switch jobs on pain of death?
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by verbify 8y ago
Do you not have a personal bank account that your significant other doesn't audit?
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I'm struggling to follow your argument. You can also default on a payday loan - I think defaulting is better than the mafia, which is precisely the benefit of payday loans - they add in a step where you don't go to the mafia.
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by verbify 8y ago
I'm not sure about the laws in your locality (in the UK you have to have a licence from the UK Office of Fair Trading to offer consumer credit), but I would generally support banning anyone other than payday loan companies from selling
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I think that's a charitable reading of the parent comment. I thought I made it clear that in an ideal world payday loans (and the mafia) wouldn't exist, so I'm not even sure what kind of ideal world the parent comment is sugg
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On the contrary, I think you summed up my feelings pretty succinctly. Was there something I wrote that led you to think I felt otherwise?
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If you cap maximum interest rates then people who are deemed too 'high risk' will be refused credit. As a result, they will seek credit elsewhere. Switzerland is a wealthy low-crime country to start with, the mafia do not have a s
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An underappreciated facet of payday loans is that without them desperate people would borrow from unsavoury people - making them illegal drives the high risk loan business underground into the hands of the Mafia. And then the consequences f
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Your first point is definitely correct - their guide is confused at best. As to your second point, I agree in terms of 'best practices', but in terms of teaching about phishing, the fact is, companies do use multiple domains (and
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I don't know if that would be enough in real life for me. I know some organisations use two different domains (e.g. they did a transition but they don't want to turn off .org just in case something still uses it, the IT team forg
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by verbify 8y ago
You can get notifications using http://www.hnreplies.com/ But will you see this comment given that you don't get notifications?
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Surnames are heritable through the male line only. Genes are heritable through both parents. Wealth is some societies is heritable mostly through the male line, and in other societies through both lines. Assuming that in the ~584 odd years
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That's my feelings, although I've seen so many successful app-only startups that I feel I'm missing something that these startups grasp. E.g. in the UK Monzo, an app-only bank, won't allow you to access your statements,
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I'm not sure how this content got to the number 2 spot on HN (with only 3 points and no comments). Especially considering it seems to be a partisan political attack on an Indian party.
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> it's not unheard of for places to sell quality marijuana for as low as $48/ounce, which is very cheap When I look at other dried herbs on amazon, they're much cheaper. E.g. thyme is about $10 for 12 ounces, oregano is $1
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I thought I addressed perspective in my post. In addition often all you have to do to change your perspective is go to another continent. There's also an element of survivorship bias. The Antikythera Mechanism, while not a book, is ama
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I'm going to take a contrarian view on this. About 1/15 humans who have ever existed are still alive. And that includes the period before writing. I think it's not unreasonable to think that most books have been written in th
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While I agree with you in the main, many economic liberals would still support government intervention to stop oligopolies, monopolies or monopsonies. They support free markets and individual choice, not just privatisation or corporatisatio
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OP wasn't talking about a working class background - they were talking about extreme poverty. There are obvious differences. Can you confirm whether you grew up in an environment of extreme poverty?
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Or maybe the guy thinks that people who create unhealthy work environments should be fined for it, and that's why Bezos shouldn't be that rich?
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> we survived WW1 and 2 so we'll survive a trade hiccup. I don't understand this reasoning. We didn't all survive WW1 and 2. If you mean the union survived - the Republic of Ireland left the union shortly after WW1. And if

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