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Re:Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes on Friday February 04, 2022 @11:15PM (#30217316)
Is it possible Spotify was debating what to do, decided to not take down Joe Rogan's episodes, but then some rogue employee did it anyway?
Re:Amazon Pip Horror Story on Friday February 04, 2022 @05:18PM (#30214147)
He mentions this because LOC is an objective metric that Amazon uses to analyze performance..
I remember seeing his presentation at the Python meetup at Yelp HQ in San Francisco a few years ago. Happy to see it come to reality
If you compare Facebook's uptime vs Reddit it is no contest. Granted, it isn't as widely used compared to Facebook Login, WhatsApp etc. but still it's impressive
Laws requiring content moderation in social media will only serve to be a form of regulatory capture that inhibits competition
Re:The ownership and future of Mullvad VPN on Thursday September 16, 2021 @02:00PM (#28554960)
So the main thing risk would be if they are consistently logging things such as client IP, user agent etc.
Re:Facebook under fire over secret teen research on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @08:17PM (#28546253)
Is it better that they never do such research and just keep their heads in the sand?
Re:Ask HN: Graduating CS soon, how do I find a job? on Sunday September 12, 2021 @02:56AM (#28499175)
One reason why this works so well is that there is often a monetary incentive on the referrer's side, in that they get paid some referral bonus if you get hired
Re:Mistakes I've Made in AWS on Sunday September 12, 2021 @02:33AM (#28499062)
It also seems more feasible with concurrency focused languages such as Go which have become more popular in recent years
Re:Mistakes I've Made in AWS on Sunday September 12, 2021 @02:31AM (#28499055)
Concurrency limits is the main way to prevent such a thing right?
Interesting to compare this to the $3B anti monopoly fine against Alibaba recently
Re:Signal not in compliance with new rules, say officials on Thursday June 24, 2021 @12:05PM (#27619602)
This is one of the big reasons I've chosen to use Android where I can install apks on my device. Though I may not have the "blue bubble" of iMessage so many in the USA seem to associate with higher status
Re:How Indian Zoroastrians helped shape modern Iran on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @10:11PM (#27524118)
I think those interested in history and skeptics find it interesting to learn about how early Abrahamic religions were potentially influenced by Zoroastrianism
Re:Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself? on Saturday June 12, 2021 @03:57PM (#27487055)
I made a command line tool in Golang to get your current IP address along with the Google Maps link to the exact GPS

https://github.com/claytonblythe/myip

Re:Colonial Pipeline Paid Hackers Nearly $5M in Ransom on Friday May 14, 2021 @01:55PM (#27157455)
It could be something as simple as decrypting some files with PGP or some open source tool
Re:AirMessage – Android app to interface with iMessage on a Mac on Saturday September 05, 2020 @04:23PM (#24386581)
Why not WhatsApp like much of the world?
Re:People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day on Saturday March 09, 2019 @01:06PM (#19347469)
You can use a tool like cronometer.com, at least that's what I started using when I started eating plant-based