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I don't have 1:1 meetings, nor do I ever get reviews of my work, but I get things done and I'm still tasked with stuff, so I must be doing something right?

Ask HN: Has anyone noticed Redfin altering past house price estimates?

I've noticed, at least with regards to my home, that the price estimates for early this year were much higher than they are today. For example, one might had looked at the price history and saw their house had increased $100k in value from the time of purchase up until Jan/Feb of this year, whereas looking at the estimates today, that same time period now shows only a $20k gain.So if lets say...

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Re:Ask HN: Do ISP's inject ads into browsers? on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @06:56PM (#31186855)
So should I switch to Firefox on everything or VPN or just erase cookies every session?

Ask HN: Do ISP's inject ads into browsers?

Just noticed that an item that was heavily Google searched on one device in my home was now showing up as an advertisement on another device that was using Internet Explorer. This device is purely used for work and that has never once been used for searching for this item or anything remotely related to it. I find this very disturbing, albeit highly coincidental, and I cannot draw any other...

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Re:The Superhero Industry Hates Children (2019) on Friday April 22, 2022 @05:27PM (#31128381)
"we went from "I wanna hold your hand" to Cardi-B's WAP."

You must not have been around for what the 80's/early 90's had churned out. Any number of songs from 2 Live Crew and Too Short make WAP seem tame by comparison.

Despite the moral panic at the time surrounding those groups/artists, we still managed to survive and grow as a country, and especially with regards to free speech.

Re:The Max Headroom Incident on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @04:04PM (#29323520)
I only see one version of this video on youtube, the first incident. I swear years ago when this was posted here, there was a different version I saw with more stuff going on and the audio was much more clear than the first. Am I missing something or is there more than one Max Headroom signal hijack video out there?
This is actually a big deal for me and probably one of the main reasons why I asked the question. Facebook did this exact same thing in the past (not sure if its changed) where even if you don't give them permission to scan your contacts, they will be suggested as "people you might know". I deleted Facebook recently and I was hoping Signal would at least try to be better than the underhandedness of Facebook, but that doesn't appear to be the case.

Ask HN: Is there a way to keep phone contacts from seeing that you're on Signal?

I think its a bit annoying that there are people who get notified and vice-versa that someone is on Signal. If there is any way to avoid this, that would be great, otherwise what other services are out there that are similar but don't let the world know you exist without you letting them know first?

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Ask HN: Why does this ad window in macOS Catalina have no close/dismiss option?

I don't know where to submit screen captures to be viewable by anyone without creating accounts and such but here is a URL to the app the ad in this window is advertising for: https://apps.apple.com/app/id1525556960?mt=12The first screenshot is what I see on my screen, except with a message at the top saying "Mirror My Screen (formerly MKMirror) - Free Download expires soon" and a "Download on...

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Re:China sharply expands mass labor program in Tibet on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @07:20PM (#24561181)
So all of what is happening in China with regards to Tibet and Uighers is part of a disinformation campaign, piecing together the totality of the sources you provided?
Thanks for the replies!
Re:Code Shame: Sharing your embarrassing code on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @07:28PM (#22252348)
Here's a pretty embarrassing one ;):

int index = 0; while (!element.equals(sortedList.get(index)) && sortedList.size() > ++index); return index < sortedList.size() ? index : -1;

On a somewhat related topic, I noticed massive amounts of gifs that I would typically discover through Android's keyboard option (hooked up to Giphy I believe) were deleted sometime last year (tons of content, even obscure stuff, related to pop culture and movies, even DBZ abridged stuff). I was not sure if this was done by the website hosting these gifs or the users themselves but it was such a large number across so many genres that I suspected the website scrubbed them for whatever reason (also cannot be found through the main website itself).

Additionally, I've been looking for gif hosting websites and Google does not make one mention of Gfycat anywhere in their search results for keyword "gif websites", and this is after going through the first 5 pages of results, which seems a bit odd to me.

edit: I found Gfycat on the 7th page of Google search results, interesting...

Bowling for Columbine, Blackfish, most MJ documentaries.

Ask HN: Are documentaries becoming more destructive than informative?

I won't name any but with regards to lets say the past 20 years or so (perhaps since 2002, wink wink), and by mere virtue of the genre, it seems like the public considers them as proven fact, especially if you push the emotional narrative to dark places that people could never typically envision and ever so slightly twist "facts" around though creative editing.

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