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Re:After recent update I see License Upgrade Required (2021) on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @11:58PM (#29819611)

I can definitely see why people are upset by this. That said people (who use sublime as their main text editor) not purchasing sublime licenses is funny to me. It’s such a critical piece to your day to day work (as a dev at least) that I am surprised more people aren’t happy to support a great text editor.

Because people are so hesitant to paying for a license, it has become one of my go-to gifts to friends and co-workers who use sumblime but haven’t purchased a license yet.

Re:Wild lynx could be reintroduced into Scottish Highlands on Friday January 22, 2021 @04:17PM (#25876473)

But what is the value in restoring that ecosystem? I am not saying that is a bad thing (it is probably a good thing), I am just curious what the argument for restoration is here.

Re:Ask HN: Show me your half baked project on Saturday January 09, 2021 @10:56AM (#25701378)

https://opskeeper.com

This is a job scheduler / project management software for construction companies. It's almost there... Still have a good amount of polish to put on it. And I need to expand the landing page...

Re:Why aren’t we talking more about airborne transmission? on Monday August 03, 2020 @12:49PM (#24040080)

In the first article you posted it reads:

> To date, transmission of SARS-CoV-2 by this type of aerosol route has not been demonstrated; much more research is needed given the possible implications of such route of transmission.

That seems to be in direct opposition to your statement, correct? Or am I missing something.

Re:Keybase and Stellar Partner on XLM Airdrop Worth $118M on Monday September 09, 2019 @04:54PM (#20922368)

I can't believe this is actually in the terms of service:

7. YOU AGREE TO HELP SPREAD THE WORD. You vow to lean about Stellar by visiting https://stellar.org and by testing Stellar-in-Keybase, simply by sending Lumens to people you care about, or at least your enemies' enemies. You will aim to encourage 5 people to join Keybase for its Stellar features.

I legitimately might not sign up now.

Re:Real talk with a Blockchain Engineer on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @09:26AM (#18551658)

> I disagree with this. It's clear in cases such as Facebook that data privacy is abused. Not only that, but users don't have much of an idea of exactly how their data is being used. In a P2P system powered by blockchain, I can set permissions for certain data my on-chain information to be accessible between different parties, whether that's a doctor or a friend on a social media platform. They can receive a hash an decode it locally to view whatever information I am granting them permission to view.

I think the OP is saying that if anyone has access to the raw data at any point, then they have some sort of ownership. And this is actually true in your example. A person owns their own data (age, email, etc.), and then gives it to Facebook. Someone might expect privacy from Facebook, but since Facebook now has access to that data, they have some sort of ownership of it. And what do they do with their ownership? They sell it :). If you give your hashed data to Facebook, and allow them to decode it and read it, then they can still sell the decoded data because they now have access to and some ownership of the data.