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Re:23andMe frantically changed its terms of service to prevent custome... on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @11:02AM (#38613967)
The email I got from 23andMe linked me to [email protected].
Re:23andMe frantically changed its terms of service to prevent custome... on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @10:56AM (#38613882)
To duck out of the new ToS, just write this email to [email protected]

To Whom It May Concern:

My name is [name], and my 23andMe account is under the email [email]. I am writing to declare that I do not agree to the new terms of service at https://www.23andme.com/legal/terms-of-service/.

Re:Show HN: Garyku, a game inspired by the Gale-Ryser Theorem on Monday July 03, 2023 @12:32AM (#36568884)
Yeah, it's not immediately obvious how to play, but I thought with some clicking around folks would figure it out.
Re:Show HN: Garyku, a game inspired by the Gale-Ryser Theorem on Monday July 03, 2023 @12:31AM (#36568878)
Hah, thanks! What was your heuristic?

Elastic MapReduce questions go unanswered on AWS forums and StackOverflow

Posted by verve on Tuesday August 12, 2014 @01:10PM
from the self-post dept.

See https://forums.aws.amazon.com/profile.jspa?userID=300396andhttp://stackoverflow.com/users/1205140/verve .Is anyone who works for Amazon listening?I'm having immense trouble getting concrete answers to my questions about migrating from AMI 2.x + Hadoop 1.x to AMI 3.1.0 + Hadoop 2.4.0. This is particularly upsetting because:1) Hadoop debug cycles are already long, and Elastic MapReduce debug...

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Twitter breaches privacy by misreporting who is following suggested users

Posted by verve on Monday June 16, 2014 @12:58PM
from the self-post dept.

After starting a new Twitter account (A) with an alternate email address I had myself emailed from my professional email address, I noticed the following phenomenon on my Who to Follow list:<p>[B: account of user I had emailed with my professional email address but not followed] Followed by [C: the Twitter account associated with my professional email address].<p>Thing is, C is not...

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Re:Ask HN: why is chat history in Gmail lazy-loaded now? on Friday August 09, 2013 @08:38AM (#6185214)
I find that extremely hard to believe....

Attachments? Google Drive? And why not lazy-load long emails?

Ask HN: why is chat history in Gmail lazy-loaded now?

Posted by verve on Friday August 09, 2013 @07:02AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I once was able to use my browser's find tool to identify a line from a chat. Then Gmail introduced lazy-loading to chat history, and that became harder; my workaround was to click Print and then use find. But Gmail just recently did away with the print button, and I can't even do that.Gmail team: the UX is worse; users are loading _text_, and usually not much, so why lazy-load every few lines?...

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Re:Gitmo Is Killing Me on Monday April 15, 2013 @04:17PM (#5554012)
I posted a new We the People petition about this issue: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/close-guantanamo-b... .
Re:Show HN: burn.fm - A new way to listen to music on Youtube on Sunday August 19, 2012 @05:45PM (#4405344)
The Strokes - Alone, Together
Re:Mark Zuckerberg married on Sunday May 20, 2012 @09:10PM (#4000821)
Here, "married" is a past participle, and the headline is in the passive voice. Headlines from Google News analogous to this post's title:

-Sleep apnea linked to cancer in latest studies -Falcon 9 countdown aborted in last second before launch -Apple, Samsung CEOs set for court talks

Re:How to blind yourself temporarily on Friday May 18, 2012 @11:15AM (#3992272)
The article can also be found here: http://mindhacks.com/2012/05/18/bbc-future-column-why-your-b... .

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