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yamrzou

18,101karma·4,324submissions·June 13, 2018
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Facebook is definitely addictive. It took me more than a year of trials to be able to break the cycle and get off the platform. The thing is, it gets harder over time to take a pause from it. But now …
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Why was the title changed from 'Facebook director of monetization: "We took a page from Big Tobacco's playbook"' ? That first title was what originally drew me to this story, …
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This was on the front page, and suddently moved to the fourth one. Was it downranked by a moderator? I found it to be an interesting story.
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I didn't hear about The Free Speech Union until now. I don't understand why you would consider it an ‘awful source’ to have on HN. Here is an article I found by one of its directors for a mo…
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I really respect your attitude. I haven't been in a desperate need for a loan, nor seen people feeling the guilt of failing to pay back, so it's hard for me to relate. It's helpful to l…
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> So you get that not paying it back is not theft Not paying back when you have the capacity to do so is theft. I don't agree with the harassment this company is doing, that's unethical…
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No, I would not ruin someone's life over a loan, that's why I said "depending on the situation". I've also given away lage amounts of money - not as loans - over the years w…
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If the practice is clearly outlined in the terms and conditions which the user accepts before using the app (so, not secretly downloading contacts as in your example), I would not oppose it, nor call …
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Yes! I like the idea.
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If security is your concern, you can run the browser inside a container: https://github.com/ConSol/docker-headless-vnc-container You can also use: https://browsergap.d…
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It didn't occur to me that someone would apply this to moral facts, but why not. In your example, the role of intuition becomes problematic if laws were based on it. Except that such intuition wo…
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Not necessarily. I'm not suggesting to throw reason and common sense all along. I'm just suggesting that, in the absence of scientific evidence, you can rely on plausible intuition and sto…
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Excellent article. Worse, it [data obsession] deprives us of truly meaningful insights that are available via philosophy, intuition, and stories, but not yet fully explicable through quantitative sys…
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Ads only showed on mobile. On desktop, with FF and uBlock disabled, I didn't see any. I had Tracking Protection enabled though.
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On Android, I don't see any ads with Firefox, but I do with Chrome. Edit: No, actually that is because I have uBlock Origin enabled on Firefox.
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Thank you for a clear explanation. I'm a total layman here, so forgive my questions if they don't make sense: > One of the deep insights of special relativity is that these scalar and ve…
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https://archive.is/nGVxb
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There is also Dagster - https://docs.dagster.io/
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Makes sense, thanks for the clarification!
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Congrats on the launch! Two questions: - If I have some data in Kafka, why would I want to pump it into your platform instead of spawning an Elasticsearch instance and using something like Kafka Conne…
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Yet another test. Edited.
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