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Not exactly answering the question, but I recently used aliexpress.com and their captcha system is super easy: it shows a sliding button like the one to answer a call on a phone. T…

The cable was tagged with its name, it was very easy to read, probably brand new

A few years ago, while strolling along the beach in Myanmar, I happened upon SeaMeWe-5, which was accessible to anyone willing to peek into a manhole (why I peeked down that manhol…

Hi kantord, congratulations on the site! I tried something similar about 10 years ago, called wikibabel. I then joined with another site called wikiotics.org. We were very focused …

I have all my mailboxes with gandi.net. Each domain you buy from them comes with 2 fully managed emails, and I think 3GB storage each, for just over $1/month. I basically never get…

I actually wonder about this. SO's typical user is tech-savvy, and I would imagine many access the site with adblockers on (I do). So I suspect my value to the site in terms of ads…

I know someone who looked into the fake propaganda spread around social networks in Myanmar (WhatsApp is essentially not used there, but Facebook and Viber are the big ones). It tu…

Same here. I had never heard of them. Turns out they're a YC'15 startup ( https://www.apollo.io/company/ ). There are no passwords in the data they lost according to HIBP. They see…

page 7 of this has the details of who voted what. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-%2f%2f...

From my limited experience with calling MEPs, they don't always get the entire picture. Who could blame them for not being experts in web, nuclear energy, agricultural policies and…

ZigWay | Several roles | Yangon, Myanmar | ONSITE or REMOTE, FULL-TIME | $20k-45k + equity | https://www.zigway.co/ ZigWay is an early stage fintech social enterprise. We help low …

I've just put together a simple list of MEPs and their voting intentions (far from complete, it's only the few I've heard about more or less directly). It would be great if you can…

ZigWay | Several roles | Yangon, Myanmar | ONSITE or REMOTE, FULL-TIME | $20k-45k | https://www.zigway.co/ ZigWay is an early stage fintech social enterprise. We help low income fa…

ZigWay | Several roles | Yangon, Myanmar | ONSITE or REMOTE, FULL-TIME | $20k-45k | https://www.zigway.co/ ZigWay is an early stage fintech social enterprise. We help low income fa…

Great to see Myanmar people on HN! Are you in Yangon?

ZigWay | Mobile/front-end developer or full-stack | Yangon, Myanmar | ONSITE or REMOTE, FULL-TIME | $25k-40k | https://www.zigway.co/ ZigWay is an early stage social fintech startu…