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Ask HN: How can Netflix have a bug like this?
Netflix gets into a state for me where, in every browser on my device, the audio plays, while the picture freezes or goes black. I've tried Firefox, Chrome and Safari. It is fixed …
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Comment #23398954
The name reminds me of Big Bismuth!
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Comment #22998942
He writes: "Of course if that’s a major problem, then offering 2FA logins and password verification via cell phone wouldn’t make much sense either." But this is not necessarily tru…
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Comment #22813381
Firebase seems back up for us now.
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Comment #22642615
Works for me
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Comment #22571951
Wow @ptsneves, that sounds really cool. Could you give me a consultation on video streaming? I want to implement this into my product. If so, please write to my username at gmail. …
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Comment #22569291
If this is backed by Twilio cloud webRTC API, I believe that does not support more that 50 people at a time watching the video
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Comment #19722110
Whittaker organized a walkout to protest the way that allegations of sexual assault were mishandled. Is there evidence that she also organized the petition related to the external …
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Comment #15278067
Not really. The BBC is a pretty independent body, and criticizes the government often. RT is a propaganda arm of the government and is under its direct control, as all mass media i…
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Comment #11243651
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Lee_Wilson
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Comment #9122907
Never regretted quitting. Every time regretted not quitting sooner.
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Comment #8559889
Yep. This is precisely what Mayday.US is fighting.
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Comment #8558799
More specifically, the experiment is about how to sway voters on the issue of money in politics. I particularly like this page for the big picture: https://mayday.us/the-plan/ Look…
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Comment #8558770
Overall, we have mostly positive feedback about Stripe, and have been happy with the usability for our users as well as on the back end. It's been especially great for mobile. Our …
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Comment #8558736
We were in two primaries, and our candidate won in one of them, in another he moved from 9% to 24 or so of the vote. Today is the day we learn more. Hopefully some of our candidate…
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Comment #8558712
From our users, the most feedback we have heard about this functionality is: "I want to change my card details, but it keeps bringing up my old card" The solution is to put the cur…
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Comment #7978718
Check out https://mayday.us/the-plan and also http://reform.to/#/reforms for specific pieces of legislation that will be the 1st step in addressing the problem.
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Comment #7440032
Hey all, unfortunately (but also fortunately), we are full up to capacity for this event. Please contact me if you are interested in other ways you can support teamdemocracy.us, or…
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Comment #7439981
Tyranny of the majority is still better than any other system humanity has so far come up with. Some of the suggested hacks are listed at the link. They will not, by themselves, ge…
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Comment #7439967
Some media reform and education reform can be imagined that would help with this problem. However, no such reform can actually be enacted while our lawmakers are dependent on their…
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Comment #7439055
Very good points. In fact, transparency legislation in California failed by one vote just this week. Check out California Clean Money Campaign (who are also working with us on the …
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Comment #7438438
The threat to democracy from closed electronic voting systems is well documented. But why do these systems get put in place? Could it have some connection with political donations …
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