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nonasktell

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    Comment #33413197

    How about a giant freaking pandemic.

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    Comment #33403521

    Possible, yes. Easy, no. Chinese people don't have the best reputation here, most people think you're very smart, but people will worry about your English level/the readability of …

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    Comment #33403483

    We just went through a huge pandemic, a lot of people think we're on the brink of WW3, near a financial crisis, big inflation, huge mental and physical health problems. Everyone is…

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    Comment #33400788

    Having kids is mostly reproductive instincts. Which is different from the instinct to support your "tribe". Maybe you need find some place to volunteer? help your community? or do …

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    Comment #33398345

    Have you checked your privacy settings? They may also automatically shadowblock famous companies logos to prevent phishing/scamming

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    Ask HN: What's the ONE book I should read about software engineering?

    I'm a twenty something, mostly self taught software engineer/dev(started as a kid), a bit of a jack of all trades, but mostly doing fullstack JS development for a startup right now…

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    Comment #33387172

    it depends on your lawyer and on your face/outfit really

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    Comment #33385562

    Have you tried pentesting/security? A lot of the time it seems like it's about finding bugs, maybe not directly fixing them, but at least find what needs to be fixed

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    Comment #33383316

    For anyone reading this and thinking about spending your last 10 bucks on a programming book please use Libgen or a free mooc

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    Comment #33378393

    I read that more than once before. And while I agree(even though a lot of the people I've suffered with didn't stay my friends), it seems "slightly" unhealthy to look for a situati…

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    Comment #33367522

    I'm not that afraid to go out of my comfort zone but if I spontaneously talked to random people there is a good chance they'd see me as a dangerous lunatic given how weird I can be…

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    Comment #33365857

    (Failed founder here, but still a founder.) That you can't really help people without making money, having a profitable product/service/model. Even the most selfless billionaires i…

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    Ask HN: How do you build a social circle as a remote worker/nomad in a new city?

    I've always struggled to make friends, in college I've managed to befriend a few like-minded weirdos after a year or two of loneliness, but all of that fell apart after the first c…

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    Comment #33336287

    Price. I have a dozen ideas that could be done using GPT-3. Most of them aren't financially viable, I'm not burning half my income to build an MVP.

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    Comment #33334985

    maybe because pdf vulnerabilities are found so often that it would unleash one zero day a month

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    Comment #33334945

    Here's what used to work for me, if you do all of that at the same time you'd probably be fighting to stay awake after 10PM -as few stimulants as possible, the optimal amount being…

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    Comment #33268073

    Yes. I know at least one way to create unlimited outlook accounts for 0$(no paid proxy needed, no phone number, just a captcha solver model that can run on any PC, you could get a …

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    Comment #33241827

    Expect you're not licensing functions, you're licensing a repository. If I use a sentence or even a paragraph from a copyrighted book, it's not copyright infringement.

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    Comment #33241818

    Copilot is not selling code, they're selling GPU time. If you're ready to buy a hundred GPU/TPUs to train a new Copilot that is just as good, but for free, then go do it please, ev…

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    Comment #33241602

    Why would anyone want to stop Copilot is beyond me. Reinventing the wheel, millions of time a day, is an atrocity. Millions of (wo)man hours, wasted, every single day, on writing s…

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    Ask HN: How do you decide on what to build/avoid decision paralysis?

    I have a hundred ideas and a dozen half finished projects, I haven't shipped anything in so long. Whenever I start working on something I get new ideas that seems better, and I get…

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    Comment #33068207

    I mean yeah but Google doesn't count those clicks for ad revenue at all or maybe just on OVH or smaller provider,but AWS ips are definitely flagged for advertising

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    Comment #33067877

    Well it: -cuts their profits in half or more because they have to pay for the proxies(or if they own them they can't sell them since they need them) -it prevents most low skilled p…

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    Comment #33067771

    >When I worked in adtech, I proposed a simple solution to ad fraud on our platform - assume any UA coming from an IP range owned by a cloud provider was a bot and don't show them a…

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    Comment #33036279

    they don't https://email-checker.net/validate johndoe@fastmail.com exists noonehavethatmailhn@fastmail.com doesn't exists most mail providers don't guard against that