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> Your credit card number being stolen is a problem for your bank, not a problem for you. Not necessarily, depending on where you're based.

I would find it quite annoying to get any of those emails. When I give you my email, it's not because I actually want to hear from you; it's because you've made it the only — or th…

It's a quote from Hamilton, the musical.

I see where billme is coming from. I don't do it here (because I don't comment much, because I mostly use https://hackerweb.app for reading), but I do it on reddit. Once you've lef…

I don't see a single argument in the article why, conditional on: 1. Me deciding to send a given message 2. Me deciding to use email for that message ... I should send it over an u…

Great, pubmed and other NCBI resources are long due for a redesign. I also wish they got a shorter url.

> when you're down to guessing it's guaranteed to be safe Sure. But, in a complex situation, it's rather hard to know whether "you're down to guessing". It seems like there's no mo…

See also the author's blog post about how he built it: https://pwmarcz.pl/blog/kaboom/

> Spot them all: the URL, the problem, the browser, how many tabs are open on that browser, the fact that this person has an unusual number of Facebook tabs open and probably isn’t…

It is done using symbolic algebra, not just assigning specific coordinates if that's what you're asking. Let's say you're given three parallel lines. You can put your x axis along …

It's not different from what pip install or gem install do by default. A mature Haskell project such as hledger has probably a few hundred of transitive dependencies, so you won't …

Don't compete on the price then. Compete on something else, like the working conditions. The author describes how they had to drive 50 miles every day, use the corporate laptop (or…

Except that makes it super easy for anyone to fill that void. Someone who you've pissed off could write some trash about you and it would become the #1 result on google.

The article doesn't seem to mention this, but you can already disable popups for notifications in Firefox. 1. Go to Preferences, Privacy & Security 2. Scroll to Permissions > Notif…

How are they going to afford the rent and salaries? Besides being very niche, their margins must be very low.

This one answers my question better: https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Artic... > Why does Google let Startpage access their search results? > Startpage.com ha…

Do they have a contract with google? Or how do they get around captchas and cease and desists?

I've long been curious how exactly they determine the "registered domain", and your comment made me finally look for the answer. It looks like they use (and semi-manually maintain)…

> How many news organizations or writers or blogs or podcasts do you pay for every month? Honestly, zero. There's just too much great free content. If a podcast I like to listen to…

> The document also discussed how the proposals could be best presented to employees to minimize frustration, according to one of the people. That caused the most anger among some …

Yes, but: > Create a name and email — neither need to be real — to make this quiz seem more realistic. Don’t worry, this information won’t leave your device. I'd trust this notice …