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They're also downranked a little, IIRC.
Show HNs aren't downranked.
Oh, thanks for the clarification! No idea why I thought that...
Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter
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Re: Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter
#232It's a clever concept, but I'm leery of having someone send a letter on my behalf to someone. You all haven't trademarked the idea, have you? I think I'll just write a few of these up myself and send them out.
Trademarked the idea? I don't think that word means what you think it means... I'm not OP, and I'm no lawyer, but I'm sure you're free to try this concept for yourself. Three ways to protect IP Trademark is for logos and names Parents are for methods and inventions Copyright is for works of art and writing They might be able to trademark the phrase "continue and persist", but it's not likely. If they had they would h…
So, I had a emoji in my original post that indicates a joke around the trademark comment, and I didn't realize HN automatically strips those out.
I appreciate the clarification in this and the comments below, but yeah, it was meant to be tongue in cheek.
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#233Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have to agree with cootsnuck here. If you are one of the people that found it necessary to raise red flags in these comments about this web site, here’s why I think you got your level of paranoia wrong in this case: 1. The site was never going to scale. The guys are printing physical letters and hand-inserting them in envelopes with stamps, for free! 2. So some entrepreneurial folks on the internet have gathered a…
I can't think of a better example of gaslighting, wow.
Care to elaborate?
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#234Earlier quoted context omitted.
The name and address is valuable because it can be matched to offline behavior through a bill you pay or rewards membership you are enrolled in to further enrich the data associated with id_8z6748dxzh and combine it with your shopping history at Macy's and Safeway, for instance. This is even more valuable when combined with your cellular bill. I've work in ad tech,and with CDPs for nearly 20 years.
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Personal attacks will get you banned here, so please don't do this.
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#236Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I don't want to plug in a cool person's info without knowing who the info is being sold to. Have we reached peak data privacy paranoia? Harmless lil projects that harken back to the good ol' days of the internet are somehow actually devious PII honeypots? Why do people think their data is so valuable on its own without being connected to their actual consumer related behavior? Truly, what is a name and address wort…
It’s not paranoia if they are really out to get you.
They are out to get everyone.
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#237I got so excited, already started to fill out a form to send the letter to my friend who recently got diagnosed with breast cancer and after they removed it they find that it had already spread, and since she's business oriented person, I'm sure she would appreciate this.
But guess what, it's US only, again...
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I agree so much, but the pessimist in me says that this isn't _really_ free, and I don't want to plug in a cool person's info without knowing who the info is being sold to. If this was publicly available document so I could fill in the missing bits, I'd send a dozen of these tomorrow.
> I don't want to plug in a cool person's info without knowing who the info is being sold to. Have we reached peak data privacy paranoia? Harmless lil projects that harken back to the good ol' days of the internet are somehow actually devious PII honeypots? Why do people think their data is so valuable on its own without being connected to their actual consumer related behavior? Truly, what is a name and address wort…
There are so many apps there days that collect all your personal data with so many promises but after you've spent like half an hour signing up and giving them all of your data, they smack you in the face with a pay wall...
I find this so annoying and to a point even criminal, as it's basically a scam, but App Stores do nothing about it, even if you report the apps.
Re: Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter
#239On a few occasions I’ve called the phone number on a professional vehicle’s “how’s my driving?” bumper sticker to report the driver for good driving. It’s always a fun experience.
I have done this and was told that the driver gets a safe driving certificate. (I was specifically calling because I had watched a semi prevent an accident by turning on their flashers and blocking lanes)