Flagging as a means of shutting down opinions people disagree with or to target groups they don't like is unfortunately very common. Sometimes even in organized fashion, where a group will urge its members to flag…
It didn't have to go anywhere, and in many cases it didn't. Imagine you have a house (500k) and a car(20k) in 2007. Today you still have the same house (now valued at 400k) the same car (now valued at 10k). Your net…
"We do the same for Facebook: Slotboom is able to intercept the login name and password I entered with relative ease." Is Facebook not using encryption for login? That would surprise me. Or is the author either…
I'm so tired of people who don't know what "free market" means making up their own definition and then saying it's a bad thing. A "free market" is an economics term meaning a marketplace free from anti-competitive…
Slight correction - it has access to your friends who have also used the facebook login for that site. If you're the first person to login, the site will get an empty list. Only the set of your friends who have…
Ghostery blocks access to the content due to how they're doing a redirect. I wonder if that's intentional, was one of the seven habits users who block trackers?
So were ICQ, AIM, MSN, Google Chat, texting, maybe FB messenger, WhatsApp. I myself have migrated my primary messaging platform through half that list. Isn't there a tremendous risk snapchat users leave that platform…
Adding to JasonCEC's comment, a semi-famous example of this phenomenon appeared in the blind taste-test challenge Pepsi marketed vs Coke. Pepsi, being slightly sweeter, was preferred when participants took a single…
Which still sounds wrong to me. I'd expect "You're not allowed to breathe oxygen" or "You're not allowed to have oxygen". So I guess it's "allowed" which is being used in a way I'm unfamiliar with.
I'm confused by the awkward grammar in the title. Is it intentional for humor (like xkcd's 'going to try science') or is that wording acceptable use in British dialects? I'm parsing it as "You're not allowed <to use>…
It absolutely can be both. The government-run solution could be poorly managed, unreliable and overly expensive while still scaring away the massive investment needed for someone else to compete. A private for-profit…
Oh come on. Referring to unproductive jobs as dead wood is a perfectly fine idiom. Nobody is implying the people who hold those jobs have any personal failings or aren't capable of doing productive work, but the jobs…
Dumb question: what is the status of the un-owned (un-vested) portion of shares in the first years? Suppose two people, A and B, are equal partners each vesting towards 50% ownership in 3 years. After the first year,…
The studies you're referencing are very misleading. Many countries have much lower variation in income than the US. Imagine two normal curves, but one (the US) is very flattened and one (northern Europe) with a sharp…
I don't see exactly what the threat here is. How am I being harmed by someone choosing to show me an ad for something relevant to my interests than something that's not? I'm not saying that I'm not being harmed, just…
I understand the problems with checking-in as you go places. What I don't understand is the value in checking in as you leave. Why publish a check-in at all? What do users gain by checking-in?
Is putting 2XC on default perhaps a strategic move in response to the rise of tumblr? Tumblr has a pretty large number of very-active posters across a broad range of feminism/lgbt/racism/etc blogs. Basically if you can…
It's entirely possible they are self-aware enough to appreciate being part of the joke. Many people on HN enjoy the show despite having similarities to the characters. I see no reason to believe 'techcrunch can't…
They do if they want to work for Google, Adobe, Intel... http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/25/technology/settlement-sili... http://pando.com/2014/03/27/how-steve-jobs-forced-google-to-...
This is the type of pointless click-bait, flamewar-starting article I used to flag, but I appear to have lost my ability to flag articles. Has the karma threshold changed or was my account specifically stopped from…
When you say bitcoin doesn't have them, you just mean bitcoin is currently making it possible for you to commit tax fraud, right? Bitcoin hasn't magically changed the laws of the world, it's not freeing anyone from…
Why would anyone worry about being anonymously slandered, on a stream of nothing but anonymous slander? It seems like it would take about 1 day for this to go from truths and half-truths to just a contest for who can…
I have average health insurance. My insurance pays 80% of my costs until I have spent $5,000 and then it pays 100% after that. As I said in my original post, I'm talking about the middle class not the poor. A maximum…
Steve jobs lied to his close friend Steve Wozniak about the payment from Atari in the 1970s so he could keep 90% of the money. His daughter was raised on welfare by a single mother for a period of time while he refused…
"Become millionaires" sounds a lot sexier than "Will be adequately prepared for retirement when they're 65". If you have a full career in any white-collar profession and don't have a million dollars between your 401k,…
Flagging as a means of shutting down opinions people disagree with or to target groups they don't like is unfortunately very common. Sometimes even in organized fashion, where a group will urge its members to flag…
It didn't have to go anywhere, and in many cases it didn't. Imagine you have a house (500k) and a car(20k) in 2007. Today you still have the same house (now valued at 400k) the same car (now valued at 10k). Your net…
"We do the same for Facebook: Slotboom is able to intercept the login name and password I entered with relative ease." Is Facebook not using encryption for login? That would surprise me. Or is the author either…
I'm so tired of people who don't know what "free market" means making up their own definition and then saying it's a bad thing. A "free market" is an economics term meaning a marketplace free from anti-competitive…
Slight correction - it has access to your friends who have also used the facebook login for that site. If you're the first person to login, the site will get an empty list. Only the set of your friends who have…
Ghostery blocks access to the content due to how they're doing a redirect. I wonder if that's intentional, was one of the seven habits users who block trackers?
So were ICQ, AIM, MSN, Google Chat, texting, maybe FB messenger, WhatsApp. I myself have migrated my primary messaging platform through half that list. Isn't there a tremendous risk snapchat users leave that platform…
Adding to JasonCEC's comment, a semi-famous example of this phenomenon appeared in the blind taste-test challenge Pepsi marketed vs Coke. Pepsi, being slightly sweeter, was preferred when participants took a single…
Which still sounds wrong to me. I'd expect "You're not allowed to breathe oxygen" or "You're not allowed to have oxygen". So I guess it's "allowed" which is being used in a way I'm unfamiliar with.
I'm confused by the awkward grammar in the title. Is it intentional for humor (like xkcd's 'going to try science') or is that wording acceptable use in British dialects? I'm parsing it as "You're not allowed <to use>…
It absolutely can be both. The government-run solution could be poorly managed, unreliable and overly expensive while still scaring away the massive investment needed for someone else to compete. A private for-profit…
Oh come on. Referring to unproductive jobs as dead wood is a perfectly fine idiom. Nobody is implying the people who hold those jobs have any personal failings or aren't capable of doing productive work, but the jobs…
Dumb question: what is the status of the un-owned (un-vested) portion of shares in the first years? Suppose two people, A and B, are equal partners each vesting towards 50% ownership in 3 years. After the first year,…
The studies you're referencing are very misleading. Many countries have much lower variation in income than the US. Imagine two normal curves, but one (the US) is very flattened and one (northern Europe) with a sharp…
I don't see exactly what the threat here is. How am I being harmed by someone choosing to show me an ad for something relevant to my interests than something that's not? I'm not saying that I'm not being harmed, just…
I understand the problems with checking-in as you go places. What I don't understand is the value in checking in as you leave. Why publish a check-in at all? What do users gain by checking-in?
Is putting 2XC on default perhaps a strategic move in response to the rise of tumblr? Tumblr has a pretty large number of very-active posters across a broad range of feminism/lgbt/racism/etc blogs. Basically if you can…
It's entirely possible they are self-aware enough to appreciate being part of the joke. Many people on HN enjoy the show despite having similarities to the characters. I see no reason to believe 'techcrunch can't…
They do if they want to work for Google, Adobe, Intel... http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/25/technology/settlement-sili... http://pando.com/2014/03/27/how-steve-jobs-forced-google-to-...
This is the type of pointless click-bait, flamewar-starting article I used to flag, but I appear to have lost my ability to flag articles. Has the karma threshold changed or was my account specifically stopped from…
When you say bitcoin doesn't have them, you just mean bitcoin is currently making it possible for you to commit tax fraud, right? Bitcoin hasn't magically changed the laws of the world, it's not freeing anyone from…
Why would anyone worry about being anonymously slandered, on a stream of nothing but anonymous slander? It seems like it would take about 1 day for this to go from truths and half-truths to just a contest for who can…
I have average health insurance. My insurance pays 80% of my costs until I have spent $5,000 and then it pays 100% after that. As I said in my original post, I'm talking about the middle class not the poor. A maximum…
Steve jobs lied to his close friend Steve Wozniak about the payment from Atari in the 1970s so he could keep 90% of the money. His daughter was raised on welfare by a single mother for a period of time while he refused…
"Become millionaires" sounds a lot sexier than "Will be adequately prepared for retirement when they're 65". If you have a full career in any white-collar profession and don't have a million dollars between your 401k,…