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no porn queries tho?

RMS discovered SEO

Go talk to your marketing team and you would be amazed by level of tracking those guys doing or should be doing in order to win the market.

I work in a very boring niche for a small company and you'll receive email from us and we'll know what ads you clicked to find us 1 year ago and that we'll keep your entire browsing history and utilize it to tailor our messaging and that's just a begining of it. And our budgets are fraction of what huge online advertisers spend.

Modern digital marketing wouldn't be possible without tracking and that's just how it is.

If we make it harder via regulations, we'll just make it more expensive and that's all. Kind of similar as drugs - demand is so strong that supply is going to be there no matter what you do.

I find it amusing how commenters on HN are so privacy-sensitive while good share of software industry today supports, depends on or directly is involved in people tracking, this way or another.

So we could have highways offering 100% automomy and small village roads offering 20% autonomy.

Investment wise it wouldn't be impossible since roads are already expensive to build.

What if we have sensors/cameras/etc along the road and they feed data to whichever car is there?

And if we also have cars share their sensor data?

Would that speed things up in terms of achieving full autonomy?

Easier then ever maybe but still probably impossible to avoid. It's not that anyone wants to mess up with live, it's more like you don't have a choice.

You're quite green, aren't you?

Idk how closely you guys are watching but industry around Amazon affiliates is huge and getting bigger. Amazon is basically outsourcing discovery to third party which means their AI can't keep up. I believe Amazon could be disrupted by niche player who do discovery and quality right.

It died because Facebook was better. As simple as that.

That's because our tools are not good enough so what we lack in tools we compensate by individual developer quality.

I spend a lot of time within WordPress ecosystem and I've seen people coming to me with 20K products shops they've built and maintain without a single line of code written.

I've seen companies operating online without having any developments either on contract or in house.

Because for certain simpler scenarios, there's UI based tools you can run your business on.

Sure they come to me because eventually they need something they can't do with tools they use but those are becoming more and more high level jobs.

Web development is pretty much figured out problem. You have legions of repleacable low value developers churning out pages and you have subset of highly paid specialists who can do more advanced things.

But those gazillions web pages are doing their job, they drive sales, improving information quality etc. so I could say digital workers are factory workers of our time.

On certain jobs line is blurry - designers can do basic WordPress but they also can set up MailChimp because machine needs to be humming.

Developers are new factory workers. Pay is good now because industry is expanding and there's not enough of us but it won't be like that forever. And bottom line work is already being commoditized (WordPress ecosystem etc).

...which means this is primarily US board.

I'm not sure what is so wrong with politely telling someone that you want to have sex with her or him. I mean I want many things but that doesn't mean I'll get them.

How little money FAANG spend for lobbying is a compliment to US political system.

Few millions a year for companies doing 10s or 100s billions in revenue, that's really rounding error.

And they would spend more if ROI is there but obviously it is not.

How we ended up here? Many of us make $100K+ per year yet important projects we use every day get little to no funding. It's Debian! And I'm as guilty as the next guy for not donating.

Would it be possible or feasible to compile a site into a single binary? Within binary there would be, say 1GB encrypted file system and embedded SQL lite could write data to it and embedded http process would be able to serve and store static content.

On startup you'd enter password and decrypt a baked-in filesystem.

I guess this would still be possible to break into as long as the app is working since decryption key would be saved in RAM but as soon as server goes offline data would be inaccessible.

Then you host this, say, in Russia or China and you should be safe from USA authorities.

Why do they need approval for this? It's not like Space is owned by anyone?

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I lived in an area where a lot of people were contracted to work for the US Army in their bases in Afganistan, Iraq, etc. for support roles (kitchen work, IT maintenance etc) with 6 months deployment, then a month free and 6 months again.

It was kind of a work that attracted many people from many different nationalities and their pay level was adjusted by average income in their home countries. So their expenses during the deployment were the same but the amount they would bring home was as much as 3x different for the same role.

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I think the big part of the problem is that people don't know what their device or software can do and what is possible to do with it.

Once you show people how to use a certain feature they get on quite easily.

Insane amount of productivity is lost because a lot of people don't feel comfortable with their digital tools and think they have to live with whatever default settings are.

"WE had twins so SHE wasn't going back to work anyway"

I'd say you were discriminating her way more than Google.

Kids are ruinous for women careers but only partly for practice like one described.

The other reason is that we as families, partners and society in general accept that kids are, essentially, a woman job.

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I can speed up any website, with focus on WordPress and WooCoomerce sites. Full stack performance optimization.

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I'd say CSS is part of a stack for a long time now.

My biggest issue with FF is Firebug - it just can't compete with Chrome dev tools. On the other hand, FF has one huge advantage - Pentadactyl.

I wonder what chances you have to get into Ivy League in the first place if your parents earn less then 125k.

I just don't understand why vendors limit max memory nowdays. I mean, I have 8GB in 8 years old T61.

Corporate culture is fancy word for lowering wages by hyping up a company and thus shifting bargaining power from employees to employer.

I mean, I'm all for that, but let's call things for what they really are.