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fav_collector··on Uber rape victim sues Uber, says execs got her medical records
IIRC, Uber was being sued by the Indian government over the case. Information is power
fav_collector··on Verizon closes $4.5B acquisition of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer resigns
I don't really understand the Ant Financial part or what the threat was. Could you elaborate further?
fav_collector··on Ask HN: Does anybody else feel overwhelmed while reading HN?
The only people who comment on the technical posts are the experts in that domain/topic. Most readers just read silently and don't have the knowledge/context to comment
fav_collector··on “Let her speak please”
> Women who do this are very often shamed and called "pushy" or "aggressive" for doing so, even

Yeah that's not going to happen at a STEM conference with the diversity craziness and witch hunting.

Maybe when hanging out and drinking with people.

fav_collector··on “Let her speak please”
Or that non-assertive women are treated well and non-assertive men are treated poorly. Men have to learn to be assertive to be treated as well as women.

You can see this dynamic in the dating world where non-assertive men are the losers of the game.

fav_collector··on WSJ Ends Google Users' Free Ride, Then Fades in Search Results
It depends on what you mean by 'content'. If content is what non subscribers see, then the content would be low quality.
fav_collector··on I’d Pay You $500k a Year, but You Can’t Do the Work
> 10x ReactJS developers, 10x Angular2 developers,

Are there really? I don't see many language/framework experts having 10x impact. Maybe Herb Sutter and Bjarne Stroustrup.

fav_collector··on Ask HN: Why do we have to study before applying for a job?
Because we get paid a lot. The reward/cost ratio for studying for interviews is very high.
fav_collector··on Young White America Is Haunted by a Crisis of Despair
You're sort of proving his point.

Manufacturing and coal towns are isolated. Manufacturing and coal are sometimes literally the only fields with jobs available in those towns.

Retail is generally located in places with many opportunities

fav_collector··on Ask HN: How would you solve the chicken and egg problem ( Dating Sites )
Paid traffic, affiliates, locality, promotions for users
fav_collector··on Ask HN: When do ISPs begin selling your data, and is a VPN all that's needed?
VPNs aren't really private. They can see everything that an ISP could see if you weren't using one. It's just a level of indirection.

I trust ISP companies more than I trust VPN companies because ISP companies are in the USA and are much larger (so engage in less risky behavior), so they at least have to sell data in aggregate and scrub PII

fav_collector··on New male contraceptive may be submitted for Indian approval this year
To be honest, I think children adopted very early in life would have better childhoods than children raised by their birth parents because

p(parents are generous/caring/loving | parents are the type of person to adopt a child) > p(parents are generous/caring/loving | parents bring pregnancy to term)

In addition, for adopted parents, we know that both parents want the child. Whereas with birth parents, we know that the mother wanted a child but we do not know if the father did.

fav_collector··on I’m Not “Black Enough” for Inc. Magazine
So what you're saying is that I can get into all ivies with a 2200 SAT score and 3.8 GPA?

And get internships at top companies based on my race?

And have parents and family who can speak proper english and understands American culture?

Sign me up.

fav_collector··on Palantir enables immigration agents to look up information from the CIA
> improper search of their personal papers to prove their citizenship

this is pretty sensationalized. It's very rational to request proof of citizenship before allowing entry to a country

fav_collector··on Genius laid off a bunch of its engineers
do they have competitors? Other lyrics sites look and feel like static html sites from the early 2000's
fav_collector··on Why Dentistry Is Separate from Medicine
Dental insurance isn't even really insurance so it isn't comparable to medical insurance since there are no out of pocket maximums and the maximum benefit is pathetically low. It's basically a dental care/maintenance subscription and if you need any major work, you're going to pay $$$.
fav_collector··on Why the bounce rate of AMP pages is so high
> heavily lower the ranking (or completely remove from their index) any sites that don't meet basic performance and readability thresholds.

This seems like a much tougher problem than AMP.

From an API design standpoint, it is much easier to build and maintain an endpoint that receives data that must be in a specific, proprietary data format instead of an endpoint that allows the user to input data in any format and then attempts to parse that data after receiving it.

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