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From reading through the tweets and also being a backer (meaning I saw the charge from em), it looks like it might be related to people asking their banks to charge back because they saw a charge from “Hero’s Capital” instead of “Flipper inc” (whatever it is lol).

That makes sense but I’m a bit surprised at how many people immediately started the charge back process and said it was fraudulent. I looked at my statement, saw the cost matched up with the amount I was to be charged that same day and put two and two together. Flipper might not have alerted to the different name in a timely way, but they sent out a bunch of emails counting down to the day people would be charged.

If that is the case, the blame falls mostly on the Flipper folks for the lack of clarity of who would be charging backers. I’d say a there’s a bit of blame on the people charging back w/ fraud claims so quickly, too. The likelihood of your card being used fraudulently for the exact amount you were scheduled to be charged on the expected day is incredibly low.

I don't think this case will go anywhere but those are good points. It does sorta look like this was a "kind of" pump and dump market manipulation but I don't know if they will be able to pin it all on him. He's allowed to "give advice" but I don't know if misrepresenting himself as a novice trader would affect that. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out. I am split between thinking it will go nowhere and a judge "making an example" out of him.

Most financial advisors, like this person, do not day trade and certainly don't mess with options. Aside from the risks involved, I think you'd have a hell of a hard time finding insurance for your firm if that was the case. No one wants to be stuck by themselves when they fat-finger an extra zero and lose someone else's $50k.

It's definitely partly thanks to the bootcamps and whatnot because a bunch of the advice when finishing the programs revolves around having a consistent amount of github projects and commits to fill up that chart with green squares on your profile.

They didn't tell us to pick random projects from 5 years ago but they also didn't go into ettiquette about commits or really how to properly contribute, just "make sure your github is very active because that's what employers and recruiters want to see." My anxiety shoots through the roof just thinking about hitting up some random school project though...that's a bit far for me lol.

Our bootcamp didn't mention anything about a blog, just having a personal website as a portfolio like usual.

Overpopulation is a racist myth. Developed countries use far more resources and waste significantly more food than developing nations and wealthy people have a larger footprint than their working class counterparts.

https://wwf.panda.org/knowledge_hub/all_publications/living_...

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/01/chart-of-the-day-thes...

https://theconversation.com/emissions-inequality-there-is-a-...

According to their facebook it seems like the entire sleepsource site is theirs.

"I am a 15 year old front-end web developer and am working on growing sleepsources.com"

https://www.facebook.com/josh.ternyak.3

It definitely does on a staggered layout keyboard. There's a lot of good alternatives mentioned in the comments like the ergodox and whatnot that can help alleviate that awkward positioning. The rabbit hole of keyboard building and ergonomics is endless. The subreddit r/OLKB is a good starting point.

If you really want to confuse people, get something like a split ortho board or a 40% keyboard. Even without blank keycaps people at work used to be very confused seeing my Keebio Iris and they're very fun to build and type on!

Well, you've convinced me to go back to the doctor. I was on the cusp of taking one of the ADHD tests but my insurance couldn't tell me how much it would be and the doctor's office said they couldn't either. I was told it would be between $200 and $900 and couldn't afford the $900 risk. I ended up being billed $200 just for the initial visit of course.

But the longer I wait the more damage it's doing to my life. Out of your list I'd say 5/6 affect me, 5 being the odd one out as I can't sleep with anything but a fan on.

I'll be making my appointment today...well, probably tomorrow now. Let's hope I don't procrastinate.

I rarely use airplane mode outside of being on an airplane but I am always impressed with how much battery is saved in airplane mode even with continued use for a long flight.

>China can use free speech in the US against us. We do need to protect against that.

It's a bit bizarre how frequently I read comments like this about the whole issue. This is a big part of China's reasoning for not allowing "western imperialist propaganda" in their country.

I am curious about you and other people that have this opinion if you're all aware of that...? They believe their people are susceptible to western dystopic "democracy" propaganda and to protect them they regulate content. I just didn't think people thought the US needed to be protected from outside propaganda in the same way.

You can also look at the initial blaming of COVID on China in the media...The COVID pandemic was the result of either 3rd world-like food markets where poor/dirty people sell exotic meats to each other or that COVID got out of some underground lab where they do experiments and can't contain anything.

No one explicitly said that but it was implied pretty heavily especially when you look at how people received the news and interpreted it in memes and whatnot. I sent pictures of Wuhan to some family/friends and they were amazed at how big and impressive of a city it is. They thought it was like a small developing village.

It's kind of how we always talk about China though (regarding your initial comment) and I'm not sure if/when it will ever stop.

Honestly I hardly hear ring tones at all even more. Getting different styles of vibrations for different notifications is much better. More discrete, faster to determine the notification before you look at your phone, less jarring...I don't mind at all.

I did buy a ring tone one from the apple store or itunes, whatever it was. Immediately thought it was a waste of a dollar.

I am very torn on this. On one hand, these types of apps do come and go quickly. On the other, everyone I've met that spends time on TikTok thoroughly enjoys the content far more than they ever have on any other app...it's almost a bit bizarre. My fiancee will be in tears laughing for hours some nights and it's unlike anything I've ever seen. My family never shared vines or youtube videos but now our group chat is completely full of TikTok links. I think people are underestimating how much people seriously love TikTok of all ages, races, classes etc.

You're not kidding. I can only imagine the anger and outrage if North Korea, China, Russia etc. all launched 20,000+ satellites into space.

I'd guess we'd have a few people trying to shoot them down from their back yard, actually.

“Ask for your appliance to work. If they don't get your appliance to work, ask for toasted bread. If they do not get your appliance to work or toast your bread, then take their toasted bread.”

I'm pretty curious about this as well. I read an article a few weeks ago where some developer went into how TikTok is "worse" but nothing stuck with me about it but it was posted here. It's been mentioned a few times that the real problem is the data collected is sent back to China and Singapore but again I'm not entirely sure how that's "worse" than having it given/sold to companies and governments outside of Asia.

Why do people focus so much on how the data can potentially go back to China? It just feels like a redirection to distract us from the privacy violations here in the US. I understand why it's a concern but it just seems like every article always ends up talking mostly about Chinese companies, the Chinese government, how they respond to accusations etc. instead of focusing on our government, our corporations, our security forces all using or wanting to use technology like this.

Take the "Orwellian surveillance" part. We get about 2 paragraphs about how surveillance in the US is largely unregulated and whatnot and then 4 of them about China. The other sections afterwards seem like they were written to almost justify the use of surveillance in US corporations.

Maybe it's all in my head but it's just something I keep noticing whenever there's writing about surveillance in the US.

Really? I used the wrong account number to pay rent once and the fees were about $200. How on earth is the solution to rack up that number every month? People that are struggling probably live paycheck to paycheck and there's no way to pay back that backlog of missed payment fees with interest along with the total rent you missed.

Here in the southern US we've already started up the process of evicting people. Richmond, VA (which always finds itself in the top 10 cities in the US with the highest eviction rates) is in full swing.

I know it's easy for a lot of us to forget about people outside NYC and LA but there are not many renter protections down here in general, let alone during an economic crisis/pandemic.

It's not just that they're looked at as less than, it's that they have to be treated as such. I'm on a sort of "party" committee at my work (I know, I know) and we are explicitly told we have to go out of our way to ensure no one on contract gets invited to the events, receives any of the (shitty) gifts that management hands out etc. My understanding of the rule is pretty bad but I've been told it's because they can potentially make a case in court that they were treated as full employees and deserve the same benefits, protections etc.

>when my wife and I test drove a Model X in Chicago a few years back, one of the first things that the Tesla salesperson did was to encourage my wife to remove her hands from the steering wheel in Autopilot mode

My fiancee was told to do the same thing with her new Toyota Corolla when purchasing it with lane assist...not that it's totally related but sort of enforces your point more that the general public is where the issue really shines.

Oh man that has to be one of the most frustrating things whenever I go somewhere that has the news on...Hell, I saw someone use a twitter thread as a "source" as support for an argument on facebook.

Twitter can be such a cesspool...I'm just always surprised at how people can't stop looking at it despite it making them miserable.

My airpods pro are rattling as well. Great.

Is that really surprising on HN? IME there's always been a pretty big politically right leaning presence on here.

>"haha jit go brrrr"

It's unfortunate they're phasing out of google play music and putting everyone on the Youtube Music app. I had to transfer all my music to it the other day. I still pay $9.99 for everything though and get to watch youtube ad free so I don't really mind but it's a bit of a bummer.

Wow...TIL Microsoft had retail stores.

I'm not sure if this is a surprise to anyone when the CEO of Tesla has made it very clear that he doesn't believe the threat of COVID-19 is real and that a mandated quarantine is fascism. Couple that with the factory conditions that have been reported by workers previously and the result is this.