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philtar··on Ask HN: Did I make a mistake jumping on the homestead bandwagon?
I can't imagine why anyone would do this other than to escape their role in society.
philtar··on List of games that Buddha would not play
I don't think the world Self-Important means what you think it means. While I'm not religious, these are thinkers whose works are probably the longest surviving works of thought. This is just being facetious.
philtar··on The Futurama Theorem
It does in the music world.
philtar··on The Booming Underground Market for Bots That Steal Your 2FA Codes
Now to explain this to my mother.
philtar··on Google's payments team is seeing an exodus of executives and employees
It's definitely going to get thrown out eventually. 100%. It can't hold a candle to Apple Pay and some exec is gonna convince the higher ups that they need to rebuild it from scratch.

I wouldn't put anything past the company that risked everything on Google+ and then basically abandoned it a few months later when they didn't see the mass exodus they were so delusional in expecting.

philtar··on Philippine ethnic group has most Denisovan DNA
Disappointing that cancel culture has actually stopped you from educating us on a topic I would be interested about. I knew this was bound to affect me personally some day but I didn't know how to tackle it.
philtar··on Platform teaches nonexperts to use machine learning
What's wrong with 3D printing?
philtar··on Playdate pre-orders begin in July
> literally unpolished aesthetic

They are seemingly, or apparently unpolished. Not literally. You can bet that they spent a huge amount of time making sure it looks unpolished but still good.

philtar··on Grafana 8.0
Changelog is for developers. Terms and Conditions is for lawyers.
philtar··on How to Start a Novel
"Ignore this sentence and your child will die."
philtar··on What I learnt roasting 200 landing pages
If this was a dark pattern then almost all of sales is a dark pattern.
philtar··on WhatsApp will progressively kill features until users accept new privacy policy
Yes (or an Android VM before anyone tries to get pedantic)
philtar··on Yamauchi No.10 Family Office
This is easily one of my top 10 favorite HN posts.

Interesting, informative, and polite. (Last one is super important)

philtar··on Israel may have achieved herd immunity against Covid-19
Yes. Israel's Trump is single handedly responsible for this success.
philtar··on Writing tools I learned from The Economist
So we can't get rid of the senior editors after all?
philtar··on New Alan Turing £50 note design is revealed
Funny enough, you did, and he did not.
philtar··on Medical chatbot using OpenAI’s GPT-3 told a fake patient to kill themselves
OpenAI: Don't use GPT in medical settings.

Internet uses GPT in medical settings and gets bad results

Internet: insert image of shocked pikachu

philtar··on Hacker increased chemical level at Oldsmar's city water system, sheriff says
You must be a pentester, because the commenter above you wasn't talking about pentesting at all.

His comment says that small rural town water treatment plants don't have to run for 24/7. Not sure what you thought he was saying.

philtar··on Show HN: Epub.to – ePub to pdf, mobi, Kindle, and an API
Calibre has a plugin the allows the converter to work with DRM
philtar··on Pip has dropped support for Python 2
Or, you know, upgrade in the 12 years you had to upgrade since Python announced it was moving Python 3.
philtar··on Larry King has died
'97 or '98 for me.

Went online because I heard Nasa put up pictures of Mars so the first website I went to was nasa.gov

I typed out the entire url like nasa.gov/pathfinder/images or whatever it was after seeing it on TV and writing it down. It took a while to load and then was super underwhelming. I think I searched for Sonic The Hedgehog next.

philtar··on Raspberry Pi as x2go “thin” client
F
philtar··on I no longer trust The Great Suspender
Auto Tab Discard adds an option to your right click menu "Open in Discarded Tab"
philtar··on Google Fi support goes silent after admitting coverage is “nonexistent” in area
This is why I don't depend on Google for anything critical other than email.

It's really quite astounding how fast this company has gone from darling for the tech world to corporate super villain.

philtar··on Licensing changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana
Then oracle will change it to whatever license they want regardless of what the original license was.
philtar··on Fitbit is now officially part of Google
This reads like a Google shill wrote it, but if not:

1) the fear of Google owning data is that they will be able to target us more and more. As if our internet behavior data wasn't enough, now they have our biological data.

2) the fact that they don't sell it misses the point because in fact they are the party we don't want the data to get to (along with Facebook et all). And you can bet your ass they'll sell it when they strapped for cash.

3) I would definitely not rather my data he with a tech giant who can map it with all my other data that they currently have.

philtar··on VMware Falls on Report Its Software Led to SolarWinds Breach
This is standard for financial publications. If they wrote out the whole sentence on bloomberg it would seem very 'noob' like.
philtar··on Ask HN: Hackers locked my dad out of WhatsApp – need advice
I emailed whatsapp about this a while back and they said it was a non-issue.

How this happens:

1. Hacker adds phone number to their own whatsapp. They do this to thousands/tens of thousands of phone numbers.

2. All of those phone numbers receive an SMS with the OTP to activate whatsapp. In that OTP, there's also a link that will activate whatsapp if you click it. "Enter code XXXXXX or click this link to activate whatsapp on your new phone"

3. Someone, somewhere eventually clicks that link.

4. Hackers take whatsapp account. Add two-factor authentication to it so that you can't take it back by reauthenticating normally.

5. Extortion.

People usually get it back by contacting whatsapp.

philtar··on New York Times retracts core of podcast series ‘Caliphate’
I suspect your idea of 'very realistic' is from news sources like the NYT and not from actually being to Syria.

As someone who has been to Syria multiple times, I can assure you that US news is much closer to Hollywood than reality.

philtar··on An upcoming story about Coinbase
I'm talking about what we have in front of us. You're defending the NYT's article without even having seen it. I can't argue against magical articles that haven't been published yet.

Also, if you think the NYT doesn't 'lie', then how about you read up on their reporting of the Duke lacrosse team case, or their hundreds of others examples of complete disregard to journalistic integrity.

Coinbase isn't perfect. But NYT lies. A lot.

But EVEN if the NYT doesn't lie, you haven't read the article yet.

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