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sah2ed··on FTC sues Amazon for illegally maintaining monopoly power
> https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-parado...

The article has been discussed around here before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20079699 (2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13562968 (2017)

sah2ed··on Tell HN: There is a highlights page on HN
I guess https://news.ycombinator.com/lists which is at the footer of every HN page.
sah2ed··on AWS IPv4 Estate Now Worth $4.5B
No need to use Shodan. AWS already publishes the IPv4 address it owns in JSON from a well-known endpoint [0].

[0]: https://ip-ranges.amazonaws.com/ip-ranges.json

sah2ed··on Ask HN: How is Rust used in the Linux kernel today?
This reply is from another (major) Linux kernel developer.

For those not in the know, gregkh = Greg Kroah-Hartman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Kroah-Hartman

> broodbucket

sah2ed··on Chrome now tracks users and shares a “topic” list with advertisers
> But this is not my field.

> Would a VPN do what I need? Where are instructions that a n00b can follow?

Never used them myself but lots of HN commenters think highly of the VPN services offered by Mullvad [0]. In fact, right now, Mullvad is currently on the HN frontpage [1], from a blog post by Tailscale.

0: https://mullvad.net/en

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37420053

sah2ed··on jq 1.7
I think parent is referring to the habit of technically inclined folks of using "trivially" similar to words like "simply" and "just" [0][1] in a way that assumes too much about what the reader already knows.

[0] https://www.parkersoftware.com/blog/stop-using-simply-in-tec...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35759449

sah2ed··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2023)
> Anywhere in Europe (CET +/- 2h)

Is being in Europe a strict requirement or candidates within CET +/- 2h but outside Europe are welcome to apply?

sah2ed··on Ask HN: How do you look for jobs in 2023?
Remote Rocketship is paid :(
sah2ed··on Today I realized I now trust Microsoft more than Google. What is happening?
Please tell me how.
sah2ed··on Render nuked my entire account with no notice
Perhaps your IP is on some kind of blacklist (due to past activities of the previously assigned owner of that IP)?

Might be worth investigating.

sah2ed··on Musl 1.2.4 adds TCP DNS fallback
Yes.

Musl 1.2.4 Released–Supports DNS Transport over TCP (openwall.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35813978

sah2ed··on Show HN: ssh-tpm-agent – SSH agent for TPMs
Show HN: My SSH server knows who you are

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10004678

sah2ed··on GPT-4 is great at infuriating telemarketing scammers
Heaven Banning is hypothetical, it's not real. At least not yet.

If you look closer at the date in the screen shot of a NYT article in your link, you'll see that the date was deliberately chosen to be in the future (i.e. August 8, 2024).

sah2ed··on Advertise on DuckDuckGo Search
Would be nice if you could ask the DDG team to cite the links you provided as footnotes to your claim "DuckDuckGo owns the #2 position in mobile market share in the US, and 18 other markets ..." in TFA.
sah2ed··on Comparison site for digital analytics tools
Agree. They definitely need to add Umami [1]. They appeared on the frontpage nearly 3 years ago [2].

1: https://umami.is/

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24198329

sah2ed··on Google to reduce workforce by 12k
That's because of something called the institutional imperative https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14287430
sah2ed··on Ask HN: If I enter account or order in a phone tree, why am I asked again?
> I'm really interested in this problem.

Ah, the good ol' institutional imperative :-).

Start here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14287430

sah2ed··on Hacker Stations – Tech workspace setups to get inspiration from
Yes, and they even had a showing on HN recently [0].

https://www.workspaces.xyz/

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32265223

sah2ed··on Pinterest pays $89.5M to terminate San Francisco office lease
> There must be some other side of Pinterest that I've never seen, where it performs a useful function for its users?

Lots of female users use Pinterest for organizing pins for a wedding. Essentially, they are great as a wedding checklist planner.

sah2ed··on Tell HN: Check medium's localstorage if you use adblock
> But they aren’t more successful through the blog platform, instead by providing website foundation most companies use to create company websites, e-commerce websites and, a few of them, blogs.

The blog platform provided the very foundation for their success because once people found out how easy it was, relative to the competition[0], to stand up an online presence using WordPress, you could "convert" the blog into an e-commerce website or a CMS or anything you can think of that needs to spit out HTML/CSS/JS, via the use of free/paid WordPress plugins.

[0] WordPress' competition included a wide variety of product categories apart from Movable Type, which used to be the dominant open source blogging platform. From dedicated CMS products like Joomla or Drupal or Plone, to dedicated e-commerce products like OsCommerce. WordPress fit nicely in the middle of these product categories due to its vibrant plugin community and focus on ease of use (at the cost of security), which is part of why it became popular.

sah2ed··on First tax year with Stripe Atlas
> The hardest part would be acquiring a business bank account because of the Know Your Customer anti-money-laundering regulations and checks, but that can be dealt with by most banks and you don't need to visit the UK or live here for that.

Which british banks allow remotely opening a business bank account without visiting the UK?

sah2ed··on First tax year with Stripe Atlas
> I got my Certificate of Incorporation and a bank account (got blocked, but that's a different story) ...

Would appreciate the story if you shared it, we are still in a pandemic :)

sah2ed··on How to Write in Plain English
> So, the solution is to dumb everything down to the least common denominator?

Essentially, yes.

Using words most people are familiar with will afford a lot of people nearly instantaneous cognition [0] of the information you are trying to convey with your writing.

This applies to both ends of the reading spectrum: highly educated people who do a lot of reading than most; and poorly educated people who probably had to drop out of school to make ends meet.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subitizing

sah2ed··on How to Write in Plain English
> This makes total sense to me. Simple language makes room for complex ideas.

My takeaway is slightly different: simple words (familiar) are easier to digest than big words (unfamiliar) because familiar words will be parsed very quickly for most people than unfamiliar words.

I prefer to use the categorization of “familiar” vs “unfamiliar” because the categorization of a word as “big” or “simple” depends largely on the reading ability of the person making the assessment.

sah2ed··on Launch HN: Epihub (YC S20) – Shopify for teaching online
> Any particular countries you're looking for?

The COVID-19 situation will probably persist for a while so why not enable billing for as many territories as possible?

I haven’t used them but I think a service like Paddle might be a decent compromise for handling billing in countries not yet supported by Stripe.

https://paddle.com/

sah2ed··on Apple, Epic, and the App Store
> I think it’s absurd that you can neither buy a kindle book from the iOS kindle app nor the Amazon app. How user unfriendly!

You can still buy Kindle books on iOS using Mobile Safari so there is that.

sah2ed··on Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addresses on Chrome 86
> That extra human readable section is not added for humans. It’s added for SEO. That is, for Google.

It is indeed for humans. After all, the whole purpose of SEO is to show up on the 1st or 2nd SRP for web searches conducted by humans.

sah2ed··on YC Startup School: Build Sprint and Equity-Free Grants
I agree somewhat but there are still differences between the 2 workouts. I guess it boils down to the different muscle types that are recruited for each workout: slow-twitch muscles for jogging versus fast-twitch muscles for weightlifting.

Linear progress is easy to track with runs when you push yourself hard enough as you say, but not so much with weights because it comes with it’s own tending. For instance, to really see results rapidly, your diet has to change such that you are getting certain amounts of protein and other nutrients to build muscle mass.

I have tried to copy the discipline I’ve inculcated from running regularly for weightlifting, but I’m not able to sustain it because in addition to it using up fast-twitch muscles, it also comes with a change in dietary habits that go with that kind of workout.

sah2ed··on YC Startup School: Build Sprint and Equity-Free Grants
Thanks for the tips!

God willing, I’ll try out the same-time same-days tip this weekend and see if I can sustain it for a month. If I can’t make it work, I’ll trial the gym membership tip.

Thanks!

sah2ed··on YC Startup School: Build Sprint and Equity-Free Grants
IMHO, YC tends to launch these kinds of programs around summer.

The first iteration of this was launched in July 2015 and it was called the YC Fellowship. Participation was accomplished remotely via video chat and grant money was $12000.

https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-fellowship/

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