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yawaworht1978

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yawaworht1978··on Australian mining billionaire files lawsuit against Facebook over scam ads
Yes it still 270k , that's a lot of lawyer hours and they might become open to the same penalties in other jurisdictions. If you calculate times 100nations and an increased volume plus the PR hit, it's best to delegate to legal.
yawaworht1978··on GDPR penalty for passing on of IP address to Google by using Google Fonts
Kind of, the good thing is, if the user used chrome(good chance), the billing just goes to a different department.
yawaworht1978··on Arizona Introduces a bill to make Bitcoin Legal Tender [pdf]
I am totally against all things Bitcoin, however, it's not coined exclusive in the us and the constitution is not immutable, else it would be a very bad document that can't get with the times.

Anything in the constitution is not canonical forever.

yawaworht1978··on Why Ireland's housing bubble burst
Let's see.

Prosperity, low-interest rates, wider mortgage product offerings, and easy to access credit cause pricing bubbles.

Now, forces that make a housing bubble pop include a downturn in the economy, a rise in interest rates, as well as a drop in demand.

We've had all that and credit is getting more expensive.

Theres only so many people who can live somewhere or buy to rent scheme spaces, developers building as much and fast they can and you can't renew all the older buildings.

In the end, follow the money, all the stake holders and you'll find it is always universal greed at the root.

I am not so sure that building houses for non business purposes should be handled so liberally.

yawaworht1978··on Divorce in the rich world is getting less nasty
Is leaving the country an option?

And what do you mean no end in sight? Child alimentation stops at certain places after some age threshold is reached, certainly there must be a limit.

If your salary is 80gross or net and you pay half , do the math what you'd get in another country and leave if it makes sense.

If you make much more than that, I would suck it up.

yawaworht1978··on Tesla Model 3 Owner Discovers Car Was Delivered Missing a Brake Pad
This is the same company people are supposed to trust with FSD?

Good luck with that.

yawaworht1978··on Zendesk pretends to be open source?
Indeed looks like they're after some organic traffic.

Similar shenanigans with other freemium products, where the bare minimum is free, but makes you dependent on shopping for the costly features.

It's extremely hard. To compare pricing, especially with concurrent users etc. I have to say, adobe is one of the most transparent in that regard, it's very clear what you will get.

yawaworht1978··on Zendesk pretends to be open source?
I have seen this often recently, sass providers claiming they are open source because they have free trials, can be rented or worst, because they have an API.
yawaworht1978··on I am experiencing a text parsing bug on HN
Nope , nothing such like.

Only happens on HN, I faintly remember it might have happened on Reddit once, but here, it's consistent and reproducible.

yawaworht1978··on Novak Djokovic's Visa Cancelled by Australian Minister for Immigration
I am a fierce anti conspiracy person, but this covid situation is having me thinking.

They say natural resistance is better or equal than from the vaccine, everyone apart from anti vaxxers like Djokovic has had a shot or two or three, there's no herd immunity or herd protection

Can someone explain the math to me?

Also people said the regular flu does not exist anymore, give or take, because everyone is wearing masks. Nothing could be further from the truth, full family had flu twice now, me three times(never had that before in my.life, once a year max was normal) and I see the regular flu wave still existing. I haven't had covid that I know of, did tests and am vaccinated.

yawaworht1978··on U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient
I have worked/imterned on a pig farm once.

The pigs realize more than you'd think, their moms know when you're about to castrate the babies and they remember it, too.

When the slaughterhouse van comes along, they can feel something is wrong, this is, before the van is even visible. They might remember other pigs not coming back from the ride or something, but to kill another animal to save the human animal is not very nice.

yawaworht1978··on Cryptoland [video]
This is baffling, if it's still for sale, then the project has not really started, or is not at the promised stage.
yawaworht1978··on Cryptoland [video]
For a good laugh on this matter, I recommend reading this.

https://blog.mollywhite.net/cryptoland-thread/

The level of incompetency and ironical jokes is overwhelming.

yawaworht1978··on Upwork asking me for a $12.5k refund as the client was using someone else’s card
It's crazy how Airbnb, amazon and this company don't care if the card holder and the user account holder are the same.

I work in finance and this is often a total no go in many industries , even with consent of the card holder.

But going strict on this will cause friction I suppose, just like CVV codes aren't mandatory on transactions, so some companies leave them out of the payment process. It only helps a bit during a charge back defense to have CVV and 2fa enabled.

I have read about other dodgy things that Upwork has done before, nasty bunch.

Predictably, this outcry will make them "rethink" their position on this one case and they will "apologize" and most likely not update the KYC checks and carry on as usual.

yawaworht1978··on Tesla's Next-Generation Model Y Chassis
I get, on Android mobile in chrome : First Contentful Paint (FCP) 2.1 seconds, it's ok scores 99 points.

For the medium url I get

First Contentful Paint 3.1 s Time to Interactive 18.5 s Speed Index 9.7 s Total Blocking Time 6,160 ms

Horrible.

Reduce unused JavaScript and defer loading scripts until they are required to decrease bytes consumed by network activity.

Even main.js is guilty.

1.9s there.

Serve images in next-gen formats 1.8 s

And very interesting, why does the following happen.

Avoid multiple page redirects 1.56 s

Reduce the impact of third-party code Third-party code blocked the main thread for 5,660 ms Minimize main-thread work 15.7 s Reduce JavaScript execution time 12.3 s

Wow

yawaworht1978··on Google fined €150M, Facebook €60M for for non-compliance with French legislation
That's a bit like saying heroin addicts simply shouldn't use it, the companies are starving for revenue.
yawaworht1978··on Chatbots: Still dumb after all these years
Some of them are literally a form linking to the faq part based on user input.

I think it's ok as a first step to route customer care cases, like "payments issue","delete account" etc, but nothing more granular than that.

That and link rot, when procedures have been updated, but the faq haven't. Infuriating.

yawaworht1978··on Google fined €150M, Facebook €60M for for non-compliance with French legislation
By that logic, if every dev would face very serious legal consequences, the client could not just hire another dev.

I never liked the "will find another" trope.

The Chinese , after the opium wars, simply executed dealers and users.

Very radical, but you bet dealers wouldn't just find the next user and vice versa

yawaworht1978··on Google fined €150M, Facebook €60M for for non-compliance with French legislation
Spain would not hesitate to do so, they don't care much about title or rank or name, so long it's not one of their own.
yawaworht1978··on Internet disrupted in Kazakhstan amid energy price protests
It wouldn't surprise me if the UK and the us sold these weapons to them, then it's easy to claim "look they have these weapons".
yawaworht1978··on Elizabeth Holmes found guilty
I always wonder why people who buy Tesla's fsd think that is any different.

The company literally tells them the hardware is there, it's "only" missing the software.

Like, what's a robot worth without the undeveloped software.

yawaworht1978··on Elizabeth Holmes found guilty
This is dated Nov 2013 and it's a hilarious read.

People from the fields have laughed about her and Theranos for a long time.

https://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/theranos.1043576/

yawaworht1978··on Search engines and SEO spam
Can I ask what you mean by public?

It's not open source as far I know and there's only the free trial way to try it.

yawaworht1978··on Google no longer producing high quality search results in significant categories
I agree, the results are too heavily influenced by domains like reddit, Pinterest, Quora.

The next thing I have realized, if I am looking for something about a topic or a person and there are current events heavily in the media on the person or the issue, it's almost impossible to get something useful or even related.

Stack overflow results are sometimes replaced by less useful GitHub links.

Then , job search results are pretty bad too , same for shopping items.

It seems like media outlets and the big traffic domains get preferential treatment.

And this is just for English, God knows how bad this will be in other languages.

yawaworht1978··on Germany: Data retention to be abolished
Without warrant or accountability?

How would they go on about infecting a PC?

Crazy that the app stores play along.

yawaworht1978··on Browse the web like its 1999
Some of the scripts need to be placed in the head section of the document which is a blocking operation.

Some of the ads are generated on the run based on that tracking data and it involves many, many http round-trips before it's injected via ajax. Further, comment sections have some sort of fb tracking integration, triggering even more round trips.

And all that is separately loaded on a non optimized website layer with many externa JavaScript frameworks and dependencies.As well as injected video components, huge images which most likely aren't optimized. Lazy loading should be native now, no jQuery function needed, no intersection observer either, and it does work ok, but it's often not properly implemented or not at all.

As for react, the stripped shadow Dom might be faster then the native Dom, but you still need the Dom and react is still a heavy load. I remember the days when people said don't needlessly load jQuery. Today, people use react when there's no real need to do so.

yawaworht1978··on Ask HN: How did my LastPass master password get leaked?
The best I could find is this

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10041298/how-to-recover-...

But can you show me the way how you'd go on about this? Really curious.

yawaworht1978··on LastPass users warned their master passwords are compromised
Good idea, I would add a yubikey to that, for an additional step.
yawaworht1978··on LastPass users warned their master passwords are compromised
Wow, how can this amount of files be justified?

And how did this breached exactly happen?

yawaworht1978··on JavaScript for Impatient Programmers
Thanks, is there a public repo?
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