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BartBochon Upwork just stole $10k from me

Knowing which company, that your live depends on, know how to make things right is crucial knowledge - thus the popularity of those threads IMO. When years of your life gets deleted in seconds, and the company starts ignoring you, that's the red flag that needs to be public. I'm not advocating for separate section, but the public have spoken - the popularity of those threads means it's crucial part of this community.

BartBochon DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its Search Results

Did you try in incognito? Your search gave me nearly identical results.

BartBochon The New York Times buys Wordle

No, you're not. I think the OP got carried away. Few years back everything new with at least minimal social touch was "New Social Network"

BartBochon Netlify raises $105M and acquires OneGraph

This can go really close to antitrust laws - I am not sure if the risk is worth it.

BartBochon $100M xPrize for Carbon Removal

Not a solution, but still - check "Oxytree". It's a tree "farmed" in Europe, that was created in Spain. Within 6 years it grows to 16 meters. You can cut it almost completely, and it will regrow. You cut it then every 4 years. It will regrow multiple times. The tree as far as I know cannot re-plant itself (so its not invasive), and it absorbs up to 10 times more CO2 than regular trees. It's still young project, but more and more countries create plantations of it (also as a way of CO2 recapture).

BartBochon Photocatalyst splits water into H and O2 at quantum efficiency near 100%

Any solution that is applied to massively produced product (a car) will get massive funding, research grants and it will only improve over time. This way it can be distributed to other areas quicker and at lower cost. So yes, implementing hydrogen in cars is a massive success to other industries.

BartBochon Build to learn – tame your shiny object syndrome

Not heard about it, but will Google it. Thanks!

BartBochon Build to learn – tame your shiny object syndrome

Thank you, I appreciate your comment. It's definitely different. We (people with Shiny Object Syndrome) need to find a way to keep delivering complete product too. This is one of them.

BartBochon Stripe raises $600M at nearly $36B valuation

A solution, it seems, might be to allow users to get free refunds for up to 5% transactions in current month. Anything above that is paid.

This way regular members are not penalized by big refunders...

BartBochon Citroën introduces a two-seat EV that costs €2,644 and then €19.99 a month

What a ridiculous comment. Re-read my comment again, it's actually the opposite of what you said.

BartBochon Citroën introduces a two-seat EV that costs €2,644 and then €19.99 a month

It seems like one of those cases, where very small % of people say "oh wow", and the majority of actual drivers say "oh no".

BartBochon Citroën introduces a two-seat EV that costs €2,644 and then €19.99 a month

Cheaper and it looks much, much better... The Biro looks really cheap, and at that price, you can get a decent full-sized car!

BartBochon An 18-carat gold nugget made of plastic

Yeah, this caught my attention too. I like my watch to be semi-heavy - I like to feel it's on my wrist. A huge part of watch-wearing community like heavier watches.

The author used huge generalization, probably based on his own preferences.

BartBochon Things that I think will be important in the next decade

Here you go:

https://pastebin.com/aJHJhhVV

BartBochon FedEx sues U.S. government over 'impossible' task of policing exports to China

It's strange especially, that the bit.ly allows you to check statistics without any form of restriction:

https://bitly.com/1I7ipyR+

BartBochon Google’s Chrome Becomes Web ‘Gatekeeper’ and Rivals Complain

Same here, working just fine on Windows. I have hardware acceleration disabled though.

BartBochon Ian Lance Taylor's Response to “Go Is Google's Language”

Deleting cookies should help?

BartBochon How not to get a $30k bill from Firebase

Not taking sides here, but I think that the cloud is complicated enough (especially for a person that does not specialize in it), to miss one of the edge cases that can lead to the huge bill.

In a few minutes, I can set simple PHP script with curl, that will launch 100 requests each second, using a pool of hundreds of thousands of IP's thank to the rotating VPN.

This is an edge case of course, but it can happen.

I use cloud myself, but only cloud servers, which allows me to control budget better and provides me with an "escape plan", where I can just switch to dedicated quickly.

BartBochon BGP 768K day, and whether it will cause internet outages

2 popups make the article unreadable for you? I got one popup and some tracking links blocked by ad blocker, nothing unusual.

BartBochon Jack Dorsey says it’s time to rethink the fundamental dynamics of Twitter

If you put it on a single, easily recognizable, easily accessible page (all new features, etc.), then many users will find it. You can even give a notification when a new feature is added (as long as kept to a reasonable amount).

Features that will go viral are worth adding for all, features that did not can be kept there.

BartBochon Jack Dorsey says it’s time to rethink the fundamental dynamics of Twitter

Then make it an opt-in. Companies should use the more "opt-in" method.

Bundle it under "experimental" or "advanced features" in an easy to use page with a very clear explanation of what each feature does.

BartBochon Travel through wormholes is possible, but slow

Well, we are able to research FTL for only a few decades. Give it a few more due to complexity. Few ages ago people thought that the world is flat...

Also, there are theories of FTL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light

BartBochon Travel through wormholes is possible, but slow

As always, soon we will discover another way, or there will be a different theory that will allow bending the rules.

BartBochon Migrating 23TB from S3 to B2 in 7 hours

It seems that they have two DCs now, not sure if the second is used for redundancy though.

BartBochon Matrix.org hacked

I have just checked quickly the comments and post-mortem, and I start wondering - it seems that the attack itself would be not really possible if Matrix would not be open source (as this would restrict access to the sensitive data)? Is that right?

BartBochon Finland’s Basic Income Experiment Shows Recipients Are Happier and More Secure

Well, this test is invalid for one more reason - recipients knew that the experiment has "end date." This means that the employment rates would not be affected since people could not treat the benefits as a permanent thing and plan accordingly. If you would take 1,000 people and give the lifetime benefits, I would assume this would change things a bit.