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RunawayGalaxy··on Milton Glaser, designer of ‘I ♥ NY’ logo, has died
I love the logo he did for Brooklyn Brewery.
RunawayGalaxy··on Age Reduction Breakthrough?
Even if it's possible?
RunawayGalaxy··on CO2 emissions set to fall nearly 8% this year, the largest drop in history
Is coronavirus the Earth's antibodies?
RunawayGalaxy··on Node.js 13.0
What do you think is happening when you `npm install` or `yarn add` a package?
RunawayGalaxy··on Mouse support could change the way you use your iPad
Funny, an escape key would change the way I use the MacBook Pro as well.
RunawayGalaxy··on Facebook will reveal who uploaded your contact info for ad targeting
Do you have a dedicated VPN exclusively for browsing Facebook too?
RunawayGalaxy··on Facebook will reveal who uploaded your contact info for ad targeting

  So tell me, how did 1,147 other businesses and groups get 
  their hands on my info if I've never given it out?
Hint: Cookie Monster loves these
RunawayGalaxy··on Researcher Won't Disclose MacOS Keychain 0 Day Without Apple Bug Bounty Program
I think that there's a point where negligence becomes culpable. Given that, I'm considering 2 questions:

1) Suppose Apple sells potentially vulnerable software to users and knowingly refuses to curb market demand for potential exploits to the benefit of their bottom line. When a zero-day is discovered and sold to the highest bidder, what percentage of the blame does Apple deserve?

2) How does that percentage change with respect to the following? (a) potential number of users affected (b) cost of a bounty program as a percentage of total profit from sale of the vulnerable software

RunawayGalaxy··on No Tuition, but You Pay a Percentage of Your Income if You Find a Job
Out of curiosity, does Bain hire a lot of web developers?
RunawayGalaxy··on Taxpayers Should Never Subsidize Stadiums
Not only that, a big reason people watch sports is to witness peak human performance.
RunawayGalaxy··on Bill Gates thinks a coming disease could kill 30M people within 6 months
The world's immune system at work.
RunawayGalaxy··on TypeScript support for ES Next pipeline operator
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DZ-97vzW4AAbcZj.jpg:large
RunawayGalaxy··on Ask HN: What is the most unethical thing you've done as a programmer?
Because the original implication was that state actors don't target civilians.
RunawayGalaxy··on Elon Musk emails employees about 'extensive and damaging sabotage' by employee
There are fewer promotions than people who want promotions at virtually every company. The vast majority of people don't behave criminally out of spite when they are passed over. At what point does personal responsibility play a role in a person's actions? I'm genuinely curious. If the culture is the first thing that should be reviewed, that seems to imply that it is more to blame than the individual.
RunawayGalaxy··on Elon Musk emails employees about 'extensive and damaging sabotage' by employee
You have no problem believing a sabateur who exported data to an unknown third party when he says he acted alone out of spite? All that was said in an internal email is that it's possible that other forces were at play and it's something they're investigating.
RunawayGalaxy··on Honeybees Seem to Understand the Notion of Zero
They didn't choose the lower number zero. They chose the lower quantity zero. It's not the same.
RunawayGalaxy··on Ask HN: Advice needed – Was my ISP hacked or am I being paranoid?
OP said that the problem was happening over 4G.
RunawayGalaxy··on Show HN: Mindset – Self-Improvement Hypnosis
reddit
RunawayGalaxy··on Bitcoin turning into a multi-layered system is most interesting thing in crypto
I also found Evan Duffield's post about on-chain scaling (https://medium.com/@eduffield222/how-to-enabling-on-chain-sc...) pretty interesting.
RunawayGalaxy··on Ask HN: What is your weirdest secret YouTube addiction?
Woodworking videos.

A channel that HN might appreciate is Matthias Wandel: https://www.youtube.com/user/Matthiaswandel

RunawayGalaxy··on Well-capitalized Seattle startup seeks Unix developers – Jeff Bezos (1994)
You talk about it as if it's dead.
RunawayGalaxy··on Soylent can no longer ship to Canada
From what I understand, Soylent severely underestimates the importance of fiber in the human diet.
RunawayGalaxy··on A Boy and His Atom: Smallest Stop-Motion Film [video]
Pedantically speaking, most movies are made by filming actual atoms.
RunawayGalaxy··on Interactive Vim tutorial
That was enlightening. Thanks for sharing!
RunawayGalaxy··on Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud
You'd rather let an entire industry continue to screw over millions of Americans out of money and access to healthcare, than let one troll and admittedly fraud profit from exposing said industry? Fair enough.
RunawayGalaxy··on Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud
That's an extremely valid point. But there are documented cases of it being true.
RunawayGalaxy··on Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud
FWIW, he claims that he gave the medicine away for free to people who could prove they couldn't afford it, so that he was really only screwing insurance companies. I believe that he was trying to draw media attention to the outrageous, legally-allowed colluding practices of the insurance and pharma industries. It would have been in his best interest to not draw attention to himself and slowly raise the price of the drug over time rather than rock the boat and put himself in the spotlight. I think this agitated a lot of the established powers in the pharma industry, but we're getting into tin hat territory now, so I'll leave it at that.
RunawayGalaxy··on Uber rolls out in-app tipping
My point is Uber doesn't care about what you despise so long as it serves their bottom line.
RunawayGalaxy··on Uber rolls out in-app tipping
Last I checked for Amazon Prime Now, drivers are only aware of their tips in aggregate, so leaving $0 is putting pressure on Amazon to pay their drivers more. It's kindof shitty, and I don't use the service often, but if Amazon is going to give me an option on who is going to foot the bill for the driver, I will pass on that every time.
RunawayGalaxy··on Uber rolls out in-app tipping
I can only assume that was when they could more easily afford to do so.
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