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You are correct. Domains can be still sensitive though.

I do believe the url path is visible even over HTTPS. Off to do some research on this.

Edit: apparently the url is not visible, but the domain (more like IP, which can be easily resolved to domain).

Same thing still applies, perhaps not with reddit subreddits, but with specific domains/websites.

To be fair I mostly use it for not overly sensitive stuff. Let me give you an idea: I prefer to not have my ISP log my requests to reddit.com/r/LSD.

Not because I do anything illegal (I don't even take acid), but in this dystopian world where every action on the internet is recorded, the last thing I want is to end up on lists purely because of my curiosity.

If I would do anything I could get into trouble for (which I won't), I would definitely research more about how to use Tor safely.

I do and a lot of people I know also do. Just for added privacy, or anything sensitive but legal.

Tor became such a pleasant (and fast, unlike it used to be) experience that it can be used for general anon surfing.

I am originally from Hungary, from a small town. My aunt is an assistant for a child doctor.

Every single doctor here gets approached by multiple drug companies, being offered expensive vacations and similar perks (if not outright money) for prescribing the company's medications.

One particular doctor who is an absolutely disgusting and vile human being describes antibiotics for every ailment. He essentially ruined thousands of children's health for said perks. It got so bad the word spread in the town and apart from the least informed families no one took their children to this doctor if they could avoid it.

But this is just one doctor. The other 2 who practiced here also accepted rewards, but were a bit more sensible with it, but not by much. According to my aunt this is an incredibly widespread problem, and one that has been going on for decades.

I can't imagine anything more atrocious than sacrificing children's health for material gain. A person who is support to protect life and does this... I'm not religious and I seldom wish ill fate to people, but I do hope there is a hell for these kind of people.

"Walk without rhythm and it won't attract the worm"

It's harder than I expected...

For this very reason, Stripe does not allow you to pay less than the charge for the payment.

That's a really interesting idea, do you have any source?

Funnily enough you say that as that's some extreme 3rd world example.

In London the average flat price is like $700,000 and a lot of people make $60-70 us per day here...

Wow, very interesting. My only question is about the 3-5x cap: given how many companies fail/never turn a profit, how is that going to give a return?

They must be really confident in their ability to spot good companies.

Very happy to see alternatives to giving away equity however.

I have just got 50gigs of 4g for £27 in London.

I think since forever, although I'm just a foreigner, but I'm on my 6th year in London.

It is just simply wrong.

I don't know about that, but I think we don't have such a culture of prosecutors having conviction rates (might be wrong on this one I admit).

But Hungary is a very tense country, it only needs a spark to blow up (last time internet tax triggered a massive massive protest), so I don't think the political elite wants to risk protests and outrage.

Because Hungary is just a free for all market for every corrupt big corp and organisation that wants easy profits.

Everything costs more than in Western Europe (except rents and services), yet people make 1/6th of the money. Hence why third of the working population left the country.

Hungarian here (Magyar means Hungarian in our language).

The guy was not sentenced yet, likely won't be, but given how incompetent everyone involved one can not be sure.

Telekom does not want to press charges as far as I know, so despite their gross technical incompetence, at least their they have that going for them.

Hungary recently had a bunch of ethical hackers getting into trouble, but fortunately the people are so outraged at the powers that be trying to jail them that they don't get harmed.

I would also love to read/buy this!

> partnering up with a sales guy just isn't a good idea for a variety of reasons.

Can you elaborate please?

You are absolutely right, but the sad reality is that we are a small minority. Perhaps we can influence the world by education though.

At first glance this comment feels more reddit than HN, but the amount of times the logos look real weird is staggering. (Just google for "inappropriate logos")

I have been hit with it in London... so it definitely exists.

Makes friday drinks (and being stupid and inconsiderate) way more expensive (it was £85).

I always thought cigarette butts were something that are harmless and break down easily.

It was garbage when people with money who controlled the distribution channels decided to also manufacture music bands, because it allowed them greater control and less costs.

That all changed with the widespread availability of the internet.

Budapest and a lot of parts of Hungary use trams and trolleys a lot, they never went away.

I always thought about them as quirky archaic tech, but you have just changed my view! Cheers

How do you explain then the increase of premarital sexual encounters over time?

That's not a 10x developer if they don't know how to write maintanable software, you just thought they are.

The dev you describe sounds like a junior who can crank out code at high velocity.

Likely big companies do this because there are enough of people like you out there who vote with their wallets, so I think you succeeded, congrats and thanks!

Fair enough, I don't doubt they are trying to bullshit their way to riches, my comment was in reply to people who say it can't be done because of performance issues and such.

Wow, I see a lot of knee-jerk reactions here and I think most of these miss the point - even if AI helps and writes some of the code, it will only fill out some gaps at certain levels.

Think about this: we engineers are writers of specs, the same way as product owners are writers of specs, except they do it at a much higher level.

The high level spec (lets say the top 5%) gets passed down and we fill out the ~middle 50%. What's the rest at the bottom? It's the shoulders of giants we stand on.

So the same way as we welcome the increasing abstraction levels, from machine code to C, from C to TypeScript and GraphQL, why don't we welcome this development too?

It's not probable that we will get automated away anytime soon, and if we are, well that means AI has truly advanced, certainly something to celebrate, even if it comes at a financial loss for us.

Perhaps, once we won't get paid anymore to improve ad networks, we will have the time to do something that actually improves the human condition...

Edit: can the downvoter please elaborate?

Very obviously the domain availability is a big problem with that.

Arguable steak and vegetables are some of the healthiest food you can eat, if they are high quality...