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ljk··on Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos
youtube might not even be the worst offender these days

https://old.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/8vs5na/what_kids_re...

disclaimer: i did not watch the video, but guessed from reading the reddit comments

ljk··on Google YOLO clickjacking
does use different browser "profiles" while never signing into other sites help with this?
ljk··on Emails Show FDA Chemists Have Been Finding Glyphosate in Food
how could someone run these tests at home? does it require expensive equipment?
ljk··on Facebook CEO says no plans to extend all of GDPR globally
i would guess they would do whatever the minimum is to stay "legal" and maximize profit... er i mean, "connecting people"
ljk··on Ask HN: What Is the Absolute Cheapest Car to Own and Drive?
> And avoid CVT like the plague.

why is that?

ljk··on Amazon’s surveillance-powered no-checkout convenience store
good catch, thanks!
ljk··on Amazon’s surveillance-powered no-checkout convenience store
they probably have tested it extensively, but sometimes people do mess up http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thisisthat/1.3773054
ljk··on Ask HN: Is it possible to train oneself to be calmer/kinder?
what helped me: read more(both fiction and non-fiction) think of every interaction in your life in the other side's perspective to develop emphathy
ljk··on Your Mother’s Maiden Name Is Not a Secret
> 2nd factor authentication

unless your phone is compromised

ljk··on Many major websites are taking silent anti-ad-blocking measures
most local news websites are loaded with 30+ scripts running in the background
ljk··on Facebook’s New Captcha Test: 'Upload a Clear Photo of Your Face'
basically it's "don't worry, people will review the image, but they're 'specially trained' "

when will people stop using facebook?

ljk··on Facebook’s New Captcha Test: 'Upload a Clear Photo of Your Face'
after he gets enough photos he can start a website where people rate and compare two bodies!

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2003/11/19/facemash-creato...

ljk··on Introducing the new Snapchat
serious question, other than the glasses that no one is buying, the ads where google and facebook take up most of the space, what do they have?
ljk··on Nasdaq Plans to Introduce Bitcoin Futures
> Unfortunately GDAX (and Coinbase), Gemini, and other exchanges all went down at the same time this time around, making it impossible to buy the dip

how like is being down planned? could there be more to this coicident?

ljk··on Fake WhatsApp update from “WhatsApp Inc.” with Unicode whitespace: 1M downloads
isn't it more like Apple anti-virus?
ljk··on Ask HN: Safe?
> start using a password manager

isn't that a point of failure too? why not just use different passwords for every site and make a longest-allowed password?

ljk··on Ask HN: What is your mission in life?
this might sound cliche, but make the world a better place
ljk··on Uber’s board wants Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi to be its next CEO
linnkedin is #1 for dark pattern
ljk··on Ask HN: Are you concerned about AI?
exactly, so "real" AI can be trained by the same people too and have the same outcome?
ljk··on Ask HN: Are you concerned about AI?
stupid question, but the AI/neural net these days require training right? look at what happened to microsoft's AI bot that turned rogue after just a few days and had to be turned off
ljk··on Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo
> * Google has 75k employees*

not 75k engineers right?

ljk··on Reddit raises $200M at a $1.8B valuation
the re-design sounds like reddit4 in the making
ljk··on Ask HN: How is your standing desk working for you?
> My problem is that I find it much harder to concentrate while I am standing

similar experience. i find sitting with good posture more comfortable and better on the knees

ljk··on Bitcoin Falls Below $2,000
why Aug 1?
ljk··on Why I deleted my Facebook account
> What's next. Install camera's wherever I physically go

how about camera in your home? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X_fP4pPWPw

ljk··on Why I deleted my Facebook account
definitely agree for linkedin. another thing about linkedin is that people lie on there all the time and exaggerate their accomplishment
ljk··on Ask HN: How do you manage your personal projects?
how many columns do you usually have on Trello? Whenever I try to use Trello I end up having too many columns
ljk··on The Decline of Imgur on Reddit and the Rise of Reddit's Native Image Hosting
> being a developer and security conscious, I inspect URLs before I click on them. The longer they are, the more frustrated I get examining them.

it doens't really matter if a url is long or short, right? as long as the domain looks good then there's no reason to check every character in the url? not sure why it's more secure to have a shorter url if the domain is safe

*not a security expert

ljk··on The Decline of Imgur on Reddit and the Rise of Reddit's Native Image Hosting
> I upload stuff to imgur just for the nice, short URLs.

genuinely curious, why is that important? is it common to memorize the URLs instead of copying and pasting?

ljk··on The Holder Report on Uber
> fix it's culture

  its*
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