I have invested in cryptos, stock markets, startups… and probably the most profitable assets ever were several ripe ipv4 prefixes that we owned for years. Insane.
Joshua has broken the ToS of Discuss because he has access to the tool and got an email address that belongs to Francesca. He used a privileged access to obtain her PII. Under the GDPR that is simply illegal. In Western Europe his behavior could take him to a court.
This is a site where we discuss about privacy in technology, and this is an example of how people with privileged access to PII should follow the higher standards, no matter how disgusting are the opinions, like the ones from Francesca.
I guess people think I’m ideologically close to her because I’m saying the foundation has poor journalistic standards… but quite the opposite. For the American standards I’m probably a leftist and for European standards a social-democrat, so I find her ideas really disgusting (I won’t write here stronger words). Journalism is really important in a full democracy, we should demand the highest standards.
About the downvoting, this is HackerNews, I can live with that :-)
That is fascism. Everybody deserves the same rights, no matter what they think. If you think she is promoting a speech of hate, go to the court and try prove it.
It’s really scary how people assume anybody’s privacy can be exposed without consequences. No, it can’t. In a full democracy only a judge can ask for it. Even journalists have to be extremely cautious before exposing the identity of anybody, and this is a perfect example.
They never contacted her to verify she was the person behind the email and the person that wrote comments in social media. They assumed it was her, but they did not verify it. Even a high school journalist knows this is the first rule to learn: if you assume = ass for you and me.
The craziest part of this story is the fact that the Nieman Foundation purpose is: “to promote and elevate the standards of journalism in the United States and educate persons deemed specially qualified for journalism."
But basically they ignored the basics of journalism not verifying the sources. Nice.
I’m not justifying the coup. Once the war started both political extremes believed they had the mission to prevail whatever it took. That’s why it became a Civil War and the end of the Republican Spanish State as the way to keep law and order. That’s when the butchery began.
The Civil War atrocities came when the Republican Spanish State collapsed and a plethora of “experiments” started to pop up around the country driven by local communist, socialist and specially anarchist leaders trying to do the revolution on their own. The atrocities from the National (rebel) faction started from day one of the coup and they were driven by a centralized and unified alternative “national state” that prevailed because it was better applying law and order, even having very low support from the Spaniards.
The Anglo journalists and writers saw how some of these “experiments” worked. It’s not strange to see how they enthusiastically supported it at the beginning and how they changed their mind of even became critic with socialist mindset.
The simple idea of “the political faction I don’t like did more unmoral things” completely disqualifies your argument.
In the case of Barcelona and Levante the lack of a strong Spanish State during the war and the prevalence of anarchists had as a result a lot of “experiments” around governance. These “experiments” lasted from a few months to years, and ranged from forbidding private property to killing the land owners and businessmen. It was not the land of freedom and peace described by some Anglo journalist and writers. It was a hell on earth because it was a Civil War.
SPANIARDS. I mean Spaniards killing each other. I don’t care who supported what. It was brothers killing brothers.
And a kind reminder of how terribly wrong you are about bravery at war: it does not distinguish armies or colors, it’s an individual attribute of the soldier. It’s never an attribute of the army or a faction. Talk to any professional military if you have any doubt.
When somebody catch a flu there are a list of symptoms like fever, aches… but this time I had nothing except the annoying pain of the jab. I realized almost 72 later when my heart rate app raised an alarm because I was not training but I was above 135 bpm.
I was surprised because I though the immune response of my body was without symptoms, but no, the immune system was doing its job.
I had my second dosis of the BNT162b2 last Monday and the only side effect was some pain in my shoulder, or at least that’s what I thought until I briefly checked my hear rate and I realized that 24 hours after the second dosis it climbed more than 25% lasting 48 hours. My average rest rate is 58-62 and at that time it was more than 85. I thought that maybe something was wrong when my walking heart rate for several minutes was higher than 130 when it should range between 95-105.
Obviously my antibodies were doing its job and everything now it’s back to normal. I did not suffer any other side effects like fever, headache, chest pain or tiredness.
I would probably have a good time working with this engineer. But let’s be honest: most of the developers can’t cope with people that prefer to go fast rather than being right.
I had a gorgeous curly black hair… that turned gray in a couple of years when my startup derailed.
I tried to hide the problems to my family, friends and relatives… but the color of my hair was a very strong signal.
A couples of years later I started to suffer of some medical conditions related to the long periods of stressing events in the startup.
Stress can destroy your health. Take it seriously.
> Why would they need to leave the "boutique" tag?
I don’t know why. But the purpose of the marketing campaign of Hey sent that message.
I’m a big fan of non VC backed or boutique like companies (I have built and sold some of them), and it’s dangerous to send the wrong message to the market. I think that is what happened with Hey.
They are a “boutique” kind-of company. A boutique should excel in niche products (and they did until Hey). Hey was announced as a product to disrupt email and fix the email management problem. That’s not a niche product but a general purpose solution. What they announced (and they did it GREAT) did not match with the product features IMHO.
Not sure if I understand you correctly, but yes I think that the marketing campaign should never ever eclipse the product in itself. That’s how I felt when they launched it.
From a product marketer point of view it was great. But from the product manager perspective I felt disappointed.
The launch of Hey was a masterclass about how to create the right hype around a product that nobody cares or needs. They are genius selling themselves. But that’s not enough because they aren’t able to find a product that people want in large amounts.
It exists for abusers trying to break into accounts with automated tools. And yes, it’s very cheap and basically is a measure that generates a lot of friction but easy to bypass.
I tried to be as aseptic as possible and let the reader learn by himself about the guy... I don’t want to be sued, as he usually does when somebody says something he dislike.
The owner of the company is a very well known young entrepreneur (must be around 25) in Spain. He introduced himself back in 2015 as a genuine case of self-made man with a very difficult childhood. He spent all his teenage years in a reception centre. At the age of 19 he started Eliminalia. When he was 23 he built a small empire of different companies ranging from online marketing to fertility centers and surrogacy (the connection to Ukraine and Russia probably has to do with this businesses).
This kind of profiles attract a lot of attention, and different media outlets have been investigating him and his companies. The impersonation of the EU commission was front page of one of the largest online newspapers and broadly spread across social networks... so I guess Eliminalia is going to be very busy the coming weeks.
I can’t believe any of the people complaining here about low quality of the VoIP of Teams have used the VoIP of Discord, because they simply can’t compare. Teams have anti-coupling features and you can use it with speakers out of the box.
Discord does not have a good anti-coupling algorithms and it’s almost impossible to use it without headphones. Perfect for gamers, but not for business.
Discord is amazing to create communities, that’s what Microsoft wanted.
In Spain your employee must pay for “after business hours” exclusivity in the monthly payroll. It must clearly state that every month the company pays for the exclusivity. It’s not enough with a contract saying you cannot work after your business hours, they must pay for it and they must proof they are paying it in the monthly payroll.
Not sure in other countries, but probably in Western Europe and 100% sure in Spain even large corporations know it’s really hard to enforce contractual and post-contractual exclusivity, unless the employee breaks some IP of the employer.
Still, it is always a good idea to tell your new employer that you are “moonlighting”.
In Spain the employer must clearly state in the payroll they are paying for exclusivity. If not, even with a signing a contract saying so, it’s illegal.
If you pay such a large amount of money I think “partner” should be the right word... but you are right, they don’t deserve that.
May be “cannibals” is more appropriate.
The author is fully dependent from FB. He cannot bite the hand that feeds him. I think it’s a smart move to reach the front page of HN before taking this to court.