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lonelappde··on YouTube removed a viral video of two doctors calling for an end to quarantine
Weekly reminder that WHO still opposes restrictions on international travel, and hasn't updated its advice since March 11.

https://www.who.int/news-room/articles-detail/updated-who-re...

lonelappde··on YouTube removed a viral video of two doctors calling for an end to quarantine
If you want to keep a video with fake medical advice up on YouTube, go the Epoch Times or Homeopathy route and just buy ads.
lonelappde··on Lessons Learned from Dealing with an iMac’s Dead SSD
Screws are much more delicate than glass. Screws strip very easily, making it impossible to remove the connection.
lonelappde··on Lessons Learned from Dealing with an iMac’s Dead SSD
My 9yr old hard drive on my daily driver PC, still works fine.
lonelappde··on Google Pixel Buds
Google already does targeted advertising and operates under GDPR.
lonelappde··on iPhone SE: The One-Eyed King?
Of course you can also send phone photos to the cloud for cleanup.
lonelappde··on Psychological effects of coding style (2016)
Doesn't affect capitalization or underscores.
lonelappde··on Psychological effects of coding style (2016)
Do nouns feel more intense and heavy than other words, like they dofor English speakers?

Or are capital letters so common that they don't feel heavy?

lonelappde··on Psychological effects of coding style (2016)
Unfortunately it makes it hard to see that the word is one word, since many apps draw underscores wrong and because people use (ugh) monospace and even proportional fonts make underscores wider than space.

For programming underscore should be narrower than space.

lonelappde··on Psychological effects of coding style (2016)
Underscore is a chord key. That's it's main flaw, along with taking up an extra character of our precious 80-char budget.
lonelappde··on Beware of the GIF: Account Takeover Vulnerability in Microsoft Teams
General info: https://www.hackerone.com/blog/Guide-Subdomain-Takeovers
lonelappde··on Beware of the GIF: Account Takeover Vulnerability in Microsoft Teams
That's not what this bug is about. The bug is not to do with the content, but merely the connection. And it's only "external" because Microsoft relinquished control of its internal system but still treated it as internal.
lonelappde··on Beware of the GIF: Account Takeover Vulnerability in Microsoft Teams
Clickbait.
lonelappde··on Beware of the GIF: Account Takeover Vulnerability in Microsoft Teams
Code is data. Data is code. The difference is metaphysics; the machine doesn't care. Any parseable data format has the potential to trigger a bug in the parser.
lonelappde··on Why did Slack win out over IRC? (2018)
There's never enough resources.
lonelappde··on An average family in Tokyo can own a new house for $850/month
Tree lined streets have a lot of sunlight.
lonelappde··on An average family in Tokyo can own a new house for $850/month
The article has almost no content, but one of the three facts it provides is that Tokyo has 3-bedroom houses on offer for anyone who wants one, for $300K and 1% annual interest. It's not about 300sqft apartments.
lonelappde··on Customers do not ask for software complexity
Home Depot, IKEA, and Microcenter already have apps/websites to tell you which shelf has your product.
lonelappde··on 'Expert Twitter' Only Goes So Far – Bring Back Blogs
Zuck is a liar, as he has repeatedly proven.

1 ads are microtargeted so most people don't see what people are saying.

2 censoring everyone except politicians is bootlicking government.

lonelappde··on Google will require proof of identity from all advertisers
The whole point is that a payment is not and identity verification
lonelappde··on Google will require proof of identity from all advertisers
And when a new KYC regulation rolls out, the banks take a couple of years to prep and deploy it.
lonelappde··on Google will require proof of identity from all advertisers
It's covered in the announcement. There's no need for the CFO to get involved.

https://www.blog.google/products/ads/advertiser-identity-ver...

lonelappde··on Ask HN: Not smart enough to a programmer, where to take my life from here?
Welcome to adulthood. Work is often unpleasant.

You don't need more school, you need to find a healthier attitude, and maybe coworkers you get along better with.

lonelappde··on Teenagers are better behaved and less hedonistic (2018)
Please tidy up your foul language. It makes your otherwise good writing hard to read.
lonelappde··on Labour HQ used Facebook ads to deceive Jeremy Corbyn during election campaign
Are you a Labour member or a Corbyn member? Why is it misuse?
lonelappde··on Labour HQ used Facebook ads to deceive Jeremy Corbyn during election campaign
That just promotes uniformity by driving non-center-of-the-normal-distributio people to the margin. Better to be transparent about targeting criteria.
lonelappde··on Tips for Mathematical Handwriting (2007)
Your idea is great but impossible.
lonelappde··on Tips for Mathematical Handwriting (2007)
Don't waste time in lecture taking notes. Pay attention and think.

Save your rote copying for homework time.

lonelappde··on Tips for Mathematical Handwriting (2007)
At which point it becomes ambiguous with function application.
lonelappde··on The Changing World Order
He can't buy all the companies. That's only 1% of just the NYSE market cap.

What is the max size of asset that can profit 4%/yr alpha from insider trading?

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