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philtar··on Scientist Who Rejects Warming Is Named to EPA Advisory Board
Disgustingly simple title, to be honest. Even these so-called believers in science turn out to have a single brain cell.

I can't wait for a world where we understand that people with an opinion different than mine doesn't make them the only trait that defines them.

philtar··on Mozart.js
I'm not in a position to judge what is right or wrong, but I feel like he could have done better than form an opinion on the tool based on the first sentence of the website, and then provided no comments on the actual tool itself.

He can write whatever he wants. Would benefit him a lot though to not be put off by the first 5 words of anything, and instead have patience to form a well rounded opinion of whatever he's looking at.

philtar··on Mozart.js
Do you have anything to say about the tool itself?
philtar··on Livox Mid-40 lidar sensor
Isn't this it?

https://store.dji.com/product/livox-mid?vid=48991

philtar··on Show HN: Convert blog articles to high-quality audio
It's fine on my phone and laptop. I think you are the one with the issue.

I would delete my comments if I were you because you look like a jerk mentioning it 3 times in a post with 8 comments total. And it's not even true.

philtar··on Doctors ask engineers to spend more time in the hospital before building apps
I find your anecdote a little difficult to balance with the stories of all the vets who need medical treatment but can't get it.
philtar··on Hospital prices are about to go public in the U.S.
We would also need to know the average number of visits per patient before this data means anything otherwise it's just data without context or meaning.
philtar··on Logitech disables local access on Harmony Hubs, breaks automation systems
What UX team?

Their Harmony software is atrocious. It feels like a badly designed flash application.

G Hub is broken as hell. LGS is kind of OK but not going to win any UX awards.

Am I missing anything?

philtar··on Windows Sandbox
I question your mother's need for full disk encryption.
philtar··on Johnson and Johnson knew for decades that asbestos lurked in its Baby Powder
I have a question which I don't believe is answered: these people who knew, where they using the powder on their own babies? Because they could be due to mental minimization of the risks associated with the use of their own products.

If they are, and they could be, then humans are more pro-ignorance than I ever thought.

philtar··on DigitalOcean launches its container service
Digital Ocean Droplet

AWS Micro Instance

AWS Lightsail

Linode Nanonode

Shared Hosting

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Tons of options for $5 a month.

philtar··on The latest on Messages, Allo, Duo and Hangouts
More than one billion people on whatsapp disagree with you.
philtar··on Facebook's seized files published by MPs
I'll list a few:

Conducting psychology experiments on people without their consent (or awareness of it)

Documented evidence that Facebook as it is now decreases people's quality of life, but they don't want to mess with their formula because that's what brings the dollars in.

Theres many more. But these two are the biggest I can think of off the top my head.

philtar··on Namecheap announces support for TOTP-based 2FA
Their old one was so bad I actually learned how to use route 53 just to migrate out of it.

Their CEO is just pretending to be forthright here. I have a tweet where he replied to me from February 2014 that said Google Auth support is coming in a couple of months.

This all happened because I got locked out of my namecheap account when THEIR system wouldn't sms me the code and they had problems with the voice calling.

So I emailed support. They called me 5 hours later to ask me a bunch of questions. Here's the funny part: they called me on the number I had used for 2FA. Isn't the fact that I answered that number proof enough that I had it?

Everything they do is half assed including their Frankenstein panel that's a mix of their old interface and their new one.

Anyway. Good riddance. Only use namecheap if you can't afford the $1 it costs to host your dns on route53.

philtar··on Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Google Maps
Google maps copies a ton of data from open street map. The other day my oddly specific edit on OSM was on Google maps within 72 hours.
philtar··on Web.dev by Google
Do you have a guess why those assets are not cached more aggressively?
philtar··on H-1B visa fraud: Sunnyvale man indicted for bringing in 600 workers illegally
I think you're severely over estimating how attractive the US is for immigration.

But if your argument is "Moving to the US + decent job" then just the "decent job" part would be attractive. Moving to the US and having to face the possibility of bankruptcy because a family member got sick does not sound exactly attractive.

Source: I am a non-American who was offered opportunity to migrate to US but decided against it because the US feels like a dog-eat-dog country. Would much rather move to Europe IF I wanted to move.

philtar··on Monica – Personal CRM, Remember everything about friends and family
How strange that you would associate a person's software development skills with how up to date they are in terms of gender politics.
philtar··on Ask HN: Am I just a wantrepreneur?
I'm curious, do you have examples of yourself doing the above successfully?
philtar··on Bye bye BetterSlack
I use discord personally all the time and really wanted to use it for business but couldn't.

Some reasons:

* You are in all channels, all the time. * no threaded replies (most important) * the notifications system is weird * weak integration system (integrations cannot add widgets to chat)

Some more reasons that I forgot. But these ones most importantly.

philtar··on The Twilio API for WhatsApp
This changed 24 hours ago.
philtar··on Ask HN: What's your favorite way of getting a web app up quickly in 2018?
That's a highly simplistic and incorrect way of looking at it. Do you know what CSRF is? Do you want to implement it every time you create a website? And all the other XSS vulnerabilities that could occur because you weren't careful.

Frameworks are much better at handling most security needs.

philtar··on All images of the Facebook ads Russians purchased during the election
I think you seriously overestimate how unbiased you are.

I say this because you talk as if it's easy to separate fact from fiction these days. If you think it's easy, then I think there are some very important things you're missing.

philtar··on Show HN: Larry's Cheap Houses – Deep Learning Powered Real Estate Deals
I assure you, whatever you think is the worst case scenario has already happened with your email.
philtar··on Indexing the Fastest Growing SaaS Companies
Investor confidence is definitely not affected by the fact that the company uses PDFs.
philtar··on Einstein's boyhood proof of the Pythagorean theorem (2015)
Lazy loading
philtar··on The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority (2016)
You are grossly misinterpreting how this is applied in the real world. Wake me up when a first responder refuses to help someone because they are LGBTQ
philtar··on Ask HN: What is your one tech prediction for 2018?
BigCo gets hacked. Everyone loses their mind for two days.

Google sunsets one of their services. And releases something that copies a service from one of their competitors but in an incredibly tone deaf way.

YouTuber does something terrible. Everyone is disgusted. Gains 10 million followers.

Apple releases an iPhone. Nothing new about it. Calls it the best/greatest iPhone to date.

Bitcoin gains x%. Loses x%. Is outlawed in country X. Regulated in country Y.

Redditors discover that reddit is not the bastion of free speech it pretends to be. They get angry and go to another site only to return the next week under a new subreddit.

I can go on.

philtar··on Show HN: CloudMapper, open-source tool for visualizing AWS environments
There were people paying millions/month who switched to free and open source.
philtar··on How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare?
A smartphone OS is required for whatsapp
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