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ratata··on Show HN: I'm making an AI scraper called FetchFox
Nice! Any plans for Firefox support?
ratata··on TurboTax is blitzing Congress for the right to tax YOU
Actually, I believe TurboTax has successfully lobbied congress so that it's illegal for the IRS to do that. https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-f...
ratata··on Tesla Semi’s Enormous Battery Might Weigh 11,000 Pounds on Its Own
We need to taxes vehicles by weight. Vehicle weight is the biggest contributor to road surface wear. The damage cause by trucks accounts for 99% of road surface damage. [0]https://www.insidescience.org/news/how-much-damage-do-heavy-...
ratata··on Protect your privacy and your phone number with Firefox Relay
Great to hear! One suggestion; I think it would be great to have an integration with smartphones Contact apps. This way a user can leverage autocomplete and do not disturb rules on mobile.
ratata··on After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel
True. But they are not calling for a completely open system. I like this proposal from the author.

> Change blacklisting protocols so they are not permanent and use an exponential cooldown penalty. After spam is detected from an IP, it should be banned for, say, ten minutes. Then, a day. A week. A month, and so on. This discourages spammers from reusing IPs after the ban is lifted and will allow the IP pool to be cleaned over time by legitimate owners.

> There should be a recourse for legitimate servers. I'm not asking for a blank check. I don't mind doing some paperwork or paying a fee to prove I'm legit. Spammers will not do that, and if they do, they will get blacklisted anyways after sending more spam.

But Big Tech will not do that because they will gain more from eliminating the competition.

ratata··on VPNs on iOS are a scam
According to the author, IOS makes new connections outside of the tunnel after the VPN was enable. There is no effective workaround.
ratata··on Suburbia Is Subsidized: Here's the Math
Here is an article that was referenced in the video: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1/9/the-real-reason...
ratata··on Suburbia Is Subsidized: Here's the Math
Most of the remaining walkable neighborhoods in the states were built before that time period too. It’s unfortunate that we let automakers and fossil fuel interests take our cities hostage with car dependent designs.
ratata··on Less parking could mean more housing
>If you don't fund their roads you can't tell them "but you need a sidewalk".

The Americans with Disabilities Act says you need sidewalks.

ratata··on Google Chrome to remove detailed cookie and site data controls
Just fyi, you can delete individual cookies in the developer tools.
ratata··on SEC charges former Amazon finance manager and family with insider trading
The query string is sent in plain-text in the URL parameters.

https://www.google.com/search?q=AMZN

ratata··on Show HN: Decentralized Food Delivery or Grocery Delivery Platform
Very interesting. Not sure I understand what the "Local Market Aggregators" are. Are they aggregating on each self-hosted API into a single API ?
ratata··on NPM: 429 Too Many Requests
> vendors our dependencies

Is that like a local cache?

ratata··on Show HN: OneDev – A Lightweight GitLab Alternative
the performance of the 'blame' view is so much better than Gitlab. Great job!
ratata··on TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Taxes for Free
There is a branch of government in charge of large software projects: https://www.usds.gov
ratata··on Show HN: I created an alternative to Crowdfunding for devs, programmers etc.
How do you (or who does) quantify a "a fair share of the profits based on their contribution" ?
ratata··on Audit suggests Google favors a small number of major news outlets
The analogy doesn't work because all the content on google is free to users. I would argue that in a world where 5-star restaurants cost the same as Burger King, they would experience more demand than Burger King.
ratata··on Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response to FOSTA
Would an open source peer-to-peer personals board qualify as a 'platform' under this bill ?
ratata··on Show HN: Checkbot for Chrome – web crawler that tests for web best practices
Nice. very similar to Lighthouse https://developers.google.com/web/tools/lighthouse/#devtools
ratata··on Show HN: Pay-per-minute video/audio calls with WebRTC
Amazing idea. On Chrome Android the extended virtual keyboard seems to mess up the layout. You can test this in development in chrome desktop in the dev console's mobile view.

Also, clicking 'next step' doesn't seem to work for me. Good luck!

ratata··on Show HN: CryptoPocket.io – Track your crypto portfolios and your investments
Nice! I wish there was a way to import from Coinbase