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sgehlyon Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days

I'm not claiming that Netflix and other services shouldn't help out the ISPs, because you're right that WFH > Netflix, but if they can't deliver what their customers paid for, they should be sending partial refunds.

It's really the issue on the part of the ISPs for not being able to provide enough service to support everyone's internet activity.

If Netflix wants to help them out with that issue they also have to bear the cost of helping them out with that issue.

If a university closes because of the pandemic they sure as hell won't charge room/board, and (if they're kind) won't charge as much for online courses.

The price factor is irrelevant ("a small sum"), and if it is, Netflix should have no problem refunding "a small sum".

sgehlyon Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days

I don't mean to strawman but are you saying luxury businesses should be able to get away with not delivering on what their customers pay for because we are in an unexpected situation?

sgehlyon Show HN: I built a website for sharing salary info

>Even a website operator, with direct access to the database, can’t see who is the owner of your salary entry.

I'm curious about this given you can update/delete your salary entry - does there not have to be a unique identifier between the account and the entry?

sgehlyon MacBook Pro with faster performance and new features for pros

This is the first comment to make me laugh on Hacker News in quite a while.

sgehlyon Welcome to password creation hell

  function isPasswordValid(pass){
      //There's no way in hell they figured it out.
      return false;
  }

sgehlyon Ask HN: If your company cares about security, why does it use Slack?

Perhaps this is a bit immature of me, but I despise Ryver for their ads that they put on Twitter a few months (a year?) back where it was completely trying to discredit Slack while having a sub-par UIX itself. Maybe I'll give it another look in the near future.

EDIT: Security-wise, I would think Slack, as a bigger company, would have better security, but that's all assumption. Do you have anything to back up the idea that Ryver is more secure? If so Ill definitely give it another look.

sgehlyon Ask HN: If your company cares about security, why does it use Slack?

It mostly depends on if you're a target. I must have missed when Slack was compromised, but I'm willing to take the risk of Slack being hacked, as I'm not a target. Im a fan of the methodology that bigger company = more secure, although that's obviously not always the case.

sgehlyon Ask HN: If your company cares about security, why does it use Slack?

Really depends on if you're a target yourself. If someone is trying to target you specifically, use Slack as it's much harder. If you're not a target and are worried about Slack in general and have the budget to run your own stuff, do that.

sgehlyon Ask HN: If your company cares about security, why does it use Slack?

and what about if your network is compromised? For most small-medium businesses, that's more likely than Slack being compromised.

sgehlyon Why Kids Shouldn’t Sit Still in Class

Should they not be?

sgehlyon Show HN: IsTempMail – Detect and block disposable email addresses

I don't quite understand why this service is attempting to charge for what is basically an email list, when email lists with more domains have been public for quite some time.