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singold

918 karma · joined March 7, 2012

Santiago Ingold - Information Security - Montevideo, Uruguay

Feel free to contact me at firstname.lastname at the google mail service.

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/santiago; my proof: https://keybase.io/santiago/sigs/sno_DJyyCgK6AzzmKJWXkQT54oKws94QpPJO_TBUiis ]

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singold··on Wikimedia Foundation v. NSA
Does FB pay people who create content there? Afaik they don't.

I'm that sense I prefer YouTube that at least shares ad revenue with creators.

singold··on How many ppl think no response from your management is sort of humiliation?
Could you elaborate a bit more? I'm not sure what do you mean by no response (response to what?). I wanted to start the discussion but don't have enough context to say anything.
singold··on UK Home Secretary says encryption on messaging services is unacceptable
Well, she could start herself publishing all her emails, how can we know she isn't a covert terrorist?
singold··on Who shares the story, not who reports news, is what counts for casual readers
I have been thinking about this for a long time, it happens now on FB and whatsapp but happened earlier on email.

It's like a chain of trust where everyone trusts the last person who shared something but you never know on who you are trusting at the start of this "chain" if you share. So people share a lot of BS :/

singold··on Study: Blended food prevented hunger for longer
I think that's because two of the most important problems with food are quality and quantity that people eat. I'm general terms we eata lot of bad food, so if you have the same meal (so same quality) eating less (or only what your body needs and no more) that should be healthier.

I think I get your point though and eating well is a lot more that eating good food in adequate portions, and I agree, but for the general population over eating and junk food are the worst problems right now imho.

singold··on Study: Blended food prevented hunger for longer
I remember reading somewhere that the signal from the stomach to the brain telling you are full takes 20 minutes so if you eat slower you eat less food in that period when you are full but don't know it yet
singold··on Reddit bans Alt-Right Group
If it is a violation of tos shouldn't they ban the user instead of deleting the subrredit?

Edit: now i've read the comment by 'ajkjk and that makes more sense

singold··on Ask HN: What would you do with $5K for your project/idea?
Thanks for your reply, I will think more about your first option, 7 people per day is doable on the side and in just 2 weeks you get to talk with 100 people
singold··on Ask HN: Solo founder support group?
Loved this, just registered to the forum and send email :)
singold··on Mozilla stops distribution of WOT addon
Similar but not the same, one thing is hiding your own information, but another very different is you taking my information and hiding it from me
singold··on Instapainting – From $4k in debt to $32k/mo in passive revenue with no employees
Wow the second video is really great, can't recommend it enough.

Do you know what tool did he used for the text? (I know this sounds weird, I'm trying not to spoil here ;)

singold··on What do people who failed to get into med school do next?
I don't agree with that. walls are there mainly to keep people who doesn't pay...

It's the same wrong argument some successful people make that their success is some direct result of hard work, without taking into account things like luck, contacts or a wealthy enough family to be able to take "risks".

singold··on Using Rowhammer bitflips to root Android phones
The thing is that if you drop the phone in the toilet you aren't covered but that doesn't mean that you void your guarantee by using your phone while you are there, for me that's the difference.

If I flash my phone and later some part of it breaks because it came bad from factory, that is independent of me flashing the phone and should be covered.

singold··on Is This Economist Too Far Ahead of His Time?
There is this comedian on the radio were I live that says that economics is the science of explaining today why yesterday's predictions were wrong :P

I can't believe that he says that his errors are our fault...

singold··on Fuck You Startup World
" You should celebrate any day that you don’t have to sell off another part of your company."
singold··on Ask HN: What is your favourite stack for small personal projects?
Python + django + postgresql
singold··on Ask HN: When do you know it's time to pivot?
I think you should pivot if you find that what you assumed of your customers is no longer true.

From what I read here that may not be the case, and looks like it is probably a matter of sales/marketing.

Also two sides markets are hard

Just my 2c

singold··on Six big economic ideas [pdf]
In my experience is like economists like to use weird words (at least in spanish) for example instead of using the word "promedio" (average), when there are only two numbers they call it "semi suma" (that would be the sum of multiple numbers divided by 2).
singold··on Ask HN: How to comunicate more clearly my project idea?
I've tried different examples, buy never multiple in the same conversations, I like the idea of they generalizing it themselves.

This was the kind of advice I was looking for, things that I haven't thought of, thanks for your reply!

singold··on Browsing your website does not mean I want your spam
He talks about tge legality of sending the spam, but what about the legality of the partner he is really subscribed to that shared his information with a 3rd party? IANAL but AFAIK that wouldn't be legal in most countries
singold··on Ask HN: Borrowing TOC from a similiar service?
I've used Wordpress'/Automattic's that are CC licensed

Privacy Policy: https://automattic.com/privacy/ TOS: https://en.wordpress.com/tos/

I had to modify them slightly for my use case but was pretty easy

singold··on Brain may flush out toxins during sleep (2015)
"warns that sleeping next to your smartphone—the one that emits 3G and 4G signals all night—affects your brain patterns, restructuring your brain cells and likely preventing you from allowing your brain to clean out waste material properly."

Does anyone have any kind of evidence/study of this kind of effects?

singold··on Ask HN: Why can I only downvote some comments?
In my experience when a thread gets too much chained replies you can't down vote any more.

I suspect this is to prevent down voting wars in heavy discussions.

singold··on Why Continuing to Work Is Good for a Man’s Health
You made me remember this "living life backwards" quote

http://seniorplanet.org/living-life-backward/

singold··on China issues demolition order on world’s largest religious town in Tibet
Yes but China is not the UK and I don't think this is the only place in china without planning permission.

That's not how 3rd world countries work (I know because I live in one...)

singold··on How I turned “Street Sharks” into an online social experiment
O remember seeing a documentary about memory where they would show kids fake photoshopped images of trips they'd never done, and then the kids would "create" those memories like that had happened and also adding more details to the fake story
singold··on Does power really corrupt?
And remember in most cases (if not all) your boss is not your friend.

Kind of a corollary

singold··on Economist Removed from Plane for Algebra
It seems algebra knows what economists do with math
singold··on Apply HN: Wanderlust – Travel recommendations based on your budget and interests
Previous submission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11448307
singold··on Apply HN: Turn your spreadsheets into a complete webapp in minutes
Yes, that is basically the idea for the first version, I will take a closer look to Karma Platform
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