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wolco2··on Hackers threaten to leak plastic surgery pictures
Yes even if you don't pay because unless revenge is part of the target attacking you they just wastes time with no gain.
wolco2··on The Google Fitbit Deal: Hazardous to competition, privacy, and our health [pdf]
They just stopped in 2017.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/tech...

wolco2··on The Mayron Cole Piano Method is now free
Love the business model.
wolco2··on We rendered a million web pages to find out what makes the web slow
I don't think it's amoral just the same as pirate movies.

It's the same.

wolco2··on How We Saved Dot Org
Like 20/30 for a .org compared to 10.99. For a hobbiest who isn't making money off the site and has a few domains costs will start to mount. 5 domains can cost you an extra 100.

Note: All prices are coverted to local currency.

wolco2··on We rendered a million web pages to find out what makes the web slow
The torrent accepts my clients request.

My mp3 player will play that song you downloaded as well.

It's like your butler downloading a torrent with a song played to you.

I won't argue pirating is not moral. But it has the same morality as blocking ads.

wolco2··on We rendered a million web pages to find out what makes the web slow
Newspapers like the New York Times?

The free ones they hand out in subways contain 80% ads. If you cut the ads out you will have nothing left to hold onto.

wolco2··on UX Issues with Notion
In vi the insert mode concept is so foreign it creates friction for the beginner and is one of the bigger hurdles.
wolco2··on How We Saved Dot Org
The fees on .org are expensive compared to the other top level domains com/net

I recently switched from org to the countrycode version for a domain that was available and saved half of the cost.

wolco2··on We rendered a million web pages to find out what makes the web slow
After stealing the newspaper?
wolco2··on We rendered a million web pages to find out what makes the web slow
This is based on a misunderstanding of how ads work and does harm.

If this silently clicks ads in the background the click rate goes up but the goal action (buying, signing up) remains at 0 which smartprices the ads and tanks the value of the ads for the real clickthroughs.

If you must block ads just use uBlock Origin so you are treated like your visit doesn't exist.

A deeper question is it moral to consume content and block the ads. Wouldn't that be the same as pirating a movie? (not that there is anything wrong with pirating). Are there people who would block ads and complain about people pirating, or even stealing from a store if you can get away with it.

wolco2··on ‘YouTube recommendations are toxic,’ says dev who worked on the algorithm (2019)
Same issue. Love the concept of saving through a GET link.
wolco2··on ‘YouTube recommendations are toxic,’ says dev who worked on the algorithm (2019)
What's the link?
wolco2··on Ask HN: Co-founder wants me to leave but won't entertain a buy out offer
Use your time to find his weakness and leverage your way out of this.
wolco2··on Ask HN: Earning 100k EUR in Berlin?
The quality of US healthcare is better for the average person and the waiting lists are much lower or do not exist. Many from my country will travel to the US for healthcare and paid. So many advancements only become available 10 years later. Free health is never unlimited you always have to make tradeoffs.
wolco2··on Ask HN: Earning 100k EUR in Berlin?
How much are people worth in Sweden, Finland and Denmark?
wolco2··on Ask HN: Earning 100k EUR in Berlin?
Your B2B makes most twice as much as your daily salary. Would it make sense to quit your day job and invest your time in the B2B?
wolco2··on Building the Middle Class of the Creator Economy
Depends on how far back you go. In the 1800 / early 1900 if you wanted to hear music you had to see it live. Sheet music was sold for home music enjoyment. It wasn't until 8 track / records / tapes / cds were the physical mediums where that changed.
wolco2··on An Engineer’s Guide to Stock Options (2013)
If you have known about this company for 10 years and gotten in late your lottery ticket will look like you matched 4 numbers out of 6 with a few extra thousand. But you also took less money over that time so the amount drops.

If you got in before anyone heard of the company it could be a true lottery ticket.

What companies do you know that have been around for 10 years that someone should join today to get the next lottery ticket?

wolco2··on The Internet Is for Porn
Let's start at the beginning.

Teenagers are secretly recording girls on there phones having sex with them.

They use a phone and save the video.

They share clips with friends on snapchat

They send full length clips via google drive or other file sharing programs.

A friend may upload to pornhub and random people can see. Under 200 videos in 3 years were found.

You think by shutting down pornhub it stop this? Your daughter is safe? You are focusing on the least important part of the chain. If pornhub doesn't exist this is shared on xxxvideos or vk or someother service.

If you really wanted to stop the problem you have to halt the chain of events earlier.

wolco2··on How AltaVista, the first good search engine, fell into the digital abyss
So much that it could disappear and we would be able to move on. Hard to say that a few years ago.
wolco2··on Wildfire smoke is loaded with microbes
There is a mix in the area that have helped create your biome.

Now go into an area with decomposing bodies. The additional bacteria load will overwhelm most.

It's a little more complex qnd the way you explain it is how I would introduce the topic to my child. You may have billions of bacteria but if you introduce billions of different types you may not have the bacteriophages to deal with those types and your body may produce these as a defense (or not if your immune system is weak) but what happens in many cases your body may kill off beneficial bacteria and that gets replaced with a similiar but non-beneficial bacteria and because the phages changed you can't get back. We see this with fluoroquinolone antibiotics[1]

Davies EV, Winstanley C, Fothergill JL, James CE. The role of temperate bacteriophages in bacterial infection. FEMS Microbiol Lett. 2016;363(5):fnw015. doi: 10.1093/femsle/fnw015

wolco2··on Wildfire smoke is loaded with microbes
Not in the way you understand. Bacterial infections can be deadly. This would stress out human biome defenses and change biomes in some cases increasing in lysogenic bacterial strains. It's not the same as eating dirt.
wolco2··on California plan for wealth tax on anyone who spends 60 days a year in the state
Until it's everyone with a net worth of a million or 100k gets the tax. It will.. probably include everyone in the end.
wolco2··on Virtual Machine Detection in the Browser (2019)
Is unethical the right word?

Unpleasant might fit better.

It doesn't break ethical rules to ensure ads are shown so income can be generated to pay for hosting.

wolco2··on DRY Is a Trade-Off
Reminds me of the time I wrote 100 similiar sites separately with slight changes. A quick global search/replace will introduce so many unnecessary replaces unless you are careful and miss so many unless you take linebreaks into account.

A global search/replace is a hotfix hammer that should only get pulled out rarely and carefully by manually reviewing all changes.

wolco2··on DRY Is a Trade-Off
Shorter is easier to read and understand at first glance.

Writing a paragraph kills any formatting in vi/vim.

Why not write a comment if a paragraph is required to understand what you are doing.

This sounds like Hungarian notion taken to the extreme.

wolco2··on Streaming Is Stalling: Can Music Keep Up in the Attention Economy?
Try listening to older music. It's less boring and tries to bring out an emotion. A lot of the newer music has proshopped out any real emotion.
wolco2··on Post Mortem of Google Outage on 14 December 2020
A Monday rollout sounds horrible. Probably the worst day for a rollout.
wolco2··on Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help
JetBrains has a great product but if you are really serious about "giddy in anticipation of paying them for another year" why not buy another subscription every few months? Plan a party and invite the neighbours.
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