Hacker News: gdhbcc

New comment by gdhbcc in "Microsoft calls for a closer look at app stores"

gdhbcc — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 16:07:49 +0000

Selling at a loss is also called "dumping" and Is generally considered as a illegal anticompetitive practice.

Why should video game consoles have an exception?

New comment by gdhbcc in "Woman makes $420k by buying insurance on flights she predicted would get delayed"

gdhbcc — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 17:20:09 +0000

No, you're not making a false claim (the flights did get delayed) nor did you cause the claim in the first place (you didn't cause the delay to the flight).

I fail to see how this is in any way fraudulent.

New comment by gdhbcc in "You can bypass YouTube ads by adding a dot after the domain"

gdhbcc — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 23:47:16 +0000

Not just websites, I've had windows services fail because I happened to have a "\" in the password of the service user running it

New comment by gdhbcc in "30k unsuspecting Rose Bowl attendees scooped up in a facial recognition test"

gdhbcc — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 16:42:56 +0000

That and more has been done at the recent protests.

Do you genuinely believe those drones flying over every major city taking high resolution photos of everyone within 30 miles are there for fun?

New comment by gdhbcc in "How the Magic: The Gathering Color Wheel Explains Humanity"

gdhbcc — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 08:13:16 +0000

Foi can use any cards youd like

New comment by gdhbcc in "Facebook Will Label Content From State-Controlled Media"

gdhbcc — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 13:28:25 +0000

NPR for internal consumption, voice of X for external

New comment by gdhbcc in "How the biggest consumer apps got their first 1k users"

gdhbcc — Sun, 24 May 2020 22:10:32 +0000

Generally advertising regulations require you to disclose any relationship with the company.

That's why youtuber put #ad on their videos

New comment by gdhbcc in "Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices"

gdhbcc — Mon, 18 May 2020 23:04:55 +0000

He is probably Portuguese speaking, and his autocorrect changed the spelling.

New comment by gdhbcc in "An Airbnb for farmland hits a snag, as farmers raise data privacy concerns"

gdhbcc — Sun, 17 May 2020 11:41:52 +0000

Presumably tillable will make the same dela to every landowner in the area, reducing the competition between landowner and therefore enabling the increase in prices.

In essence, tillable becomes the only landowner

New comment by gdhbcc in "Supreme Court rules Georgia state law annotations not copyrightable [pdf]"

gdhbcc — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 23:01:37 +0000

You're assuming that copyright is the only way to make money out of writing, which is simply untrue.

New comment by gdhbcc in "French companies benefiting from state aid can't buy back shares"

gdhbcc — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 22:53:20 +0000

Thats not true at all, companies are in no way obligated to pay dividends

New comment by gdhbcc in "S&P 500 triggers 15-minute trading halt for the second time this week"

gdhbcc — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 13:44:26 +0000

Its a good time. Divide your savings over a couple of months, and every week put in a bit to DCA into the market

New comment by gdhbcc in "European parliament says it will not use facial recognition tech"

gdhbcc — Thu, 06 Feb 2020 12:27:40 +0000

How about all the mass surveillance programs the EU has been funding for decades that do use facial recognition?

New comment by gdhbcc in "London to deploy live facial recognition to find wanted faces in a crowd"

gdhbcc — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 17:17:03 +0000

The EU has funded research on mass surveillance that use facial recognition for decades.

New comment by gdhbcc in "Majority of Americans favor wealth tax on very rich: poll"

gdhbcc — Sat, 11 Jan 2020 01:22:04 +0000

All transactions are already supposed to be reported so I'm not sure in what way you wouldn't be able to acquire the exact same information using the current regulatory requirements, so I'm not too keen on your stance here.

New comment by gdhbcc in "How I automate my home"

gdhbcc — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 14:37:55 +0000

Fun to make too, though it does take a while to get it up and running

New comment by gdhbcc in "America's Most Underappreciated Right: Public Assembly"

gdhbcc — Wed, 25 Dec 2019 17:46:46 +0000

If it can be subject to restrictions then it is simply not a fundamental right, it is merely a privilege.

New comment by gdhbcc in "Change to Chinese university's charter dropping 'freedom of thought'"

gdhbcc — Thu, 19 Dec 2019 19:47:52 +0000

Thats stupid, there nothing wrong with violating IP laws, regardless of who did it first.

New comment by gdhbcc in "Facebook fail to convince lawmakers it needs to track your location at all times"

gdhbcc — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 21:50:22 +0000

They are having data about themselves collected without their consent. That is the harm.

New comment by gdhbcc in "A Database of Fugitive Slave Ads Reveals Thousands of Untold Stories (2018)"

gdhbcc — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 16:58:48 +0000

Probably in much the same way people today cry out about freedom of speech in china, while labeling restrictions on speech at home as acceptable (or not even restrictions at all!)

At the end of the day all of these high minded ideals are just excuses to justify ones own actions and world views.