Hacker News: mankash666

New comment by mankash666 in "Turn off tracking protection to resolve “video is currently unavailable” error"

mankash666 — Sat, 29 Sep 2018 21:45:59 +0000

What's this bull-shittery supposed to evoke? Sympathy for your lack of understand of copyright law, or your bull-shit entitlement to CBS' content, or just how disconnected you are from content economics?

Ever run a content business? I bet no. Ever run any business? I guess not - fundamental rules of economics relies on a quid-pro-quo transaction that you seem to not understand.

Or, since geniuses like you have cracked the media market - you should start your own channel - where content is free of copyright and there's zero need for return on investment. Apply to YC while you're at it

New comment by mankash666 in "Turn off tracking protection to resolve “video is currently unavailable” error"

mankash666 — Sat, 29 Sep 2018 20:55:41 +0000

Yes indeed. There era of entitlement is upon us - "unless CBS gives away all their free content without tracking and monetizing me, I'll illegally pirate their content - because in 2018 I'm entitled to CBS content without frills"

New comment by mankash666 in "Turn off tracking protection to resolve “video is currently unavailable” error"

mankash666 — Sat, 29 Sep 2018 20:51:29 +0000

Please - go file a GDPR complaint

New comment by mankash666 in "Turn off tracking protection to resolve “video is currently unavailable” error"

mankash666 — Sat, 29 Sep 2018 20:49:51 +0000

Another user CBS won't miss, I guess

New comment by mankash666 in "MacOS Marzipan"

mankash666 — Fri, 28 Sep 2018 07:08:37 +0000

Here's the thing: most users don't really care. The evidence is in the author's own disapproval of the slack app - about it just being a wrapper around a website disguised as an app. Guess what, slack desktop has a LOT of traction, and paying customers!

If an app is sufficiently good on Marzipan, then the users will steer it towards becoming better if they care.

New comment by mankash666 in "How recent PayPal alternatives are better"

mankash666 — Wed, 26 Sep 2018 16:40:53 +0000

Curious why the oldest application of the blockchain - money - isn't in your list. Actually, I find it mysterious that Revolut and PayPal are more popular when Bitcoin and ethereum are freely accessible

New comment by mankash666 in "WhatsApp Cofounder Brian Acton on Why He Left $850M Behind"

mankash666 — Wed, 26 Sep 2018 16:25:41 +0000

What?! Zuck dropped a cool $21B on the app - I believe he's entitled to expect a return on investment without being bullied, using a public business model everyone knew about. Facebook isn't a non profit, and zuck is actually accountable to investors

New comment by mankash666 in "Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail?"

mankash666 — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 20:32:14 +0000

None.

None come with $0/annum, spam filtering, deep search, state of the art 2FA, large amounts of storage, large collection of plugins, cross OS native clients, ....

New comment by mankash666 in "Am I logged in or not? GDPR case study on the example of Chrome browser change"

mankash666 — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 20:28:09 +0000

I'm assuming here that the changes are GDPR compliant (given the large army of lawyers working for Google).

If they are, all this brouhaha is from the technophile echo chamber of opinions. The average joe gives a rat's ass for this, as evident from all the non-noise coming out of the regular world. Techonopiles have made an art of outrage - typing on their $3000 laptop or $1300 iPhones built by slave-grinded employees toiling 16 hour days in China - NO HN COMMENTING ALLOWED AT WORK FOR THEM, BTW

Please go use FF & pretend to have privacy online or be better humans. Mozilla - the world leader in disappearing money [1]. Does it really take $225M to build & maintain the quantum browser? And why $135M for 'marketing'?

Mozilla 2016 revenues: $520M

Mozila 2016 R&D: $225M

Mozilla marketing: $135M

Remaining $160M - ???

[1] https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2016/2016_Mozilla_Au...

New comment by mankash666 in "News Site to Investigate Big Tech, Helped by Craigslist Founder"

mankash666 — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 16:37:32 +0000

Can ProPuboica/MarkUp investigate how Apple never comes under the scanner of anti trust regulators either in the US or EU, while Google, Microsoft get fingered for far less. For instance, Android, which is open source, has been fined by the EU, while EU app developers have consistently complained against Apple's app store authorization and related policies onto deaf ears.

New comment by mankash666 in "App update rejected for mentioning iPhone XR in release notes"

mankash666 — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 16:27:45 +0000

The only technicality protecting Apple from massive anti trust regulations with regards to the store is that the iPhone actually isn't a monopoly in cell phone unit shipments.

However, many economists have noted that app revenues (not advertising) is highly skewed towards Apple's platform. When will a $100B app market stop being treated as a feature of physical phone unit shipments, worthy of its own independent regulation?

New comment by mankash666 in "How Qualcomm Tried and Failed to Steal Intel's Crown Jewel"

mankash666 — Sun, 23 Sep 2018 18:14:16 +0000

Cavium is actively competing with Intel, offering ARM for the server space. You can rent cavium CPUs from http://Packet.Net for a lot cheaper than Intel

Qualcomm's server unit demise has more to do with management than tech - Cavium built it's processors with fewer dollars than Qualcomm.

New comment by mankash666 in "Echo Chamber Incites Online Mob to Attack Math Profs"

mankash666 — Sat, 22 Sep 2018 21:25:23 +0000

Yes yes - bullying peer reviewed work from being published is totally not censorship.

New comment by mankash666 in "iPhone XS is faster than an iMac Pro on the Speedometer 2.0 JavaScript benchmark"

mankash666 — Sat, 22 Sep 2018 18:47:28 +0000

It'd be nice if Apple's iOS JavaScript core reached parity with W3C features supported on other platforms and browsers. Notable emissions are RTC data channel, WebGl2, WebAudio, iffy PWA support ...

All that speed won't allow a developer to circumvent the app store for features pedestrian in other browsers and platforms

New comment by mankash666 in "Apple gives you a TRUST rating – it’s based on your phone call and email habits"

mankash666 — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 17:21:31 +0000

Apple, as always, is so full of shit when it comes to privacy.

"Don't buy Android phones if you don't want big brother type surveillance from Google, buy Apple for China-esque social scoring surveillance. Oh, and we have no use for this score expect fraud prevention, trust us"

New comment by mankash666 in "New York Review of Books Editor Is Out Amid Uproar Over #MeToo Essay"

mankash666 — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 06:51:26 +0000

Trial by social media apparently overrules the opinion of the actual justice system. The courts acquitted the author of the essay, but the editor paid the price for publishing it. Not only has the messenger been shot, the credibility of an old media house has decreased. Ironically, the news is published on NYT - an org that had the guts to ignore social media lynch mobs while hiring Sarah Jeong. The editor of the New York Review of Books is much less visible and controversial - pity that this happened. Must've been an easy target for a trigger happy boss.

New comment by mankash666 in "Dropbike: Data Breaches and Free Bike Rides"

mankash666 — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 06:31:03 +0000

The big question is "what impact does it have on the bottom line"?

If the react native app is sufficient for it's intended audience, then learning dart/flutter, or 2 native platforms is academic at best, as it's unlikely to sway revenues.

Maybe certain use cases can never be handled in react native, but for most, it's sufficient to not impact revenues.

At the end of the day, the user doesn't care about your programming stack, only results, and react native has been deployed at scale by large corps to demonstrate viability for most, if not all cases

New comment by mankash666 in "Vapid: an intentionally simple CMS"

mankash666 — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 06:00:13 +0000

A few demo pages would help visualize the end result, before signing up.

New comment by mankash666 in "Vapid: an intentionally simple CMS"

mankash666 — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 05:57:02 +0000

Depends - it's defined as "offering nothing challenging". Creating content for others to read online has become as essential as being able to write with pen on paper. So in a sense, a CMS that isn't challenging for the average Joe is indeed better off being 'vapid'

New comment by mankash666 in "Privateer Holdings Hits the Jackpot with $12B Tilray Stake"

mankash666 — Wed, 19 Sep 2018 18:50:52 +0000

Someone please explain this: Revenues in 2017: ~$21M, loss: $7.5M

But, market cap: $27B

Why?