Hacker News: paradoja

New comment by paradoja in "German court prohibits LinkedIn from ignoring "Do Not Track" signals"

paradoja — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 10:23:50 +0000

This is the "Pay or okay" model that some sites in Austria and Germany have ( https://noyb.eu/en/pay-or-okay-beginning-end and other updates from NOYB talk about the issue).

I've also seen a Spanish site with this, but as far as I know it has only been accepted by Austrian and German authorities (and challenged recently by some courts).

New comment by paradoja in "Bandcamp's Entire Union Bargaining Team Was Laid Off"

paradoja — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 13:22:45 +0000

Also Verdi https://tech.verdi.de/ .

New comment by paradoja in "Squeezing a Sokoban game into 10 lines of Haskell"

paradoja — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 14:14:43 +0000

It'd be 2 characters no? `head x` vs `x!!0`.

New comment by paradoja in "Bad UI is causing people to get scammed"

paradoja — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 11:09:39 +0000

Verifying that it works in Firefox in Linux (with Gnome and with Sway, in case that matters). Thanks a lot for this!

New comment by paradoja in "Google Analytics Opt Out"

paradoja — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 16:39:49 +0000

If GDPR is a concern, it has to be opt-in, so it wouldn't be compliant in any case.

New comment by paradoja in "Changes to the pip dependency resolver in 20.3"

paradoja — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 09:36:06 +0000

> The "--force" / legacy option can't tell a difference between "broken solution that will work for you" and "broken solution which won't".

But probably it doesn't have to. "--force" implies that the user wants to go on and manage the consequences of what happens. Typing it requires actively adding that flag, which is a conscious decision on the part of the user. If the user wants to check by themselves if it works or not, that could be their prerogative.

New comment by paradoja in "A Lesson in Acceptance"

paradoja — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 15:25:00 +0000

In the Spanish-speaking world you can find the endings -e, -@, and -x. Depending on the area/organization one or other can be used (also, differing ways of pronouncing them; I'm a native and barely have heard any one pronounce the -e versions ever).

New comment by paradoja in "Trump gives Microsoft 45 days to clinch TikTok deal"

paradoja — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 12:40:42 +0000

This seems to ignore the Snowden revelations. I don't think most of the world trusts US companies qualitatively more than they trust Chinese companies for these kinds of apps.

Also, the discussion was about national security and you are giving different arguments here. How is this related to national security?

New comment by paradoja in "Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned for full refund"

paradoja — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 09:47:49 +0000

I'd think that it's cheaper not because it's risky (specially since Amazon says it inspects the item), but because it's second hand. Trying to pass the risk to the user is probably not what most people would expect.

New comment by paradoja in "Near 90% Mortality Rate in Intubated Covid-19 Patients in NYC"

paradoja — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 08:15:25 +0000

What is your source on this? This opinion seems to be against what experts continue saying.

New comment by paradoja in "Shibboleths that get you past the initial script stage"

paradoja — Sun, 01 Dec 2019 16:12:51 +0000

Well, that's not a defining characteristic of English but of most (all?) living, dynamic languages. I have seen it with the languages I speak or have tried to learn (Spanish, German, Portuguese, Chinese...).

New comment by paradoja in "Robocalls are overwhelming hospitals and patients"

paradoja — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 11:07:31 +0000

Having a German (as parent poster) and Spanish phone for many years, I have never had a robocall. It's really surprising to me that this is a problem at all.

New comment by paradoja in "Why I'm still using jQuery"

paradoja — Mon, 27 May 2019 12:05:23 +0000

Getting a

> Error code: SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN

trying to access https://youmightneedjquery.com .

New comment by paradoja in "Court Says Using Chalk on Tires for Parking Enforcement Violates Constitution"

paradoja — Tue, 23 Apr 2019 19:52:10 +0000

Fixed link: https://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw-bay-city/2019/04/appeals-...

There was a :wq at the end (too much vim everywhere ;) ).

New comment by paradoja in "Selfie Deaths in the Outdoors"

paradoja — Tue, 23 Apr 2019 18:12:28 +0000

This is true for quite some studies for bike commuters. The risk of accident is probably higher than getting public transport or walking (I don't know with respect to using a car; but that's less common in most places here in Europe), but the improved health conditions are worth it on average.

New comment by paradoja in "Facebook backtracks after removing Warren ads calling for Facebook breakup"

paradoja — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 13:28:30 +0000

Maybe only the ones they had an easy excuse to remove?

New comment by paradoja in "When a Bike Company Put a TV on Its Box, Shipping Damages Went Down (2017)"

paradoja — Sun, 27 Jan 2019 10:49:59 +0000

Handlers are already ignoring the caution signs, though, just not for (at least) one product, TVs.

New comment by paradoja in "How the US Pushed Sweden to Take Down the Pirate Bay"

paradoja — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 09:37:51 +0000

It is my impression that corruption measures usually indicate corruption available or actively done by normal people without power (eg. bribing officers to get licenses or similar things).

Corruption by big corporations and similar things is usually another thing (although if things are corrupt in the low level, they will for sure be in the higher levels).

New comment by paradoja in "Facebook Lies"

paradoja — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 16:02:02 +0000

I guess the problems started much earlier, and that court decision was actually a result of such issues.

New comment by paradoja in "Why We Terminated Daily Stormer"

paradoja — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 17:21:18 +0000

I don't think I agree with the grandparent, but usually swing voters don't change their political views, but rather political parties adapt their programs (or rather, propaganda) to appeal to them. So I don't think that's a good example.