Hacker News: paulie_a

New comment by paulie_a in "In Defense of Myers Briggs (2020)"

paulie_a — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 05:40:32 +0000

"we've had to ask you this sort of thing a ton of times. Eventually we ban such accounts"

No you haven't. What's wrong with calling out bad products for what they are?

New comment by paulie_a in "In Defense of Myers Briggs (2020)"

paulie_a — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 03:24:20 +0000

I find it amazing that anyone uses it in the business world. Next up HR will be adding tarrot cards and oiji boards

Then again I find it amazing that anyone uses it at all. It's complete trash

New comment by paulie_a in "DigitalOcean S-1"

paulie_a — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 00:46:56 +0000

Rackspace was always overpriced garbage

New comment by paulie_a in "Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts, to do data-poisoning"

paulie_a — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 22:18:56 +0000

Most American companies don't though. They can safely ignore european laws

New comment by paulie_a in "Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts, to do data-poisoning"

paulie_a — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 21:23:50 +0000

If they don't do business there they don't have to comply. Making it available doesn't count

Just like I don't have to comply if I have EU users on a service, I am in the united stated. europe cannot enforce their laws here. It's just the same as if saudia arabia tried to enforce their laws here. They carry no wait

That is what makes the GDPR insignificant. It applies to Europe. Not the rest of the world. The cookie warnings for the vast majority of the internet are stupid an unnecessary

So call it illegal in europe but who cares?

It honestly is maddening how many people care about the GDPR that don't need to

New comment by paulie_a in "Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts, to do data-poisoning"

paulie_a — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 18:46:39 +0000

They are in california. They can give the finger to the gpdr. It's irrelevant to most people in the world

People tend to forget that it is not applicable. For instance nothing I build will ever comply to it regardless of users that might be in europe

Clubhouse has no duty to obey european law

The question is: why do you think the need to be compliant?

New comment by paulie_a in "Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts, to do data-poisoning"

paulie_a — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 18:39:07 +0000

Data poisoning needs to become a standard practice. Make the "valuable" ad data useless

New comment by paulie_a in "Think you don’t need a VPN? Here are five times ordinary people might need a VPN"

paulie_a — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 11:24:49 +0000

Do you really believe that?

New comment by paulie_a in "Firefox replaces Google Analytics with fake no-op in strict tracking protection"

paulie_a — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 02:22:58 +0000

Why isn't there more effort to subvert tracking vs trying to block it. Ruin the data and they can collect as much as they want

New comment by paulie_a in "Facebook is pushing back on Apple’s new iPhone privacy rules"

paulie_a — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 23:17:40 +0000

I'm guessing if facebook outright killed the app and blame it on apple. Facebook would do far better than apple would

New comment by paulie_a in "SEC suspends trading in 15 securities due to questionable social media activity"

paulie_a — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 23:06:05 +0000

The SEC has caught up to 2001, yay

New comment by paulie_a in "Anime is booming, so why are animators living in poverty?"

paulie_a — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 23:01:49 +0000

It has a low talent barrier and a flooded job market

There really isn't much to say

New comment by paulie_a in "The U.S. Air Force just admitted the F-35 stealth fighter has failed"

paulie_a — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 03:01:08 +0000

Nothing, we don't replace it because we don't need it

It's a tremendous waste of money

New comment by paulie_a in "Coinbase S-1"

paulie_a — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 18:42:18 +0000

There is no "we". I started using it because I can recklessly trade it. I see no utility in the current expensive implemention

I don't care if it is centralized or not

New comment by paulie_a in "Potential Apple M1 Flaw Discovered by Hector Martin"

paulie_a — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 13:23:39 +0000

The media is known to exaggerate things without bothering to understand the issue

I completely get why he put that there

New comment by paulie_a in "The U.S. Air Force just admitted the F-35 stealth fighter has failed"

paulie_a — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 06:12:27 +0000

An excessively over powered military with a bloated budget can definitely use some crumbling

New comment by paulie_a in "Twitter is now adding a controversial 'hacked materials' warning label to tweets"

paulie_a — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 17:52:21 +0000

Shouldn't that be considered a badge of credibility?

Yes people can make fakes, welcome to thousands of years ago

New comment by paulie_a in "Google Scans Your Gmail for Invoices and Receipts to Track What You Buy Online"

paulie_a — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 17:22:30 +0000

It is their job to design their own email templates as they see fit

The customer doesn't get a say in the matter

New comment by paulie_a in "The U.S. Air Force just admitted the F-35 stealth fighter has failed"

paulie_a — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 17:04:37 +0000

The US air force didnt need a new airframe

New comment by paulie_a in "Hackers Tied to Russia's GRU Targeted the US Grid for Years, Researchers Warn"

paulie_a — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 17:01:13 +0000

No it's just yet another piece of coverage in the decade long coverage of russia hacking everything