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I can't imagine why anyone would do this other than to escape their role in society.

I don't think the world Self-Important means what you think it means. While I'm not religious, these are thinkers whose works are probably the longest surviving works of thought. This is just being facetious.

It does in the music world.

Now to explain this to my mother.

It's definitely going to get thrown out eventually. 100%. It can't hold a candle to Apple Pay and some exec is gonna convince the higher ups that they need to rebuild it from scratch.

I wouldn't put anything past the company that risked everything on Google+ and then basically abandoned it a few months later when they didn't see the mass exodus they were so delusional in expecting.

Disappointing that cancel culture has actually stopped you from educating us on a topic I would be interested about. I knew this was bound to affect me personally some day but I didn't know how to tackle it.

What's wrong with 3D printing?

literally unpolished aesthetic

They are seemingly, or apparently unpolished. Not literally. You can bet that they spent a huge amount of time making sure it looks unpolished but still good.

Changelog is for developers. Terms and Conditions is for lawyers.

"Ignore this sentence and your child will die."

If this was a dark pattern then almost all of sales is a dark pattern.

Yes (or an Android VM before anyone tries to get pedantic)

This is easily one of my top 10 favorite HN posts.

Interesting, informative, and polite. (Last one is super important)

Yes. Israel's Trump is single handedly responsible for this success.

So we can't get rid of the senior editors after all?

Funny enough, you did, and he did not.

OpenAI: Don't use GPT in medical settings.

Internet uses GPT in medical settings and gets bad results

Internet: insert image of shocked pikachu

You must be a pentester, because the commenter above you wasn't talking about pentesting at all.

His comment says that small rural town water treatment plants don't have to run for 24/7. Not sure what you thought he was saying.

Calibre has a plugin the allows the converter to work with DRM

Or, you know, upgrade in the 12 years you had to upgrade since Python announced it was moving Python 3.

'97 or '98 for me.

Went online because I heard Nasa put up pictures of Mars so the first website I went to was nasa.gov

I typed out the entire url like nasa.gov/pathfinder/images or whatever it was after seeing it on TV and writing it down. It took a while to load and then was super underwhelming. I think I searched for Sonic The Hedgehog next.

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Auto Tab Discard adds an option to your right click menu "Open in Discarded Tab"

This is why I don't depend on Google for anything critical other than email.

It's really quite astounding how fast this company has gone from darling for the tech world to corporate super villain.

Then oracle will change it to whatever license they want regardless of what the original license was.

This reads like a Google shill wrote it, but if not:

1) the fear of Google owning data is that they will be able to target us more and more. As if our internet behavior data wasn't enough, now they have our biological data.

2) the fact that they don't sell it misses the point because in fact they are the party we don't want the data to get to (along with Facebook et all). And you can bet your ass they'll sell it when they strapped for cash.

3) I would definitely not rather my data he with a tech giant who can map it with all my other data that they currently have.

This is standard for financial publications. If they wrote out the whole sentence on bloomberg it would seem very 'noob' like.

I emailed whatsapp about this a while back and they said it was a non-issue.

How this happens:

1. Hacker adds phone number to their own whatsapp. They do this to thousands/tens of thousands of phone numbers.

2. All of those phone numbers receive an SMS with the OTP to activate whatsapp. In that OTP, there's also a link that will activate whatsapp if you click it. "Enter code XXXXXX or click this link to activate whatsapp on your new phone"

3. Someone, somewhere eventually clicks that link.

4. Hackers take whatsapp account. Add two-factor authentication to it so that you can't take it back by reauthenticating normally.

5. Extortion.

People usually get it back by contacting whatsapp.

I suspect your idea of 'very realistic' is from news sources like the NYT and not from actually being to Syria.

As someone who has been to Syria multiple times, I can assure you that US news is much closer to Hollywood than reality.

I'm talking about what we have in front of us. You're defending the NYT's article without even having seen it. I can't argue against magical articles that haven't been published yet.

Also, if you think the NYT doesn't 'lie', then how about you read up on their reporting of the Duke lacrosse team case, or their hundreds of others examples of complete disregard to journalistic integrity.

Coinbase isn't perfect. But NYT lies. A lot.

But EVEN if the NYT doesn't lie, you haven't read the article yet.