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Should HN have rules around sharing paywalled content? I don’t see the point of sharing something if most people aren’t going to be able to read it.

I've been wanting to buy a house around Seattle for a while, but the asking prices are so ridiculous for what you get... it's just not worth it. Personally, I'm gonna continue renting for a while to see if the remote work situation opens new opportunities or brings prices down.

That being said, I learned recently that for the same prices you would pay here you can get a castle in Europe... so I made that my retirement goal.

Is it contentious? I thought it was pretty accepted. Pretty obvious too, even just looking at the people I know.

Regarding HUDs... it's the one feature I desperately want for my next car. I've been looking into aftermarket options, but all of them are ridiculously cheap and bad or vaporware.

That and hot hatches, pretty please.

It's monkeys all the way down.

Alternatively, you could just delete your social media accounts regularly to minimize your trail.

You can do all that with modern multi-effects, and even more.

I'm running a hybrid setup, using a Line 6 Helix in front of a Soldano SLO 30 (and on its effects loop as well). Each effect can be adjusted (with all sorts of knobs, more than 12 for some), moved around and triggered individually or together. You can even use the Helix to toggle channels in the amp, manually or as part of presets.

It drastically eased up my workflow to experiment with and mix effects. No more tinkering with cables. No more wondering which pedal is plugged in wrong or doesn't have enough power. No more velcro strips. Plus, selling my hoard of pedals felt nice.

Just for Facebook though. Bet you they’re doing very little to encumber themselves in that respect.

True, but it’s still crappy of them to waste people’s time.

Such is the war against fraud.

I would love to see a public database of app buyers. I think some interesting insights could come out of it.

Ah, this takes me back! On my first job, our CEO asked me to look at some fraud transaction data from an airline and use a graph database to gather some insights from it. His idea was to show that to some executives from the airline as a prototype to get some buy-in to build a fraud detection tool from them.

The data source basically contained account IDs, billing addresses, credit card hashes and whether an account was identified as fraudulent or not.

Using that data, I built a quick GraphDB prototype that showed clusters of fake/fraud accounts. It was simple stuff, but back then said execs were pretty impressed.

I don’t know what came of that because I left shortly after, but it was an interesting little experiment. I had fun building it!

As an ex-Android user who switched to an iPhone because of privacy concerns, I’d still like sources and hopefully proof for these claims.

The more I think about it, the more I suspect trusting another big tech company with my privacy with no material proof other than their word might have been foolish.