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This. It’s already bad enough with segmented Twitter follower graphs and Fox News. Just imagine when they’re entirely walled off from one another

Do you have sources for people being banned for those reasons? I have not heard of these cases

What makes you think there are so few? Mercenaries are basically representing both America and Russia in Syria right now.

I've been having issues since 9:50am EDT. Took them a full hour to update the status page- completely unacceptable.

This seems to be extremely widespread. Our services have been down due to Firebase Admin token refresh timeouts since 10am EDT.

+1 to all of this. I was also in this space ~5 years ago and faced all of the same pain points. We installed hardware (simple iBeacons) in restaurants/bars and had an online portal for them to enter drink specials. About 1/3 of our customers required weekly assistance with one or both of these.

We did find that lots of businesses had a set budget for experimental expenditure like this so starting off with a 3 month (quarterly recurring) subscription worked pretty well. They were willing to spend upfront to try it out and several months were enough time to determine if it had any impact on their revenue.

Good luck!

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I'm not dismissing the crisis- it's a separate conversation that can be had for SF, LA and Seattle. My call out is for this confusing picture painted online that the Bay Area is a crime ridden wasteland that should be avoided at all costs, which simply isn't the case.

It’s not just a matter of disagreement— take a look on here, Reddit and Twitter and you’ll find a swarm of people making it seem like the Bay Area is a dystopian hellhole. I was legitimately concerned about my move before I got here.

Sometimes I wonder if there’s a funded campaign against the Bay Area online. Where do you live, and where did you come from? I just moved to SF and yes it has homeless people, traffic and is extremely expensive, but these are things that every other big city I’ve lived in has. The costs and homelessness are worse than Seattle or NYC but not to the point that it’s a reduction in my quality of life. To say you have “no good opinions” is so extreme. The area is beautiful, has a rich history, amazing culture, food and art, and if you work in technology has the best availability of jobs in the world.

This isn't true, talk to folks in downtown Seattle. Anecdotally, I have a group of 5 that rents a car to go hiking about every other weekend. Splitting $70 between 5 people twice a month beats buying a car by... a lot. Know tons of others that do this.

Hey HN, a few months ago I realized that my phone’s photo library was filling up with pictures of book quotes that I wanted to share and look back on. It’s hard to organize these and writing down every quote is too time consuming. I decided to build a solution that allows you to scan/save/share quotes using OCR. It’s super simple - no bells and whistles - but (I’d like to think) it just works. Let me know what you think!