mrsalt
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Comment · 1 year ago
Was searching for some old email but seems like the site is down.
Comment · 2 years ago
Why is it uncomfortable? It is the reality, and no one important wants to change it.
There are plenty of immigrants working under the table. And there are plenty of employers willing to hire them.
We do have it both ways.
Comment · 2 years ago
If the situation in Italy actually got bad, the EU would suspend Italy's membership or at least many EU rights (such as freedom of movement) very quickly. As usual, everyone likes their neighbors until they don't.
Comment · 3 years ago
Everyone said this about global surveillance before Snowden and yet. I don't see the value in questioning if this is true or not, rather I think we should assume it's true and act as such, isn't that what modern security is about? (see: HTTPS/DNSSEC/DoH etc)
I frankly wouldn't be surprised if it's actually happening.
Comment · 3 years ago
Georgia Tech's CS6750 Human-Computer Interaction by Prof. Joyner
The lectures are free and the course can also be taken as part of OMSCS.
Fantastic course really. It teaches something new and the theory behind it all is really interesting.
Other top-rated OMSCS courses such as CS6200 GIOS are really good as well.
Comment · 4 years ago
Could the CTO or some other employee go to Amazon's office to do something like this? I genuinely wonder.
Comment · 4 years ago
You also see this sentiment with other topics related to hiring, like working 2+ jobs. Somewhat amusing.
Comment · 4 years ago
>How can a BNPL firm compete with apple offering the same service at no extra charge? Just the disappearance of easy money has crashed their valuations already.
Not really relevant to your point as a whole, but about BNPL. In Mexico basically any credit card worth having offers BNPL. Typically the agreed solution is just to charge interest to the merchant. Stripe Mexico has it: https://stripe.com/mx/pricing/local-payment-methods (see meses sin intereses), for an example of the fees involved.
In addition to this there are some institutions (like American Express) that offer BNPL at no charge for the merchant (other than the interchange fee).
No consumer pays interest in this scheme (it's in the name: meses sin intereses, months without interest), well, as long as they don't miss a payment (they charge interest then). So at least for this industry I don't think Apple is major threat. Surely BNPL firms can figure something like this out for the US. I think Mexico is not unique in this scheme.
Comment · 4 years ago
Regarding Japan, I think the parent comment was referring to the 1980s US-Japan trade war. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaza_Accord
Comment · 5 years ago
Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela (when you could actually vote) are also federations (and not the only ones). Brazil's population is 210M and Mexico 126M. They all have national identity cards which can be used for voting like the parent comment says.
If there was will in the US for a national ID, Congress and the powers that be could achieve this within a few years if they wanted.
Comment · 5 years ago
Here's an old thread about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21244440
It's obvious when you the Page Visibility API original editors/authors: https://www.w3.org/TR/page-visibility-2/