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1. Go to https://archive.org/donate/ in any browser, on any device.
2. Click "$100", click "Donate", enter credit card info.
Now you write out the process for doing it via Brave. Assume the user just installed Brave and has 0 BAT.
If I have to choose between the two companies it's a no brainer. This is Cloudflare's business, and their business relies on them upholding their privacy promise. Comcast/Xfinity has, in the past, engaged in DNS hijacking [1]. Comcast has had the worst ACSI score over all other businesses in the US more than once and consistently ranks very low [2]. Comcast won the worst company in America in 2014 by the Consumerist [3]. Comcast has intentionally deceived it's customers as we understand due to lawsuits [4].
I'm not sure what sort of jaded world we live in if one can say Comcast/Xfinity is a "safe harbor amidst the rest" with mountains of public information stating the complete opposite.
[0] https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/commitment-to-priv... [1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/08/comcasts-dns-red... [2] https://www.theacsi.org/news-and-resources/press-releases/pr... [3] https://consumerist.com/2014/04/08/congratulations-to-comcas... [4] https://www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-releases/ag-announces-lawsu...
Maybe "worst I've ever seen" is hyperbolic. My main point was, it's a sloppy query, could probably be done with a few WHERE clauses and an inner join instead, and is more evidence of shoddy coding practices.
You really shouldn't act so condescending when you clearly don't even have a solid understanding of the basics yourself. That's a perfectly reasonable query that would run in less than a millisecond on a large database as long as it's been indexed correctly. There's nothing sloppy about it at all.
Not only is that one of the worst-performing SQL queries I've ever seen, the fact that it's being emitted as part of an error message, and clearly not parameterized, is absolutely shocking.
Did a little digging. This[0] is the website of the author of the app allegedly used in the caucusing. And oh boy:
* HTTP
* Copyright 2014
* Half of the showcased examples are broken links
* Weird obsession with assuring that their development is not done by "non-English speakers"
* I'm pretty sure it's just one guy (the VoterClick training videos[1] are done out of his house?)
* I won't even comment on the quality of everything else I'm seeing, my confidence that a functionally sound app could be produced by this firm is already at zero
Someone tell me the caucus administrators were not actually using this? This feels like a fever dream.
[1] http://cerenimbus.com/voterclick.html
Edit: The author of the Twitter thread replied and said they weren't confident it's the same app. That makes me feel a little(?) better - I'll leave my critique of this website for posterity...
It has two left joins on foreign/primary keys, and 4 trivially-indexed where conditions. That's all it has, and none of that is even slightly complex.
Discussion from yesterday (same report posted on boingboing): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22165985
The behavior I saw from mods and the HN community yesterday left a lot to be desired.
It left me questioning what qualifies as HN material and whether sometimes this group is sometimes stubborn just for the sake of it.
Kobe Bryant might not have been a technologist but he definitely played a huge role in a lot of developers' livelihood. Whether that was inspiration, motivation, drive or mental health... Kobe influenced a lot of people. It would be very arrogant to assume the HN community was free of his influence.
Every single Kobe post, no exception, was flagged or killed.
Some of us were not doing ok yesterday, and if we can't share our struggles with the rest of the community then why are we even here? I felt a lot of dictatorial tendencies yesterday on this platform and I personally really hated it.
Your heroes are different from mine. To pretend as if Kobe's death is of zero worth to this community is not only arrogant and selfish, but quite reflective of the pains minorities suffer in communities like these.
Today I showed up at work wearing my Mamba jersey in memoriam. Had I gone with the picture presented by HN yesterday, I would have thought I would have been all alone and would have had to explain my depression to a lot of other folks at work. Instead I was met with shared remorse and others also affected by the death. Most of the people at work were in similar mode and we shared our feelings and thoughts and comforted each other.
Yesterday, even if only for one day, I would have hoped HN would have been that support group.
Mamba mentality is real and has driven a number of us. May it live forever.
Rest in eternal peace Kobe!
Regardless of that, it seems like you're upset because of some mistaken expectations of what HN is for. It's not trying to be a "general purpose" site where you should expect to be able to discuss any and all topics. It has a pretty narrow focus, and users tend to aggressively flag posts about anything without a clear connection to the set of subjects that they feel "belong" here.
You shouldn't try to treat HN as a place where you'll be able to find general news about the world or discuss anything in particular, no matter how important you feel it is. It's a good site for its particular niche, but you're going to end up with a myopic view if you aren't also using other sites too.
If you want to read random people bitching on Twitter, just use Twitter.
I'm sure there's some useful information in here, but it's not worth digging through the patronization to find it.