I loved Notepad++ in the past, but I don't see myself using it again. Notion for notes & VSCode are just a lot better in my opinion.
Readit Newsunderwatersea commented on Berkshire Hathaway's Charlie Munger dies aged 99 ft.com/content/66124b0c-3... · Posted by u/irtefa
> Govt tried to help the poor, but the rich made a killing.
That might be because the government gave the rich much more money than the poor.
They did not. Well a little bit with PPA loans, but that was more business targeted.
The main issue was causing inflation, which increased the values of assets, which rich people have the most (real estate, stock, cryptocurrency, luxury cars, etc...).
I think the governments wrong doing was shutting down work for low income earners (restaurants, gyms, etc...). And then trying to help with stimulus checks, but sending it income based rather then if you still had a good paying job. I got a stimulus check but absolutely did not need it. I used mine to book a flight to Texas in 2020 with my family and enjoy a nice week of water parks (we all had covid prior).
underwatersea commented on Tell HN: Automatic fraud detection is making my life hell · Posted by u/aiProgMach
The problem with many of these examples is that 99% of the time, it is a sign of fraud, and 1% of the time it’s a false positive.
> If a person's mobile phone number is associated with VoIP or Google Voice, that indicates fraud.
I’ve been using this heuristic (along with VPN and IP geo lookup) when screening job candidates after a massive influx of developers outside the US applying for US-only remote roles. I discovered that VOIP phone numbers on a resume is extremely highly correlated with the applicant lying about where they live.
If it weren’t for this screening step, I literally wouldn’t be able to hire anyone because the volume of fraud is so incredibly high that it drowns out legitimate candidates.
I wish there were a way to detect fraud while never having a false positive.
But the reality is that a lot of the heuristics you listed are indeed strongly correlated with fraud. It sucks, but it’s also not realistic to optimize for the 1% of false positives at the expense of the 99%.
This kinda scares me you are screening out Google Voice Numbers. Google Voice was my primary phone number for over 5 years, I had a real phone number but I was always giving out only Google Voice. Google Voice is a very powerful tool:
* your phone number keeps working even if you lose your phone (I could still answer phone calls when my phone broke). * Traveling abroad is a breeze, just change sim cards on arrival and your US phone number still works via data on Google Voice. No need for expensive travel passes, and you get to choose your operator that has a lot more data. * Having full SMS & call support on a website is very nice, I always hate typing with the phone. iMessage doesn't solve everything since you need a mac (I frequently switch OS & devices).
Also I think e-sims will make lying and fraud much more common. A month ago chatgpt was denying creating a work account for me because I've already had this phone number associated with my previous account. And they were blocking Google Voice. I went to USMobile.com, payed 7$ to create an esim with another phone number, and I had sms with a second phone number on my phone working in less than 10 minutes.
I bought at .05 USD and I just sold at .13 USD, but I'm buying in again at .14. Not missing this bubble. I missed BTC big time and been kicking myself ever since. In Musk I believe, let's go Doge!
lol...
"I missed BTC big time and been kicking myself ever since"
Why are you selling then? I'm kicking myself too for not buying bitcoin at 8$, but now I just accumulate. I buy doge at 40 cents, at 20 cents, at 0.05 cents. If it goes to 1$ I won't sell.
We haven't blocked the domains, we are asking people to move. There are plenty of other choices out there when it comes to infrastructure services so this isn't "deplatforming". I sympathize with people that are not pro regime but ultimately even those tax dollars they may generate go to the regime. We have people on the ground in Ukraine being bombarded now non stop. I cannot with good conscience continue to support the Russian regime in any way, shape or form. People that are getting angry need to point that at the cause, their own government. If more grace time is necessary for some to move, we will provide it. Free speech is one thing but this decision is more about a government that is committing war crimes against innocent people that we want nothing to do with.
As a US based customer I will move away from you. You are potentially shutting down voices in Russia. Maybe an anti-putin blogger will just give up blogging because of this. You are destroying what remains of the free internet of the 90s.
And just to make it clear, I 100% agree with sanctions against Russia such as even shutting down things like Google Pay. Your action here is just dumb and not well thought.
As a US based Namecheap customer for over 5 years, that supports Ukraine, I will be moving somewhere else, this in my opinion is not a way to do business. Internet needs to remain free. I live in NY and Namecheap is in Arizona, will I get banned one day when Namecheap disagrees with an action by the NY government?
I've been using Photoshop since CS2, it's incredible how far it went. Of course if it does the job you need, then that's great. I use the latest version of Photoshop to cleanup family photos, and to design video games. In both cases it would take me much longer to do the same thing in CS3. Time is quite valuable, and Photoshop is cheaper than Netflix every month.