Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | EarthAmbassador's commentslogin

If the credit bureaus don't have a complete profile when you start, they will after provide the missing pieces.

I really wouldn't be surprised if that is indeed the goal defined for that workflow's design.

Exactly.

I don't understand how a community such as this, as connected as it is, can't back channel a message to Google brass to do something about these lockouts, which occur frequently and are unnecessary. There is no way Google doesn't know about them.

Gmail is an essential piece of pervasive personal infrastructure, upon which hundreds of millions of people rely. People are losing irreplaceable data for lack of care on the part of Google. The cost of providing a way to prove identity while maintaining security ought to be part of the cost of doing business for Google as it provides Gmail.

Surely there are some Google employees lurking who can chime in on this frustrating neglect.


The cost of adding a support desk outweighs any potential profit, I would imagine by a huge amount given accounts are ‘free’.

It’s not that the executive don’t know, it’s that they don’t care.


If they weren't making enough money from having people use their "free" accounts, they wouldn't offer them.


I’m not disputing that, I’m suggesting the cost of support staff outweighs the value (to google) of retaining broken or lost accounts. I’m not a legal expert but it might be a good pre-emptive move to add support even if it’s extremely poor purely to avoid government regulation (given identity is basically bound to email, it might be a unique scenario if someone is unable to identify because of a private company, etc).


Why not just use RSS?


You need to generate feeds to track topics across different sites, which opens up a whole new can of worms.


Take this aggregation as it is, generate RSS. Not sure where the night crawlers are hiding in this plan.


How do you generate RSS feeds for sites that do not expose native RSS endpoints (e.g., Twitter pages without Nitter or YouTube pages)? Additionally, how do you classify the extracted content into topics?


The generated feed just points to the articles. The destination doesn’t need to care about RSS.

Classifying is not the purview of RSS. Presumably, TopicRadar is already doing this classification.


gg got it


This question arises from the current regime's efforts to reverse naturalization.

For anyone who has one US citizen parent and one non-citizen parent, where the citizen parent has passed before the child applicant for naturalization reaches 18 years of age, resulting in the applicant applying for and receiving naturalization as an adult, can that same currently naturalized citizen also obtain natural born citizenship status through the deceased citizen parent and would it be advisable?


If I understand you correctly, you are asking whether the naturalized citizen was a citizen at birth based on his or her father's citizenship. To answer that question, we would need to know when the naturalized citizen was born and the countries where the naturalized citizen's U.S. citizen parent lived from birth until the birth of the naturalized citizen.


Thanks, you got it right. 1970 is the birth year and father lived in the United States for decades prior but had a child while out of the country, the naturalized citizen. The question is really about whether natural born citizenship is available to children of an American citizen when the child is born abroad, but the parent was deceased before majority age. Naturalization would probably be sufficient, but given that even naturalization is theoretically at risk, maybe obtaining outright natural born status is better insurance. There is an N-form for this sort of thing.


This isn’t the Cold War and ideology is for simpletons.

I may have to write a book to educate people about how the world really works.

Thanks for the motivation.


You're welcome. But until then your comment has nothing of value for me to digest that is relevant to the conversation.


2008 TARP for Wall Street? Corporate tax breaks that were unfunded and yielded $2 trillion in cash reserves decidedly not funneled down to working people. Sounds like socialism for institutions too big to fail, but not for people who needed it (70% of Americans with less than $1,000 in savings for emergencies).

How long will this situation continue before the house of cards tumbles down?


What nonsense is this? The St. Louis Federal Reserve documented most inflation was due to profit seeking (gouging), not QE—that’s right wing libertarian drivel.


Profit seeking is normal behaviour. The economic system normally keeps it in check through competition. If it's not kept in check it's because of the economic conditions.


I've not seen the economic system keeping it in check through competition in my lifetime and I don't think it did historically.


This comment is historically and intellectually uninformed, i.e., devoid of understanding about the antecedents and relationships between what is driving todays rise of the right, which is a populist counterrevolution to the 60s and beyond’s postmodernism-fueled culture wars, which elevated the marginalized and women, and served as a strategic distraction while the elite locked in wealth extract ion from below and minority rule by manufacturing a pervasive epistemic crisis.


Utter nonsense. Productivity gains of the last 40 years have been captured by shareholders and top elites. Working class wages have been flat all of that time despite that gain.

In 2012, Musk was worth $2 billion. He’s now worth 223 times that yet the minimum wage has barely budged in the last 12 years as productivity rises.


>>Productivity gains increase the standard of living for everyone.

>Productivity gains of the last 40 years have been captured by shareholders and top elites. Working class wages have been flat...

Wages do not determine the standard of living. The products and services purchased with wages determine the standard of living. "Top elites" in 1984 could already afford cellular phones, such as the Motorola DynaTAC:

>A full charge took roughly 10 hours, and it offered 30 minutes of talk time. It also offered an LED display for dialing or recall of one of 30 phone numbers. It was priced at US$3,995 in 1984, its commercial release year, equivalent to $11,716 in 2023.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_DynaTAC

Unfortunately, touch screen phones with gigabytes of ram were not available for the masses 40 years ago.


What a patently absurd POV! A phone doesn’t compensate for the inability to solve for basic needs - housing, healthy food, healthcare. Or being unable to invest in skill development for themselves or their offspring, save for retirement.


It is also highly likely that the cost of that phone was externalized onto a worker in a poorer country that doesn’t even have basic necessity like a running water, 24 hour electricity, food security, etc.


Most of it is made in China, China isn't that poor any more it is like Mexico so people have running water and food security and way more than that as well.


I was more thinking about the miners who gather the raw resources for those phones.


Loans for phones are very common in the developing world.

Rather than a luxury, they've become an expensive interest bearing necessity for billions of human beings.


Please do this but with college education, medical, and childcare costs, otherwise it's just cherry picking.


Will this remain self-bossware or is the plan to impose on users?


Hey, thanks for your question! My goal is to keep the app as flexible as possible for the user. Right now, users have complete freedom to create their own tasks, manage them how they want, and organize their workflow in a way that suits them best. I don't plan on imposing rigid structures or methods—it's all about giving users control over how they track their time and complete their tasks.

Let me know if you have any other questions!


Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: