Dutch employee fired by U.S. firm for shutting off webcam awarded €75K in court — and Stripe is PayPal circa 2010

Issue #915 — October 10, 2022

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Dutch employee fired by U.S. firm for shutting off webcam awarded €75K in court nltimes.nl \| points: 493 \| comments: 373

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Stripe is PayPal circa 2010 learnjsthehardway.com \| points: 413 \| comments: 204

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The Hummingbird Clock: date videos by background mains hum hummingbirdclock.info \| points: 379 \| comments: 93

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Take a break robinrendle.com \| points: 374 \| comments: 148

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Brave browser to start blocking annoying cookie consent banners bleepingcomputer.com \| points: 363 \| comments: 214

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DALL·E 2 vs. $10 Fiverr Commissions simonberens.me \| points: 291 \| comments: 187

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Day.js – Fast 2kB alternative to Moment.js with the same modern API day.js.org \| points: 246 \| comments: 131

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Ask HN: Why do people come to HN for Stripe resolutions? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 215 \| comments: 103

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Modeling Starlink Capacity mikepuchol.com \| points: 214 \| comments: 68

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Protests in Iran: State-run live TV hacked by protesters bbc.co.uk \| points: 214 \| comments: 68

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JSON Crack – A tool that generates graph diagrams from JSON objects github.com \| points: 208 \| comments: 43

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Running GUI Linux in a virtual machine on a Mac developer.apple.com \| points: 196 \| comments: 132

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CS631 – Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment stevens.netmeister.org \| points: 190 \| comments: 64

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TypeScript is now officially 10 years old coderoasis.com \| points: 187 \| comments: 158

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Ask HN: Is Substack the new Medium? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 172 \| comments: 147

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Call for Participation to Chaos Computer Club’s 37C3 content.events.ccc.de \| points: 171 \| comments: 106

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Learn Exponentially saveall.ai \| points: 164 \| comments: 97

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Infosys asked HR not to hire ’Indian-origin candidates’, ’women with children’ timesnownews.com \| points: 159 \| comments: 347

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Scotland ‘snow-free’ for fourth time in six years bbc.com \| points: 159 \| comments: 177

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Technical milestone reached: global earth system simulations with 1.2 km resoln mpimet.mpg.de \| points: 157 \| comments: 90

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