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It's actually just a name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido


You might want to actually read that wikipedia post.....

"The slang term Guido is used in American culture to refer derogatorily to an urban working-class Italian or Italian-American male who is overly aggressive or macho with a tendency for certain conspicuous behavior.[3] It may also be used as a more general ethnic slur for working-class urban Italian Americans.[4]"


I'm not American and I know plenty of Guidos. It's just a name, and banning people named that is incredibly discriminatory.


I feel the same. Am I supposed to legally change my name so I can continue to sign up for stuff on the internet?


Okay? Strawman much? I'm not arguing that anyone do anything about it. I'm just telling you objectively what it is. The Wikipedia article YOU cited disagrees with you...


Your name is similar to a slur in my language. Please change it.


but why would they use shady looking domain names for this?


I’d guess so that ticketmaster etc. can’t identify which tickets are being sold via StubHub. If the domains were identifiable, ticketmaster could block the transfers.


But if StubHub (MarkMonitor Inc.) is visible in WHOIS, then ticketmaster could do a `whois emeraldsummitadvisors.com` and block still block it?


Cat and mouse game with Ticketmaster team..... next up anonymous registrations.


Yeah. That's a slightly more expensive endeavour. The question is is they can scale enough the number of domains and connect to send emails. New domains + not known can have not so good sending reputation. If they use low number of domains, Ticketmaster could start blocking new domains with more than average number of ticket purchases.


To most people it isn't shady looking? It gives the feeling that you're emailing a person, which might be what they're going for.


Totally just guessing: Maybe to reduce inbound spam that's forwarded to the buyers? If it was one central email address, spammers could just send a ton of images/PDFs to all known prefixes of that central domain, but needing to guess the prefix + right domain adds a layer of indirection? They may not do much validation on the forwarded tickets, just store it for disputes


Wouldn't it be much cheaper and effective to add a random secret to the bit before the at rather than after?


Shady looking domain names are usually cheap and available?

That's my best guess at least.


I have no idea why you would pay that. Just eject.


Ejecting is an outdated concept when it comes to Expo for the past two years or so. The eject command in the cli is just an alias for the prebuild command even.

The way Expo builds your app these days let's you add native code as you want, modify your Gradle and pods files as needed, and you can still be on their managed workflow where you don't ever need to have Android and iOS folders in your repo. It's a really great time to be using Expo.


Because you might want to give your users a somewhat decent experience.


Depends on the specific experience you're trying to create but there are fewer and fewer cases where what you want to achieve with a mobile app cannot be done with the mobile web. I can only think of one case in my career where native was actually necessary and not the vanity of the manager having an irrational disdain of the mobile web.

Or stated differently: unless it can be articulated why mobile web/PWA/hybrid cannot work for a specific technological reason, starting with PWA/hybrid is always the best approach. If it needs to be native then go with the vendor-recommended manner of development (unless you love painting yourself into a corner 95% of the way through the project -- been there, done that, don't want to go back).


Integration with the operating system look & feel & accessibility by using native UI elements instead of poorly trying to mimic it in a webview


Dev teams continuing to ship garbage-tier webapps should not condemn all webapps and webapp methods.


You woke up today and chose violence.


That's the tradeoff they make for being famous.


“You’re famous so I get to abuse you however I want and you can’t complain” is an absolutely terrible point of view.


Memeing about content they put out is hardly abuse


That can’t be a serious comment. What a shameful, childish attitude. Maybe you’ll realize it in a few years when you turn 18.


it is! wipes tears with dolla bills


> guessing youtube is constantly trying to kill this, just like ytdl, but for now amazing work keeping it up

their lawyers are, but the developers certainly aren't. the og youtube-dl hasn't released in 2 years and still works mostly fine.


ah I switched to yt-dlp, but forgot why


> but we can’t even figure that out consistently for ground travel

Well, the US seemingly can't.


Exactly, the one thing I oft think is when I hear about some metro, such as bart, or MUNI, or some other big-USA-city-metro woes, like NYC subway etc... complain that they need more money to handle efficiencies or some stupid shit ;

I always think that every single USA-based transit administrator, or even train conductor, should be forced to do an internship in Tokyo, Singapore, Hong-kong, shanghai beijing etc...

You want to know what VALUE YOU SHOULD BE _PROVIDING_ then go find a rail/transit system that fn works, is clean, is on time, isnt a crippling financial bullshit on the people... go do some transits in these countries to see what a shameful position USA is in this regard. And you - specifically and personally who work for these transit orgs in the US and are too stupid to even see the simple truth of how Fd the US is in this regard.


Why do these companies have the right to detain someone?


They don't. You're free to leave the airport, forfeit your flight, and be banned from the airline.

They are, of course, not going to go out of your way to remind you of that right when they say "please come with us".


They don’t.

If a non-law officer says “come with me”, you don’t have to, but people do it anyway.


> if the US can get out of the habit of rifling through the data of EU citizens at the drop of a hat

They won't. They have made it pretty clear that all your data are belong to us.

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


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