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by p49k 4y ago
That’s not what will happen, because the US is by far the most lucrative market for advertising, and serving ads to users in the US means that they will have to adhere to US laws, even if they’re not physically located there, just as Twitte
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by p49k 4y ago
As I said, they already falsely banned it again, this time for nudity even though there is no nudity. Is that enough to just admit that the system is completely broken? As he explained, he would have been more than happy to bleep those 3 se
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by p49k 4y ago
1. As he explains, YouTube's rules don't actually instruct creators to censor these types of outbursts, and he can site numerous examples of content by more well-known creators that are much more explicit than the 3-second clip. 2
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by p49k 4y ago
Retaliation with the intent to silence critics is acting to undermine free speech. He could, for example, welcome the criticism and respond with facts.
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by p49k 4y ago
Because this viewpoint isn’t consistent with his actions; he has a long history of retaliating against anyone who criticizes him, including attacking journalists and threatening them with lawsuits as well as firing employees who raise issue
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by p49k 4y ago
I thought IPinfo was just sourced from Maxmind, am I wrong? Is there any way to know who are the original sources of info in this space and who are reselling?
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by p49k 4y ago
When it happens to you and this is the only way you can get access to some urgently-needed account, you'll be thankful HN didn't create a special category to push these down and make them less visible.
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by p49k 4y ago
The original/first proof of work proposal, Hashcash, was in fact designed to solve email spam. It obviously served as the inspiration for Bitcoin’s proof of work component.
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by p49k 4y ago
There’s a difference between credit scoring and credit reporting. Credit scoring refers to the act of reducing the entirety of one’s credit history to a single number using an algorithm. Few people are opposed to credit histories being avai
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by p49k 4y ago
Maybe they corrected it, but for me it says the opposite. > Notably, VLC Media Player is not backed by a Chinese company. It is developed by VideoLAN, a Paris-based firm.
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by p49k 4y ago
From the guidelines: > Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith The person's core argument was obviously that "airlines d
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by p49k 4y ago
> In fact, it’s so simple that you might wonder why didn’t Microsoft or thousands of Linux’s open-source developers come up with that?! Apple didn’t come up with it either: they just ripped the idea off from the Yeti Login that went vira
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by p49k 4y ago
Zipcar transitioned everyone who was on a free plan to a paid plan without their consent and started charging their card on file. Unethical and almost certainly illegal. I’m not surprised.
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by p49k 4y ago
They directly stated on the beta announcement page from the beginning that they’re doing this, and they basically implied they’re just tacking on words. Not really news.
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by p49k 4y ago
The headline is misleading. The videos aren’t unwelcome, it’s just that the channel is demonetized. Why should anyone feel they are entitled to earn ad revenue for reuploading public domain police videos to YouTube? It’s not original conten
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by p49k 4y ago
It wasn’t just a huge scandal for the “ewww” factor but mostly due to the fact that the horse was not part of the traceable supply chain and thus could have come from anywhere, could have contained any number of contaminants/hormones&#
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by p49k 4y ago
> don't be a customer. And don't be an investor No one has to accept this false dichotomy. There are far more options. Severely regulate this behavior, force them to break up into smaller companies, declare privacy a right and
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by p49k 4y ago
Be careful with this in Postgres: using a zero, blank space, empty array or similar as a default value instead of NULL can lead to enormous bloat in terms of disk space. There are distinct advantages of NULL that have to be considered.
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by p49k 4y ago
Are there any efforts to completely replace the firmware of TVs, much like dd-wrt for routers? I would gladly donate money toward such a project.
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by p49k 4y ago
That describes livejournal which launched in 1999.
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by p49k 4y ago
From reading the articles, they are completely separate exploits. The other one is about intercepting Bluetooth traffic at the network level. This one is about exploiting the fact that unlocking a Tesla with a NFC key enables new keys to be
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by p49k 4y ago
Your comment reminded me of this: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...
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by p49k 4y ago
The subject of the article is about apps bundling time sensitive notifications that you can’t realistically disable with promotions. You can turn off most notifications for a calmer life, but when you order an Uber you need to know if it’s
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by p49k 4y ago
> A system that correctly predicts who is likely to pay back borrowed funds as agreed serves both borrowers and lenders. Such a system can't be built without being unfairly biased against some people who don't fit a certain mol
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by p49k 4y ago
This is a false dichotomy. We can have - and should fight for - digital services that don’t siphon our personal info for other purposes.
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by p49k 4y ago
It’s a direct quote from the 2nd tweet in his thread.
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by p49k 4y ago
If you force people to manually turn it off every time you start the car (which is what the article states), it’s essentially mandatory. It wears people down to do so and they’ll just give up and accept the feature at some point. It’s an il
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by p49k 4y ago
In most of Europe it’s not km/l but instead l/100km (number of liters required to drive 100km). It’s IMO a better way to frame consumption of resources.
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by p49k 5y ago
I would also remove the language that implies your product is better because it's built in the Netherlands rather than Poland - it seems quite bigoted. It's not directly stated, but literally every other "fact" about you
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by p49k 5y ago
> I don't understand this sentiment. Why would it matter whether the UX is different between browsers for a date or colour input? It’s not just a question of consistency: some of HTML UI elements are still in pre-alpha stage in mode

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