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Social media platform X blocked the account of jailed Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, a rival to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan whose detention sparked nationwide protests.

No, a similarity between SARS-CoV-2 and other coronaviruses was expected but not this. Flu is not caused by a coronavirus. From the paper: > This finding is in contrast to multiple…

How is this an excuse to spell "grisly" as "grizzly"?

I'm not sure about the accuracy of this quote. In git world branch names have nothing to do with repositories. If anything, the "source of truth" repository is generally called "or…

Nvidia even offers dedicated mining GPUs: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/cmp/ In related news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26192201

It's probably macOS doing something differently when run on an M1.

It must not be difficult to reach ~2K karma using a GPT-3 comment bot in a few days.

Amazon has another offering called Lightsail [1] with simpler pricing. It might work better for side projects. [1] https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/

That happens all the time. What's weird is that they look at me like I'm trying to rip them off. I have already told you I am not going to charge you. I am just stating my rate if …

It just needs to look like a bug, not a feature.

Nice one. I believe it was tried before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinkExchange

I believe this is meant to be a joke [1]: > CAPTCHA that stops Humans > Yes, it stops bots too. [1] https://repowcha.com/

Fair point. I just tested using tcpdump and the IP address in the response doesn't in fact end with a dot.

That doesn't sound right. A "tcpdump -n -s0 -x -X port 53" shows that the server simply returns "outlook-com.olc.protection", not a FQDN, for "dig mx outlook.com".

This is a solved problem and not very complicated. For starters the last DNS label of a hostname cannot be all numbers: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1123#page-13

Wasn't that CORBA?

Agreed, but we don't have to have sympathy for a company to be fair to them. This is their business model and they have every right not to change it.

Are they also used to transmit power from one gear to another?

Yes, and the same holds for self driving cars. I fail to see the difference.

True, but you have to opt-out from Facebook too if an end user shares the link. Their argument only works if the news outlet shares the link.

The law is not bizarre in essence (there are details that are bizarre though): You are free to ask money for your content. On the other hand, Facebook is free to not buy your it.

Blackmail is an exaggeration. The government is asking them to pay for news articles (that have been voluntarily shared) and what Facebook simply says is "we liked the articles whe…

Who would you blame if the algorithm could be printed on paper?

Who do you charge when the brakes don't work on your car? When the airbags don't activate? When your rain sensor doesn't work? Believe it or not, your car is not that primitive whe…