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Section 4(J): "YouTube reserves the right to discontinue any aspect of the Service at any time." Section 6(F): "YouTube reserves the right to remove Content without prior notice." …

If you have normal blood pressure (normotensive population), then a high-salt diet has no association with cardiovascular events and death: http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet…

I think there is a big difference between merely requiring IDs (which as you say may well be the case today) and being subject to thousands of pages of regulations, of which requir…

Not quite illegal, but not quite legal (in the current relatively unregulated sense) either. I did a writeup of the Senate bill in the HN thread on it: https://news.ycombinator.com…

I tried here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14567005

This is a far-reaching bill that gives the Feds much more discretionary authority over digital currencies. The reason it's so far reaching is that it tweaks definitions that are em…

Any lasting solution would be negotiated by Congress.

Current headline: "GOP’s “Internet Freedom Act” permanently guts net neutrality authority" More accurate headline: "GOP’s “Internet Freedom Act” preserves 2015-era FCC Internet reg…

: The threshold question is: do you want to make money on a "cyberpunk-inspired" news site operated as a business, or is your "cyberpunk-inspired" hobby site expected to lose money…

"Also, don't get me started on the construction here in the Bay Area vs. some of the amazing craftsmanship like the one seen in the article." Drive around Menlo Park south of Santa…

Framing requirements have become far, far stricter. Here's one construction project currently being framed on the SF peninsula: https://goo.gl/photos/hdDmcqWkEuQenvku9 It's a one-s…

I'm generally familiar with SF bay area construction costs so let me use that as an example. That "Saratoga" house is about 1,800 sq. ft; the cost to merely frame 1,800 sq. ft two-…

NSLs are likely not the case here with Yahoo (and in fact are not the most significant privacy threat, IMHO). An NSL is a demand from the FBI, not a court order. NSLs also have uni…

I'm acquainted with a construction worker who's the foreman for a general contractor working on the mid-peninsula. Current projects include single family homes in Palo Alto, Athert…

Silicon Valley wages would have to increase by something like 3x--or house prices would have to drop by over 50%--to make houses here as affordable as the national average. Neither…

I visited the NeXT factory in Fremont, and it certainly seemed state of the art to me at the time. NeXT Computer Inc. eventually became NeXT Software Inc. and ceased manufacturing …

It looks like this guy's blog hosted photos of necrophilia (or what seems to have been labeled as such): https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2F1.bp.blogs... Anal fistin…

At the very least I presume you'd acknowledge that the U.S. Constitution lists crimes including treason, counterfeiting, and piracy. I can't think of a more canonical way to "gover…

"he could probably get away with five years at worst" For better or for worse, federal prison sentences do not work this way. There are sentencing guidelines, for one thing. Chelse…

Yup. There's a lot of mischief in "so far." Some products take a while to build, especially when dealing with less-than-friendly .gov regulators.

Also price per square foot doesn't reflect lot size. Orinda will, I suspect, have larger lots than Rockridge. If you wanted to buy a decrepit 600 sq. ft shack on a 10-acre lot in d…

I think that was the case until a few years ago. Nowadays, Reuters reports, cargo ships have "massively" increased the number of guns on board along with people who know how to use…

If you had a dog walking service with a route that crossed my property without permission, and after some time I asked you not to do so, you might write a blog post trumpeting: "Pr…