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This is incredible, thanks for sharing.

What you call fearmongering is, for the news channels, just proper monetization of their businesses. I'm often disappointed in other consumers (who should know better, or have bett…

Guessing is actually easy. For the kinds of files that end up as redacted pdfs (legal, government, etc), there's probably 5-8 font options that make up 98% of documents. Sizes and …

I think it's more about what the opportunity cost is to their families.

I used to work for an expert witness who testified on valuations in IP infringement cases. I really lost faith in the way the US handles IP infringement in that job. I know patents…

plaintext is not markdown, though

Anti-spam utilities exist to filter out (aka "censor") spam. Disinformation is spam. I'm pro filtering spam and perhaps even a reasonable person. There you have it.

Yeah there's a lot of "anti censorship" warriors in this thread, who seem confused about what search engines are for

it's selection, more precisely

Yeah the story that Facebook was down went viral. I don't think there's much deeper meaning to this beyond that.

This one was pretty pointy if you ask me

I use a chrome extension to bypass paywalls

Yeah, this was reported in real time while it was happening.

Something feels off about this whole debate. I took algebra in 7th grade, so I naturally lean towards the "push it earlier, not later" camp. But the more I think about it, the more…

Upgraded my laptop two weeks ago. Smooth sailing so far.

I don't understand. Can you break it down a little more?

All right settle down

Work on governed.io, a native app that makes it easy to fax and manage your communication with your congressional reps.

Spending BTC is fundamentally the same as selling.

We want to make it as easy as possible for citizens to contact their reps. You can contact your congresspeople at their home/DC office by fax/snailmail/email/phone. It's built with…

HN is a diverse community with many views.

Google designed the phone, but they weren't the manufacturer or the retailer

Excel users don't think that way, I guess. Remapping keys requires a registry update on Windows, which many of my windows-at-work friends don't get access to. Even if they did, the…

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