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The actual rules is very impartial (btw, [1] should be the actual link): > Today, we're taking another step in our hate speech policy by specifically prohibiting videos alleging th…

Same here, made a print screen of the error message > https://imgur.com/a/mxgqTXH It says > There's a problem at our end. > Please try again. If the problem persists, please let us…

Interesting tidbit in another source [1] > Apple boss Tim Cook has blamed the US-China trade war as he warned of lower than expected quarterly sales for the iPhone maker. Seems lik…

"Need" is too of a strong word. People doesn't need a $80,000 car that can go from 0-60 miles per hour in 1.9 seconds in a country whose max highway speed is around 75mph but they …

> But it doesn't mean you get to harass people, send death threats, post people's private information (doxxing), and spread nude photos that were never supposed to be released. Tha…

From the image itself, it seems Stripe was compelled instead of acting on their own volition > Please know, Richard, that it would be our absolute preference to continue working wi…

> But is Pony doing something unsound? Absolutely not. It is totally fine to define 1/0 = 0. Nothing breaks It actually does break something, the symmetry between division and mult…

Context for the significance of this article > Barack Obama's re-election team are building a vast digital data operation that for the first time combines a unified database on mil…

> Revenue in the recent period rose 2 percent from a year earlier to $731.6 million, buoyed by data-licensing sales and video advertising. I understand video advertising and if Twi…

It is unfortunate that the course can't be taken anonymously and requires either a github login or an email and password. I understand the general motivation for that (a quid pro q…

This had the potential of being a positive development brought by Trump's election: many behaviors by the US three letter agencies that were glossed over for the past 8 years (due …

From the article: > The strength of a defense based on the non-copyrightability of pornography rests on whether pornography promotes the progress of science and useful arts as pres…

It reminds me of the XY problem [1] that plagues both our field and any other field where one can devise a solution to a problem without formalism or thoroughly understanding what'…

This cannot be stressed enough. There are plenty of behaviors that people, specially young people going through the "rebellious" phase of their lives, engage for the shock value, f…

The part of the Net Neutrality debate that is so often disregarded (and probably the reason conservatives oppose it vehemently) is that it gives FCC (an unelected body of governmen…

My theory (not substantiated in any provable way) is that: 1) there is an automated system recently implemented that suspends accounts that receive a set number of reports within a…

Previous discussion of the original announcement (Jan 2016): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10884893 A decentralized way to authenticate users securely and privately would be…

The sad state of the internet and the world wide web, from a decentralized network envisioned to withstand nuclear armageddon [1] to a series of services so intertwined and full of…

Your presupposition is that it is in Google's (and Youtube's) best interest to guarantee that videos are correctly allowed or denied based on the balance of copyright, trademark an…