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Agreed. I can't understand how that's supposed to work: Texas citizens sue Facebook for not operating in their state, under Texas state laws? Surely state laws and thus lawsuits ba…

I looked into the source of the above link and it's a collaborative git-managed team effort. https://standardebooks.org/about What an awesome project.

Are there any legal security issues to be concerned about as a developer of this kind of anonymous service? I wonder every time I see a project like this, namely anonymous or trans…

How do you know the above commenter not posting anything that's being censored? Do you know what they are posting? If he/she "doesn't see it because he's not beingu censored", as y…

This strikes me as entirely being exactly the things of which you are accuse the parent post's author. > "people like you are part of the problem" > "such judgemental bullshit" > "…

Question! Is there any reason this technique could not be applied to solve the Oregon wildfires?

It looks like Google 2FA will support using a Yubikey or something like it, which in my mind is preferable to being required to use the Google mobile app. > You'll enter your passw…

Really? How is this activated or enabled?

Are there any viable alternatives to shopify for developers that don't have these issues?

Annoying.

Most interesting line if this article for me: > The ape cost £300, about £25,000 in today’s money (or about $34,000USD). Holy cow, has there been a 10,000% inflation of the value o…

Lately I've noticed a spam site showing up in the top 10 of most of my coding / tech issues Google searches. It returns a "headline soup" of other sites which have been obviously s…

Whoah!! That's frikkin awesome! Has this made front page in HN yet at any point?

I want to love this. But, in trying to imagine any scenario in which tech corporations might conceivably start hosting their internal user data on these external "Solid Pods", I'm …

I suspect he/she means we have the ability to vote in our political system, which _does_ have the ability to influence what corporations are/aren't allowed to do.

That's gonna be a FRICKIN NOPE.

Question: Is there any mechanism in place (aside from upvotes ranking, and astute HN commenters) to prevent endless duplicate submissions? What safety guardrail would prevent a mal…

Interesting side note: It seems like a lot of people in this thread have an interest in retaining a "replayable timeline" of their own browsing/reading history. There's probably en…

"WILLLLLLSOOOONNNNNN!!!!"

This is a really good thing. I know a lot of the people who are overwhelmed by debt don't have the spare mental or emotional space to deal with something else equally overwhelming,…

This is cool.

The "great migration" of post-slavery African Americans from around 1916-1970. Millions left the South under threat of death and worse to escape continuing slavery-like conditions …

This was beautiful.

There was a novel written on exactly that idea. In the story this idea results in exactly what the above poster was proposing to avoid. http://prosecraft.io/library/robby-akart/yel…

That's awesome stuff there