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Clout. Monetization.

Journalists report, they don't analyze. The error is consumers believing journalist news is anything but uninformed, hot take heresy; spun in the most sensationalistic way. They ar…

Seems perfectly tailored to the product being sold and the customers paying for it Product being search users. Customers being advertisers.

Putting tldr; at the bottom defeats purpose of tldr. Guessing this is BPF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Packet_Filter But, reader shouldn't have to guess. That is the link…

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18 years? Filthy casual, jk ;) I can't remember how long, but I started when you had to make a stack of 3.5 floppies to install... More than 30years ago. Long before that, I was us…

I've never understood peoples confusion about function defaults. They are part of function definition, they aren't in the function body. You should expect them to be "executed" whe…

> It's managed! Your cellular isn't? Maybe switch providers, T-Mobile doesn't make me go maintain cell towers.

100%

> off way back machine. +1 for practical paranoia!

Sure, anyone can do anything. It would be up to you (and hopefully a lawyer) to then sue them and let judge/jury decide. Or, convince authorities that some criminal law was violate…

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Spam is a minimal effort endeavor. A lead generator for scams. Only 0.1% or 0.01% response rate is good. They only want the unsophisticated, naive recipients. Expending effort to t…

The ultimate answer is because copyright holders have money and spent a fare bit of it on lobbyists. Copyright holders are organized, e.g. MPAA/RIAA, and motivated (money moves ya)…

I don't think, and in general believe people label, not things like construction work or care givers as BS jobs. BS jobs are the ones that only exist to support hordes of people ha…

I wanted to wear a body camera in the form on Mediated Reality glasses but the public shamed/cancelled the early adaptors and manufacturers so much so that the product/concept was …

Drug *abuse* is maybe a mental health issue. I'm sure I'm not alone in using drugs (alcohol, caffeine, pot) for many reasons other than to "make them feel good when they don't feel…

Go learn about land mark Universal vs Sony time shifting and RIAA v Diamond space shifting copyright cases. Or, at very least stop spreading misinformation.

Or don't purchase things in DRMd walled gardens. Even better stop supporting / participating in DRMd walled gardens.

My car is parked more than drive. Still, the drive is the more important, valueble, and difficult. Cars should be optimized for driving first, and only for other things when needed…

Your absolute rights end when they encounter another person. As society, we've decided peoples individual rights can/should be curtailed when they harm others. We will never agree …

> That doesn't seem possible. How would that work? agree; b00b, DlCK, cntfcker But I suppose, if user doesn't get to craft input, the collision space of converted numerical ids and…

Step one; get overreaching, extreme powers passed into law because they'll only be used to fight "terrorism". Step two; redefine everything as terrorism.

Stopped using cause the author can't comprehend that scrolling / scrollbars could apply to document as a whole (like every other editor/viewer ever allows). https://forum.sumatrapd…

> People expect comments to not be a personal take? Some comments are factual; corrections, links, additional information, etc. But people do expect HN to be polite, and "that's yo…