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That’s not what will happen, because the US is by far the most lucrative market for advertising, and serving ads to users in the US means that they will have to adhere to US laws, …

As I said, they already falsely banned it again, this time for nudity even though there is no nudity. Is that enough to just admit that the system is completely broken? As he expla…

1. As he explains, YouTube's rules don't actually instruct creators to censor these types of outbursts, and he can site numerous examples of content by more well-known creators tha…

Retaliation with the intent to silence critics is acting to undermine free speech. He could, for example, welcome the criticism and respond with facts.

Because this viewpoint isn’t consistent with his actions; he has a long history of retaliating against anyone who criticizes him, including attacking journalists and threatening th…

I thought IPinfo was just sourced from Maxmind, am I wrong? Is there any way to know who are the original sources of info in this space and who are reselling?

When it happens to you and this is the only way you can get access to some urgently-needed account, you'll be thankful HN didn't create a special category to push these down and ma…

The original/first proof of work proposal, Hashcash, was in fact designed to solve email spam. It obviously served as the inspiration for Bitcoin’s proof of work component.

There’s a difference between credit scoring and credit reporting. Credit scoring refers to the act of reducing the entirety of one’s credit history to a single number using an algo…

Maybe they corrected it, but for me it says the opposite. > Notably, VLC Media Player is not backed by a Chinese company. It is developed by VideoLAN, a Paris-based firm.

From the guidelines: > Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith The person's co…

> In fact, it’s so simple that you might wonder why didn’t Microsoft or thousands of Linux’s open-source developers come up with that?! Apple didn’t come up with it either: they ju…

Zipcar transitioned everyone who was on a free plan to a paid plan without their consent and started charging their card on file. Unethical and almost certainly illegal. I’m not su…

They directly stated on the beta announcement page from the beginning that they’re doing this, and they basically implied they’re just tacking on words. Not really news.

The headline is misleading. The videos aren’t unwelcome, it’s just that the channel is demonetized. Why should anyone feel they are entitled to earn ad revenue for reuploading publ…

It wasn’t just a huge scandal for the “ewww” factor but mostly due to the fact that the horse was not part of the traceable supply chain and thus could have come from anywhere, cou…

> don't be a customer. And don't be an investor No one has to accept this false dichotomy. There are far more options. Severely regulate this behavior, force them to break up into …

Be careful with this in Postgres: using a zero, blank space, empty array or similar as a default value instead of NULL can lead to enormous bloat in terms of disk space. There are …

Are there any efforts to completely replace the firmware of TVs, much like dd-wrt for routers? I would gladly donate money toward such a project.

That describes livejournal which launched in 1999.

From reading the articles, they are completely separate exploits. The other one is about intercepting Bluetooth traffic at the network level. This one is about exploiting the fact …