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I'm kind of surprised this is HN-worthy news. Using a VPN that routes around Level3 is an effective and obvious bandaid to members of the tech community...

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> I'm kind of surprised this is HN-worthy news.

It isn't. I just overwrote a bunch of data by mistake and cancelled some penalties that are normally applied to these.

Will fix.

Edit: Fixed.

It's tempting to turn all that off on purpose, just to see what would happen. But we won't.

It is relevant, as it shows us that the general public is now being informed of solutions and approaches that we've known about a long time.

This serves us in two ways: It reminds that most people do not live in our world and reminds us that we do not live in the world of most people.

If we are to be successful in our businesses, we must leave the echo chamber and understand life outside.

Well it does prove that for $15 a month you can bypass all the childish behavior of the companies involved. I think that makes it worthy.

It's only $15 if you have a VPN provider with decent terms. If you're streaming HD video over your VPN all month, you might have to pay for going over a monthly cap.

well it's only 17pts at this moment - but it's a timely post since it's another good reminder that it's the last day to send net neutrality comments to FCC http://www.fcc.gov/comments.

Tommorrow on HN. How to switch to the HMTL5 player on Youtube.

… and discover that over half the videos on YouTube are not available to the HTML5 player.

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