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> (yes, I realize most people cant just move on a whim)?

> It's easy to live outside of a heavily polluted area if you have severe asthma.

Most people can't just move, but it's easy to just move?

Apple News?

I'm genuinely intrigued by the promises of that service, but I'm not willing to pay $1000+ for hardware to access it.

Does YouTube need to be profitable? Alphabet is big enough that they could afford to operate a few services at a loss.

It's certainly something to keep in mind during the market research phase, but I don't think this means that all the possible competitors are destined to lose money if they make an attempt at competing.

Ads are, I would assume, a minority of PornHub's income. There's also a premium feature (like YouTube Red), uploaders can set a price tag to view a specific video, receive tips, and link to external payment services in their bio.

I found out recently that four of top six "channels" on YouTube (ranked by the number of subscribers), are actually topics: music, gaming, movies, and sports. https://socialblade.com/youtube/top/100/mostsubscribed

"Free speech" doesn't apply to private entities at all. They have full rights to refuse service to someone for whatever reason they want to, same as any other business.

Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1357/

They've announced a little over a month ago that they're going to ban white nationalist content: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19503094

I don't use it myself, but as far as I understand it, the idea is to increase the noise you make so that any signal you make would get lost.

Ads can't be tailored to you if you click on every ad ever shown to you (in the background of course).

What would you consider as a confirmation? Without someone coming out and saying "we're the ones who did it", it's very unlikely that it'll be ever be confirmed.

The best you can do is to make some educated guesses (by looking at the timestamps, coding patterns, comments in the code, who might be interested in hacking the target, political connotation to the attacks etc.). That's usually how state-sponsored attacks get attributed.

For example, "Guccifer" used GTM+3 settings and attacked DNC a few hours after Trump publicly "hoped" that Russians will find the emails. That doesn't confirm that it was sponsored by Russia, but it makes it an educated guess.

My full name is very common. I share it with an actor, a photographer, two designers, and one basketball player. Three of us have personal websites and one of us has a Wikipedia page.

I've adopted the alias "r3bl" to counter that, so that there's something easy to remember and somewhat unique that others could type into a search engine. ".com" was of course squatted, but as far as I could tell, it was pretty unique (with one "e" emitted and one "e" replaced with a 3 like a True Hacker). Now I share that alias with two esports teams and one Silicon Valley company that could afford to buy ".com" from the squatter. I appear anywhere from #1 result to not on the first page at all, depending on your location.

Yes, you could. You'd probably receive a ban instantly, not have people engaging with you and upvoting you. You'd certainly not be able to do that for weeks (since some of these I've opened at random still post in t_d).

I don't know who you're trying to fool by claiming this shit isn't common on t_d, but you're not fooling anyone.

This screenshot is about half a month old. I've just opened two of these at random and they both still post in t_d.

If it were a few idiots, they'd be easy to ban. I've moderated a controversial sub for years and I guarantee you that a few idiots are easy to ban way before they reach the stage in which they're comfortable with posting shit like this. They know that they won't face any consequences.

> Migration was common, both to similar subreddits (i.e. overtly racist ones) and tangentially related ones (r/The_Donald).

Tangentially-related? I'm pretty sure this crosses the line of being tangentially-related to racism. https://i.redd.it/ua1ukmoi8ls21.jpg

It requires one to download the installer: https://hub.docker.com/editions/community/docker-ce-desktop-...

Notice the big "Please Login to Download" button.

There's a good chance that someone who can modify your base image can also modify the checksum you're showing to whatever is the new checksum.

For example, when Linux Mint's ISOs were briefly backdoored, the attackers also changed the checksum shown on the website: https://www.zdnet.com/article/hacker-hundreds-were-tricked-i...

The majority of the power in a smartphone is used to light up the screen. If your phone is in your pocket, it's a reasonable assumption that the screen is turned off.

It's not impossible, but the phone would have to be quite inefficient to have any measurable effect. Laptops are probably a bigger problem if you keep them in your lap regularly, since in that scenario they do operate at full power close to your scrotum.

There's no evidence that phones cause cancer (nor impotence). It's a reasonable assumption to make, but the evidence doesn't back it up:

> The only consistently recognized biological effect of radiofrequency radiation in humans is heating. The ability of microwave ovens to heat food is one example of this effect of radiofrequency radiation. Radiofrequency exposure from cell phone use does cause heating to the area of the body where a cell phone or other device is held (e.g., the ear and head). However, it is not sufficient to measurably increase body temperature. There are no other clearly established effects on the human body from radiofrequency radiation.

https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/r...

I agree. I self-host a lot of services I use, but I'll happily let someone else deal with my emails passing through to Gmail for a few bucks a month.

Censorship implies something is being blocked. Please point me to what exactly is Mozilla blocking.

Finland, Switzerland, and the UK are the first three places that pop into my mind where speeding tickets are calculated based on the income of the offender.

You'd have to be caught going way above the limit to be fined above 1 month of pay, but it's possible.

Where's the malice in the cookie law?

It's an absurd law that's a prime example of how incompetence at a regulative level leads to a negative outcome in a specific sector. I 100% agree with that, but I fail to see how it can be compared to your other two examples. Cookie law doesn't affect your privacy in any way (and certainly not for the worse), it just gives you annoyances you have to deal with.

There's nothing stopping you from entering anything in the LICENSE file, including an open source license, a copyright notice, or something completely unrelated to the license of the project.

With that in mind, to enforce your argument, they would need to create a list of licenses that are okay to fork/clone. Why should they create a finite list of that?

I'm willingly using WTFPL[0] that can be summarized as "as long as you change the name, do whatever the fuck you want to". I know it's not a serious license (I only use it for non-important collaborative Markdown documents I've started), but thanks to its use of the word "fuck", I'm having hard time believing that it would find its way into any whitelist. FSF mentions it on their website, but GitHub doesn't list it as an option on choosealicense.com.

[0] http://www.wtfpl.net/

If police officers are more likely to stop a black person, then yes, black people will be caught doing more crimes than other groups.

That doesn't say that other groups don't commit just as many crimes, it means that they get caught less frequently because they're not black (and therefore not stopped as often).

I expect to see such a foolish argument on t_d, not HN.

Then maybe you should check a source that's not owned by Verizon (that also owns Oath)?

I'm pretty sure that there are other sources posted in this thread.

SuperTuxKart is an open source game.

It doesn't have to be AAA-worthy, the fact that it's open source is what makes it awesome. If I were looking for something proprietary and more AAA-like, I'd look at 10985 games available on the Steam store that are Linux-compatible (not comparable to 52616 available on Windows, but comparable to 18087 available on macOS).

Yes, maybe like +200 (which is what I've set it at as a mod in severe cases of brigading), not thousands. Most of the subreddits don't require anything but positive karma, and you can achieve that with less than a dozen manually created bots upvoting the comments that new bots make.

There are no subreddits with a spam algorithm counted in the thousands of karma, that would prevent them from growing.

> for about a day.

I'm going to take a wild guess that it's not time-limited. Instead, I believe that the mods put a special tag on the story that makes the bar visible for as long as that story remains on the home page.

Who has ever looked at a reddit profile and decided that an account should be trusted based on karma? Recent few comments are way more likely to determine trustworthiness.

Hoarding karma on reddit is as useless as hoarding karma on HN. I've deleted the only reddit profile I've ever had a few days ago with about 45k karma. If they had any value, I would maybe keep it and just stop posting.

ECHR has nothing to do with the EU.

With the only exception being Belarus, every other European country (including Russia, Turkey, Switzerland etc.) signed that same convention.

You can see the code, but can't do anything with it? That'd be source-available, not open source.

Having a source publicly available is one of the prerequisites for something to be considered open source, but it's far from being the only prerequisite.