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I see what you did there.... In other news, possibly the best designed website of 2020: http://www.muskfoundation.org/ http://www.muskfoundation.org/

ed25519FUUU 6y ago
Doesn’t work with https, which i guess shouldn’t surprise me given it’s sparse nature.
mtmail 6y ago
Similar a company with 250 billion USD revenue (2019) https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/ https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/
- s1k3s 6y ago
  "Reproduction or distribution of any materials obtained on this website or linking to this website without written permission is prohibited." https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/disclaimer.html https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/disclaimer.html What? :)
  - mark-r 6y ago
    Haven't the courts ruled you don't need permission to have a link?
    - s1k3s 6y ago
      Didn't even know this was a thing.
      - Spivak 6y ago
        Just make sure that all your links are copyrighted works (authored by you of course) and then DMCA anywhere the link appears.
        dane-pgp 6y ago
        That's so crazy it might just work. I checked an article about copyright protection for short phrases[0] and learnt that a court ruled that the text “I may not be totally perfect, but parts of me are excellent” is protected by copyright. It would thus be possible for the author of that phrase to register: i-may-not-be-totally-perfect-but-parts-of-me-are-excellent.com and sue anyone who links to them. Hopefully the author will be so grateful for this insight that they won't sue me for reproducing their copyrighted work in this comment. [0] https://fairuse.stanford.edu/2003/09/09/copyright_protection_for_short/ https://fairuse.stanford.edu/2003/09/09/copyright_protection...
  - vulcan01 6y ago
    From one of my previous comments in another thread (this past week, probably): > IANAL > What I think they mean by this is that you shouldn't link to resources on their website to make it seem like they endorse your (product, website, whatever). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25153873 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25153873
- ciarannolan 6y ago
  There's an ad for Geico insurance at the bottom, lol. What's the deal with that?
  - jrockway 6y ago
    Berkshire Hathaway owns Geico.
  - astura 6y ago
    Geico is a BH company. https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/subs/sublinks.html https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/subs/sublinks.html
    - ciarannolan 6y ago
      Right, still a little odd to have... > FOR A FREE CAR INSURANCE RATE QUOTE THAT COULD SAVE YOU SUBSTANTIAL MONEY WWW.GEICO.COM OR CALL 1-888-395-6349, 24 HOURS A DAY ...on the homepage of a quarter-trillion dollar company, with no other ads.
      - edgyquant 6y ago
        The website is really old in the early days of the web this was normal as you didn’t have the ability to check for these things via google.
nxrabl 6y ago
Even that website uses Javascript though (to add a Yahoo tracking pixel, it looks like. What is there even to track?)
- Scarbutt 6y ago
  Number of visitors per day, country origin, etc...
fastball 6y ago
No HTTPS tho.
- teknopurge 6y ago
  It doesn't need https.
  - SquareWheel 6y ago
    Of course it does. Otherwise intermediaries can inject ads, tracking, spoof the content, or even redirect it to a malicious page.
    - teknopurge 6y ago
      https does not 100% prevent any of those things.
      - charrondev 6y ago
        How can someone spoof the page/inject ads if the site is served over https? They would need to have compromised one of the root certificates on your machine to not give you a giant security warning. In modern browsers there’s not even a button to bypass them (although I know I chrome you can type “this is unsafe” to a hidden input in the error page and it will let you bypass it temporarily).
        teknopurge 6y ago
        MITM - https termination at a gateway or proxy.
usr1106 6y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/23/how-elon-musks-secretive-foundation-benefits-his-own-family https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/23/how-elon-...
pugworthy 6y ago
The crazy thing is, it's been like that for YEARS.

ed25519FUUU 6y ago

Doesn’t work with https, which i guess shouldn’t surprise me given it’s sparse nature.

mtmail 6y ago

Similar a company with 250 billion USD revenue (2019) https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/ https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/

s1k3s 6y ago
"Reproduction or distribution of any materials obtained on this website or linking to this website without written permission is prohibited." https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/disclaimer.html https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/disclaimer.html What? :)
- mark-r 6y ago
  Haven't the courts ruled you don't need permission to have a link?
  - s1k3s 6y ago
    Didn't even know this was a thing.
    - Spivak 6y ago
      Just make sure that all your links are copyrighted works (authored by you of course) and then DMCA anywhere the link appears.
      - dane-pgp 6y ago
        That's so crazy it might just work. I checked an article about copyright protection for short phrases[0] and learnt that a court ruled that the text “I may not be totally perfect, but parts of me are excellent” is protected by copyright. It would thus be possible for the author of that phrase to register: i-may-not-be-totally-perfect-but-parts-of-me-are-excellent.com and sue anyone who links to them. Hopefully the author will be so grateful for this insight that they won't sue me for reproducing their copyrighted work in this comment. [0] https://fairuse.stanford.edu/2003/09/09/copyright_protection_for_short/ https://fairuse.stanford.edu/2003/09/09/copyright_protection...
- vulcan01 6y ago
  From one of my previous comments in another thread (this past week, probably): > IANAL > What I think they mean by this is that you shouldn't link to resources on their website to make it seem like they endorse your (product, website, whatever). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25153873 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25153873
ciarannolan 6y ago
There's an ad for Geico insurance at the bottom, lol. What's the deal with that?
- jrockway 6y ago
  Berkshire Hathaway owns Geico.
- astura 6y ago
  Geico is a BH company. https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/subs/sublinks.html https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/subs/sublinks.html
  - ciarannolan 6y ago
    Right, still a little odd to have... > FOR A FREE CAR INSURANCE RATE QUOTE THAT COULD SAVE YOU SUBSTANTIAL MONEY WWW.GEICO.COM OR CALL 1-888-395-6349, 24 HOURS A DAY ...on the homepage of a quarter-trillion dollar company, with no other ads.
    - edgyquant 6y ago
      The website is really old in the early days of the web this was normal as you didn’t have the ability to check for these things via google.

nxrabl 6y ago

Even that website uses Javascript though (to add a Yahoo tracking pixel, it looks like. What is there even to track?)

Scarbutt 6y ago
Number of visitors per day, country origin, etc...

fastball 6y ago

No HTTPS tho.

teknopurge 6y ago
It doesn't need https.
- SquareWheel 6y ago
  Of course it does. Otherwise intermediaries can inject ads, tracking, spoof the content, or even redirect it to a malicious page.
  - teknopurge 6y ago
    https does not 100% prevent any of those things.
    - charrondev 6y ago
      How can someone spoof the page/inject ads if the site is served over https? They would need to have compromised one of the root certificates on your machine to not give you a giant security warning. In modern browsers there’s not even a button to bypass them (although I know I chrome you can type “this is unsafe” to a hidden input in the error page and it will let you bypass it temporarily).
      - teknopurge 6y ago
        MITM - https termination at a gateway or proxy.

usr1106 6y ago

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/23/how-elon-musks-secretive-foundation-benefits-his-own-family https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/23/how-elon-...

pugworthy 6y ago

The crazy thing is, it's been like that for YEARS.