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That's a lot of domains! Did you source that from some other list, or is that a result of 67k individual entries? Either way, I appreciate it. Out of curiosity

That's a lot of domains! Did you source that from some other list, or is that a result of 67k individual entries? Either way, I appreciate it. Out of curiosity, what's the rationale for blocking archive.is? Legal reasons I assume?

latchkey 3y ago
> That's a lot of domains! Not really. 67k/350m=0.02%
- chromoblob 3y ago
  And 0.02% is really a lot.
  - latchkey 3y ago
    Is it?
    - warrenm 3y ago
      0.02% of a big number ... is still a big number 0.02% of 10,000 is 2 - pretty small 0.02% of 1,000,000,000 is 200,000 ... kinda big :)
      - chromoblob 3y ago
        In my opinion, absolute value is not important here, what matters is the fraction. I consider 0.02% to be large by itself for the given context.
        latchkey 3y ago
        What would be small?
        chromoblob 3y ago
        This is subjective, but for me here a small fraction would be a few orders of magnitude less than that - few ten-millionths or less.
        latchkey 3y ago
        Exactly, it is subjective, 0.02% is small in my opinion. Yet I'm getting downvoted and told that isn't small. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
        chromoblob 3y ago
        What's important here is the negative impact of the blacklist on communication. Probably some downvoters mean that the blacklist is big enough that the impact is important, and disagree with your supposed implication that it isn't.
        latchkey 3y ago
        Agreed, you're probably right about that.
mtmail 3y ago
It's unavailable a lot ("Tell HN: Archive.* Is Unavailable" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35749833 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35749833 "Ask HN: Archive.is Captcha Problems Lately?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37077049 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37077049) so discussions tend to end up being about archive.is instead of the content.
dang 3y ago
It's not sourced from any other list, it's just what mod actions and software filters have accumulated over the years. Re archive.is - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37130177 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37130177

latchkey 3y ago

> That's a lot of domains! Not really. 67k/350m=0.02%

chromoblob 3y ago
And 0.02% is really a lot.
- latchkey 3y ago
  Is it?
  - warrenm 3y ago
    0.02% of a big number ... is still a big number 0.02% of 10,000 is 2 - pretty small 0.02% of 1,000,000,000 is 200,000 ... kinda big :)
    - chromoblob 3y ago
      In my opinion, absolute value is not important here, what matters is the fraction. I consider 0.02% to be large by itself for the given context.
      - latchkey 3y ago
        What would be small?
        chromoblob 3y ago
        This is subjective, but for me here a small fraction would be a few orders of magnitude less than that - few ten-millionths or less.
        latchkey 3y ago
        Exactly, it is subjective, 0.02% is small in my opinion. Yet I'm getting downvoted and told that isn't small. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
        chromoblob 3y ago
        What's important here is the negative impact of the blacklist on communication. Probably some downvoters mean that the blacklist is big enough that the impact is important, and disagree with your supposed implication that it isn't.
        latchkey 3y ago
        Agreed, you're probably right about that.

mtmail 3y ago

It's unavailable a lot ("Tell HN: Archive.* Is Unavailable" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35749833 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35749833 "Ask HN: Archive.is Captcha Problems Lately?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37077049 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37077049) so discussions tend to end up being about archive.is instead of the content.

dang 3y ago

It's not sourced from any other list, it's just what mod actions and software filters have accumulated over the years. Re archive.is - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37130177 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37130177