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by abc-xyz 6y ago
> our Twitter and Facebook Aren’t you a CCP member? (Sorry in advance if you take offense to me assuming your nationality and political allegiance based on your comment history.)
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
> 4. If it prevents even a single black person from feeling more isolated in the tech community, feels like a no brainer to me! Does/did slavery only affect black people? It’s really tiresome to see companies and celebrities voice s
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Wuhan hospital traffic, search engine data indicate virus activity in Fall 2019(dash.harvard.edu)
457 points by abc-xyz 6y ago|304 comments
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
People should get behind an open source solution, such as Searx ( https://searx.space/ ) or Ask.Moe ( https://ask.moe/ ). I love DDG, but at the end of the day they’re for-profit, US-based and closed source.
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
As per your article: > “We have asked Twitter why it blocked our account,” Sodhi said. “We are waiting for the reply.” Sounds like they suffered from more than a simple CAPTCHA before their login (in which case it also sounds absurd to p
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Twitter suspended Indian dairy giant Amul for call to boycott Chinese goods(thestateindia.com)
90 points by abc-xyz 6y ago|36 comments
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
Waterfox sold-out to an ad company (which “has developed a pre-targeting platform that identifies and unlocks consumer intent across channels including social, native, email, search, market research and lead generation rather than relying s
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
I personally prefer Gandi, but also use name.com and Cloudflare - haven't heard any horror stories about either of those 3 registrars.
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
Namecheap dumping personal info without informing their customer ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18063667 ), Namecheap threatening to shut down a site if the customer doesn’t delete two images posted there within 24 ho
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
You really shouldn’t hold Apple to such high standards. Just look at what they’re doing with iCloud in China.
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Drew Pavlou (democracy activist) has been expelled from University of Queensland(twitter.com)
1 points by abc-xyz 6y ago|0 comments
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
> Turns out... actually yeah. That might be how you feel. For me, GDPR and the “Cookie Law” have been amazing, as they make it incredibly easy to detect which websites and businesses you should avoid. I do however wish they’d be a lot mo
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
Never heard of “PureTorrentDownloader” so I tried googling it. As far as I can tell, it doesn’t exist, and everything claimed in the article is a lie.
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
I love working with Dgraph but I hate DBA-related work. As a result I only use it for local projects. I’ve once experienced the data becoming inaccessible and being unable to restart the docker containers (which sadly happened before I bega
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by abc-xyz 7y ago
I don’t know about you but I find it very concerning that mods of major subreddits like r/worldnews and r/coronavirus are censoring comments like: > “Yeah but you can’t trust any of those numbers coming out of China. It’s gotta
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by abc-xyz 7y ago
Her name was Huang Yan Ling (黄燕玲) for anyone who might be interested in learning more about the potential patient 0. The evidence is very compelling and this video does a good job at presenting it: https://youtube.com/watch
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by abc-xyz 7y ago
Foreigners all over the world are likely to be targeted as long as they stand out. For instance, in China, Africans are being kicked out of their homes and forced to sleep on the street (because no hotel/apartment will accept them), co
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by abc-xyz 7y ago
There’s a lot of value in paying/blackmailing the moderators. You can clearly certain subreddits, such as r/worldnews, becoming increasingly pro-China. The mod team played a huge role in this, as they have been perma banning peopl
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Via Local Commie Underlings, Beijing Officially Disapproves(dailytelegraph.com.au)
3 points by abc-xyz 7y ago|0 comments
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by abc-xyz 7y ago
Seems you ignored half the sentence, so I'll repeat with emphasis: HN has a large Chinese user-base __who will be quick to downvote and flag threads and comments critical of China__. Heck, it could be one guy who has 1-50 high karma ac
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by abc-xyz 7y ago
Pretty sure you'd have to pay at least $3.5 if you wanted to expose your Lambda function using AWS API Gateway (which I assume most would want to do).. The author mention $1.11 but that's for "HTTP APIs (Preview)" rather
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by abc-xyz 7y ago
> Claiming that software that never saw any real production traffic is "production-ready" is a bold claim to say the least. What is production traffic? > I dug into the code base and there doesn't appear to be _any_ tes
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by abc-xyz 7y ago
Hopefully it's just you, because that's absurd.
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by abc-xyz 7y ago
China only had 144 flu-caused deaths in an entire year ( https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1177725.shtml ), meaning the Wuhan virus has already killed 7.8 times as many people as the flu kills in an entire year througho
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by abc-xyz 7y ago
Chinese CDC reported that there were only 144 flu-caused deaths in 2018 ( https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1177725.shtml ). So if we are to trust China's numbers, then the Wuhan virus has already caused twice as m
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by abc-xyz 7y ago
> Yes, I have, and my conclusion is it’s nothing like what fear mongers tell us what it’s like (btw you got a nice single-purpose account there so the credibility is low in my books). Actually, I'd say it's far worse. If you ta
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by abc-xyz 7y ago
Sounds like you were mostly inconvenienced with noise, which I agree can be annoying, but I'm sure the safety standards, work hours, living standards of the construction workers, etc. were at a much higher level. If you've been to
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by abc-xyz 7y ago
Human rights tend to complicate these things. USA and every other developed country would surely be able to achieve the same under similar circumstances. It's worth reading http://chinamediaproject.org/2020/01&#x2F
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by abc-xyz 7y ago
Can't edit the comment, but 100 deaths in 2k cases is of course 5% and not 20%.. must have had a brainfart. Anyhow, it's still important to keep in mind that the outcome of the other confirmed cases that hasn't recovered rema
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by abc-xyz 7y ago
I'm not sure, this is the only list with detailed info I can find: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1itaohdPiAeniCXNlntNz... , but even that list is severely lacking in information, and seem to rely on o

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