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by abc-xyz 7y ago
People only recently began to talk about the virus on social media - at least in my circles. I imagine your relatives also just recently began to stay and eat at home as much as possible, and probably didn't pay too much attention to w
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by abc-xyz 7y ago
Quote from another HN thread comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22137131 ): > I was born and raised in Wuhan. My father and a few friends are still in Wuhan, one of the friend is a nurse. Here's what they
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I Am Rushan Abbas – Uyghur Activist and Survivor of Chinese Oppression. AMA(old.reddit.com)
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Arrested for expressing support for the Hong Kong democracy movement(old.reddit.com)
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by abc-xyz 7y ago
That's true, besides NoScript then it's difficult to deal with canvas fingerprinting.. I do follow/use most of the settings/addons recommended at https://restoreprivacy.com/firefox-privacy/ In any c
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by abc-xyz 7y ago
Yeah, I do think it's very difficult to build a profile of a user that automatically clear cookies when closing a tab and often change IP. I'm not saying it's impossible, but certainly difficult. And it would become even more
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by abc-xyz 7y ago
Fake data that you claim can is trivial to filter out and provides Google/FB/etc with a "nice additional data point to identify and track users running it".. in which case it seems counterproductive to ban it instead of
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by abc-xyz 7y ago
1. If it's so trivial and costs ad companies nothing, then why would Google go out of their way to ban the extension when it's essentially just an ad blocker that clicks on the ads in the background? 2. How would you filter out Ad
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by abc-xyz 7y ago
Before anyone feels bad about this: the extension will, by default, not click on non-tracking ads. I've used it for over a year (also on $XXXX estimated cost figures on 3 different devices) with several thousands of ads clicked. My ad
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AdNauseam: Browser extension to fight back against tracking by ad networks(github.com)
207 points by abc-xyz 7y ago|63 comments
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U.S. Army on Twitter: “How has serving impacted you?”(twitter.com)
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‘If I disappear’: Chinese students make farewell messages amid crackdowns(washingtonpost.com)
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by abc-xyz 7y ago
If it was that black and white then you better jail 99+% of the population who happens to jaywalk, drive a little too fast, drive past a yellow light, ride a bicycle without a helmet, etc. Also, why would you want to focus on punishment rat
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'Bride' trafficking – How Chinese gangs lure Pakistani girls into fake marriages(dw.com)
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by abc-xyz 7y ago
I suspect 2-3 and then the phone will power off after 5 minutes of usage despite having 100% battery, or power off when opening the camera app. Then you'll be stuck with a really powerful phone whose specs could easily be usable for 5-
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by abc-xyz 7y ago
I think you'll have a hard time finding people who think it's unethical to require a monthly fee to use the product. If a product can only exist by violating people's privacy (for the purpose of user tracking ads and whatnot)
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by abc-xyz 7y ago
I really don't get your point.. user tracking for the purpose of serving ads (or any other purpose for that matter) and putting up paywalls (that allow certain users/bots to crawl content) is both unethical.. why does it matter wh
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Tsinghua law professor who criticized Xi Jinping barred from leaving China(inkstonenews.com)
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Thousands take to Hong Kong streets to protest new extradition laws(reuters.com)
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by abc-xyz 7y ago
It's probably got less to do with PayPal purposely stealing from their customers, and more to do with PayPal's software freezing accounts of innocent people, and PayPal not being willing to allocate the resources necessary to prev
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by abc-xyz 7y ago
This is the HN thread from the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10101469 His GitHub went quiet after that, but as wiremaus points out, he seems to be alive and well based on his twitter posts.
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by abc-xyz 7y ago
Speaking of shadowsocks, I really feel sorry for the author.. I believe his final words were "I hope one day I'll live in a country where I have freedom to write any code I like without fearing"
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by abc-xyz 7y ago
Never looked into HN's API, but I know you could easily fetch that and more info from algolia: https://hn.algolia.com/api
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
You're capable of posting unharmonious content on HN with no (visible) consequence, not because you're a foreigner, but because you post the content here.
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
Why does every thread about China have to mention USA as well? The Mueller report was on the frontpage for quite a while, here's a thread with 310 points and 150 comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19691512 )
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
It's important to speak up for as long as they seek to censor and imprison any person who dare to mention it, and use their economy to force foregn companies to help them censor/rewrite history. Staying silent, or defending their
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
What's the difference between influencing positions and visibility based on AMP support vs overall page performance? If visibility is influenced by AMP then Google benefits, users using Google services likely benefit, web developers su
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
Why is that the only way? Seems like they could easily have achieved the same result by significantly penalizing sites based on load time and number of external requests.
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
Dgraph (a graph database) also use Bleve for its full-text search indexing.
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
I think you've been doing a great job, the best of any networking site I've ever encountered (only Tildes appear to come even close in terms of purpose and leadership), and I truly wouldn't feel any resentment if you banned m

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