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Ask HN: How to Fix Erroneous AWS Suspension?
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by downandout 5y ago
Yeah, I don’t know how these hard-paywalled articles keep making it to the front page. My understanding has always been that if there is no workaround, it isn’t allowed here.
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by downandout 5y ago
That's all well and good, but statistical anomalies and potential personal ties to insiders don't prove cases, especially criminal cases. Unless they have the actual texts from whatever "encrypted messaging apps" they w
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by downandout 5y ago
I realize that “child safety features” is the absurd euphemism in the title of the article itself, but the title really should be changed here on HN. Allowing a title like “child safety features” to describe this technology within a commun
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by downandout 5y ago
That would be great, but unfortunately cops don't seem to care, even under rather egregious circumstances. My friend went to both the FBI and local police, after the person that controls the website said they would take it down in exc
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by downandout 5y ago
The DMCA is treated as a joke by these companies. I helped a friend, who was being doxed on a domain comprised of his full legal name, where they were using photographs and other content that belonged to him, file a DMCA takedown request w
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by downandout 5y ago
A more foolproof way to track this would be to slightly change the wording of important sections in each copy handed out. This would allow them to track down even copies of confidential documents that were simply transcribed or where the p
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by downandout 5y ago
It does look like the statutory maximum for the offenses at issue combined is 280 years Is that not effectively a life sentence without the possibility of parole? So the point of your response is to point out that he will not get life, b
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by downandout 5y ago
The kind of prison he goes to will depend on the length of his sentence. Federal prisons have a reputation for being relatively tame, but this is only true at the minimum security level. Inmates with more than 10 years on their sentences c
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by downandout 5y ago
We need distributed, uncensorable social media - full stop. And we need it now. We already have the White House admitting that they are telling Facebook which posts they should delete. We now have Google deciding what is and isn't m
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by downandout 5y ago
I would imagine that the other benefit to this besides advertising is dynamic pricing. The prices are listed on the screen, and can thus be updated at will. They might raise the price of a bottle of Coke with the temperature outside, for
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by downandout 5y ago
It's only legal and socially acceptable in one direction. If there were a house for men only, in the current bizarre culture in the US, that would be considered misogynist, and Twitter would set about getting the founders fired from t
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by downandout 5y ago
The article was a smear campaign The article was the 100% fact based. The facts laid out in it just happened to not line up with Twitter's preferred election outcome, so they silenced it.
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by downandout 5y ago
Many in Silicon Valley advocate for things like basic income and socialized medicine. I’m not saying that these are good or bad, but they are socialist ideals.
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by downandout 5y ago
I agree with you that Silicon Valley is an odd mixture of socialist ideals and unbridled capitalism. For example, we have tax dodging corporations like Apple pushing to elect people that have a stated goal of implementing massive tax-and-sp
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by downandout 5y ago
About the only thing Twitter censored was threats of violence or rape, election misinformation, or extremely blatant racism. One of these things is not like the others. Equating rape threats with what Twitter unilaterally decided was “el
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by downandout 5y ago
You saw a recent thread about it in my history, but that is not something I normally comment on. I’ll bring it up every now and then when I say something entirely factual because I find it funny that people will downvote indisputable facts
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by downandout 5y ago
When I first put that up, I actually ended it by saying "Be part of the solution" or something along those lines. Then, as the downvotes kept coming, I came to realize that most of the people checking my profile had just downvote
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by downandout 5y ago
My about me is based upon my experience here over the last few years. I updated it at some point in the last 6 months, long after all this started. So it is a symptom of my experience here, not a cause.
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by downandout 5y ago
I believe it's an honest assessment of the current state of HN.
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by downandout 5y ago
I don't actually know. I am who I am, and have been responding to things in the same way since I arrived on the site. I took a lot of flack for criticizing GDPR, which I agree with in principle but believe was very poorly implemented
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by downandout 5y ago
I used to be incredibly active on here, and then I started getting downvoted on virtually every comment, likely for political reasons. I have all but stopped commenting compared to my previous activity. It just stopped being fun. Even po
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by downandout 6y ago
You left out the most significant reason: that most people just aren't as lucky as those guys. In the US, you can become a millionaire through hard work and dedication and not much luck. However, there is nowhere that you can becom
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by downandout 6y ago
They wouldn’t have taken non-voting shares if this were the stance they were taking. When the government owns a controlling interest in a private company, investors will shy away from it. Even if the government doesn’t run the day-to-day
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by downandout 6y ago
Perhaps, but the point was that these banks in no way “socialized their biggest failures”.
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by downandout 6y ago
Well, they shouldn’t be angry at all, because they got a $15 billion profit. People are a bit too tough to please if that makes them angry, especially in light of the fact that we will be paying for the most recent stimulus packages for ge
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by downandout 6y ago
they did get a lifesaving bailout, regardless of the merits or whether US got their money back They did, and given the systemic importance of the companies that received this money, that was a gift not only to the companies, but to the en
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by downandout 6y ago
“Perhaps” isn’t a data point - it’s speculation, and is thus irrelevant. The money was recovered at a $15.3 billion profit. If they had included a number and a reference to the data backing up their guess that “perhaps” it might have been
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by downandout 6y ago
The government is not a hedge fund. It has no expertise in running businesses. Had they done what your are suggesting, the markets wouldn’t have reacted the way they did, the companies would have gone bankrupt under government mismanageme
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by downandout 6y ago
Taxpayers not only recovered everything from the 2008 bailouts, they actually earned a $15.3 billion profit. How is that “socializing their biggest failures”? From [1]: Early estimates for the total cost of the bailout to the government we

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