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by markovbot 4y ago
Also see: the first time this article was submitted with a slight title correction to avoid the disgusting euphemism for slavery used by the original site[0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31782727
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by markovbot 4y ago
> A 'slave' implies people that were enslaved with no justification it absolutely does not, and to suggest so is absurd. In America, black people have been enslaved with all sorts of justifications about how they were of an &qu
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by markovbot 4y ago
yep. Those darn liberals calling "voluntary" labor slavery.
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by markovbot 4y ago
This one disappeared from the front page real quick
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by markovbot 4y ago
Which is why correcting that harmful, false narrative is critical
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by markovbot 4y ago
What part of the title is misleading? the HN title fixes simply removes some inaccurate language from the original article.
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by markovbot 4y ago
You're right, I should be thankful for free spyware. my bad
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by markovbot 4y ago
Wow, sneaking Google Analytics into an extension like this? Some people really have no morals
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by markovbot 4y ago
and in the case of the insignificant minority, the second one sets up a competing shop directly across the street with artificially low prices and waits for the first one to go out of business.
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by markovbot 4y ago
I'm sure that'll be a huge relief to all the people who no longer afford healthcare for their pets. Maybe they simply should have not been poor!
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by markovbot 4y ago
parents tried to go in UNARMED and the cops arrested them. Bringing a gun wouldn't have helped them, unless they had mowed down every cop first. Do you think they should have done that?
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by markovbot 4y ago
> It is a sad and exploitative industry. just wait till you see what they do with human healthcare in this country
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by markovbot 4y ago
no matter the cost to the rest of society. obviously they're trying to reduce costs for their investors
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by markovbot 4y ago
if only there was some kind of other option used by all developed countries except the US... too bad there isn't, i guess i'll just die when i cant afford healthcare
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by markovbot 4y ago
> One wonders what the Private Equity firm's intention was here. no, i don't think anyone's wondering that. private equity firms have one purpose and one purpose only.
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by markovbot 4y ago
ah yes, a more profit driven healthcare sector, exactly what this country needs
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by markovbot 4y ago
Yeah, I'm getting this too. TechCrunch somehow managed to get even worse. edit: https://spectrum.ieee.org/pacman-hack-can-break-apple-m1s-la... seems to cover the same thing with less spyware
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by markovbot 4y ago
> It’s saddening that we as Americans tolerate this kind of abuse from the department of “justice”, FBI, and NSA. what do you suggest we do about it? We have no meaningful recourse against the myriad of government abuses.
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by markovbot 4y ago
One can't really, which is why these absurd claims of "we wont monitor your traffic" should be assumed to be blatant falsehoods.
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by markovbot 4y ago
I don't think that's physically possible on HN
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by markovbot 5y ago
Is there something wrong with just buying a normal TV and not giving it your wifi password?
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by markovbot 5y ago
Yep, you've correctly identified the problem!
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by markovbot 5y ago
Other sites like ddosecrets.com and itsgoingdown.org are also affected. Neither have the string "free" in them
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by markovbot 5y ago
and then remember that's the one you're paying and consider why you do the paying part in the first place
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by markovbot 5y ago
what gives you the impression that the author of this software isn't employed?
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by markovbot 5y ago
Something like this? https://kingcounty.gov/depts/transportation/metro/travel-opt...
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by markovbot 5y ago
>The power differential and historic missteps of governments makes this ludicrous to think of as "OK" in comparison. wasn't that kind of the point?
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by markovbot 5y ago
site does not load with javascript disabled. But does show me a <title> tag that implies it's a Facebook product, so I'm definitely not going to enable javascript.
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by markovbot 5y ago
good thing there's absolutely no reason to store any data about users of an offline desktop app!
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by markovbot 5y ago
>and if the community responds with a SOPA-like "no access using Chrome for the next 48 hours then, here are some other fine browsers you can use instead that don't invade your privacy in this way" that seems unlikely.

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