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The reasons are obvious but the outcome is the important thing. Largely the sentiments behind wanting to repeal section 230 seem to be about the big platforms. The point that often gets missed is that without 230 ONLY the big platforms coul
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To be clear we're talking about the Barr era justice department in this context. The proposed changes would give the justice department a stick to shake at platforms they didn't like for political reasons. We hope that the justice
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Diet is the biggest part of it, no question, but calories are misleading. The number of calories you burn by running for an hour doesn't take into consideration the increase in metabolism that will follow for up to 48 hours or the calo
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In the spirit of gentleness, at HN comments which don't add substance to the conversation are discouraged. So in this case it's not just word choice that people are reacting to.
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I didn't see anything in the post you're replying to about a draconian government takeover. Government has been intervening (in some industries) in these ways for decades. It works. It's not arbitrary. It's not perfect o
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I see freedom of speech as a right that should be preserved at almost all costs. And also, step back a bit and look at the state of digitally distributed disinformation. We've elected politicians that look like characters from an absur
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I think understanding the past, especially the truer version that tends to become available years later, is extremely important. Personally I appreciate when people point out what really happened (based on evidence) as a counterpoint to the
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What you're describing is the story the media told. The numbers don't support the kind of coverage it got at the time. When you add the race issues, which drove the narrative, policies and policing, there's really no comparis
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What does 'profoundly bad language' mean exactly? When PHP was first released it was dramatically better than the alternatives for it's intended purpose. There were plenty of things to complain about, but none of them stopped
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I've read a lot of comments about unsourced claims and the like. I expected that after reading the article, the tone is more matter of fact than it has a right to be based on it's citations. Or at least it didn't present a cr
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I was curious too, came across this graphic showing records since they began in 1979 (original source NOAA) https://mobile.twitter.com/ZLabe/status/1318913839568662529/...
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PageRank stopped working when black hat SEO figured out how to game it. They had to evolve PageRank (into things like hubs and authorities, etc..) to maintain quality. If you think their results are bad, try a rudimentary search query on th
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You're missing the most novel technology: ranking. Without that everything else is pretty much useless (which is why DDG primarily republishes Bing results). You're right that drawing users is a big challenge, but privacy gives yo
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The most concerning thing about the tweet to me is the popular replies which support Pai's statement. The media, and those of us who understand what Pai did to net neutrality, need to do a better job of communicating to the general pub
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If the ban ends up happening (seems unlikely that they won't make a deal with a US company before the deadline) gen Z in the US will grow up with a better understanding of VPNs and other workarounds.
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As a US person I appreciate the clear view that US foreign policy has been evil even under popular administrations, and every one of them were complicit in that evil. But tread lightly when comparing this administration to any other in the
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I love this. Our decades of oil wars still don't seem to be common knowledge. All of the wars have of course been sold to the public as something else and it's a pretty important thing to understand about modern western power.
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Bing's index and algos are not available to DDG, there's no comparison there. DDG uses Bing's results, they can't see how they're produced. Incidentally, Google offers a similar API. > Actually it's probably
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I can't answer for OP but I can say it makes me chuckle too. If the solution was purely to force Google to sell access to their index then yes it seems possible on the surface. But as mentioned index and ranking are inextricably tied t
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Right I never suggested otherwise, just clearing up the misconception that a locked bootloader automatically means the phone's OS can't be updated.
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The exploits in question generally require having the device in your possession and unlocking it. I think the distinction is pretty clear.
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I rarely root devices but I have yet to own an Android device that couldn't (eventually) be rooted using a community tool. This is anecdotal, there must be exceptions, but in my experience "locked bootloader" just means it mi
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Using Nike as an example it's really just a judgement call on their part. If the next top bidder is a Nike retailer, they lose nothing if they don't bid on the term. But they do it anyway, their call. Of course there are examples
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It's unfortunate that the terrifying implications of the Earn It act don't translate well outside of tech circles. It's of course worthy of much more coverage than it's getting, cheers to Mozilla for furthering the conve
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I've never bothered to research it, but I've always wondered if there were groups that saw the printing press as evil. In the same way that some thought about radio, TV and now the internet. In any case any issues with digital med
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Maybe not naive... The internet hasn't created any new behavior, at most it has amplified a few existing human tendencies. Not all of them bad ones. I suspect once we've finished adjusting to the new digital reality it will have,
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when I was living in an AT&T building The dystopian future is here.
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Well context... the information the author is presenting is simple, right brain stuff. No one with UI experience is going to have a hard time digesting it. It's not like he used gifs or flashing colors. Now I kinda want gifs and flashi
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I don't love retro design either but that seems irrelevant. To anyone who's familiar with the topic it's immediately clear from the copy that the author understands it. Considering that the target audience is other designers,
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It's ironic that the one of the best forms of self improvement is to get over yourself, while the act of self improvement is often entirely self focused. I think, though, that the author makes a really valuable core point: Most challen

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