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by potency 6y ago
Probably for the best, considering how Steve Huffman and company have turned what Aaron Swartz envisioned as an open platform resistant to censorship into a publisher that will not hesitate to delete entire communities because they don&#x27
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by potency 6y ago
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince spoke to CNBC upon banning Daily Stormer: “We were worried that people would say, ‘We won’t work with you anymore,’” Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince told CNBC. “We had to have the conversation now because at some
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by potency 7y ago
Cloudflare lost my support when they started de-platforming people for holding opinions they didn't agree with. Censorship outside of strictly legal bounds should not be tolerated from a company as powerful as Cloudflare.
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by potency 7y ago
I had the same experience. Had my website designed by a designer, then a few years later received a threatening letter saying that if I didn't fork over 4-figures for a small image that they used, they'd come after me. I ignored t
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by potency 10y ago
Could I please, pretty please with a cherry on top, have one sanctuary that isn't infested with "Vote for X, because Y is unacceptable"? It's already been done everywhere else ad nauseam.
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The US is not ‘handing over’ the internet(techcrunch.com)
2 points by potency 10y ago|0 comments
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by potency 11y ago
Well that was annoying.
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by potency 11y ago
Finally! I've been shutting down the daily popup to convert my YouTube account into a Google+ Page for years. I had a feeling if I waited long enough, they'd stop asking. Hurray!
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by potency 13y ago
Estimated salary?
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by potency 13y ago
After the SOPA fiasco, nobody should be doing business with GoDaddy. Back then I was recommended http://nearlyfreespeech.net/ and have been happy with their domain services thus far. Even though I don't have anything w
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by potency 13y ago
Bitcoin has had the ability to make nearly everyone look foolish at one point or another. Try not to kick yourself too hard over it.
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by potency 16y ago
I think the biggest difference is that mainframe customers were primarily limited to large businesses, whereas the PC has gained the mindshare of the masses in the last 15 years, giving it an inertia unseen before in tech. Unlike the transi
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by potency 16y ago
I disagree. The PC era is evolving, not ending. How many people still have and use a traditional desktop or laptop computer at home? Microsoft is filling a growing demand for an OS on smaller form factor devices by supporting ARM processors
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by potency 16y ago
There was a post I saved recently that had some great responses: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1551121
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by potency 16y ago
original link: http://www.sott.net/articles/show/212383-V...aduation-Speech