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91.
by valvar 6y ago
I am not a lawyer, but I assume that they would not get in trouble for contract breach but rather for market manipulation.
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by valvar 6y ago
You can change the click frequency in the settings. I guess it would be better to make that setting a part of the splash page that shows up on installation, though, as otherwise many will miss it.
93.
by valvar 6y ago
I would imagine that past offences correlate quite strongly with a proclivity for future offences. Hence reformation and/or incarceration should reduce the number of opportunities for repeated offence.
94.
by valvar 6y ago
They don't pay them to work 40+hrs/week, but often they expect them to work 50+hrs/week. From what I've seen in Sweden at least, but at least the pay is okay there.
95.
by valvar 6y ago
Isn't catching criminals a pretty good way to prevent crime?
96.
by valvar 6y ago
They also have maps, gmail, docs, drive, translate, calendar, photos, scholar, and lately Stadia.
97.
by valvar 6y ago
Sure, for adults, that's fine (but I still disagree with the approach, as pointers are a notably tricky concept that really isn't necessary in the beginning). But it's like saying that before teaching a kid addition and multi
98.
by valvar 6y ago
I thought it was a pretty obvious joke, but then I saw lots of people seemingly seriously agreeing, so now I'm not so sure.
99.
by valvar 6y ago
It's bitwise XOR in C (and most other languages, I guess). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operators_in_C_and_C%2B%2B#Bit...
100.
by valvar 6y ago
While this is possible, it does require significantly more effort on the part of the attacker and there are many more points of failure. So I'm guessing most phishing sites don't actually do that, even though of course some do.
101.
by valvar 6y ago
Exactly how is it an exaggeration? I cannot fathom how anyone can not interpret that as a call for more censorship.
102.
by valvar 6y ago
The systematic suppression through denial of critical infrastructure is pretty novel, though.
103.
by valvar 6y ago
Just remember to not complain if eventually the tables are turned and your preferred political team is getting this treatment.
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by valvar 6y ago
Apparently it's only possible if the search engine supports "open-search": https://community.brave.com/t/is-it-possible-to-add-a-new-se... None of the search engines that I want to use seem to support op
105.
by valvar 6y ago
I know, as I said in my comment. DDG is okay I guess, but why is it not possible to use a truly custom engine? I personally want to use an instance of Searx.
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by valvar 6y ago
I just installed Brave for Android, and for me Google was the default. It's very straightforward to change to Startpage or DDG, but much more worrying than the default engine is that it does not seem to be possible to add a custom sear
107.
by valvar 6y ago
Yes, it's quite strange, but I'm guessing it's mostly due to media disinformation about section 230. People who are actually informed and in favour of free speech and opposed to megacorp oligopolies are strongly opposing chan
108.
by valvar 6y ago
It reminds me of Pascal's wager. How confident can one be that one's chosen political team will definitely win out in the long run? 90%? That seems very high, but even if you're 99% sure, are you willing to act in a way that
109.
by valvar 6y ago
Yes, because WikiLeaks is very diligent in scrubbing sensitive private information from leaks.
110.
by valvar 6y ago
Did you read the article?
111.
by valvar 6y ago
Isn't that exactly the case (besides in Switzerland)?
112.
by valvar 6y ago
It's easy to draw an arbitrary line based on market dominance. Compare to abortion laws — at some point, a fetus is considered a person. The exact point is contentious and arbitrary, but the line has to be drawn somewhere.
113.
by valvar 6y ago
It's already exhausting to explain that free speech is not a technicality, and that the constitution is not a formalistic document.
114.
by valvar 6y ago
The most ominous thing is how well-coordinated the megacorps are. I would say that it's time to put some checks on those incredible powers, but realistically, that's like complaining about Christian theological dominance during th
115.
by valvar 6y ago
Are you being purposefully obtuse, or do you actually believe that HN wrote your comment?
116.
by valvar 6y ago
Perhaps my sarcasm was not obvious enough.
117.
by valvar 6y ago
You're not the president of the United States.
118.
by valvar 6y ago
I wouldn't go so far as to call Twitter Fascist. Authoritarian and repressive, perhaps, but their ideology is pretty different.
119.
by valvar 6y ago
Pretty sure that is exactly what will change.
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by valvar 6y ago
>it will help divorce this ubiquitous cultural association between time and money I think this is naïve at best, and horribly misguided at worst. Time is money is not just a saying. The fundamental currency, the one thing that ever perso

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