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by whoooooo123 4y ago
Hmmmm, I suppose we did just spend two years crushing small businesses into the ground, so I imagine that big corporations do have less competition than ever at the moment.
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by whoooooo123 4y ago
If inflation is caused by selfish companies raising their prices, why are they only doing it now and not, say, three years ago? Did they only decide recently that they want to make more money?
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by whoooooo123 4y ago
They probably moved to the same place as all the people who said they'd leave the US if Trump got elected.
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Elon Musk Is No Match for the New Censors(compactmag.com)
3 points by whoooooo123 4y ago|1 comments
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by whoooooo123 4y ago
"China has successfully controlled the virus, which proves that we could have done it too" is actually a point that people used to make with a straight face.
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Rumble.com disables access for users in France(twitter.com)
5 points by whoooooo123 4y ago|0 comments
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by whoooooo123 4y ago
I know, but the full Tweet wouldn't fit within the HN character limit.
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Facebook and Twitter have portals for the government to request takedowns(twitter.com)
203 points by whoooooo123 4y ago|157 comments
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by whoooooo123 4y ago
Brave implements Tor support by default.
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Oxford has gone back to Feudalism(telegraph.co.uk)
16 points by whoooooo123 4y ago|9 comments
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by whoooooo123 4y ago
FWIW, Elon tweeted this today: > To be super clear, we have not yet made any changes to Twitter’s content moderation policies https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1586149451348910081 So it's not clear why t
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by whoooooo123 4y ago
Isn't which blade half is on the bottom determined by which way you hold it?
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by whoooooo123 4y ago
My only government-issued ID in the UK is my passport and my driving license. In theory if I didn't drive or leave the country I wouldn't need an ID at all. Although the crackdown on illegal immigration means that I now need to pr
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by whoooooo123 4y ago
Do "most" posters at HN work at FAANG or in adtech? There's a lot of those people here for sure, but I can't believe they're anything close to the majority.
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The rise of biodigital surveillance(compactmag.com)
109 points by whoooooo123 4y ago|112 comments
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by whoooooo123 4y ago
3 to 5 million Ukrainians starved to death because the USSR deliberately cut off their food supplies in a targeted attempt to kill them.
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by whoooooo123 4y ago
Technically HN's servers are located on Earth, so the technical part of HN is technically on Earth.
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by whoooooo123 4y ago
> Sorry for being a pedant HN is the last place on earth where anyone should apologise for being a pedant.
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by whoooooo123 4y ago
> Ever noticed random apps on your Mac hang sometimes when you click on them, or having events lost entirely? No
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by whoooooo123 4y ago
Don't they care about having something left at the end to pass on to their inheritors?
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by whoooooo123 4y ago
Was about to post the same thing. Magnet is one of the first things I install every time I get a new Mac. Can't live without it. And it only costs $2.99, what's your excuse?
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by whoooooo123 4y ago
> this decline is probably due to the enormous disruption in children's education caused by Covid lockdowns. FTFY
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by whoooooo123 4y ago
We closed them because everybody else was closing them. Anything else is just post-hoc bullshit.
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by whoooooo123 4y ago
Why couldn't grandparents have been kept safe while the kids went to school?
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by whoooooo123 4y ago
Oh, I thought GP meant I could see the amount of upvotes/downvotes that another person's post has received. I can't see that (yet?)
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by whoooooo123 4y ago
Does it? How much karma do I need before I can see it?
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by whoooooo123 4y ago
Wow, I've been using PocketCasts for a couple of years and I didn't even notice this feature before. Nice to learn that I've hit the "advance 30 seconds" button enough times to have missed out on over five hours of
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by whoooooo123 4y ago
I said that it can make a huge impact. I'm sure it doesn't always.
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by whoooooo123 4y ago
What part don't you understand?
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by whoooooo123 4y ago
I actually think this would be a good way to run admissions at ultra-selective elite universities - places like Harvard or Oxford where getting in or not can make a huge impact on the entire rest of your life. Everyone knows the evaluation

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