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Re:How journalists use youtube-dl by bigiain on Monday October 26, 2020 @06:59PM (#24902495)
Why was my first though here "I bet Palantir have their own fork of youtube-dl which they rent out to cops in a SaaS thing for the low low price of $ASTRONOMICAL-SUM-COMPARED-TO-ALL-THE-DONATIONS-THE-PROJECT-HAS-EVER-RECIEVED ???:
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Re:How journalists use youtube-dl by dang on Monday October 26, 2020 @07:58PM (#24903033)
"Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. If you want to emphasize a word or phrase, put asterisks around it and it will get italicized."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

(I understand the environment variable convention but if you think about the reason for the above rule, it's clear what needs to take precedence.)

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