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Re:Show HN: Investorsexchange.jl – parse trade-level stock m... by revolvingocelot on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @07:57AM (#32661023)
Not just the old internet! Ever considered visiting the Sierra Nevadas? Well there's a wonderful, outdoorsy place in California that's just waiting to welcome you: Lake Tahoe! Visit, uh, gotahoe.com, and keep in mind that the Nevada border, where certain things unrelated to outdoor sports are entirely legal, is right there.
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Re:Show HN: Investorsexchange.jl – parse trade-level stock m... by lelandfe on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @09:07AM (#32661572)
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
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Re:Show HN: Investorsexchange.jl – parse trade-level stock m... by revolvingocelot on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @10:02AM (#32662144)
Sort of? "Tahoe" isn't the problem. Sure, "hoe" is a substring of "tahoe" but it's pretty clear that "tahoe" is a placename in a string like "visitlaketahoe.com". IMO they absolutely knew what "gotahoe.com" would be parsed as, it's very clever. It'd be a Scunthorpe if the site was getting flagged for "hoe", but it's a parsing problem at the user layer, not censorship elsewhere.
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Re:Show HN: Investorsexchange.jl – parse trade-level stock m... by bombcar on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @10:18AM (#32662345)
Yeah, it's more a "CU in the NT" https://ntunofficial.com
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Re:Show HN: Investorsexchange.jl – parse trade-level stock m... by lelandfe on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @10:33AM (#32662531)
> they absolutely knew what "gotahoe.com" would be parsed as, it's very clever

I'm not so sure :) goblah.com is one of the most popular tourism domain configurations that exist.

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