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Re:The Rise of Performative Work on Monday January 10, 2022 @12:46AM (#29871096)
Oh, ok.

Thanks, I'm cured!

Re:Tips to grow your North Korean Startup on Thursday January 06, 2022 @08:35PM (#29833538)
> Cuba is basically perpetually fucked

Well not perpetually. They could get back into the US's good graces if they were to embrace Freedom (tm) and adopt a government that looks something like what our 51st state would look like.

Re:Tips to grow your North Korean Startup on Thursday January 06, 2022 @08:25PM (#29833439)
They could end the blockade at any time.
Better perspective may be to take comfort in the fact that should you fall on real hard times, you ideally have a support system that's more than capable of helping you out.

I have a few richer friends and while I would never take advantage, we know that if the worst were to happen, we could turn to each other for help.

Exactly this. I've seen it around on this site a lot lately.
230 is mostly fine. I would add a KYC type of clause to it though. Basically if you can identify the speaker of a piece of content, then they are responsible, otherwise the online platform is responsible.

Along with that, the DSA would need to be tasked with creating a strong id system for for companies to integrate with to make it easy for a service platform to identify their users if they want to

High level, I think it makes sense that platforms either ensure they know who is using their services or they pre-screen what they publish.

It's even worse with games. If you buy a game on steam, steam has an account api that is completely usable for online play, but the game companies want more data so they force you to make an account with them.

I have a stadia account and I've taken to doing the same thing. If i go to play a game and the first thing it wants me to do is create an account, I'm not playing that game, and I'm telling support about it.

TikTok didn't seem to have any problems.
300+ comments in a hour??? C'mon now, this all can't be genuine. I don't think Google returns the best results all the time either, but most "outage" posts don't get this much engagement so quickly.
I have that same mindset, but at the last two companies I've been at, I was a bit disturbed that the software policy was basically, "If you need it, just go to the website and download it. Don't download a virus, good luck!"
Re:Ask HN: How to find a job in 2021 if I dislike remote? on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @10:01AM (#29714378)
> the people who do prefer WFH are sensitive about any suggestions that it isn’t universally superior.
Re:Show HN: I'm building a non-profit search engine on Monday December 27, 2021 @10:22AM (#29703182)
Famous last words
Money. If they were able to open 100,000 fake accounts today, they would only be able to open far fewer if they had to press a button every time.
Re:Running servers and services well is not trivial (2018) on Thursday February 20, 2020 @02:04AM (#22373259)
It is quite likely your blog is serving spam in the best case and warez in worst
Re:Facial recognition: School ID checks lead to GDPR fine on Saturday August 31, 2019 @06:01PM (#20849056)
But the school probably already has pictures of the students for ID/yearbook....