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User @shusaku refers to MDPI as a "garbage journal". If true, this info should play a bigger part in the discussion here than it currently is
That's such a nihilistic false equivalence. Get a subscription to The Economist - their business model disincentivizes manipulation
Wait, was your combo shot one of each? or two of each? I've been curious to learn more about getting both (already had two Pfizer) but resources on the matter are hard to find
Re:Ask HN: Self Promotion on Reddit on Monday November 16, 2020 @07:14PM (#25118853)
This may sound unhelpful, but if you have good enough organic growth somebody may post it in the subreddit (and many other places) without your prompting
Most likely, if you're posting on HN, you're probably at least OK at critical thinking
Re:Google Widevine Content Decryption Module DMCA on Friday November 13, 2020 @02:02AM (#25079763)
This inspired me to research and download Brave Browser. Thanks Streisand Effect! So nice to have a browser that doesn't feel like bloatware
Re:Google Widevine Content Decryption Module DMCA on Friday November 13, 2020 @12:20AM (#25079166)
Super interesting, thanks for posting
Re:Ableton Live 11 on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @07:53PM (#25064996)
No, you'd end up with Fruity Loops
Re:Vigil: The eternal morally vigilant programming language on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @05:12PM (#25052739)
I think this is a joke? Hopefully?
Re:About iSH’s pending removal from the App Store on Sunday November 08, 2020 @04:28PM (#25029230)
Can confirm it does
Well...Linux plus rootkit preventing you from doing what you want on a device you've paid for
God, I hope so. I've been meaning to try the PinePhone and maybe others at some point
Jesus, I had no idea. Remind me to never, ever switch to Android
Re:750M genetically modified mosquitoes to be released in Florida on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @07:41PM (#24994604)
To the geniuses protesting this: they're combating an invasive species. How's that for un-natural?
Re:New youtube-dl release: v2020.11.01.1 on Sunday November 01, 2020 @12:27PM (#24960969)
I've never ever heard of this happening. I feel like there's almost no chance this isn't just bluster
Re:Photos from inside a Typhoon class submarine on Saturday October 31, 2020 @02:16PM (#24953840)
Not nearly as nice as The Hunt For Red October makes it out to be
Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA on Friday October 23, 2020 @04:12PM (#24873507)
In light of this DMCA, this seems like a site that needs to exist...but I don't know of one? Seems like as trivial a build as anything cryptographic actually
Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA on Friday October 23, 2020 @03:55PM (#24873272)
Ok, so who's building a distributed, cryptographic, uncensorable version of GitHub?
Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA on Friday October 23, 2020 @03:35PM (#24873000)
You can download the most recent version of the YouTube-DL code from Wayback Machine here: https://web.archive.org/web/20201018144703/https://github.co...

Fuck the RIAA

Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA on Friday October 23, 2020 @03:31PM (#24872954)
Why wouldn't it be? Does this claim have any substance?
Re:Google to Invest $10B in India on Monday July 13, 2020 @12:47PM (#23822802)
The Google Belt and Road Initiative
This article projects too linearly to the future: terraforming Mars, for instance, would probably be easier right now than getting people to Titan quickly. Seems like an article written for the purpose of getting clicks by being contrarian, not seriously investigating the science
Re:Creating Python Virtual Environments with Conda: Why and How on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @02:01PM (#21755698)
Or, if you actually know how to use the Unix command line in non-trivial ways, you can just use pip.
Re:Show HN: DevShop, the Game of Kanban on Monday November 11, 2019 @12:03PM (#21506450)
Delightful. Add in some snazzy animations and it'll be downright addicting
Re:Apple Removes HKmap.live from the App Store on Thursday October 10, 2019 @01:04PM (#21216843)
Part of the problem when phones are inherently locked down. If you can't run the software you want on a device you've purchased, it's not really your device.
Re:The GM strike is really about the switch to electric cars on Saturday October 05, 2019 @05:01PM (#21167929)
Caution: creative destruction at work. You can choose to take advantage of its benefits, or you can choose to fight it.
> I pay for 4-5 newspapers (which is too much), but after the sh*tstorm of the past three years (Brexit, elections etc), I felt that it was worth the money.

This isn't a coincidence: to a large extent, the last few years haven't been THAT remarkable, but news outlets will inevitably cover things as if they're very remarkable, because that's what fuels subscriptions. See also: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews

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