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The Court held that social media—defined broadly to include Facebook, Amazon.com, The Washington Post, and WebMD—is a "protected space" under the First Amendment for lawful speech

So banning a public square has nothing to do with free speech? "A fundamental principle of the First Amendment is that all persons have access to places where they can speak and listen, and then,…

"the Act, as construed and applied, is unconstitutional, since it imposes on the addressee an affirmative obligation which amounts to an unconstitutional limitation of his rights under the First …

Bizarre, in the land of free speech the government is suppressing it.

Bayesian orangutans

I think you may have in fact the best solution. Just launch another one, and keep pdf.to up in case the perma ban ever gets lifted. Thanks

And move the site over? Or buy it and 301 it to pdf.to in hopes it works?

Made https://www.pdf.to since one day I had an issue with a PDF and figured why not since the domain was available. But because previous owner had it as a book torrent site, only gets tra…

What about those eye brows though?

Let's assume that the internet archive loses this. What happens?

There is a front page reddit post showing bushy eyebrows vs none. So more likely not the guy

Pretty sure when you submit a DMCA you submit to US jurisdiction, and since YouTube's copyright strike are their version of "DMCA", and they are a US company, I'd venture to say it…

Yes, but copyright has fair use exception. And in theory when you send a DMCA, you are suppose to consider fair use[0], so this seems more like abuse. [0] https://www.arl.org/blog…

Imagine being the reporter for this and reading all this, talking to everyone, and then talking to the man himself, and then have to write "no criminal charges pressed"

By definition store of value means "its ability to purchase other assets in the future without rapidly losing its purchasing power" yet bitcoin has in instances halved it's value. So, …

I just struggle to see it's utility

If I remember correctly it started as an email list too, like Craig's list, before it needed a site.

This is marvelous. Any thoughts on open sourcing it?

Thetrace.org is in fact pretty sweet looking. Interesting that philly seems to be shot to injur and next door camden seems to be shoot to kill.

It's actually serendipitous that it happened exactly on December 2015. That's when I had only enough for a domain, but not for a ssl, and my site needed an ssl. Thanks to let's encryp…

But the reason DNA is an apt analogy is because as we see in reality cancer does exist. So a self replicating probe would in theory be following same principles of DNA, it would develop a cancerous p…

Thats also assuming Von Neumann probes don't replicate wrong like DNA as it clones, etc. Too many variables for it too be feasible

So much this. I studied and got a degree in civil engineering and only call myself studied as an engineer because I never apprenticed or took the professional engineer exam. Despite doing a ton of s…