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The Library Card Project: The Ease of Forming Anonymous Companies in the U.S.
As it happens, more corporations – anonymous and public – are established in the United States each year than in any other jurisdiction.
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The most popular blog posts about society, policy & culture on Hacker News. 352 posts.
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Blogwashing
Blogwashing is a scammy SEO tactic which involves changing an old blogs publish date to a more current date to fake freshness to a search engine.
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Patents are about sharing information – don't shroud them in secrecy
Patents give their owners the power to stop people (and companies) from doing whatever the patent claims as an “invention” for twenty years. But that power doesn’t come for free: it’s a trade. In exchange for the right to sue others to stop using the invention, patent applicants have to disclose...
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YC's request for startups: Government 2.0
In 2018, Pew Research Center reported [https://www.pewglobal.org/2019/03/04/u-s-german-relations-methodology-spring-2018-global-attitudes-survey/] that 57% of Americans believe that children in America today will be worse off financially than their parents. Since 2013, this number has been as high as 65% — even though…
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Older Americans are alone half their waking hours, on average
Americans 60 and older spend about seven waking hours a day alone. This rises to over 10 hours a day among those living on their own.
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The best-kept secret of Dutch biking: the Dutch hardly bike at all
Here is perhaps the most shocking chart in all of Dutch transportation:
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America has two economies, and they’re diverging fast
Red and blue America dramatically represent different segments of the economy. Here is what you need to know.
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Middle School Misfortunes Then and Now, One Teacher’s Take
One teacher compares the life of a middle schooler in 2008 versus 2018. There is a startling difference. Learn what life looks like for middle schoolers today, and gain valuable tips on how to reclaim childhood for your kids in this digital age.
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Key Polish Political Party Comes Out Against Article 13
With only days to go before the final EU debate and vote on the new Copyright Directive (we're told the debate will be at 0900h CET on Tuesday, 26 March, and the vote will happen at 1200h CET), things could not be more urgent and fraught. That's why today's announcement by Poland's Platformy...
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Exploring alternative funding models for the web
The online advertising ecosystem is broken. The majority of digital advertising revenue is going to a small handful of companies, leaving other publishers with scraps. Meanwhile users are on the ...
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People see it as more acceptable to make passionate employees do extra: study
Love Your Job? Someone May be Taking Advantage of You | Duke's Fuqua School of Business
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Why Does Infrastructure Cost So Much?
Why does infrastructure cost so much to build in the U.S.? The fundamental reasons aren’t technical. We’ve structured our postwar economy to use overspending on infrastructure as a way to induce short-term growth.
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The Notion of “Trolling” in Ancient Sanskrit
May 12, 2019 @ 4:36 am · Filed by Victor Mair under Language and philosophy , Logic , This blogging life
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EFF Wins National Security Letter Transparency Lawsuit
A federal district court in San Francisco has ruled strongly in favor of our Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking records of how and when the FBI lifts gag orders issued with National Security Letters (NSLs). These records will provide a window into the FBI’s use of a highly secretive...
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r/ChangeMyView Is Graduating Reddit: Introducing ChangeAView.com
TL;DR: Reddit has been a great incubator for the r/ChangeMyView project, but we’re very excited to announce that…
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Proton Technologies awarded €2M from the EU
We are happy to announce that the European Commission has awarded €2 million to Proton AG, the parent company of Proton Mail and Proton VPN, to develop a suite of encrypted services.
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Are we happier when we spend more time with others?
In this topic page, we explore data on loneliness and social connections and review available evidence on the link between social connections and well-being.
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When it comes to composition and length, passwords mostly don't matter
When it comes to composition and length, your password (mostly) doesn’t matter.
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Why Are Creators Paying for TikTok’s Mistake?
TikTok is an app that makes it easy for people to make short lip-synching videos, which unsurprisingly makes it a goldmine of creativity and memes. TikTok recently got in hot water with the Federal Trade Commission because it failed to comply with Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)....
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Anonymous Google Employees Voted Arms Control Persons of the Year
For Immediate Release: January 10, 2019 Media Contact: Tony Fleming , director for communications, (202) 463-8270 ext 110
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Microsoft Tells FTC Repair Poses a Cyber Risk
In comments submitted to the Federal Trade Commission, Microsoft Corp. is arguing that repairing its devices could jeopardize the cyber security of Trusted Platform Module (TPM) security chip. Don&…
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Reverse Engineering a Xinjiang Police Mass Surveillance App
This report presents new evidence about the surveillance state in Xinjiang, where the government has subjected 13 million Turkic Muslims to heightened repression as part of its “Strike Hard Campaign against Violent Terrorism.” Between January 2018 and February 2019, Human Rights Watch was able to reverse engineer the…
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The global population pyramid
Global demographic transition signals a shift from young, growing populations to older, stable ones, reshaping societies and economies.
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Childhood's End: The digital revolution has turned into something else
To those seeking true intelligence, autonomy, and control among machines, the domain of analog computing, not digital computing, is the place to look.