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The most popular blog posts about society, policy & culture on Hacker News. 17 posts.
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Google account disabled for 6+ days. Some thoughts
Mibbit is a fully featured IRC Client. Allowing you to interact realtime with your friends. Chat, play games, colaborate on projects together and more.
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Google backs gay marriage
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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The Untold Millions
The media is biased towards stories that want to be told. This is especially true about the media covering the web world. It’s much easier to write a story about Facebook, Google, Youtube, or any of the other limelight stories where much of the juicy details are willingly shared. We have s…
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Io v. Veoh: Important ruling for sites comprised of 'user-generated content'
In an important ruling handed down yesterday, a federal district court threw out a copyright infringement suit brought by adult video producer Io Group against Veoh, concluding that the video hosting site qualifies for the DMCA safe harbor. The ruling should be required reading for the executives...
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"The Use of Knowledge in Society"
Snippet: What is the problem we wish to solve when we try to construct a rational economic order? On certain familiar assumptions the answer is simple enough. If we possess all the relevant information, if we can start out from a given system of preferences, and if we command complete knowledge of available means, the…