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ParkMobile Breach Exposes License Plate Data, Mobile Numbers of 21M Users

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Decompiling FlatBuffers case study: Facebook's GraphQL schema (2020)

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Why I distrust Google Cloud more than than AWS or Azure

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Manhattan DA says his office to stop prosecuting prostitution

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Godot 3.3

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Today, Jonathan Smith walks free after 21 years of wrongful imprisonment

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Decompiling FlatBuffers case study: Facebook's GraphQL schema (2020)

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ParkMobile Breach Exposes License Plate Data, Mobile Numbers of 21M Users

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The Discipline of DE (1978) [video]

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Americans overwhelmingly say marijuana should be legal

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Manhattan to stop prosecuting prostitution, part of nationwide shift

Article URL: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/04/21/nation/manhattan-stop-prosecuting-prostitution-part-nationwide-shift/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26897186 Points: 39 # Comments: 15 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/3gyfwC6 via

Why Google Cloud is less trustworthy than AWS or Azure

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Ask HN: How is a company like Comcast able to get away with spam?

I recently signed up for Comcast Xfinity internet (only one available in my area), and ever since I signed up I receive marketing emails almost daily that do not have an unsubscribe link because they are marked as "service related emails". I've unsubscribed from every single email preference in my account, and even went so far to confirm with their support agents that I did it correctly. However, almost daily I receive emails about "See what your wifi can do" or "Don't forget about these new features" etc, that are clearly marketing and not service related. Browsing forums online it seems there are countless others who have the same complaints as me. So, my main question is, how can a company get away with this when it is blatantly in violation of the CAN-SPAM Act? Is it truly just too difficult for any individual to hire a lawyer and go up against Goliath? Does the CAN-SPAM act have any loopholes I'm not aware of that would allow this? I&#

Godot 3.3 Has Arrived

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DNA of giant ‘corpse flower’ parasite surprises biologists

Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/dna-of-giant-corpse-flower-parasite-surprises-biologists-20210421/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26890244 Points: 45 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/3syRppb via

Ask HN: How is a company like Comcast able to get away with spam?

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DNA of giant ‘corpse flower’ parasite surprises biologists

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NetBSD Toaster Powered by the TS-7200 ARM9 SBC (2016)

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Brainwaves and other strange sounds from Alvin Lucier’s lab (2014)

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Microsoft revokes MVP status of developer who exposed the program

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Employee accused of skipping work for 15 years

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OpenCV AI Competition 2021 Highlights and Team Profiles Part 1

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NetBSD Toaster Powered by the TS-7200 ARM9 SBC

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