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Text: Reddit and Twitter are both large, anonymous social networks, but it’s only Twitter that is notorious for venomous abuse campaigns, rape threats, and death threats, often directed against prominent women, LGBTI people, and racial minorities. What is it about Reddit that keeps people safe from the...

Text: When Google first appeared, putting a keyword into Google Search returned pages that you could be certain contained the word exactly as is. It was a straight-forward, predictable way to search the web, but it meant that people who were less experienced with Google may struggle to get their querie...

Text: This is part of a series of articles on the repercussions of AMP adoption. AMP is being given special attention due to its potential to centralize control of the way the web is built. Read more: The hoops you’ll have to jump through to use your domain with AMP For those that don’t know, a very qu...

Text: Website Visitors Like most website operators, unlikekinds.com collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. unlikekin...

Text: Well known for his philanthropic work with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates is also a human being - one who frequents Reddit, it turns out. When business people or celebrities take to Reddit, they’re usually there to peddle their wares or talk about their latest movie. While Bill...

Text: [info]Updated Jan 2021 with a new, simpler recommended method for blocking Android ads[/info] Ads on websites and in apps are annoying enough, but apps that pop up a 30 second video ad while you’re going about your business are much harder to put up with. While there’s browsers that block ads on...

Text: In the United States, women only got the vote in 1920. Racial segregation only ended in 1964, and same-sex marriage was only legalised in 2015. As recently as 2003, same-sex sexual activity was illegal in fourteen US states. Given that 50% of Americans are women, 28% are non-white, and around 5% ...

Text: Somewhere in my regular haze of dozens of daily googles, something seemingly-not-strange-at-all was actually so strange that it managed to bubble up to my attention. I was in the middle of playing the video game, Breath of the Wild and I couldn’t figure out how to do something, so I reached for m...

Text: What’s so good about SegWit Firstly, it increases the amount of transactions that can fit in each block. Since each block takes about 10 minutes to be created, this means that more transactions can be processed per second. The amount of fees that Bitcoin users pay depends on how hard it is to get...

Text: Just like the web doesn’t require you to have a direct connection between your laptop and the website you want to access, lightning doesn’t require you to have a direct connection between you and the person you want to pay. Instead, you only need a channel with one node that is connected to the n...

Text: A stock market bubble bursts when companies go bust. A real estate bubble bursts when people can’t pay their loans and homes are foreclosed. So when does a cryptocurrency bubble burst? Let’s talk Bitcoin for now, and get the obvious out of the way. The price is decided by the market, by supply a...

Text: Hypothetical: if you knew for a fact, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that if you invested one month of effort, that you would end up with, say, a million dollars, would you knuckle down and do it? Or continue binge watching The Good Place? The goal in question can be anything. Maybe you want to buil...