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deepfriedbits··on China issues demolition order on world’s largest religious town in Tibet
It's China, so it falls under the authority of the CPC first, then any legal considerations second.

We marvel at how quickly they built up high speed rail, but when you can just seize land without regard to imminent domain, associated lawsuits and the like, things tend to get expedited.

deepfriedbits··on Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer Stumbled After Secret Truce with Activist Investor
As I understand it, she/they did try to make a play here, acquiring Jerry Shen and Bignoggins for fantasy innovation, including daily stuff.

Unfortunately, he was quickly fired from Yahoo! for sending out an inter-department email quoting N.W.A. (the rap group) with language one wouldn't consider work appropriate – particularly at a company that size.

deepfriedbits··on Minecraft sales top 100M
Yep. It was tongue-in-cheek. More of a comment on th sheer number of Minecraft videos on YouTube.
deepfriedbits··on Minecraft sales top 100M
Steve's Law: No matter where you are on YouTube, you are never more than two clicks away from a Minecraft video.
deepfriedbits··on Coming soon: express even more in 140 characters
Links will still count towards the character limit for now as Twitter is concerned with abuse/spam. What we may see at some point is Twitter not counting the first link in a tweet against the 140, but counting subsequent links.

As for images, here's a limit of four per post, and Twittwr groups multi into a display with one URL. Videos, Vines and polls are capped at one.

It's possible to have many, many usernames in a reply, but I don't know if there is an upper bounds.

deepfriedbits··on Ask HN: Whats your favorite HN thread from 2015?
Missed that thread but it's great. I often refer to my wife as my "Facebook Ambassador" as she serves a similar role in our household.
deepfriedbits··on How the Speed of Light Was First Measured
Not exactly my cup of tea, either, but there's an argument to be made that these things do help make the subject more accessible, which is probably a good thing.
deepfriedbits··on Use this instead of press releases
Same. And if you used his max sentences for each answer in his template, you'd end up with the War and Peace of press releases he so (justly) despises.
deepfriedbits··on Introducing Twitter polls
Great news if for nothing else, this spells the end of the Fav/RT binary polls that are fundamentally flawed in their form.
deepfriedbits··on Twitter announces layoffs
Yes, but Twitter deserves credit for creating something that didn't exist. It's global IRC for the masses. That and it brought the Internet real-time search. That's huge and did not exist before Twitter.
deepfriedbits··on [dead]
I was surprised to see their share price listed prominently at the top of their home page. Is it just me or is that considered outdated and gauche?
deepfriedbits··on Ask HN: Do you use different passwords on different sites?
I also favor this approach and 1Password sure makes it, if not easy, then certainly tolerable.

The only thing I'd add is that there are some websites with weird length and character rules, so sometimes you must tweak your password generator for smaller lengths (you won't be able to use 22-character passwords everywhere) and fewer "special characters" (non-alpha-numeric in this case).

deepfriedbits··on Gigaom Closes Down
Absolutely. I run a rather large (non-tech) site that doubled in traffic from Feb 2015 vs. Feb 2014 and AdSense revenues were actually down about 6% year over year.

Uniques and pageviews were way up, click-through rate was near constant, but CPC got clobbered. It's incredibly frustrating and I can only imagine we'll see a great thinning of the herd across verticals very soon.

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