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xkyscore

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xkyscore··on Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere doesn't know about?
It's a long-running joke that Youtube is a Hindi Stack Overflow, albeit non-text based, though you can view transcripts.
xkyscore··on Building Your Color Palette
So many designers just rip off the design team at Stripe, even the author of this article frequently raves about Stripe.
xkyscore··on Getting Started with Random Matrices: A Step-by-Step Guide
For paywalled sites that let users read X free articles, the easiest solution for me was to block all cookies from the site, i.e. block all cookies from [*.]medium.com. Medium will always think that "You have 2 free member-only stories left this month". This has worked for nytimes and medium so far.
xkyscore··on Amazon’s UK FBA operations will be split from the EU
It always baffles me when people claim "Paki" is an ethnic slur when used for Pakistani citizens. Do you consider "Brit" for a British citizen to be an ethnic slur as well?
xkyscore··on A ‘viral’ new bird song in Canada is causing sparrows to change their tune
I'm surprised McDonald's haven't tried teaching birds to whistle their melody, free advertising
xkyscore··on “Massive DDoS attack” just T-Mobile error?
Facebook itself was up but messaging was unavailable, same with Instagram messaging.
xkyscore··on Apple, Google ban location tracking in apps using their contact-tracing system
>they were able to resolve it by contacting google.

Do they happen to be government-funded, or represent a health company as stated above? To be fair, I didn't follow up the rejection, I just assumed the rule would be set in stone and they wouldn't budge. The app was free, no ads or any method to profit from covid so I was pretty shocked.

xkyscore··on Apple, Google ban location tracking in apps using their contact-tracing system
Google have flat out banned any apps that have anything to do with combating COVID-19 if they aren't either funded by their government or are a registered health company. I tried releasing a symptom tracker app before Zoe released theirs and it was rejected for this reason.