Just buy an all-world ETF (or another similar instrument, depending on your local tax laws) for the long therm.

Who cares if there is a bubble or not. The world economy will still grow.

Károly Zsolnai-Fehér of Two Minute Papers explains his decision to reject multi-million dollar private equity buyouts and restrictive sponsorships to maintain the channel's editorial independence, academic integrity, and commitment to highlighting high-quality research.

rack space i guess

I would say it's an example of sampling or selection bias

Sorry but I don't think people that read HN are the right audience for this scam.

To me it looks like (sexual) harassment:

1: I’m sorry;

2: I was just hungry, your fingers passed near my mouth;

3: It was a joke;

4: It was your fault;

Right after the IT-alert the quality of my mobile internet connection plummeted for almost an hour, my ping from Italy to Netherlands was between 100 and 600ms (usually it's 30-55ms).

My guess is that some people weren't aware of the test and started calling their relatives asking questions.

Isn't boosting websites without ads against their interest?

This is what I was hoping all the replies would be about :)

Is monetising the web through advertising the reason these scraper sites exist? And removing that would make scraping sites an expense with costs rather than profits?

Perhaps google could do this. Ads on third party sites are probably a small part of their income compared to sponsored ads in search results, so they could be sacrificed and they’d take down their competitors who rely more on the website ads because they don’t have the search?

However, they have no need to compete on search quality at this time. If another player in the search and browser wars started downweighimg ad heavy sites then this might make google have to reluctantly follow suit. But you can imagine the FUD campaigns to paint such an actor as killing the internet and being the bad guy etc…

> without any hint what video it even was

I found that the wayback machine is really useful to get the title of the video, especially for songs.

I downloaded a few books ~5 years ago and the quality wasn't that great, it was like reading a reworded tutorial in a random website.

Checking the author is a good call