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Texas parents voice concern over gun found in elementary bathroom
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The world's biggest charity speedrunning [GDQ] event just banned Hogwarts Legacy
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Google Adsense is bringing a bunch of policy changes that affect how your sites are monetized
Yesterday, Adsense support sent an email to their users regarding their upcoming policy changes. This primarily affects how subdomains are monetized. Going forward, your subdomains inside the...
Yesterday, Adsense support sent an email to their users regarding their upcoming policy changes. This primarily affects how subdomains are monetized. Going forward, your subdomains inside the primary domains in the "Sites" section (www, etc.) won't be allowed, any existing ones will be removed and their rules will be merged with the primary domain (such as example.com).
Furthermore, what constitutes a "Site" will also change henceforth. You can only add a primary domain (such as example.com) and the subdomains which are listed on the public suffix list (such as github.io, blogspot.com, etc.). Thus, your own subdomains (such as xyz.example.com or www.example.com) won't be allowed in Adsense.
I don't know what they will achieve by doing this considering they already vet and audit each site before approving them for adsense? In any case, other alternatives to Adsense exist such as Propeller Ads, CJ Affiliate, etc. for those affected by this move but I don't know their efficacy.
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Car safety and fuel efficiency improvements aren't driving up the cost of cars
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Denmark should aim to reduce beef and dairy production by introducing a farming emissions tax in order to reach its ambitious climate targets
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Why don't Americans care about Formula 1? A statistical analysis.
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What creative projects have you been working on?
This topic is part of a series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss creative projects they have been working on. Projects can be personal, professional, physical, digital, or even just...
This topic is part of a series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss creative projects they have been working on.
Projects can be personal, professional, physical, digital, or even just ideas.
If you have any creative projects that you have been working on or want to eventually work on, this is a place for discussing those.
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Whispers of AI’s modular future
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A guide to open source project governance models
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Norway has developed a foreign policy based on facilitating negotiation, having participated in the resolution of more than forty conflicts worldwide in recent decades
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Lupe Fiasco presents “Rap Theory & Practice: an Introduction”
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Psychedelic assisted therapy
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How do we fix and update large language models?
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European Speedrunner Assembly's Winter 2023 event is live
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Fitness Weekly Discussion
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started...
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started a new diet or have a new recipe you want to share? Anything else health and wellness related?
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Hail to the Chief: One great article about every US President
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The Birdcage and La Cage aux Folles: An epic stage to screen journey
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Are we destroying our railroads for bikes?
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‘Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania’ swells to franchise record opening of $118M 4-day
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Love & Death | Official teaser
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Richard Belzer dies at 78. The stand-up legend and 'Groove Tube' actor played Det. John Munch on 'Homicide: Life on the Street,' 'Law and Order: SVU' and eight other shows.
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100 days ago I built a terrarium and documented my little chunk of the desert. Watch as it transforms from a barren wasteland into a thriving ecosystem.
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Could mediocre movies save movie theaters? ‘Ticket to Paradise,’ ‘A Man Called Otto’ and ‘80 for Brady’ say yes
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Copenhagen Does Not Exist / København Findes Ikke | Official trailer
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of February 20
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.
This is an inherently political thread; please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.
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The greatest tax system in the world – why can't America be as great as the Faroe Islands?
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Banned in the USA: The growing movement to censor books in schools
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Worried that technology is ‘breaking your brain’? Fears about attention spans and focus are as old as writing itself.
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Toolformer: Language models can teach themselves to use tools
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BAFTA Film Awards: ‘All Quiet On The Western Front’ named Best Film; Cate Blanchett Best Actress, Austin Butler Best Actor
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The unfathomable scale of the Brussels Palace of Justice
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How Helsinki became the mobile gaming capital of the world
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DGA Awards: Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert win for ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’
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The ‘breakthrough’ obesity drugs that have stunned researchers
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Man beats machine at Go in human victory over AI
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Saami Council has demanded Square Enix remove the Far Northern Attire from Final Fantasy XIV due to the use of cultural property and an infringement of rights
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What did you do this week (and weekend)?
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do...
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it!
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Dear Quora, please stop holding information hostage on the internet and remove the paywall
The benefits of a free and open Internet is something that the millennial generation created long ago to make this world a better place and full of opportunities for everyone, not just those who...
The benefits of a free and open Internet is something that the millennial generation created long ago to make this world a better place and full of opportunities for everyone, not just those who can afford access to it. These benefits are something that makers of quora platform themselves used in the form of open source software like Python, Django, HTML, etc. to build that very platform in the first place.
But now, by denying those benefits to others and bringing in a paywall, quora is striking on its own proverbial roots. There are much better ways to reward their content creators than holding their answers hostage with a paywall. The plain old advertising revenue sharing model can be still used, just like Adsense does. This is a win-win thing where everyone gains including the platform, content-creator and advertiser.
It's extremely important to oppose this paywall move by quora because this attacks the very foundation of the free and open Internet as we know it. Imagine what happens tomorrow if other informative sites like StackOverflow, Wikipedia, etc. start following quora's path. Imagine the plight of the poor and under-privileged sections of the society who cannot afford costly subscription to information. And yet, as members of the evolved human race of 2023, they very much deserve access to this information.
I urge all netizens who consider themselves part of this free and open culture tribe to sign this petition and through it, convey our grievance to quora and let them know why this is wrong and what is at stake (our freedom).
If you agree with my cause, I urge you to sign this change.org petition created in this regard requesting Quora to revert the Paywall move.
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The Expanse: A Telltale Series | Official gameplay trailer
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Why Kyoto prohibits bright colours
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How the inventor of the troll doll missed out on a fortune
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What is ChatGPT doing … and why does it work?
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Most seasons in Denmark have a cake or bread associated with them – but no other season's sweets have as much hype as the cream bun for the Fastelavn holiday
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Disaggregating And Extending Operating Systems
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How codebreakers decrypted a trove of long-lost letters written by Mary, Queen of Scots
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To prepare for future pandemics, we can learn from the OECD's top two performers: New Zealand and Iceland
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Kosovo celebrates fifteen years of independence with eye to reaching deal with Serbia
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Midweek Movie Free Talk
Have you watched any movies recently you want to discuss? Any films you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here. Please just try to provide fair warning of...
Have you watched any movies recently you want to discuss? Any films you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
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Norway has seized a record $5.8 million worth of cryptocurrency that was stolen by North Korean hackers last year
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