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Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments

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2525 points hownottowrite | 1 comments | 08 Oct 19 09:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.226s | source
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Aozi ◴[08 Oct 19 10:29 UTC] No.21190660[source]▶
What we need is a JS developer to take down an important package from NPM in protest, thus breaking the Internet again.
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byte1918 ◴[08 Oct 19 10:41 UTC] No.21190743[source]▶
The NPM fiasco should no longer be possible

If you want to unpublish a package after 72 hours have passed, contact npm Support. For more information about why we don’t allow users to unpublish packages after 72 hours, see our unpublish policy.

https://docs.npmjs.com/unpublishing-packages-from-the-regist...

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Crinus ◴[08 Oct 19 10:50 UTC] No.21190806[source]▶
Not sure how npm works in detail, doesn't it pull directly from devs' repositories? In that case can't the devs just publish an update that breaks everything?
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1. julianwachholz ◴[08 Oct 19 10:57 UTC] No.21190848[source]▶
This wouldn't be as big of a problem with version pinning.