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Yeah, the trick on taking out low interest loans is they have to be long term, like a mortgage. Over 30 years, I'm definitely paying it back in post-inflation dollars. In one year?…

Agreed, and it should include the prices in brick and mortar stores. There is no reason not to print the price and the price+tax together.

>I don't recall this happening. Can you provide a source for this? https://www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/amphtml/USA/2020/1119/O...

> And yet there is scant evidence hospitals ever were at risk Are you suggesting that this story is inaccurate? Your claim is baffling in the face of… well, all the stories I’ve be…

I think TIME is gunning more for the supermarket checkout reader with this piece, a crowd that would find anti-trust and fake USB cables to be quite dry.

Cool, you should talk to ModernMech, he’s having trouble with power management. Or indeed any of the folks on this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30644113

On what laptops does sleep/hibernate work correctly when you close the lid, with Mint? Seriously, swear to fucking god, every time someone says “oh Linux just works”, the next comm…

You mean: roughly 100 million people will starve and suffer from malnutrition because Russia invaded Ukraine. It was an entirely predictable outcome based on one country's actions.…

You are you are absolutely right that this will be a more beneficial attitude to carry into their futures because it is exactly what has allowed me to succeed, but only after unlea…

You are correct. It was Archivist.

A long time ago, on what.cd, I spent some time to upload rare and odd CDs I found at the library in Austin, TX. For a while, I had only one downloader, consistently. A user name Li…

> But they do it with like minded people This is the main problem I see with your compromise. The self-sorting will create or enforce existing silos. The compromise is not only bet…

Alas, this is the nature of compromise. Your downside is your employer’s upside.

This is really how it ought to go. Once a quarter, we all descend on one city for one week. We make big plans, we revel in each other’s company, and we see a new part of the world …

What is a sufficient compromise, in your view, that satisfies the need of some workers to have regular face to face interactions with coworkers and prevents corporations unprepared…

>Working remote is just what I need, and I am way more productive. I acknowledge that you and many others derive personal satisfaction from productivity. I do too. However, I stron…

>I'd spin this around and cast it as a challenge -- regular, forced interactions with coworkers is minimally sufficient and retards some people from pursuing social activities outs…

Do you believe they have the tools to create that vision of a better world?

This quote from the education commissioner cracked me up: In the letter to teachers, Education Commissioner Margie Vandeven said “an individual took the records of at least three e…

I don’t understand this comment. Would you mind explaining?

The number of consumers trying to buy a coffee who will “linearly interpolate between the two extremes” will be limited to a vanishingly small group of consumers who enjoy that kin…

So the average consumer is back to trusting a central authority (PayPal)? Then what’s the point, for the end user, of the blockchain in the first place?

> Giving them housing doesn't mean they also get immunity from criminal laws. All evidence to the contrary. SF, Seattle, LA… seems like the free housing people are indeed immune to…

This is one aspect of homelessness that I never see addressed by those advocating for liberal policies like free housing. What do we do with the people who simply prefer not to wor…

Note that the article is from 2013, and this is very much in line with Facebook’s stance overall: that they are just a forum for expression, and not in the business of policing spe…