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> Surely you must understand this? Yes, I understand why blockchains are bad, have no benefits, terrible performance and are a privacy nightmare. Thanks for explaining it in more d…

The comment you're replying to is clearly sarcastic. Infecting 2400 people with HIV is generally not considered good care.

It's always very amusing how all of the blockchain companies wax lyrical about all of the huge supposed benefits of blockchains and how every industry and company is missing out by…

Yes, this. linux sucks in a lot of ways. But it sucks for boring reasons I can deal with, like lack of resources, incompetence or even just ideas I disagree with. You know, just th…

It doesn't matter if they're a minority if moderation just lets them use HN as a megaphone and post hundreds of comments before any sort of reaction. Or in terms of a tired metapho…

The thing that truly shocks me about this whole thing is how absolutely blatantly corrupt the Irish regulator appears to be.

> The book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds was written in 1841 It feels worth noting that this book, as well as the wider idea of an abstract idea of crow…

I wonder if they checked this with the compliance department regarding their obligations to delete data under GDPR. I hope their Data Protection Officers have the time to respond t…

It is personal data regardless of how it is used. The only question is if that use of personal data is permissive. Using it for user analytics, which is neither required to run the…

The definition of personal data under the GDPR is anything that can be used to uniquely identify a natural person (with sufficiently high probability). Both cookies and date-modifi…

I don't think it makes sense to apply you-and-I logic where actions have consequences to a billionaire. He obviously never had a business case that would make twitter worth the pre…

I don't disagree. I think he bought it on a whim because to show that he could, in the same way that a football fan might say they could run the team better than a manager. Then he…

I don't have any inside information, but as I understand it's basically just a spending commitment. The online auctions still take place, however the purchaser will gain some sort …

I don't know who said it, but the real point of buying Twitter was to prove he could buy Twitter. He doesn't really have to care if it burns down, he's not going to be out on the s…

I'm not sure how helpful this is? The service Pantone provides is not really a list of colors. It's the calibration of almost every printer and item that can create color, in every…

I personally found that part very comforting. Very few people generally talk about getting fired or quitting early, which created this sort of impression to me that everyone just h…

I see the opposite: Someone who can be confident enough in their skills that they don't have to worry about finding another job if they are unhappy with the current one. Of course,…

This is the same strategy as used by vague supposed "anti traficking" laws and such. These do absolutely nothing against actual trafficking of course, but they create lots of fear …

> The US is HUGE. China is huge too. Russia is gigantic. The US was huge before the 1950s too. The terrible city sprawl of the US is not a law of nature, but specific post WW2 city…

> Those seem to be the people who push the car-less idea the most, because it meets their world view, but doesn't work once you step outside the downtown bubble. I have a friend wh…

It is pretty frequently done when arguing in bad faith, or (sometimes deliberately) misunderstanding that "minority" refers to power and not numbers.

> Take a train? Doesn't go there. It should, that's the point. The only reason it doesn't is because the US has been regressing on rail infrastructure for a century. > Bus? Again. …

I'm not sure about IP rights, but saying natural rights derive from property rights, which this sounds like, is pretty popular in right wing libertarian circles. The idea being tha…

If running a dozen competing redundant versions of every utility to all homes is your idea of a productive use of resources I'm not really sure what to tell you.