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Distributing native binaries is so dangerous!

Just debate, talk more. You'll get lots of kudos and people agreeing with you. The dummies will stay dumb. Why do you lack confidence in your positions and feel justified in appeal…

A strong Internet Bill of Rights (IBOR) would wreck lots of surveillance state tools, shady business models, and the burgeoning censorship industrial complex. I wonder if undermini…

> Government money is artificially scarce Wot? Not sure how to respond to something so silly. I hope you mistyped. From whence does one derive their "money supply"? Scrip is a plac…

Sounds like a stimulus sugar rush to get them out of a funk. When national currencies collapse, local communities that issue scrip to facilitate ongoing commerce fare well. https:/…

I am an average, flawed and vulnerable human. I am aware everything I value and love including my life can be taken from me. Should that happen, I don't consider that a special pun…

Word choice can help your thinking. We all receive different struggles and decide how to respond. The way you describe your 'luck', I read as "random good fortune" tinged with some…

So these patchers are monkey patching a system executable needed to have a bootable/usable system? Why is this allowed? This sounds like a small hell. I left Windows the moment we …

To juice their ESG rating to maintain their bond rating, I imagine. Same reason Gilette and Nike and every other megabrand suicided over the past 5 years. All to keep getting the s…

The purple snake should have never cancelled the two-time, back-to-back, 1993, 1994, Blockbuster Videogame Champion.

And on the way down, there was an unholy congress between SharePoint and OneDrive to create a new eldritch horror.

A gist, the digital equivalent of scribblings on a stained cocktail napkin, lays bare the great mystery. The great dragon is slain! His precious treasure is of no value whatsoever.…

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Pro-vaxxx team-sport zealots like this guy only inflame vaccine hesitancy in otherwise reasonable people. Stop scaring people off with your othering, jerkface attitude. History wil…

Billionaires don't care about you. Scariest creatures on this planet. Tell me why the controllers need my charity? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aiFp-XqV_M

Bullcrap. This is just a demoralization play from an ubermensch who doesn't want young bucks trying hard like he did and perhaps giving him and his friends some competition/grief. …

I was worried that making MacOS free with the purchase of Macs would lead to it withering on the vine and/or become a featureitis junkie. Is that the case here? Not enough regular …

Penitentiaries are supposed to engender penitence. "Maybe I am part of 'the problem'." Having that observation, becoming humble, and owning up to one's mistakes is very hard to do.…

HN discussion quality check: Jobs clearly wasn't resistant to app stores. > Wrong, here's receipts. 30%! > Wrong, 15% unless you're a whale. Don't argue. Just read my mind through …

Jobs was ahead of his time, and he pushed the vision of HTML5 and offline apps. He was resistant to app stores, I suspect, because he wanted maximum freedom for users in the future…

The psychology of knowing ahead of time you'll delete all the code is interesting. Devs would be in hack-hack-hack mode and not worry about design - the goal is just explore all th…

Dopamine is a helluva drug. Get off social media!

You're placing a lot of faith in a system whose power would have long-since been stolen from the people.

I cannot abide. What is your point? That the last 5 years have seen _fewer_ true conspiracies and clownish gaslightings? Are you quibbling over the number 5 or something?