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The US has never allowed unfettered foreign competition in its domestic market, and neither do most other nations (including, very notably, China). The US has always done what ever…

The bill doesn't do that. There's no need to invent problems that don't exist; we have enough as it is.

This is all true, but just to set expectations: the open source ecosystem seems to be lagging the proprietary world pretty significantly, unless there's some corner where developme…

It doesn't seem that weird precisely because so many people here are in software, rather than hardware. My suspicion is that the median HN reader probably knows a few JS developers…

In many products, there are different firmware or software loads for the PRC market (specifically PRC -- until recently not the HK versions) and the rest of the world. In some devi…

That's only interesting to the extent that an organization has operations in China. Google was mostly ejected from the Chinese market years ago, I thought -- hence Baidu largely ta…

Expanding the foreign ownership rule to include social media platform companies (and, frankly, any strategically-important technology company in general) seems like a no-brainer. O…

"Dictatorships are bad" is not the game-over argument that it once was, maybe 20 years ago. The Chinese aren't just competing against the US for control of some islands and sea lan…

That's only true if only a small percentage of users actually use that particular ad-blocking strategy. If a significant number of users did, then it would be a real concern. Altho…

I don't mind PiHole, but it doesn't do nearly as good a job of ad blocking as a "real" browser plugin does. The amount of crap that still comes through when I turn off uBlock -- bu…

I get that the WSJ needs to run these sort of pieces every so often to sell papers, but "No One Wants [Whatever]" think-pieces should be treated the same way as the overly-speculat…

That explains why the K8S defaults are bad, but why use K8S at all here? Personally it seems like a lot of shade-tree server admins are way too eager to bust out much more tooling …

Interesting, as I have had the opposite experience. There are lots of documents that I have to work with -- most created originally in Word 2007, I think -- with very intense forma…

There's really no technical reason why imagery like that couldn't be contributed, and IIRC Google does use municipally-owned imagery in its products. A single city might not be a b…

They just want you to know you're not paying for anything except engineering. :)

I agree with everything except I don't think I would have called out OrangePi as the worst of the lot -- at least not anymore. They seem to have basically outsourced their software…

> Anybody not a pure hobbyist left the RPi space long ago. I suspect a lot of hobbyists have left too, and that's why there's so many not-quite-knockoff SBCs on the market (ranging…

I guess... but if industrial is really their market, I think they need to up their game in terms of documentation. "Real" industrial embedded modules tend to come with reams of doc…

Having random people reverse-engineer your hardware in order to document it seems... a lot less ideal than having the people who actually built it in the first place reveal some of…

Yes, a hundred times yes. I've been down this road and while it was certainly an interesting learning experience in some of the mechanics of the kernel build process, module depend…

> you could probably put the obsidian vault directory inside of dropbox I've done this and it seems to work fine. In theory I guess you could end up with sync conflicts if you are …

Perhaps, but setting aside the philosophical point, Evernote was nowhere near "done". Their 'new' client software (Electron-based, of course) never even achieved feature parity wit…

Yeeeah, no thanks. I don't want my hardware running automatic upgrades of any sort. I'd probably trust an open source team like OpenWRT's more than a shitbag company like my telco,…

You track them, obviously. Then it's mutually assured privacy destruction.

Not an interesting question at all, IMO. The government is not required to protect you or make you whole, if you invest in an enterprise that the government later decides to prohib…