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The overall Forest Service budget has indeed been increasing, but it's nearly all going to wildfire fighting. I recently wrote about the state of forest road funding and went in de…

I actually quite like it when this happens from the candidate side of the table. I don't want to work anywhere that is so short term focused on "you need to have X years of experie…

This is how software freedom dies. If bs like this and that "web environment integrity" crap Google tried to push into Chrome last year isn't an obvious sign that Google is a monop…

Plus Garmin devices use the Iridium network which has truly global coverage (as opposed to Globalstar which is only in select areas of the world) as well as other features useful f…

> Bank apps not running on phones where security has been compromised seems entirely reasonable. I have root access on my laptop and I log in to my bank's website just fine. Making…

I've never been locked out of my LibreOffice documents stored locally on my Linux box.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

This was also a major concern around the construction of the Golden Gate bridge; that during a time of war an enemy could have destroyed it to trap a large portion of the Navy's Pa…

https://pirep.io - a collaborative database of all airports in the US & Canada and their local amenities for general aviation pilots. There's a bunch of local knowledge scattered a…

> right in front of ultra short timeouts everywhere > If only I could meet the people who make these decisions in person... For what it's worth, I was once forced to implement a ha…

Heh, that's the same company that sends physical mail to me every time I make a trade because they believe that email sent to my personal domain is "undeliverable" and automaticall…

I still have a stack of these lying around. I used them in high school for carrying a live Linux distro in my wallet to use on the school computers since the BIOSs were too old to …

Lion Air 610 crashed October 29, 2018. BA closed at $357 that day. It continued to go down to $304 on December 17th 2018. By February 25 2019 it hit a high of $440. A month later E…

> Boeings stock price is down 18% this month. Sounds like a good time to buy it then. There's a 0% chance the government would let Boeing go down so it will rebound just like it di…

It was a joke.

The problem is that after paying the strike price to exercise and the subsequent taxes I'd be underwater based on their current FMV so it doesn't make sense to exercise them. Plus …

I have options on Carta from a prior employer that are going to expire in a few months because there's no buyer for them. If Carta is looking for some shares to trade without the o…

Same here. Between this and the numerous price hikes I cancelled Prime this past year having been a subscriber for over a decade. The only reason I paid for Prime was the shipping …

And? It's called collecting evidence.

You are completely missing the point that this is not just about an individual's ability to buy hardware that they can do what they want with, but rather two corporations (Apple an…

Please point me to the smartphone that I can freely do whatever I want with. For all Apple devices, it's non-existent. For Android there's only a few limited options left that ship…

I assume by being on HN you work in the tech industry. Assuming so, you owe your career and livelihood to the openness of the systems that came before you and the people that built…

Yes. If I bought and paid for something I own it and should be able to run whatever software I want on it. Anything less makes it not my device anymore.

And malware has never existed in the Google Play store, right? The point is that if you are the owner of the device you get to choose what to do with it, not Google. If the trade o…