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> I can assure you that the comfortably rich are not getting richer by loaning money to the average person to buy houses and cars Isn't this precisely the idea of securities backed…

You can't be serious. The man is an entertainer.

I assumed this was meant in terms of energy required to exploit the resource—if water's literally falling from the sky the energy required is zero.

You can't scale moderation with a social network without making serious sacrifices on moderation quality.

> Rust seems to encourage a single global allocator strategy, which is not suitable for many use-cases such as OS development and high-performance game development. I'd really love…

> It is caused by people developing mental health issues that make retaining employment extremely difficult. Sadly, there are many other reasons, too. I met a family of immigrants.…

What's the metabolic difference between major and complete fasting? I honestly have no idea.

No; however, drivers are pretty easily portable among the distros. The differences are mostly userspace details and driver selection. I can't imagine they have difficulty navigatin…

> Plan 9-based technologies are a part of most, if not all, operating systems today (even Windows!). 9p is indeed a great technology—I would have also thrown in utf-8—but most of p…

I know that Russ Cox & Rob Pike both still use plan9.

Then you have to deal with a linux UI, which is a complete blocker for me.

Is there a better platform? I don't think so.

How is this related to the story? Why waste my time like this? Provide or shut the fuck up—that's how hacker news works for successful assholes.

What would you suggest in its place?

Hah, nearly a year too late.

I don't know why the term is so valuable. Musk went so far as to buy the title for Tesla.

I don't think anyone except consumers themselves can speak to why they buy their products. The prevailing dogma that users want Apple to think for them is trivially false.

It's not clear why you'd consider our species particularly interesting for a reason other than intelligence. According to much of human history and culture this is what differentia…

Why would you gripe that a person uses your software but cares too much?

What are you comparing us to? We don't have a control group for intelligent species.

I mean the white house is free to issue press releases. It's not like Trump has been silenced.