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"Here's What You Need to Remember: Men like Denard but perhaps a little less theatrical—many of them South Africans—took the next logical step. They founded businesses with boring-…

There's no way I'm changing my lifestyle so a bunch of PH.Ds and tenured Profs can retire on the Costa del Sol.

Yes! This is excellent news! Finally, things have progressed to the point where the once far out predictions of the 1970s, may actually begin to become a reality!

It's real, I'm due to start a better role in a boot strapped company, that's just received VC funding; and for nigh on double my current salary. And all because a colleague goaded …

July 2020 and I had my first interview in August (unsuccessful), then another in April (also unsuccessful) until I was offered the one I'll start soon.

(UK based) About 18 months ago, poor promotion prospects and minimal yearly wage increases brought me to the point where I realised I was punishing myself waiting for things to imp…

Getting laws changed is hard, educating others is easier, and if we all made the effort, the law change wouldn't be necessary.

Education is key here - we the tech-savvy, need to make more of an effort to educate those less so, on how to remove files from their devices that could prove compromising in the f…

The change of title from the article to this HN post is noted. I guess it was worth a try.

It amazes me that we can create a crisis out of such a small measurement

Alternatively: a palm and its print are easily fooled I'll see myself out

Not sure whether to laugh or cry

The elephant in this room is that the UK is slowly turning into a 3rd world country.

> But it is still worth contemplating a world without Sci-Hub—that is to say, a world in which Sci-Hub would be unnecessary. The “effective nationalization” proposed by Wiley and b…

That last sentiment would be very nice indeed, but I fear this is what we'll get instead: https://xkcd.com/927/

Ugh I lost interest once the profanity started - which is a pity, as the author was just starting to sound like they had some good points to make.

I say, more strength to her elbow - even while understanding the ultimate futility of what she is doing given the nature of what Wikipedia actually is.

So, accidently on purpose? If true then, how very ironic. What concerns me is, these people say "trust us", but then things like this happen, and then their subsequent behaviour be…

As a family we switched to Telegram about 18 months ago, and so far we've not found a reason to switch back. Indeed, as often as I can, I encourage others to make the switch too - …

So let me see if I have this right - Fastmail will give the Australian government access to your private correspondence, but only if said government proves to Fastmail that you've …

My family and I have been using FF and ad-blockers for so many years now that we've forgotten what the 'real' web looks like. And it's all thanks to people like Raymond Hill.

British Petroleum ceased to be back in the 2001. Continuing to call them that is puerile at best and purposefully disingenuous at worst. Both of which detracts from the overall poi…

If we're honest with ourselves then we'd have to admit this was going to happen. After all, no government voluntarily downsizes itself,so it follows that they wouldn't let go of po…

I've heard it called drive-by management - same thing, different smell.

Welcome to 1984, Orwell was right after all.