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I don't understand if this has to be considered an answer to the previous post, it sound more like a reaction But if > China is bad because it is a horrific human rights abuser wit…

A bank is not a single entity, it's made of people converging after reaching consensus There are a lot of banks, with different interests that usually compete with each other and w…

Back in the days I was there :) In late 80s I was actively involved in some of the BBS of my city, that also gave access to Usenet, engaging mainly in cyberpunk, science fiction an…

That's actually a great idea! I would also abolish votes in general and only sort comments chronologically. users could vote and see the posts/comments ordered by their votes that …

There's a rule 34 in porn, but also a rule 34 in history: if it happened, Romans have already done it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoras_(freedman)

Relevance. if the search results has less relevance and historical data has lower importance compared to spikes in interest at the moment of the search, it's worse For example medi…

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Unfortunately for you I am exactly from southern Europe, from Rome in Italy to be precise. I think you should visit here, I would show you how much noise people from other countrie…

Any brand wants potential customers And social networks have hundreds of millions of them Do you think Coca Cola cares if KKK members drink it and bottles of Coke are shown in pict…

There is no way that something that is not enforceable will succeed though. Plus forgiveness works only on then forgiver side, nothing stop others to keep doing what they are doing…

I've seen it, several times, and I am both an Jodorowski's huge fan and an avid reader of the books I'm a dreamer and I really hope that Villeneuve's Dune will bring some of those …

Even though it went through different restoration processes, the original is still the original Much like the Amphitheatre Nimes is not closer to the original Colosseum, even thoug…

They where created more or less in the same "old days" Erlang is from 1986, BEAM from 1991-1992

In Italy we work approximately 220 days a year, 5 days a week, we have 52 weekends (as everybody else) 24 days of payed holidays and another 10 days of national holidays. six month…

The documentary about South Park studios production process "6 days to air" is pretty great I watch it regularly to not forget how to give everything you can in a short time span a…

Because some protection is better than no protection Why use a condom which doesn't protect you 100%?

Yeah people burnt witches in the past ... If they are confident that this feature has no privacy implications they are right to defend the point, despite what people say or think P…

It's true, but for some workloads. I wonder, and I really wish it's gonna be a game changer, how well they will behave on jobs that go on for hours or days at full CPU load.

A thousand dollars is 1/12 of the average Chinese annual salary That's why they buy 99$ phones You're comparing a few millions people living in SV with billions of people making le…

> so the manufacturer protects you from these risks. Gigabytes of pictures in an archive called "the fappening" say a different story.

I don't have to go full PWA to make useful apps And don't have to go through an app store, creating an account, paying Apple, waiting for their opaque reviews and giving them 30% o…

But a billion+ users do Android on a 99$ phone

Vast majority of users go back home and browse on their laptops because a big screen is better than a credit card Vast majority of users will use whatever you throw at them, especi…

Moderation hides content That's the biggest limit of moderated forums, they only reflect the opinion of the most active groups who can steer the discussion helped by moderators who…

This really reminds me of good times I started a company with friends to write games for phones, before they were smart Our fist breakthrough was at E3 in LA with a game for Nokia …