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Meet the British version of David Brooks. "The problem with Glenn Greenwald and the creepy cult that surrounds him" http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/willardfoxton2/10000...

There's a reason why the NYT is known as the Pravda on the Hudson.

Avoid? There have been rumors for a long time that Facebook will buy Opera.

What about powering all those Thunderbolt devices which have been daisy chained? The extra cables and power supplies are going to be an absolute mess compared to the old Mac Pro.

The new Mac Pro is going be a spaghetti junction of cables, power supplies, external enclosures... whereas previously everything fit neatly into one single box which could be easil…

Assembled in California is definitely not the same as being Manufactured in USA. Also, they could ship a unit 99% assembled in China and have somebody in the USA clip on the last p…

With the old Mac Pro, everything was in one box. With the new Mac Pro, you will need power supplies for many external devices. Spinning the Mac Pro around is going to pull all thos…

The media always shows a close-up photo of a man standing in front of three tanks. This photo might surprise you. http://imgur.com/N6mpnPY

Why is this on HN? What has this got to do with tech? It seems certain non-tech topics are allowed to be upvoted, while others get yanked. This kind of censorship is no different t…

> "The issue for PHP and even Node.js is obviously you're trapped in a single-threaded situation and what I really wanted was to be able to do a lot of things concurrently," Rememb…

Only yesterday it was announced "China Builds EU Beachhead With $5 Billion City in Belarus" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5783373

Belarus doesn't have civil war and terrorists blowing things up on its border.

Hear hear. This advert should not be on HN.

Keep hearing stories like this. Makes me think there's quite the hacker culture in China and other developing countries, driven out of necessity and lack of (or looser) regulation.…

Everything you describe sounds like China in 1980. They designated Shenzhen as a special economic zone and it became a model for the rest of the country. Whether or not Belarus ben…

> The hub will put Chinese exporters within 170 miles of EU members Poland and Lithuania and give them tax-free entry into Russia and Kazakhstan, which share a customs union. It wi…