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The multi-billion dollar question is whether someone with serious technical acumen is prepared to step up and fight for a law that meaningfully restrains surveillance capitalism wh…

Automattic was founded 15 years ago, and despite being a profitable and growing company for most of that time, has only raised $617.3 million, mostly to fund specific expansion pro…

People love to trash talk WordPress, but by being consistently correct and committed to its principles, it got this single line in this article: "WordPress has managed to keep chug…

You can’t, this is why we used to design services based on open protocols with data portability. No service lives forever.

"Well of course the models were right", you say to yourself. Who is still arguing about this? The evidence has piled up to the extent that being "skeptical of the science" is unacc…

I was hoping this article was going to be more like “who makes enough money to eat working on Open Source Software?”

> If you really believe the media, any media, is reporting things accurately in 2019 you are not thinking critically or actively searching for the truth. Please tell me which media…

> I quit reading media, and eliminated all social media from my life, and I've never been happier. Staggering numbers of people are dying from opioid overdoses, many of them from o…

If I put my number or email on my page, and I adjust the privacy settings to "only friends", I understand I am making that information available to my friends. They are free to cop…

Their argument doesn't hold up under the slightest amount of scrutiny. You can go to your friends' pages and manually extract their email or other contact information. If it's visi…

This fight is much older than that. If you want to get sad, read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FriendFeed

Haha, remember more than a decade ago when we all thought that interoperability was more profitable, and that everything would just naturally tend toward open standards? Wow. We we…

> Those things aren't going to zero anytime soon. Not with that attitude

Divestment also means asking banks and institutions to commit to not investing in new fossil fuel infrastructure, not just selling stock in existing oil and gas companies. Making i…

The "12 years" figure comes from here: https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/chapter/summary-for-policy-makers/ > C.1. In model pathways with no or limited overshoot of 1.5°C, global net anthro…

The amount of migration that has completely upended political systems in the United States and Europe since 2010 or so will be a historical footnote compared to the migration we wi…

I'm a software engineer largely because my father and grandfather were union laborers. My and my cousins' generation was the first in our family to be able to go to college. And it…

If you fixed the zoning issues preventing you from building an RV park you're 80% of the way to solving the housing issue entirely. So, go for it I guess!

Getting into YC is itself a credential

> In the developing world where I live Facebook gives me the opportunity to maintain contact with my family who live on the other side of the world, as I walk the streets of São Pa…

I learned to write code because of a very different internet, and I feel like if I'd grown up with the internet we have today I never would have bothered. Interoperability and disi…

In every article like this, I'm always looking for the author's orientation to place. It's important to me whether they consider the Bay Area, or any other place, an actual home , …

No, they didn't, after years of legal battles the plans to build on that site were finally approved. https://hoodline.com/2018/09/plans-for-8-story-mission-devel...

It depends on the state. Lots and lots of states have tipped wage laws that allow an employer to count tips toward base pay. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipped_wage

This is great, but why are these tools only for the Pacific Northwest?