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What does 'work' mean? If work means to live a happy and meaningful life- absolutely. If work means to gain the prestige of a man like Conway- probably not. But I can rest assured …

Kuburnetes is lightweight, extensible and based on open standards, which is the recipe for a long-term solution in this space. It also has first class support in all of the major c…

I use safari every day with content blockers and literally never see ads. I use adguard + Safaris own content blockers. Part of the reason I enjoy Safari is that I've found its con…

I think that structure, accountability, and community are the big draws towards school. For young people I think that these are extremely important- when I was in school- taking 6 …

But people do spend an extremely large portion of their lives on them

To offer a different perspective- my favorite way of learning to code has been to find coding puzzles (like codewars.com) and try to tackle those. I ended up learning a lot about c…

Imprisonment percentage is fairly relevant when discussing free nations, but it is absolutely not a measure of freedom by itself. Especially when you consider the monstrous cultura…

If Huawei does not deviate from the standards set by the CIA, than it is very clearly a terrible idea to do business with them

Outdoors = breeze, birds, scents, wildlife, variety Our minds arent so easily fooled by a truck lighting setup

I have an xps13 9360 (1 generation ago I believe) and I use it outside regularly. The matte screen helps a lot

Quoting Huawei doesnt make for great evidence here

> significantly more effort Which often takes time. And limits engagement. The maintainers of pacman have a limited amount of energy they're willing to spend on free support- I'm h…

Theyre not mutually exclusive. Human communication is impossible to get perfect. You have to strike a balance between a bunch of priorities. I could write an essay on this topic, b…

This is highly contextual. One community I find myself going to on occasion is the archlinux IRC channel. Manners are very much not their highest priority. While they dont go out o…

You really think this headline is engineered for people to click because they're outraged, not because they agree? Articles and headlines based around classism are everywhere these…

Amazon was just being tried in court. This isnt about being caught- the evidence is clear as day and was presented in court. This is about a failure of our legal system to protect …

> He discussed his privilege as a "rich white man" I know you're just quoting the article, but it feels sort of slanderous to include this detail without the proper context.

ICE isnt a war criminal. They're a law enforcement agency

I could point to the anti-police rhetoric and victimization of minorities that the left uses as something that the left does that leads to violence (riots or gang violence). Ultima…

What is exploitive about uber/lyft?

Couldn't you add additional certificate authorities to your browser at will? The CA system is decentralized by nature. If the existing authorities start trying to manipulate your i…

I think that you should hear them out and they would be very easy to dismiss very quickly. The reason we dont agree with White supremacists isnt that we've effectively suppressed t…

Source of the quote?

HTML is the standard form of internet document delivery, that's why it's the bare minimum. It's marginal effort to set up and objectively more accessible than not having a website.…

And who repairs flatscreen TVs? A very small percentage of the market