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It's not prepostorous. It's what it's like to be Canada - the smart upstart, in this respect - when you challenge the incumbent. Look to tech history for many similar examples.

By expressing an opinion that is unpopular, my "karma" takes a hit. This is how Hacker News works, like Y Combinator: be popular, or STFU. Understandable in many respects for those…

It's not a conspiracy. Just business as usual where tech is concerned. The USA didn't want to see this tech fall into enemy hands; it was easier and cheaper to see it killed and hi…

Yeah, maybe. But like in tech, it's easier to acquire or destroy a competitor than catch up.

The obvious, that it was "too expensive" like Israel's Lavi program: https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/avro-iarro... But there was the idea that the CIA didn't trus…

Even fewer Canadians understand why the U.S. didn't trust Canada with such an able aircraft. It's destruction was, sadly, the right choice.

Pretty sure my life would have turned out differently if I'd seen some Lisp listings in Rainbow. I do recall William Barden Jr. making fun of parentheses once.

Maybe, but I don't see that publishers could push Valve around too much these days. You're right everyone wants new sales - but they've learned to be okay with offering 90% off at …

I've always wanted to re-sell my Steam games. I assume Valve has a real business reason why they haven't allowed this, since when sharing your games locally they are better than an…

That is one expensive Subaru.

Yeah they gave up on that which is too bad. I recall being able to upload an image, refining the output with a browser applet and getting a grayscale version of the image. All the …

There's always something rare, but they have consciously undermined collectability by re-printing things and banning cards from tournament play.

Where "flavor" means "subset of". But good on them.

This is a great idea. Supposedly the LEGO factory is set up to produce anything - let me order some nostalgia set from 1983! Like how the Magic: The Gathering people have undermine…

Having watched many vids of food photographers, if I'm Pizza Hut or similar, this seems cost-effective. We already know the product doesn't match the ad.

Please don't tell anyone. WASM can be better, but they need to not think it's Lisp.

Surely this is a top gaming achievement of all time.

Is this really any different than the exhaustive investigation of automata by Stephen Wolfram?

Not mentioned: It was apparently possible to complete the game in a "pacifist run". Every fight could be avoided with exceptional attention to the fiddly details that the article r…

The first game I played for 12 hours straight without noticing what happened. The only real flaw was the crystite strategy that had a "runaway win" nature. Played this for years be…

Forcing HTTPS apparently doesn't help people who could benefit from privacy. You don't really need privacy to learn to code.

Lucky, or an earlier version with shorter talons.

I stayed at a bed & breakfast and they gave me free cheesecake after uninstalling Bonzi for them. I just wanted to browse the web faster! Didn't take much to uninstall malware back…

Read the point of view of a fighter pilot who was there: https://www.amazon.com/Thoughts-Philosophical-Fighter-Pilot-...

It is virtue signalling. As someone who has spent thousands of dollars on Lego, if I see "Biodegradable!" splash on the box I'm going to think twice. I painted my Lego, played with…