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Threat is a communicated intent to inflict harm or loss on another person. The author of the article seems to confuse a conspiracy with a threat.

After reddit started banning people for upvoting the wrong things, this is a logical next step. Contrary to the popular belief, slippery slope isn't a logical fallacy. Anonymity is…

I think it's interesting that so many things in elementary OS are written in Vala. They are probably the biggest user of the language. For example: Calculator: https://github.com/e…

I don't know how much would it normally cost, but the EU is spending 145 billion EUR to kick-start it: https://www.eetimes.eu/eu-signs-e145bn-declaration-to-develo...

Yeah, it's basically "world ends: women most affected"

That's unlikely, reddit is down all the time. They definitely have the worst uptime of all the major websites.

Wow, that's a feature that I've been really missing since I switched to Firefox from Opera.

>There’s no part of me that finds it easy to believe that a female, minority worker in tech is going to get the same opportunities as a white male anywhere in Europe. I agree, she'…

If we're talking about native (i.e. not using Cygwin or MSYS) shells, I believe Hamilton C Shell is the closest thing: https://hamiltonlabs.com/Cshell.htm It has some drawbacks, th…

>We know from decades of research that more diverse teams are more successful. I like success. That's a very strong claim. What research? >The teams I’ve liked the most have been t…

>1. Going to your own link, Newsweek did not call "GME investors "far-right extremists"". The article clearly states that far-right extremists were instead using the "stick-it-to-t…

Slippery slope isn't a logical fallacy. It's often being incorrectly used, usually as a result of the continuum fallacy, but it isn't a fallacy in and of itself.

See also an article about Modula-2 for CP/M from the same author: https://techtinkering.com/2013/03/12/if-only-borland-had-stu... Discussed on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com…

It's a well known fact that GnuPG maintainers are incompetent. My favorite example: https://dev.gnupg.org/T4592?utm_source=cryptography-dispatch... tl;dr one of the main GnuPG deve…