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It's interesting how none of the top comments mentions capitalism as the reason for companies losing their original mission. It's the same force that causes enshittification: the (…

In case you're not aware, Chinese cars have the same or even better quality than US, European and Japanese cars. Their electric vehicles are cheap and high quality, it's really imp…

The App Store app seems to be using web views extensively.

Me neither!

Well in a country where company lobbying is legal, it's very debatable if political parties are really defending the interests of people.

> What I can’t quite disentangle is whether it taught me how to get what I had always wanted or taught me what to want. This is a question that keeps coming back to me and I still …

Your charity argument only validates the parent's comment. No healthy society should rely on private charitable as safety net for the less fortunates.

It's interesting that your feeling that "academia is dying, and dare i say irrelevant", to me, is exactly what brought us here and to the status quo you're complaining about. Maybe…

I wish Firefox had a good multi-account support like Chrome has. That, and the fact that iOS 14 might allow to set your default browser would make me move to use Firefox everywhere…

Why do you consider the time playing Everquest wasted? It was what you wanted to do, you did it and had fun. Now you want to do something else and that's fine.

I lost my mom this year to the same cancer and I get really excited with any advancements that are made in this area. I feel like we're still playing with sticks and stones in term…

Hey look, we found him!

Thanks!

I was going to comment that I'd love to know/read more about the author. Where can I follow him?

And it's a lottery in the end. You can't count on it until you're selected.

My mom was diagnosed 1.5 years ago, and the uncertainty of it all is the worst part. It soothes my heart to know I'm not going through this alone.

Cool, that makes sense. Thanks!

The US Government opens the program for applications on April and then it reaches the quota usually in a few days. Does that mean that if I apply for a job in the US in May (and I …

Definitely not Portuguese, you're right (source: I'm Brazilian.)

I've been working remotely (not in NA/EUR) for the past 2 years now and, even though I love the life quality improvements, I feel like it might not be worth on the long run. What I…

Because it's rare.

I think that one business model that will never get old is information spread. Most (all?) of the problems we see in the world today could possibly be fixed if people were more kno…

It's not like everyone have the kind of money to do NYC shopping experience (specially if you're not American.)