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But "they" aren't. So your point is irrelevant.

I don't understand your example. > 2) BAD website says “We’ve sent you an email, please enter the 6-digit code! The email will come from GOOD, as they are our sign-in partner.” Doe…

I've sat through numerous Air New Zealand safety videos over the years and whilst every now and then they hit the spot most of the time they're lame and overly long. It also seems …

The plummet as reported compares the final months of sales that benefited from the clean car discount against 1 month of sales after the discount was scrapped. Hardly surprising th…

PriceOps? Really? The idea that pricing and billing are separate concerns seems entirely obvious to me.

There’s no authoritarianism going in here. The New Zealand government did what you should expect of a government: they governed. They made a tough decision and explained their reas…

It's not a literal description of what happened. Read the article you linked to, not just the headline. It explains the additional factors that informed the decision. The "1 positi…

> New Zealand just shut down everything over a single case It's maddening to see someone peddling this narrative in a discussion on HN.

This squares nicely with my understanding of what "reserves" are when talking about extractive resources. Namely, the known quantity of a resource that can be extracted in an econo…

> The idea is you get a re­quest, you val­i­date it, maybe you do some com­pu­ta­tion on it, then you drop it on a queue and for­get about it. > The next stage of re­quest han­dlin…

There's a fair whack of poetic license in the headline, but isn't there always? The idea that you can get a meaningful take on a story just from the title seems a bit lazy to me. I…

Aquemini and Stankonia are both all-time classics.

> I actually believe that there's a culture war implied in this debate; the question of who deserves to reap the gains of automation is more than just philosophy or ethics. The que…

> Companies are easier to not do business with. Governments only get voted out if enough people agreed to vote with you. Monopolies are hard to avoid doing business, and some form …