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Oh, Roblox by far and away is worse than Apple. But also, Facebook is pretty clearly implicated in a genocide in Myanmar. It's difficult for me to put any genocide in a bucket less…

> Apple walling off iMessage, giving the impression that Apple phones were high technology, and interacting with peasant androids is what made group chats fragment and pictures and…

> That's pretty evil & predatory to me. That's not what the parent is asking. The OP said it was the most evil ever done. Big Tech does predatory and evil stuff all the time. That'…

> I don't think any big tech company has ever done anything as evil and predatory as Apple walling off iMessage I think you might be living in a bubble, if this is the "most evil" …

> the claim that the internet descended into surveillance capitalism because of the walled garden approach of the App Store I did not read this claim. I read the claim that Apple's…

Ideally we want all companies to be champions again authoritarianism, surely?

This was my intuitive read too. I thought it was about to say something about the socialists, anarchists, and communists I know. Nope, just the left handed people I know.

Exactly this. It's not that it's a difficult problem, but it is a high mass-budget problem. Which makes it an expensive problem. Which makes it a difficult problem.

Depends on your orbit, but you need to be prepared to rotate into Earth's shadow seamlessly.

Putting a datacenter in space is one of the worst ideas I've heard in a while. Reliable energy? Possible, but difficult -- need plenty of batteries Cooling? Very difficult. Where d…

> Are you saying that, irrespective of the chance of being caught and convicted, and of the severity of the likely punishment, the likelihood of someone committing a crime is const…

Look back further - https://images.seattletimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/F... In the 80s and 90s, violent crime rates were well above 1000/100k residents, and property crimes…

> Prisons make people less likely to become criminals. Here is a study supporting the assertion that prisons increase (or do not reduce) the likelihood of someone reoffending in th…

We pay. We pay to house inmates. It costs us a TON of money to house prison populations.

Don't be facile. Police reports aren't the only source of data. If this was a widespread impact then there would be other sources of data that could be used to build this case. Add…

Steam favorability percentages are famously vulnerable to review bombing. HW3 got swept up in culture war nonsense around LGBTQ representation. I'm a hardcore Homeworld fan. I've r…

Putting poor, desperate people in jail isn't going to solve the systemic issues that create poor, desperate people. Locking up people for petty theft is almost certainly FAR more e…

You have any data to support that? I've lived in Seattle for 40 years, and crime here is way less of a concern now than it ever has been. Especially violent crime. My experience al…

I most certainly cannot deduct housing, food, entertainment, vacations, or large purchases. > The problem is that we obviously can't let you deduct everything, because if you can d…

Scriptable Objects are exactly what I would use in this case. There's even a whole host of fancy tools to work with them and import/export to csv or other file formats.

Alcohol is harmful, but I have a glass of wine or whiskey from time to time. HN is my glass of whiskey. I create an account, and delete it once I start feeling invested. If I can d…

Yes. The energy in a vehicle increases with the square of the velocity. A car going 40 has nearly DOUBLE the kinetic energy of a car going 30 and the braking time required to stop …

Watching one of the videos, the car went 38/39 in a 30, and was the only car nearby. It was not keeping pace with other vehicles in its lane. It seemed like a lot of the roads it w…

I think too many people are too enamored with their "team" to really dig into the policy proposals of presidents and senators. Like, for so many people being a Democrat is purely a…

Quickly? This has been the path we have been on for at least 30 years, probably longer. Plenty of folks have been calling this out for longer. When you have two parties in control,…