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They could just be hedging their bets.

Theoretically if 51% of ownership of an oil company wants to seal all oil wells isn't that what the company should do?

Free software plays a very large role in our communication infrastructure.

The Xbox One X doesn't maintain those specs. The resolution drops during game play. You actually need a machine north of $2k to support 60fps 4k.

> every OS is calling home to some degree. It's funny to speak in absolutes. Plenty of operating systems don't phone home regularly, just not ones popular with consumers.

I think it would change the VC market too. A lot of companies are funded because they potentially make good acquisitions for larger companies.

> it would be atypical for a suburb to have significant independent restaurants within 5mi of any given point Some cities, like Dallas, seem to have a higher percentage of chain re…

> Might does not make right. Doesn't it?

> "It's immoral to eat them because they can have thoughts and an internal experience, just like us," and "But they taste good" is not a counterargument. There is an implied "We ar…

Almost nobody tracks their time to better understand how they are spending it. I've talked to several people that have started, but even the most detailed oriented find it to not b…

Yes. I remember AWS asked about the size of the databases I have worked with in the past, and then negged me when it was smaller than their databases. Of course the databases I wor…

Someone can be sane but still have poor mental health. Healthy people don't kill innocent civilians.

I disagree about banning guns. There are other weapons mass murders could use. Anthrax in the mail and homemade bombs have both been used in US history. We cannot reasonably prohib…

I bet there is a direct correlation between how much good will someone extends DOD and how much they believe their history books.

I think most Americans receive a quality education that covers a lot of really valuable material. The US population isn't the most well educated, but it's unfair to our teachers to…

Does the first amendment apply to none us citizens/residents?

I don't see a single open platform or piece of free software in this entire situation.

The article says nothing about Tinder making this release on App Store, just Play Store. If Tinder requested this update be sent to Apple users than the review process would reject…

It's my right as a member of a democracy to call out when a company is doing something unethical with the hope of swaying the opinion of my peers against such business practices. I…

> I have quit social media The comments section of Hacker News is social media.

Yes but it seems like many video game designs are engineering towards exploiting addictive behavior. This is predatory business behavior.

I use to be hyper motivated and constantly working towards a goal. I worked full time, went to graduate school, ran a small business (~10k annual revenue), maintained an exercise r…

Walmart has been known to put pressure on brands to reduce the cost of their products. Sometimes they can find the cost savings in the economy of scale of doing business with Walma…

In this argument fusion energy would eliminate the need for wars, because all countries to safely generate huge amounts of energy, enough for desalination even.

Why would you want to lock into a cloud provider? You're losing a lot of operational flexibility for less devops and sysaadmin work. You are really limiting your tech stack by usin…