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I love Vivaldi, but it also uses Chromium. If an extension is not in the Chrome Web store Vivaldi will not be able to install it. Firefox seems to be the only reasonably mainstream…

Is there some kind of extension to block their begging for donations banner?

A similar calculator created many years ago is at https://www.albionresearch.com/tools/kelly

Glad at least that you can understand America's aggression as being at Israel's behest. And that concerns over a nuclear weapon program were just a pretext.

These systems have seen widespread adoption in a few countries. I wonder if the scenario you describe has actually happened yet. If it was a real concern it would have by now.

I believe this will pass as people get used to them as part of our modern world.

As this is Hacker News the focus is on GrapheneOS. I think the background issue of Cop City and the hysterical over reaction of the state of Georgia and now the feds to the protest…

The author's proscriptions for the fertility crisis include - permitting child labor (as long as it's in a local business) - ending sex education - denying student loans to women -…

This is not a left versus right issue. Maybe more of a NIMBY thing. Co-locating natural gas power plants along with the servers near residential neighborhoods has not helped. The s…

What packages have you found useful?

Successful Chinese industries tend to be subsidized at the level of cities and regions. This creates fierce intra national rivalry that forces rapid evolution and excellence. Elect…

DHH increasingly sounds like a much poorer Elon Musk.

Does something similar to RAC exist for other commercial databases like Microsoft SQL Server or IBM DB2?

This term is so eye rolling. Unless the FDE has legitimized pull within the core product team they are nothing more than a glorified field engineer/technical consultant.

Yup, we saw it happen after the George Floyd/BLM protests. An undeclared work to rule action.

Without antitrust enforcement, creative destruction works a lot more poorly than it should.

Jackson Mississippi has the highest per capita murder rate of any city in the United States. More than double that of Mexico.

When I see these GDP comparisons between Mississippi and Europe or Canada I have to ask does anyone honestly believe that life in Mississippi is better than in any of those other t…

ICE agents are arresting people when they show up for green card interviews.

Do you seriously think the bread and butter issues contributed nothing to his appeal? Palestine I'm sure is important but it's easy to dismiss affordability issues if they don't pl…

It's part of a general retreat from the world on the part of the United States.

Unknown to you perhaps.

Telecoms received excessive returns on their investment. Effectively acting as rentiers for long distance calls.

https://rentierblackhole.com/ > "The Rentier Black Hole" A theory of land, housing, and open-economy failure: how a non-reproducible asset absorbs global savings, breaks wage-price…

I'm looking forward to AI summaries killing SEO farms.