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I have the original Surface Book. I like it. I used to use Macs. Microsoft won't pay astroturfers to lurk in hacker news. Too bad.

The losing side simply thinks that Americans who didn't vote for Hillary must have been bamboozled or tricked and they need to be protected because they're not smart enough to thin…

Isn't that "All of them?"

Well, if I can't have whole disk encryption, I can't use it. It's that simple. You need some protection in case your computer is stolen.

Shame on YC News for reporting Fake News. Why doesn't @dang pull this?

"Education" today means paying fat salaries and pensions for teachers.

A frugal, thrifty person who saves money so he can retire shouldn't be punished by having his nest-egg eaten away. The only fair way is to tax people upon death.

All due respect, but there's a reason you can't cut taxes on the non-wealthy: They don't pay taxes.

Oh, they drink!

You filed a "class action lawsuit?" More details, please. Who was the class? Why a "class action" when you were personally harmed in a major way?

Because you can't criticize "women" in "IT".

Exactly right. If you refill an used bottle and leave it in your car for a few days, it will turn green from whatever's living in it. A new unopened bottle will sit for months. I u…

Also, it's not "free". Nestle builds buildings, pays taxes, employs labor, invests in infrastructure. It's like saying "Intel sells chips for $1,000 that are made from 20 cents of …

I like MongoDB! It's web-scale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs

You HAVE to prosecute them. If you didn't, a child could send a naked photo of himself to all his teachers, call the FBI, and see them all arrested (there's no defense against poss…

A lot of this wouldn't be acceptable today because the culture of gay men using female names and pronouns to refer to each other has become "politically incorrect" as has the gay (…

Exactly right. We do accurate-color work so I need a wide-gamut monitor I can calibrate. And we need NVidia "Pro" cards (with FP16 full-speed) support. The Mac "faithful" will tell…

I'm also a big fan of the Surface (and Windows 10, too!). We went from Mac to Windows and I have no regrets. (It was the desktop / high-end that pushed me over. No good "pro" optio…

Someone licensed by their (US) state as an Engineer, and the only person (in most states) who can legally call himself an Engineer. https://www.nspe.org/resources/licensure

I can't imagine working without an ESC key. I think many of the complaints could have been alleviated if they left this one key on the machine.

I'm a EE, and a licensed PE. I wouldn't do this.

I'm always afraid that if I knew what my cat was thinking I'd be disappointed. Like "I wonder if I can kill and eat him?"