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You seem to be assuming I don't consume a bunch of content that could be replaced with Snake Game or Solitaire at ~0 loss of enjoyment, because it's incredibly low-value entertainm…

> It wouldn't just be 'non profit', it would be 'considerable loss'. You can't provide a service like YouTube or Google without incurring enormous expense, even if you're only coun…

> It came out the summer before 9/11. It is petty and weird and, maybe I’m pilled, but it’s pretty good. I remember thinking it was OK when I watched it when it came out. I watched…

> This is all well and good, but then we need a serious alternative funding model for websites. Why? Without competition from free-but-funded-with-$billions ad-supported services, …

> is more experimental protocols to enrich the web, New protocols are DOA until we significantly nerf the incentives to "own" the user. IOW it's not gonna happen until we outlaw an…

C. 2000 I was able to match state-of-the-art web designs, solo, without much difficulty, writing raw HTML & JS. And get paid for it. I was in high school. That was the best time to…

Follow up: which one's the most fun if you're onboarding to it and aren't already very very good at, specifically, the underlying tech/framework? That's where a lot of the fun-for-…

Those of us not in elite circles have a little trouble getting worked up over the difference between something that looks like it's scummy, immoral cheating, but is legal, or the s…

I wonder: what's the average age of a worker whose wages would increase if the federal minimum wage increased to $15/hr? There's "supposed" and then there's what's actually happeni…

Besides, given how necessary cell phones are now, perhaps especially for the low-income, spending a little more for one that works really well and is very reliable isn't crazy.

Affording Internet access and a cell phone is no problem for me, but the only reason I have either is because they're de facto required for my work, for my spouse's work, and for o…

> I would compare Tiananmen Square with the Tulsa race massacre. How many Americans don't know about it? I'd never heard of it until I watched Watchmen. So, I'd lived nearly half m…

Our economy seems really good at producing cheap garbage that's hardly worth even their low prices, expensive shit that actually works (expensive in part because the cheap garbage …

I like Redux because it's portable—you can easily rip it out of a React project and use it anywhere—and because it provides a really nice way to separate backend-talking-stuff from…

> Because if not, aren't you just adding another attack vector onto all your employee/contractor laptops when you use 'Drata' to check a policy box on your SOC2 application? I have…

They need to send you a machine if they want you on some kind of special network or to have their monitoring tools or whatever on it. That's it. Period.

10 is also quite bad. It adds very little useful over Win7, while making several built-in programs worse and infecting the whole thing with spying and ads. They're on a bad streak.…

I know folks in non-tech office jobs who say it's easy to exceed typical metrics for their department in, at most, two hours of actual work per day. Doesn't even require that those…

HN, obviously. The only way this site stays so busy is lots and lots of people doing this instead of working. It'd be much quieter if there weren't plenty of people like OP.

> Battery life doesn't matter, just plug your damn laptop, it's throttling itself if it's not plugged in anyways. Counterpoint: battery life and, for the first time in my life, bei…

Not "nothing else". They're the only half-decent vendor if you don't want to have to think about your computer very much, and also want it to mostly work well and do useful things …

Usually has to do with security requirements, often dictated by the industry they're in. Health care and military contracting are both huge , and are both areas that large companie…

Not that poster, but I am over 35, and I hate computers. Fucking around with computers without being paid to do it is just about the last thing I'd want to do. They're miserable ti…

It hadn't occurred to me that this might lead a whole bunch of people, who didn't previously, to regard the employment relationship as fundamentally coercive. Hm. I'm now torn on t…

What does this have to do with the actual topic of the parent post?