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My biggest fear around this is that these solutions incentivise the biggest pharma companies to stop researching actual cures. I don’t want to have to deal with these devices, I ju…

I couldn’t agree more, well said

1000%, recommendation algorithms inevitably maximise for emotional reactions, promoting polarisation and negativity.

I am literally never able to install my household name desktop apps that I use daily on Mac, when I try Ubuntu, without the thing crashing my whole computer. It’s insane.

This opinion is terrifying to me. Why has our culture become so authoritarian?

They are (almost?) all configurable using QMK, custom firmware or even Via :)

Speaking from Australia, we have outstanding customer protection and rights, and no massive hoops or hurdles to go to get it that would be more significant than anything in the US.…

The commenter wasn’t talking about all people having to work at the office all of the time, merely that fully remote was not good and not favoured by young engineers. And he was sp…

I’m shocked that people are surprised that censorship escalates. This is the natural consequence. Censorship should be restricted to calls for, threats of or plans of violence, tha…

Greed. Pure, unadulterated, unjustified greed. Why should Apple get 15%? It’s just disgusting.

“ Anarchists are simply people who believe human beings are capable of behaving in a reasonable fashion without having to be forced to. “ Lol you lost me immediately. This is essen…

If you get your news from Facebook, you’re doing it wrong.

No they don’t, they only have to provide details of why they downranked the website if they do so. This is to avoid them intentionally downranking the papers to hurt them. Stop spr…

Lol this is just not true. Fairfax, for example, will be completely fine. You’re honestly pushing a lobbyist’s narrative. Small papers don’t rely on Facebook click throughs.

Exactly, “on a part of the digital platform service that is set up and able to be edited by the registered news business“, i.e. on the news site’s own personal page, which is alrea…

As an Australian, this is fantastic. Why should Facebook and Google get to show news content for free? The only people unhappy about this, from what I have seen, are Facebook and G…

Feels like the author is catching on to the realisations outlined here: https://waitbutwhy.com/2013/09/why-generation-y-yuppies-are-...

The fees some of these apps charge is criminal. You’re an advertising and coordination company, do you really deserve a huge percentage per order? Gross.

“Declare New Variables... I see two possible reasons why one would want to do it the "wrong" way: efficiency, and conciseness.” Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t this plain wrong?…

Why do people program new projects in Erlang as opposed to Elixir? Especially when it’s a web project and Elixir has Phoenix?

This headline is misleading. Avast did the work. The police just gave the necessary legal approval.

The consequences of installing spyware on your devices and trying to spy on the US.

Not sure I agree. AirPods really have almost no distinguishing features from other earphones. They’re generally worse. The only “feature” is seeing their charge on your phone, whic…

Honestly, I wouldn’t make it available in China. I want to give them a reason to take that firewall down. I don’t want to make the prison that their government has turned their cou…

Re: Healthcare, that’s not true. The US spends more on health care per capita than many systems with free healthcare (Australia, UK, Canada). You pay the most and receive the least…