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Don’t put your words in their mouth. Giving government money doesn’t really change the way government operates. The government has the budget for the year and that’s the spending f…

Not just more than one employer, but some healthy number of available options. You thought A is great but you think you can find better so you go to B. They turned out worse, you t…

I'm sure the horrible lock screen UX is simply a dark pattern to nudge users towards Face ID.

Yes, breakpoints will still work. Debuggers generally use POKETEXT to write breakpoints, which ignores any write protection on pages. mseal does not affect this use case.

It's more about the slippery slope of security vs convenience. I do git rebase -i often. Do I want to touch my yubikey exactly 37 times for the 37 commits amended, or do I want to …

I tend to agree with the argument Linus put forward a long time ago, saying that there is little reason to sign commits instead of tags in git. * Commit references the tree. If you…

> Besides what does it even mean? That one side believes they can win. It’s a bit tautological. In order for you to prevail you must be stronger than your opponent in one or more c…

Usually people don't care what the bank does because they consent to the government making them whole in case the bank fails to return the deposit.

> there needs to be a short-term solution What is the long-term one then? Keep importing people and hope for the best?

The idea is to disincentivize hoarding cash and promote active usage of money in the economy, because governments believe that having useful markets is better than not having them.…

You will be kindly asked to log in with Google everywhere, for your convenience and security.

Next you’re going to tell me LiveLeak logo does not appear on the premises shortly before an accident?

As many as necessary and then some. No such thing as too few cat pictures! I use AI to generate the pictures when natural supply is scarce. Cache them locally, address by host key …

I have literally patched OpenSSH to show me cat pictures instead of the usual randomart.

It’s not necessarily a copyright violation if the license permits copying. Under a permissive license, you are expressly permitted to copy the code and distribute copies provided y…

Explains it rather well: older people dismiss their symptoms as “not real illness” because that’s what society taught them when they were kids.

> You now if these financial markets just evaporated, who would care really, except a few aristocrats? Everybody, because retirement is tied to financial markets. We can’t possibly…

The goal of WW2 appeasement was not avoiding war but gaining enough time to prepare for the inevitable. It worked well enough for Britain.

How about monthly statements? Purchase history? Stats, analytics, budgeting? In a mobile app? Without you personally or the merchants you buy stuff from having to do anything for t…

How about removing ability of private banks and payment systems to unilaterally decide without a court order who you can or cannot transfer money to? How about giving that power to…

Open-source developers are not supposed to customize their applications for distributions. Leave that to distro's maintainers, they know more about that. Closed source? Your users …

Yes, and then 2014 happened and Russia withdrew from the agreement entirely, since they didn’t really need it anymore.

They had it on a lease from Ukraine until 2017. Renegotiation of the lease barely passed Ukraine's parliament back in 2010.

What stops the inspector from turning a blind eye to app-based tickets? If you want a true technological dystopia solution then the train car should be engineered in a way that nob…