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“Anyone who can be fooled by an internet scam should be sent to war” is faulty in two ways, given that it hinges on a young person making poorly informed decisions: - being sent to…

Oculus already lets you watch Netflix and stuff, visually it’s a pretty decent experience, but like … 42” TVs are $300 or something. you’re not gonna fall asleep on the couch with …

> We cram our secrets into git Excuse me?!

When I studied art history in school, a major theme was that most of the artists from long ago that we have heard of did some kind of work for whoever was in power, to make money, …

> Really depends on if the cost increase is due to Apple taking a cut. Apple only takes a cut of virtual goods. This is why you cannot buy Kindle books on iOS without going to the …

> I could see they justify this as value-based pricing. As in, it would have costed more for you to travel farther to get the food from that particular restaurant if you were to or…

i am of two minds on this. FIRST, obviously, there are probably fewer dark patterns in anything than the intuit / us tax situation. there are so many problems with our tax system a…

> Wow, not even Debian has done this. What a world in which RHEL is more adventurous than Debian. Adventurous is adding things. Why remove things that work if some people are using…

yeahp when there is load bearing python 2.7 code written by someone who has left, puts folks in a tough spot. :/

> Stop visiting sites who treat their users this badly! The problem is the individual sites aren’t making these highly technical decisions, people are using what seems to them an i…

okay then who else? when i last interviewed at apple, the office i interviewed in was so far from the spaceship, it was almost in another city. apple seems to be occupying just abo…

How long have you lived here? What were the conditions when you arrived, versus what you see now? What areas do you frequent? Have you ever made friends with a homeless person? Do …

I saw a reply to a thread on twitter where a woman said to one of his friends, something like, “sorry to burst your bubble but bob was a champion of ‘diversity’” and if that isn’t …

Yes and they rushed to cast this tragedy as part of an imagined crime epidemic. There are some good contributors to the Chronicle, but they skew fairly conservative for SF and have…

> He wasn't doing a great job The previous DA was doing a fantastic job, he had finally started focusing on violent crime instead of, “quality of life” crime like shoplifting and v…

The Walgreens CEO was forced to admit on a public investor call that they had completely fabricated all of their concerns, that these closures were simply planned because San Franc…

IQ has racist and eugenicist origins, not understanding that in 2023 can only be described as willful ignorance.

i love this, i often try to wrap things up 100% while in flow and sometimes end up screwing things up. this makes perfect sense.

the lyrics definitely read like ChatGPT output for, “write a 90s alternative rock song that explains why people should use zendesk”

you think it’s reasonable to put someone in jail for 20 years for logging into a social media website? also: how are they going to determine that you did? what if you have malware …

sometimes estimates are useful for deciding what not to do.. “oh, that’s gonna take 6 months? we won’t need it by then, let’s do something else.”

none of those things listed are minor things, those things are the entire job. no, a CEO isn't going to know what a clopen is like, but if they're responsible for people who are de…

if you ever find yourself needing to modify files at the shell on any sort of remotely modern unix/linux system, you're probably going to have vi or vim available. it's worth knowi…

Yes.

Use a large provider's DNS. I can't suggest supporting CloudFlare because of their dubious selective enforcement of ToS regarding sites that actively organize and encourage harm to…