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> replacement parts for models several years old are still plentiful. Data point: Just replaced a battery in a six years old Samsung smartphone in 20 seconds. It did not even cost …

A friend of mine enjoyed her first years in school in the Pannonian basin; I am not sure, whether they did something special - but it was enough to get her into a selective German …

Firefox 56 had some kind of performance regression[1], but FF Quantum is a joy to use. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/74irm5/is_ff_super...

Met a guy in his twenties recently. He wanted to share something with me on FB. Told him I had no account. He replied politely: Oh, yes. I believe the many people in tech do not ha…

I wholeheartedly concur. Most people see the problem of power in that they don't have it. I believe, fewer people understand, that power itself is the problem, and not its particul…

> most powerful distributor of news and information on Earth Sandberg (somewhere else recently): "We are explicitly not a news company, we are a tech company."

Would give this study a fresh angle, wouldn't it?

The trouble with this study - if I should guess - is selection bias: How many of those high IQ individuals are actually member of Mensa? Given some test many years ago, I might hav…

> However, Facebook really is, at this point, a clear monopoly. But here's a point: The zero-cost marginal cost characteristics of many software businesses makes this sector prone …

> 1 billion people shouldn't have their lives dictated by a proprietary, opaque Skinner's box with no regard for privacy or rights. Of course they should not. Or should they? We li…

Yes, true. But I am not a salesman to sell you a solution. All I ask for is to be more conscious about these, sometimes subtle, sometimes less so - things. If it helps you, here's …

I'm sorry for being short on content, but I wish, more people would really go deeper into theory and open their eyes on the things around them and realize, that capitalism is an ex…

Fun fact: Capitalism depends on crises - they are not the exception, they are the rule. People forget that and treat it as something that happens, like a natural catastrophe. This …

> So, for example, a family would go to their local technology artisan to put together a smart home system tailored specifically to their needs. I am a software developer and consu…

I am the proud owner of a Laptop, that I can enjoy for years to come, since I can upgrade and replace disks, RAM and battery (hint: it's the last Macbook Pro that allowed this). Re…

Gini coefficient is the among the highest in Europe, about 0.76. About ten years ago, a neoliberal shift loosened labor laws and saved the overall economy by letting less skilled w…

> Germany is becoming a low income country for a lot of jobs and the unions are doing nothing against it. Yes, this is true. About 39% of the currently employed have so called atyp…

> 23andME HAS handed your most personal data over to the authorities. Now just wait for some strange shift in power. I hope I do not wake up in ten years, leave my house and am wel…

> The amount of mindless, repetitive boilerplate one has to write because the language tries to be "simple" at the expense of abstraction, genericity and expressiveness looks intol…

I'm sure I read this long ago but wasn't thinking about it. But it seems very relevant, unfortunately.

Thanks for this story. I believe a lot of people would love to work on some greater good. I, for one, would love to work for a aggressive non-profit, if there is such a thing. Soft…

I believe the tech sector is extremely prone to this: If you cannot climb out of a technical role, over time, you realize just how clueless most people are, especially those who im…

> so my guess would be 2025 at the earliest. And since we are in guessing mode, here is another one: In a few years we will have multiple sci-hubs and pirate edu sites so by the ti…