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Maybe that says a lot about the real value of digital social networks as we know them now. Perhaps we should just have dumb pipes, and let people network over them without a MITM r…

Sort of how Elastic using the license that’s biting them; can’t really expect much else so long as “it’s a private company they can hire as they see fit” is the default political p…

Windows is opt-in

Xsolla is another payment platform for merchants? Why not fire the CEO for being disengaged from coming up with a novel idea? The meme is these people work so…much…harder. But none…

You seem to be of the opinion the stoppage of e-commerce supply chains would be a quiet little event no one would notice? I don’t care whose grandpa did what 80 years ago. I don’t …

You don’t think Amazon would notice orders not coming in? Google wouldn’t notice code not being checked in? Call centers wouldn’t notice Q’s backing up? No one would notice if Redd…

This patronizing tone will really help you in life. Keep doing it. The extent of our interaction is a few lines on HN while I’m bored on vacation due to bad weather. You really hav…

Literally isolates. I seem to recall an invention called “Internet” which allowed for concerts, talk shows, and numerous other social events to occur during covid.

Epic copied id Epic copied Valve Epic copied PubG Epic is suing to stop others Epic isn’t a very novel business Edit: thanks everyone. Was in the dumps due to rain at the beach. Th…

Work from home during the worst of covid was the best time to threaten a strike. Everyone loaded up on extra TP, a work stop was all of not opening laptops for 35-40% of the countr…

So? The health of a social system isn’t the state of its fiat currency. It’s the literal state of its people. If you’re going to be led around by ephemeral catastrophe hype, why no…

If the public isn’t going to push back against establishment politics looking like they did 100 years ago, good luck. Like waves and particles; it starts with individuals changing …

They’ll scan content if you have it set to goto iCloud so as to avoid being an accomplice. Turn off sync to iCloud, make local backups only. Who is to say politicians who started t…

Apple has a right to protect themselves from being an accomplice to distribution of child porn. Maybe you freedom fighters should have heeded the warnings over the decades of creep…

It’s a shared planet and resources but unfortunately you don’t own any of it. Political ownership calls the shots. Might look different if the politically detached organized agains…

They are not anti-systemic The system will emit one system that will always align with our understanding of reality with constants we cannot violate. The perimeter is programmed; p…

I don’t bother with Bitcoin; you think I have any faith in cellar dwelling computer nerds? I gots a masters, I know elastic structures. What do I need other math nerds for? In the …

As a long time HNer who quit caring about the points long ago, the overall comment quality on HN tanked a while ago. As a mathematician, I’m often dismayed by the fantasy and falla…

The inability to build housing is emotionally coupled to lack of political will to raise taxes, empower workers… The owners want to keep power. We’re basically servicing last gener…

Indeed. Our superior intellect of the fifth order to ninth power above tribal humans of course obliges us annihilate them along with the stable human environment. It’s terrible wha…

Because you think you noticed a trend it means the first abstraction that pops into your head. Sure, that’s how it works. I’ve noticed a trend of people good at abstraction believi…

Duh; society is built on an honor system. We look away to “live our life” and tacitly believe others are behaving honorably. And they all do. Economists teach us inflation is good …

We’ve had empirical measure of industry related climate change since the 1860s hidden away by industry, who continued to be confirm through private research over and over. If our m…

Creditors CAN accept them because states do not disallow it. The point is taking the language in that document literally is a ridiculous exercise. The men that wrote it had barely …