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I think the answer is much simpler: at the time Windows was created, no one in their most sadistic totalitarian dream could have imagined such evil as an app store.

I like powdered instant coffee with condensed milk, now kill me.

Apparently they made a truce, Russia stopped blocking Telegram recently.

Windows is Microsoft own product. Anyone can run anything on it without anyone's permission.

This is extremely flawed reasoning, and I'm sad to see a comment of this low quality on HN. Tether's valuation is based on free market trade. If an insider knew they are not 100% b…

Cleaning fee is actually a discount on longer stays. Hotels offer such discounts too.

When it lifts something, it can apply the force gradually. When that force approaches the tipping limit, it would abandon the lift.

Most people think Bitcoin is a gambling chip, but it is first and foremost a new form of money. Let me repeat Bitcoin's benefits: - You can pay anyone and been paid by anyone witho…

Except there was no faked value injected anywhere, all tethers are 100% backed by USD in the bank. The reports are fake news. If it were not so, the freely traded tether/USD value …

Doesn't work against China and Russia ... doesn't really work even against Venezuela.

He might be right. There is a considerable work being done currently on Bitcoin to improve it's transaction throughput, speed, privacy and fees. Once it's done, in a year or two, B…

What prevents government from paying their bills, rent and loans forever? Warren Buffett said that US gov can never go bankrupt because it owns the printing press.

So what, out of fear to earn too little interest (0.25%), risk to lose 50% of your investment? +0.25% looks better than -50% to me. Don't see a rational logic here. Though humans h…

I think Satoshi Nakamoto used double VPN. Haven't been found yet, in spite of EXTENSIVE search efforts.

But people routinely buy insurance, and it's considered a right and moral thing to do. Though the math is exactly the same as with the lottery. Statistically, odds are unfavorable.…

For example, in some cases (I won't specify for the fear of being cancelled) your chance of becoming rich by your skills is exactly zero, and you know it. Chance of winning the lot…

What's the big difference for a driver? It's still the same time, same gas and miles put on the car. True, the food won't throw up in his car, but he should get out of the car to p…

How is that in the US there are always monopolies everywhere? Where I live, there are at least 10 different car sharing apps, and there is an app that lets you see which app offers…

If delivery costs the same as an average Uber ride, say, $10, it makes every order under $100 unprofitable. An average food order is way below that, I think. So the math doesn't ad…

Confirm that. A lot of spam and SEO recently.

Truth is only important to us as long as it contributes positively to our well-being. This sort of mushrooms is edible and this one is poisonous - everyone would agree on that. As …

Testing arose with the advent of PHP and JavaScript. Because compilers check nothing in these languages, testing must be written separately, otherwise it's impossible to make even …

I don't know about Linux Kernel, but in 99% of projects, 99% of commit messages are write-only.

But what if Alice is right and silent majority is wrong? I would say silent majority is mostly wrong in recent times.

confounding variables can't be quickly and cheaply measured, that's what IQ is - measuring all the confounding variables.