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Money in your account does not in any way inconvenience you in the way that a car parked in your driveway does.

By that logic, very app should be designated “a counterintelligence threat”

There are exactly one-and-a-half points of his bio in the text (one being cut off halfway). The rest is a list of relatives. If that doesn't imply a judgement based on his relative…

By that logic everyone and everything is corrupt, monitored, etc. Including the hardware you might install your own VPN node on, all messenger apps, all phone lines, the mail, and …

As others pointed out, this is break-ins, not cars being stolen. Typical cost of a break-in is one window. I have no idea how much that costs, but let's say $1000, which is probabl…

Are you seriously judging someone by their great-great-uncle's book? And why are you including a relative being a Appeals Court judge, and an independent journalist? Is "independen…

How long do US citizen stay with a single healthcare provider (/insurance)? If, say, only 50% are still with the same provider at age 50 as they were at age 30, there is a discount…

The $1.1 billion isn't profit. They're selling an asset (the .org rights). That transaction should be entirely neutral in terms of profit/loss.

Sleep could also just be a low-energy mode for times that are (used to be) unproductive, i. e. darkness.

I believe they may be referring to the idea that not everything is consumed in the year it’s produced. Infrastructure, for example, is useful years or even decades after it is buil…

I do hope the “barely-human underclass” is supposed to be a characterization of the government’s beliefs, and not your own.

I’ve seen that error in just about any discussion of charitable giving, including on HN. I doubt it’s due to a lack of knowledge/skills, because these people would tend to give awa…

So you left Twitter 5+ years ago expecting them to soon fail, and you feel vindicated by the very-much-still-existing Twitter of today purging some accounts?

Building roads, writing traffic rules or enforcing them just isn't amendable to optimisation using your preferred mechanism of free-market economics. Or, more accurately: competiti…

Private prisons seem to be a good counterexample here. Not only does the profit motive lead to inhumane conditions and perverse corruption, such as the Chicago(?) judge getting a k…

I learnt far too much chess theory trying to take the king with a pawn, which was the last animation I had not seen. IIRC they grab the crown with their pike and it somehow ends up…

No, the premise of Brave is that there can never be enough middlemen scalping some money off creators.

> Is it a coincidence that this got fixed just weeks before Chromium-based Edge is due to be released? The Venn-diagram of people that care about this bug and care about the new Ed…

It's commendable that the author counteracts the tendency towards cynicism with the occasional rebuttal, although to fully embrace the spirit of kindness, I would maybe skip the Di…

> Maybe, if somehow they had no choice but their "phased roll-out It seems intuitively obvious, not "maybe, somehow", that bringing medical treatment to thousands of rural communit…

"Vapours" actually were a major thing in medical research once, cured by bloodletting and mercury IIRC. There are all sort of models still widely believed today. Some are unassaila…

> Same sentiment for Saudi investors? Same for Israeli? "Yes" & "Possibly, but being open to investor' individual behaviour to supersede their country's" See: it's not that difficu…

I interpreted OP to be referring to a different elephant, in another, oddly-shaped, room. ..but your feat of childish defensiveness applies either way.