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Was searching for some old email but seems like the site is down.

Why is it uncomfortable? It is the reality, and no one important wants to change it. There are plenty of immigrants working under the table. And there are plenty of employers willi…

If the situation in Italy actually got bad, the EU would suspend Italy's membership or at least many EU rights (such as freedom of movement) very quickly. As usual, everyone likes …

Everyone said this about global surveillance before Snowden and yet. I don't see the value in questioning if this is true or not, rather I think we should assume it's true and act …

Georgia Tech's CS6750 Human-Computer Interaction by Prof. Joyner The lectures are free and the course can also be taken as part of OMSCS. Fantastic course really. It teaches someth…

Could the CTO or some other employee go to Amazon's office to do something like this? I genuinely wonder.

You also see this sentiment with other topics related to hiring, like working 2+ jobs. Somewhat amusing.

>How can a BNPL firm compete with apple offering the same service at no extra charge? Just the disappearance of easy money has crashed their valuations already. Not really relevant…

Regarding Japan, I think the parent comment was referring to the 1980s US-Japan trade war. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaza_Accord

Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela (when you could actually vote) are also federations (and not the only ones). Brazil's population is 210M and Mexico 126M. They all have nationa…

Here's an old thread about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21244440 It's obvious when you the Page Visibility API original editors/authors: https://www.w3.org/TR/page-vi…

Can you expand on what do you mean by "just popped open the kernel"? I'm genuinely interested in this kind of "tribal knowledge" you talk about. Maybe there is something we (those …

Maybe lichess.org?

Being able to get root access to your phone just like you do with a normal computer would also be nice. We are increasingly losing the right to actually control our devices as time…

I am also grateful for PortableApps.com. Along with Scoop and Homebrew, they make using a system without root or admin privileges a really nice experience, in both Windows and Linu…

It would not surprise me if that was the case. I do get that "video paused" popup every once in a while, but I have never seen the looping behavior. If this is happening to you a l…

Thanks for sharing your experience. It is interesting to me that it took 18 months. I was expecting a longer time. In future years we'll probably hear more similar stories from oth…

Working with people who have spent literal decades in this stuff, it is really refreshing to see your perspective. Never heard something so accurate for something this specific on …

Thanks for commenting. My current job involves working (though in a minimal way) with a heavily modified install of Rocked U2 which has its own version control, kind of its own BAS…