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Pretty normal margin in some kinds of businesses, like supermarkets. Then again, supermarkets aren’t likely to see all their customers leave at the drop of a hat.

This is why there have been Prius taxis that were in service for 1 million km.

Extracting value from the market as they do it and leaving everyone operating at normal time/capital scales with less. Or isn’t that what you meant?

You are forgetting that tenured researchers often need lots of PhD students to actually do their research. So that ratio of 8 PhDs to a tenured researchers could actually be pretty…

I know it’s not popular to bring politics into things on HN, but… From the outside at least, White House policy sounds like at least as much of a black swan event as COVID.

I realize very well the problems of following this line of thought. But clearly populism combined with propaganda isn’t working out either in a number of countries. Should we just …

Some people mainly come to political positions for emotional reasons rather than substantive ones. These people are generally easy to reach for populists and propagandists. Many of…

It’s just not as black-and-white as you say. Propaganda is doing a lot of harm to democracy and freedom in my country and the EU on a daily basis. Should we invest in education (th…

Interesting point. There’s wide acceptance of commercial censorship, but censorship for the common good (rightfully) feels like a slippery slope. But are they actually so different…

I’m against propaganda that seeks to actively undermine freedom and democracy in my country and the rest of the EU. Is that so strange?

I would be in favor of limiting these channels, because I agree with you it seems necessary. But it’s also something to be quite careful with, I feel. I think the current shift in …

Because it’s turning out that too many people are susceptible to (this specific, but also other) propaganda.

You’re right. I guess I am. I’m pretty happy RT is blocked.

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Anything touching disk, such as reading a bunch of source files is just so much slower on windows right now. From what I hear it improves a little if you actually go through the Li…

Honestly? I think we can do without these predatory practices even at the cost of some games. And I somehow doubt there’s revenue to make off these single player games being online…

Sure, but it works on all pc platforms and the runtime is pretty light and can be pretty easily circumvented from what I’ve heard. Of course it will never be as easy as having a si…

They don't. They push you down the search results through SEO and link-farming on their giant web empire.

And there are actually more flavors of democracy that have been used to break this death spiral: - ostracism, where the people voted to ban a person who was too mighty or dangerous…

At 20mph in a well-designed street, there’s still a lot of opportunity for people to keep themselves safe. Not so much with guns. On badly designed streets and with bad and/or spee…

Also called freedom from consequences. Free speech makes sense in a free society, freedom from consequences does not. Yet that's what they're calling for.

And Australian law doesn't quite offer the same protections as GDPR. In fact, being a Five Eyes country, it's effectively the opposite.

I feel this, particularly as a parent. It's difficulty watching your kids get lost in the algorithm. We regularly discuss this with them and they agree with our perceived harm, but…

Denmark has a population of 5.8 million and currently produces enough to feed 15 million. There’s no need for imports because of 15% less farmland. Besides, all this export only co…

> also of note is to notice how many languages lack good support in standard library and therefore require much more code to be needed. That’s fine for web oriented languages. But …