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Gosh, you're right. How could I be so stupid? I can see now these taxpayer-funded investigations are a massive waste of resources and time. Can you tell the lawyers to drop it? Onc…

Flexibilty would have been my first guess. Are there any other reasons besides flexibility?

Many sellers on Amazon have their own stores, be they brick and mortar and/or website. Amazon in these cases is just a middleman processing sales that the third parties are already…

Your assumption is that Amazon, the middleman, must exist. If Best Buy, a brick and mortar, were anything like Amazon, they would be under investigation as well. Nonsense compariso…

Would the same principle apply to a tech company "privacy policy"? "We can't guarantee that policy has never been violated." Perhaps there is a way to make this guarantee: Do not c…

This article is rather vacuous. At least he should link to the testimony. However, check out this one by the same author: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ep4mx4/yale-antitrust-s…

Why is the Debian-derived system non-booting? Many years ago I had disk error problem and could not boot. I tried a popular, Linux-based "system rescue" CD and it could not boot wi…

You forgot the key word: modern. %s/software/modern &/g In 2020, you are an "engineer" writing "modern" software. Don't forget the "updates"!

The point is not to "escape" complexity, but to manage it. Of course, these type of "I hate the word simple" comments are always besides the point. They could be the whines of frus…

It’s almost as if making something ‘simple’ and ‘lightweight’ doesn’t let you escape the complexity of the real world in which you have to use it.

"If this body is concerned with what we are doing with the laws, it should change those laws based on the best interests of this country and its people;" "however, this body should…

Is this a valid reason for not using Go? I am a holdout. (Not suggesting I am "smarter" than Go users, but I can forsee issues with Go being controlled by Google.)

This is a very typical response on HN in response to articles/blog posts about issues raised by the Google business. When these sort of comments rise to the top of HN threads, I am…

Seems easy enough. What are your requirements exactly? The bookmark would have to be stored somewhere. Some options in order of complexity: 1. In the URL, eg. “example.com/#line123…

I mean, they’ve already had “Sandy Bridge”, literally in English. That’s not much better…

Indeed, I do not mean to suggest that shared computing is necessarily a net negative. Sharing a remotely accessible computer among trusted friends/family has always been an interes…

There are a number of companies focused on making masks in the US. Anyone know the current sales figures? Unless I am mistaken, NZ did not ask (=require) the general public to wear…

He is no Adam Curtis and HN readers probably dislike him^1, but Ken Loach's most recent film (2019) is about delivery services and the "gig economy". It is called "Sorry We Missed …

"Why does FB even have employee medical information and personal finanacial records?" You are assuming that they have this information. However their argument is that the search te…

Would you store the personal data in "the cloud" (i.e., remotely accessible shared computer)

Thanks for posting this! I’ve been enjoing short stories more than I thought after picking up Men Without Women recently. They make for very nice lunchtime reading :D I also apprec…

There is an even easier analysis. If you were designing your own headphones just for your own use, would you have them collect personal data? If your answer is no, then choosing he…

Yeah, that’s what I had looked up as well. Pretty interesting. I don’t think I’ve come across an etymology that went from Gothic to Latin to English, but I’m hardly an expert.

>Listen, we're not the US Postal Service Just forward the letters, man! How hard can it be? I bet they’re looking into every one of them anyway… It’s kind of funny because in many …