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> There is this anguish to define the "West" as a real entity, while it's not. The West is the Latin Church. From the Latin Church came the Protestants. From that West meant and me…

I was referring mainly to Windows software, Adobe Illustrator and InDesign were major pain points on the Windows side. Sure though, add Linux compatibility to the list of things th…

> (Or is supposed to be?) I would be happy to eat my words "later this year" (per their timeline) but past Surface interactions lead me to believe it will be more of the same as in…

A former employer of mine, owned by a retired NFL player, purchased Surface devices for the sales staff in addition to their laptops. This was presumably because Microsoft and the …

> The ones where they’re going to send brownshirts to intimidate voters in blue states? Any actual evidence this is happening or is going to happen? I've seen some ACLU talking poi…

Except midterm elections are literally this year. But other than that small detail, sure.

Replying authoritatively to a Simpsons quote betrays you.

We're not talking about starting wars versus getting involved in existing conflicts, we're not even talking about right versus wrong, we're talking about Pentagon spending and who …

> That said, there is one party that is consistently hawk-ish and boasts about war spending. And there is another party which most often campaigns on reducing war spending. Maybe i…

It's interesting that you don't think I'm talking about both sides. Rush Limbaugh used to call women he disagreed with feminazis. The "tea party" under Obama used to call everythin…

I don't know how a country filled with guns can survive the normalization of calling people you disagree with Nazi, Fascist, etc. We've all been taught since grade school it was a …

> When democracy and the rule of law are considered less important than (insert all the dem ills here), it’s not dems. It’s the voters. Democracy and rule of law like... covering u…

So unless Forbes investigates literally every social media site and app they aren't allowed to report on one, or else they're jingoistic xenophobes? That poor argument aside, they …

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This article isn't about people being offended at seeing sexual material on TikTok. It's about how TikTok _knew_ that children were being paid in TikTok livestreams to engage is se…

i edited my comment to provide a little more context but just because someone provides reasons doesn’t mean it’s not influenced by the trend. reddit’s trend to dislike tiktok has v…

It’s trendy to hate HN by some on Twitter. *edit to provide context. this isn’t unique to twitter/hn. it’s trendy on reddit to hate tiktok and instagram. it’s trendy on 4chan to ha…

Do you really think triactual meant literally probably none, or do you think they were using a pretty common method of conveying their idea? Your comment actually supports what kay…

> Richard M. Stallman recently announced that he will be returning to the board of directors of the Free Software Foundation (FSF), a statement that the FSF has not denied He's lis…

I'll try to refine the point I was making. For years FreeBSD has explained away their problems by saying "we don't have big business helping us" and then they turn around and say "…

> However, the problem is very simple: vast majority of work done in FreeBSD is being done by unpaid volunteers, unlike in case of RHEL/Fedora/Centos and Ubuntu/Debian. You don't g…

It's not missing from the site. FreeBSD never used GNU tar. FreeBSD used a very small number of GNU utilities. tar, coreutils like ls, cat, etc. where never used. It was mostly thi…

according to FreeBSD's own site, their GPLinBase tracker, you're incorrect. Only a handful of GNU or GPL stuff was ever in base, and your example of 'tar' isn't one of them. https:…

"I employ a materialist analysis of society" translation: I regurgitate Marx's works. "and in which the majority of the people have to sell most of their time simply to have food."…