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whatever man. you had a good go at me the other day. you're right I'm wrong, and HN is no longer the place for me

Hahaha this is great. Reminds me of my first suspension from school when I used MS Word hyperlinks to get to all the drives "hidden" by the network admins. This included the homewo…

As pointed out by the most voted top level comment it's a kernel issue.

You did use the word serious enough to make it compelling. But the author’s biography doesn’t mean that his comment wasn’t flippant. He’s proved that an well-behaved, codesigned ap…

This is amusing, but mostly because it’s the Netherlands. I love the country and the people but they don’t even have a level playing field for retail payments. The big stores accep…

Sure. They just developed a new chip, with a new 5nm process, at to drop all the devs off a cliff and hang them out to dry. That will sell units. If they don't work the issues out …

I think Google may have lost some of the ferocity in their loyalists around May 2018, when they removed the "Do no evil" clause from their code of conduct. That was an easy hook on…

The vendor lock-in aspect of the super-vertical integration is definitely one of the more abundant points of complaint I see. I get that it's a controversial choice, and it goes ha…

It's a good question. I don't really have the data science chops to come up with the methodology. I was always a weak statistician... I'm not looking to prove that there is no bias…

One of my favourite Usenet posts is Linus' tirade at Tanenbaum over MINIX.

I agree. My position is that is a company is big enough people will have an opinion, and if there's an opinion to be had there's probably an opposition in there somewhere. I like t…

I think it's apparent that discussions about Apple tend to be noticeably more polarising than similar posts about other Big Tech. I have got myself into some heated exchanges in th…

Whereas the Linux community is renowned for valuing the opinions of a single, self-righteous, abhorrently arrogant “super genius” above those of concerned users, who have zero reco…

Ah but he is different from those iconoclasts because his personal was also his business life and he drove them both into the ground at the same time. You’re right, I am absolutely…

Reminds me of the vehicles in the Daniel Suarez books, Daemon and Freedom.

Would you happen to know any data science? I took a course on R but I never got to use it, but this is actually starting to sound like an interesting project. There's a lot of data…

Very good. You got me. Here you go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9583362 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25238542 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6420048 https://…

How many times can I say: you were wrong; before you understand that I mean you misused the wrong word to make a bad point that isn’t true. Then you jumped down my throat about poi…

Sure I’m privileged because I didn’t grow up dealing with genocide, but neither did most of the population born after 1950. I should not have generalised about the others he helped…

No, I think it’s fucking brilliant that the US gave them the opportunity for a better life in a safer place. I’m furious that he spent 40 years taking that, his family, and his com…

Addicts who recover tend to admit that they are always in recovery, not that they’re healed. Though the religious framework and the 12 step program are very similar. Hopefully he k…

Maybe don't use big words you completely misunderstand in a discussion concerning a complex topic littered with political commentary and obvious bias. Particularly if you are only …

> “you do have it easy” > “you’re very fortunate” So it’s lucky to be an entrepreneur in the US particularly if you immigrate. I think GP was more interested in having opportunitie…