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you can be very much liable if you publish something damaging and false on YouTube

> After WWII Ukraine made a verbal agreement not to join NATO/EU Thanks for reminding why I try to stay away from [geo]politics/military opinions on hacker news.

I personally can't speak to SV tech company. However I worked in msft and difference is staggering, it's two completely different universes. >> ([..] most businesses these days) ar…

Worked in several banks. "We are not bank, we are tech company with bank department" - was mentioned occasionally in each of them. What was also common - red tape, outdated softwar…

So much this. Things I need my OS to do are: run my apps (office/browser/games), connect my devices (printers/game controllers/displays), basic file operations (copy/paste/delete) …

I remember when Compiz was released. It was mind-blowing, its sheer awesomeness was something out of this world. "ok, Windows is done" me and my friends thought, "prepare for linux…

not sure how web3 would solve any of that

In practice it's also very likely that customer mind boggling amount of bureaucracy, allocating extra penny might require approval from several committees.

As a person who grew up in farmer's family (and who's parents are still farmers) I can attest that that kind of life is way tougher than being office worker in a city .

Yeah, approximately 10 minutes for me to pass driving test (from second attempt). And then around a year of driving (effectively training myself) in city to get more or less comfor…

Can't recall when it was the last time I played game with no internationalization support

Async/await were officially added to c# 5 and .net framework 4.5 I think it was possible to have async/await in .net framework 4.0 via some workarounds when it was still in CTP mod…

Ok, good points

Compared to lives lost $100 is not expensive at all. But sure, let's forget about morals for a second (lives lost and all that) and be very cold and cynical about the pricing. Stil…

Planes are not that expensive

This probably eliminates this whole "bitcoin is privacy and independence from government" thing but I think for majority of bitcoin buyers it was not more than just a nice talking …

Nothing bad with creating fun stuff for profit. And over the last decade youtube creators has been providing content with quality way superior compared to what more traditional ent…

Hi, Hope you're doing well. Wanna grab a drink?

oh yeah, IRS, they still owe me $3k. Thanks for the reminder :)

I went to hospital and they assured me my procedure was covered by insurance and I wouldn't need to worry about that and in worst case scenario insurance would contact me. Couple o…

>> They said that instead of paying $500 upfront for heated seats, they will be available as an annual unlock for say $100/year. Since they know an average owner keeps a new BMW fo…

I'm not sure what the problem is. Isn't extracting more money the point of basically every company? Over the course of last 7 years living in NY I paid for rentals + uber + taxis w…

I actually do hugely appreciate and am amazed by technical side of Bitcoin. Yet what Bitcoin became as a whole appalls me. e.g. one can be amazed by nuclear physics yet dislike nuc…

Am I correct to assume that this is Bargaining stage of grief?

I for one drink two bottles of wine while playing some slowly paced video game every Sunday night in anticipation of great new week in my hellscape of a project.