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Take a moment to consider what you seem to be saying here. You’re essentially pondering if it should be okay for a billionaire industrialist to willingly sacrifice the lives of bet…

As an Aussie I grew up on a healthy diet of US exceptionalism propaganda. At some point I came to the realization that the US is an empire in decline. Now, I’m starting to think th…

Honestly I don’t really understand the end game of disinformation campaigns like this. It’s one thing to spread propaganda in order to influence elections and get a crooked bureauc…

> and also our feelings about Cloudflare attempting to build support in this manner, especially now, during the Corona Virus situation. Weird angle. Unless the RPKI standard is som…

> So logically speaking, if a large portion of their current activity is already essential goods I think the point is many suspect that is not the case. https://thegrio.com/2020/04…

I can only see it like this. Amazon share price and business activity is surging as a direct result of Covid-19. They need to hire 100,000+ workers to meet the demand. However, the…

Aw, shucks. I still haven't gotten around to watching that HBO documentary about Elizabeth Holmes. At this rate maybe they'll have already produced something about the backstory of…

> So any management position is exploitation? Being the boss of any manufacturing business is exploitation? In many peoples opinion (including mine), yes. This can all be considere…

As an Australian pulling my hair out about our domestic policies w.r.t to fossil fuel exports / consumption, let me just say I would take token gestures and virtue signalling over …

I mean, if I woke up and read that 500 million mosquitoes were victim to the Australian wildfires, I might not be so sad either. But then you watch a video showing the charred carc…

Not sure if you've seen the following statement from University of Sydney, but they're standing by the estimate: https://sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2020/01/03/a-stateme... In …

> Can you just shoot these burglars on sight or do they have to be on your private property for that? No idea about the law, but I would hope you value human life more than a stole…

Fun anecdote. I was living/working in San Francisco a couple of years ago. It was 10am on a work day. I was walking towards my office, along Folsom coming from the 101 towards 8th.…

There's a lot of PHP positivity in the comments. I just want to inject some sobering pessimism in here, as someone who has spent the last 6 months using PHP for the $dayjob, and us…

Of course you're entitled to your point of view, but dismissing any other perspective on the matter as "crazy" is, well, itself a little bit crazy ;) Putting aside the contract law…

Conundrums like this make my head spin when I try to consider my position on Internet freedoms. On the one hand I believe the Internet should be a truly personalized, private inter…

I'm just wrapping up the work to migrate my company away from Gitlab to Github and this happens. I did it because I figured Github has to have better reliability / uptime than Gitl…

Kurzgesagt[1] convinced me that space debris will become a real problem if we're not careful. A "Swarm" of fist-sized cubesats whizzing around our planet at a few thousand km/h sou…

You're curious why they're not retiring a film franchise that consistently pulls in hundreds of millions of dollars of profit with every installment? :)

The whole story seems so bizarre. As far as I understand it, some kind of fraudster got caught up in a bunch of his own lies, of which being the inventor of Bitcoin happened to be …

I only have a shallow understanding of the economic forces at play in the energy market. But it seems to be that we're just not going to be able to disrupt the fossil fuel industri…

> 2.b Is the person who wrote the initial version still the main developer? > Our opinion: Developers don't like to inherit code at this stage when apps tend to be big monoliths. I…

I'd like to think the simplest explanation to this recent spate of outages is that all the engineers at each org spent too long reading the HN comment thread on the previous compan…

You're right, I definitely embellished things more than necessary there. I was just done reading that other article on HN frontpage today regarding what looks like gross negligence…