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....are you being dense on purpose? Just because something takes time and effort to learn doesn't mean it was monopolised and undemocratised lol. It's the natural course of things,…

>when I didn't know how to code ....so your only option was to just learn? learn from the freely & vastly available resources? Oh the horrifying tragedy. How elitist. How gatekeepi…

I'm a 30 year old and I have a similar experience. Facebook has almost always been a pleasant experience for me - not just updates from friends but also the new stuff that comes in…

My blood always boils a little whenever I read about Netflix's "Not second-screen enough" business model. What shitty point we've enshittified to, where we prioritise passive slop …

>misconfigurations and networking fuckups that existed since Internet became more complex than 3 routers. Yet there has been an uptick in frequency of outages only in the recent fe…

Your priority (in this comment atleast) is about the finger-pointing, while the parent's priority is wanting a fix to the issue at hand.

Then you should take a better look. Each local ISP has their own self-designated territory or "area". They don't let any other ISPs establish themselves in their areas, beating the…

Nope, not at all. Not only are most of these features unavailable, getting anything "business-related" done (apart from the template they offer you) is a huge pain.

I shifted to Telegram a few years ago, and it was such a rich experience for me. Off the top of my head: - much much better performance - a good desktop client - open source messag…

I think that's surprising... why wouldn't you consider it a scam? Hell, even a malware? Honey does the following: - Stealing the commission from an affiliate link assigned to someo…

I agree. That is quite painful and is obviously motivated to force people towards premium, which I highly disagree with. I think such actions should be regulated though I don't kno…

I use revanced, smarttube, and yt-dlp. but I also have premium, because it is an exceptional service. It's about 2 things 1. the principle. You get something, you pay for it. 2. th…

>Also, IGNORE anything on Twitter, Reddit, or HN (ironic ik). The lesswrong/credibledefense/zeihan types are all idiots ime. Using an "objective" tone doesn't make rubbish "objecti…

HN and in general the software community has a hate-boner for Microsoft, it is almost tradition at this poin. While the hate is valid in many cases, I've observed that the cribbing…

Appreciate your thoughtful comment here. I only had an urge to post a biting reply

>It feels weird how certain internet users (especially because most people on HN only started hearing about Irrawaddy after using junk subreddits like CredibleDefense or WorldNews)…

I think you maybe taking it in the wrong context. There was a hype for discord about 5 years ago for EVERYTHING - discord servers were made for every little thing and there was lit…

>Sure, we've all studied the Mexican-American war (1846-1848) and Cambodia, Iraq, Vietnam, Cuba, and 50 other known instances with more than a few of them in this decade itself. Gi…

>This only makes the current war that started in 2014 even dumber Not sure about this. US had been meddling with Russia using Ukraine as base, and the 2014 ousting of the Ukraine P…

>So much of talent is just really caring about something specific. Caring about it above other things This is a really nice statement. Definitely agree with it. I've often seen so …

I think it has to do with the desire to consume organic content. We're currently live in an SEO-optimised hell where everything is monetized. Years of wading through this swill has…

investors are simply off-setting the losses to the next investor they sell to. Musk brand is still valuable and his bubble keeps growing. It is only the investors present when the …

>don't give me Big Oil bullshit. I told enough of them my mind and my peers did to which is why we have a renewables boom now Could you clarify here? Are you saying that Big Oil ha…

Can confirm - have been saying EVs much more on the roads in the last 2 years. EVs have a green license plate here, and traffic is becoming more and more of a equally green-white g…