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Proving that democracy works. 200 years ago, and in many countries still today, it was 1 person who owned 50% of “lands and titles”. Check out the Queen of England today. She owns.…

Another Canadian who knows next to nothing of how or why its country exists. Also the spoils of war. Only difference is... in the end it wasn’t worth continuing to fight for. What …

Wow. I was on ProtonMail’s website debating wherever to sign up for them or someone else. Decision made after reading this. First, everyone techie enough to play Fortnite or consid…

Tech company employees whining about the actions of their company, no matter the aisle side, should be fired. Plain and simple. You’re at work to work. So get to it. Stop being chi…

This is absolutely no different than someone running out of space on a hard drive and then calling it a “storage glitch” because the talent-less drones who work in govt get to avoi…

Oh please. Name three suitcase companies. Quick. Samsonite, American something... (traveler??), and.... a bunch of bit players that don’t have their own stores, commercialized bran…

It’s pretty much just you, pal. But it sounds like you need some perspective. So why wait? Go now. Consider how US-centric your worldview is already. You make the assumption that e…

I honestly wish HackerNews would just eliminate certain sources of links. Medium and YouTube would be a great start. Or at least make it that if someone on HN doesn’t have a karma …

The first problem on LinkedIn is that many people have to be on it to earn a living or show their team spirit for work. If we could all find employment and network without LinkedIn…

As previously mentioned, the library. The argument that one has to wait sometimes is superfluous. Anyone saying such a thing isn’t a regular library user. Whatever is popular for t…

Hard to see how apps like this exist. The author seems to enjoy writing about his app as much as creating technology that exists already, and has for decades. For $7/mo, you can ha…

Whatever the intent of Goodreads initially, once Amazon bought it, it became a subtle funnel to drive sales of books, ideally through Amazon. While there are options there for libr…

A forum is not anything like social media. People think that any internet site where UGC is posible is social media? Not. HN, for instance, is not based on finding friends, creatin…

It seems to me that the whole threat of being doxxed relies on two things: (1) that you’ve done something in one sphere of life that would be reprehensible (and maybe actionable) t…

Unrelated to this article about ‘dark’ restaurant bulk delivery, I often think that wouldn’t my neighborhoods be oh-so-much quieter and less smoggy if UPS, FedEx, and USPS only del…

Darn. I’ve been saving all these diamonds for nothing. Next they’ll be telling me that my gold collection won’t solve world peace. Science!!

This story is about as dull and naive as a 14-year old girl writing in her journal saying if she isn’t married to the boy of her dreams by 19, then there is nothing else worth livi…

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I don’t know how these things wind up on Hacker News, but I oddly appreciate the break from things like “Use Vim to wash your clothes”. 1. There are websites to foster fears of war…