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all valve games are linux native, as are lots of steam releases

Imperator (in English Emperor) was a title specifically invented by Augustus to avoid the title king. It might be roughly translated as "Commander", in a military sense.

At a certain point this kind of stuff becomes unfalsifiable, but the steady erosion of hard won worker rights and laws, as well as wages still fits in pretty nicely with his theori…

the best thing about them is you can constantly schedule large stock sales, and just cancel the ones that don't favour you. Look ma, no inside information.

It needs to be cracked first, which hasn't happened yet.

because ARM was founded as a joint venture that included Apple, its extremely likely they have special terms.

DNS is generally looked up once, on ruleset initalization, there is no way a firewall is going to look up DNS every single time a rule is referenced. Since DNS here is changing con…

Dropbox has nothing to do with open source communities, nor is HN an open source community.

Not sure we agree on a shared reality if you think even literally every single person in Hong Kong owning a gun is going to much of anything stop the CCP.

What does dropbox have to do with "open source communities"

Who says they can't do the job? It would be easy for a tech-knowledgeable scammer to interview at 100 companies, collect 100 pay-cheques and then dissapear.

Valve is a privately held company (owned by its employees) that makes ridiculous amounts of money, has no real incentive to sell, and Gabe Newell has publicly stated many times in …

I'm about 90% sure that reddit is going to pull a twitter and kill off API access so apps like Apollo no longer function.

Considering how many multi billion dollar corporations, investments and entire market sectors have been blown out by easily proven, easily deduced fraud that somehow ends up lastin…

I very much doubt companies are going to pay for your lawyers to sue them with.

I somehow doubt that Microsoft has any pressing need to return profits from the python LSP

Qualcomm effectively has a near-monopoly on the concept of a cellular radio, especially on the high end, so they really don't have to bend for anyone, even a little.

HN is not a free speech platform, nobody, not the users or the moderators, is obligated to give stories exposure.

no automatic blockchain contract can provide you with USD

Was that before or after he hired a PI to investigate said person to see if he could find any dirt to defame him further, after continuing to double down on the pedophile accusatio…

Its ok to not defend bad behaviour from people you otherwise admire.

Musk pretty much waived all contingencies, the contract is public and easily viewed, that's why twitter was willing to agree so quickly in the first place.

Generally speaking governments, unless bound by treaty (and not even then really) are completely free to ignore the results of (most) lawsuits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soverei…

Governments aren't the only people in power in modern America, billionaire (philanthropist or otherwise) hold as much or more power than any politician.

linux absolutely still does this FWIW, its one of the reasons that swap is a net negative.