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If anything he should have been fired from Mozilla for that reason

>Why is it fair to block ads, but unfair to block visitors? Go ahead and do it. You will quickly find out how much your quality content is really worth.

> In more provincial regions and even just much of Europe lots of forms have to be filled out and printed. This is changing quickly with the covid pandemic. One of its silver linin…

Why choose between Makefiles and Python when you can have both? [0] [0] https://snakemake.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

This is probably the time to plug this wonderful extension [0] that directly warns you, whenever a link to a scholarly article is posted, that said article has had comments on its …

Leaving aside the usual quip about HN being an endless source of entertainment when it comes to attempting to comprehend basic concepts in biology that they weren't taught in high …

>Among other things, because of a dead-simple user experience that lets even grandpa post content after a few clicks. Federation, if it adds any level of complexity past the grandp…

It does fix the issue of censorship, in that 'blacklisted' instances can still have a world of their own and use the technology or protocol. No amount of technology is going to fix…

As multiple commenters have said already you should get acquainted with the concept of median (as opposed to mean ).

>Its to the point that the 50 million americans in horrid proverty are richer than the middle class in countries like spain, italy, greece Lol do people really believe that?

What I mean is that most Europeans are fine, comparatively to Americans, and don't actually need to let tech giants intrude every aspect of their lives for the sake of growing thei…

GDP per capita doesn't nearly tell the story: 1. Much of the gap is due to former Eastern-bloc countries 2. 50 million of Americans live in horrid poverty I guess it's hard to get …

I find it very amusing to see miffed people crawling out of the woodwork to reply to your jest about 4chan because it's a constant reminder that a huge chunk of HN is being very ci…

>This is usually the point that someone handwaves that having more money and more people makes you less capable than Scotland... No a rebuttal on HN will usually be on the lines of…

Ah, the suckless philosophy - making everything as terse, austere and featureless as possible in the name of 'simplicity'. It's a wonder so few people want to adopt it. To get a fu…

5% is pocket money. By the time the get sued, lose, appeal, lose the appeal, etc. they'll have made that money many times over. At this scale fines are just the cost of doing busin…

Ah, this is what exclusive by design really means.

I mean, Send was probably the non-browser product that was useful and solved a problem its users have (sendingfiles.xkcd), and of course they had to axe it. Meanwhile I still have …

The two-language problem is well-known. People wanted performance, which is reserved to languages like C, C++ or Java, but they didn't want to use these languages, since they are o…