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Are you implying that registering firearms and background checks don't benefit anyone and only undermine republicans?

Zachtronics leaving game development is such a blow to the industry. Zach is directly and indirectly responsible for a lot of games we see today. His game Infiniminer was a major i…

Headline seems unnecessarily inflammatory. Putting aside the decision of whether or not they should've paid, what else were they going to pay with?

Is it? I see one side blaming Biden and the other side blaming corporations but neither side is saying we need better public transit.

> You can tax air travel to encourage travel by other means where applicable. This would never happen in America because it would require Americans addressing their views on transi…

Wonder how this affects MozillaVPN subscriptions.

I think a better way to phrase what the parent is saying is that Leetcode is not software engineering. You can be awful at solving leetcodes and still be a great software engineer.…

You can't just make a claim without any evidence and then say "well it doesn't matter if they actually do it or not"

You're gonna have to explain this to me because I don't get this quote.

As someone considering starting a casual blog, I would not use an editor and defintiely not editors. Seems like a weird gate to keep.

https://commodore.inc/ This is the company and I do not see them selling any retro PCs. They sell an Android tablet that is almost certaintly a chinese knock off and some "retro-in…

> Network directly with engineers where they spend time online Where would that be? I wouldn't recommend HN for networking purposes.

I'm not big in the audio community but I thought LV2 was the open standard for plugins that people are pushing for? That being said if Cockos adopts it into Reaper I'm absolutely w…

I mean of the current tech monopolies(Amazon, Google, etc), Amazon should take priority as the first company among them that needs antitrust lawsuits filed against them and broken …

This is the big one here. Amazon has a completely unrelated market dominate business that lets them enter new markets at a loss until they crush everyone currently in that market. …

This is a well meaning law but it is very important to know that defamation is very broad in Japan unlike the US and can essentially mean "anything that can cause negative reputati…

I've kicked around the idea of starting a blog. It would be for me and me alone. Just a way to help myself work through some thoughts. There is always some sort of anxiety that sto…

I want to believe this is some kind of dry sarcasm but cars don't subsidize pedestrians. If anything, urban walkable, bikable neighborhoods subsidize cars and suburban areas.

> Huge part of his riches came from investing in a company that poisons people with sugar water. This and that are 2 different things. You may disagree with where he invest his mon…

Honestly sounds like an issue with the company. I onboarded remotely and the experience was buttery smooth.

I have this book and have never read it. I may just wait for the second edition to release at this point

Vermillion is absolutely "Big Oil." They are an oil and gas company that make several billion a year. If you don't consider that "big" I don't know what is.

I worked a 4 day work week at one point. My counterargument to this is that most people aren't productive as they think they are. I feel like most people only actually work half th…