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> The value you provide not only has to beat Google, but also Netflix, Bitwarden... It's hard to compare the intrinsic value of all services that cost ~10$. Is the ability to searc…

Prepaid doens't have to mean pay-per-use. It can mean I load up 50€ to my account and you debit 10€ per month until the account balance is less than 10€.

What if what I'm trying to translate is sensitive information in itself?

Isn't racism fundamentally a type of caste/class discrimination? Not as well defined castes like seen in India, but "black people" are discriminated as a result of slavery, "asians…

Any negativity or anger seems to be in the article for purely comedic effect.

> You trading potential tracking by thirdparties with potential tracking by yourself. You're not making any sense. Proxying all requests is the only way to shield you from being tr…

> Another way in which farmers combat soil compaction is by aeration and tilling. The problem is that constantly aerating and tilling the soil is destroying microbiomes and fungal …

If there was any other obvious way to influence google it would instantly be gamed. Both my companies tried to increase their relevance in certain keywords and by competitors repor…

Those already exist. You can simulate things like color blindness, tunnel vision, low contrast vision, and blurred vision, among other effects.

It's not even just that HIV mutates quickly. After the initial attack, it infiltrates the immune memory cells and injects itself into your DNA and lies dormant for a long time, whi…

That's pointless gatekeeping. Having the most expensive pencil doesn't make you draw better. For most professionals in most fields, more than 1080p is a waste of energy.

Good defaults are important. There have been constant legal fights against abuse of defaults for decades now (IE, Chrome, search engines, etc). It's time Apple gets served a lawsui…

Fun fact: the reason why browsers sometimes zoom in on an input is because the input's font size is too small, less than 16px, which is considered not accessible. So it's ironic th…

I'm not an Apple user, but that has been pretty much the role of Apple since ever: dictating what you can and can't do in the name of "good user experience". This decision makes se…

Apple is the only stifling innovation. They own 30% of the smartphone market is the west, so the EU wants them to be regulated as a fair platform where competition can exist. The U…

At this point we need to be able to set our reported location manually on our phones natively. I don't want any number of apps to be able to sneakily collect such data. Android sor…

Version 68 is the last one that supports CPU over-heating when holding down the spacebar, and it's fundamental to some people's workflow in emacs.

There are different brains out there, and they think differently, and understanding that is half way to developing empathy, but also extremely important when developing accessible …

Honestly some great ideas (better antenna, e-ink display for basic SMSing, quick dial, probably huge battery life), but they can't be serious about the rotary dial. > Previously, p…

Imagine a world where Microsoft, Mozilla, Google, Apple were cooperating and building interconnecting blocks of a modern browser since the early 2000s. Instead, MS discontinued Edg…

Not using Google is by itself value added.

The UK playing victim is the reason Brexit happened in the first place. No wonder their residents continue being brainwashed in that sense.

> I’m okay with spending some amount of time If this "some time around" is more than a few, stick to Ubuntu. I wouldn't use a system I just learned to build as my main workstation.…

It's funny because if you go watch the iPhone launch presentation, Jobs was all about the web, and having web apps on your phone. Fast forward and PWA are just recently possible, b…