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You have been perma banned from HN fyi

No, that's charity, which while morally great is not sustainable at scale and in the long run.

Yes giving people with fewer resources an option to pay with their attention is a morally good thing for society, actually.

It's the exact opposite. Advertising-based model is why the poorest people in the poorest countries in the world have had access to the exact same Google search, YouTube and Facebo…

Advertisement is unquestionably a net positive for society and humanity. It's one of the few true positive sum business models where everyone is better off.

Who do you think his 30-40K paying subscriber audience are?

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Very interesting read! One question I have is, since the architecture involves quite a thick client on top of base Chromium, and the client seems to be platform-specific (Swift/OSX…

What did they have you don't?

Well, enjoyment or happiness is tricky to measure because happiness = reality - expectation. So people in the 1820s might've been "happy" enough because they simply didn't know a b…

Well, for a start, it's safe to assume you're not a woman or a minority. And even if you're a young healthy white male, your quality of life would be significantly worse in the 182…

That this even needed to be said on a forum like HN baffles me. I suspect it's a result of decades of mainstream political/cultural doom-and-gloom propaganda.

The median quality of life is MUCH higher today than 100 years ago. And bottom 1%-tile quality of life might be 1000 times better. All thanks to advance in technology and increased…

I'm not exaggerating but this might just be the highest impact library I've seen. As a backend developer who has lots of great project ideas but bail at the thought of having to us…

Thanks! Injecting the data itself is an interesting approach!

Thanks! I really like the idea of the instrumented ExampleKeyValueStore class which can be defined like this: class ExampleKeyValueStore { ExampleKeyValueStore(KeyValueStore wrappe…

Hi, I really enjoyed the piece! How much to test at each layer of abstraction has always been something that's bugged me. This article provides a nice strategy. I still have questi…

What I really find interesting here is that PyTorch, a library maintained by Facebook, is winning the marketshare and mindshare due to clean API, whereas Tensorflow, maintained by …

Considered using Bazel? Perfect for what you described.

The paper literally reaches the opposite conclusion to what you just said. In any case, any sort of price control is bad for the consumer, so I'm opposed to the idea on principle.

I don't have examples of people getting banned by banks/PayPal for legal activities using crypto, no. But that doesn't mean crypto-based solutions can't fill that void in the futur…

First of all, the fact that you completely ignored the first point about perfectly legal "racist", "sexist", "anti-vaxx" behavior being enough to get you banned from PayPal/banks m…

> Are all crimes, right? Banks will take your consumer money (provider management does get more complicated) for gambling and porn these days Not necessarily. For example, PayPal h…

Good. It makes little sense to be a software engineer in Canada in the first place. Can earn double the salary for the same work by moving to the US.