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It wasn't shot down due to politics. It was shot down because it solved the wrong problem.

Was it really Microsoft or was it Mojang? There were two account transitions, and in my experience, most customers use Microsofts name, but are complaining about the first (Mojang,…

Yeah. And when you don't configure your TLS certificate correctly, people can't connect to your webpage. The anti-email authenticity standards gang has always smelled like the anti…

> No, the democratic electoral base is consistently and loudly complaining that after the primaries, most democrat candidates become moderates in the general election Actually, abo…

Enough to convince a jury of their peers.

? He moved them because his wife asked him to, because his wife didn't want the police to find them, because they spoke to her motive. So it would have obstructed the investigation…

In this case, the roommate conspired to setup an ambush of police officers, an ambush which resulted in one of the police officers being shot in the neck. The roommate didn't "atte…

It's a crime to deliberately conceal another crime, whether you do it by raking leaves, deleting Internet posts, or setting your car on fire. It's called accessory after the fact.

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Being aware that he was moving the zines to obstruct a federal felony investigation is surely relevant. Intent is an important aspect of crime.

Yes, you ban some legitimate customers with v4. But the span between the smallest allocations and biggest allocations is much smaller, so simple strategies (like banning the bad ad…

It's difficult for servers to know how big client allocations are. With v4, pretty much everybody got /32s, but with v6, sizes vary. So you've got to start with small bans, and the…

It's not possible, technically, to run effective anti-cheat server-side. Clients need precise enemy location data for things like sound effects. The server can't tell if the client…

Did you restore Internet Explorer from Windows 7? It seems uncontroversial that the state of web browsers is improved since Win 7

> What people realy want: as little OS as possible to let them run just the things on their computer they want to run. The truth is - it's more complicated than that. People want t…

> I recently got locked out of my machine because logging in with the mandatory Microsoft account-backed primary user of my machine didn't work anymore. It said I was offline and I…

> when you look at the whole of human political history When you look at the whole of human political history, the vast majority of politican systems have been authoritarian. Anybo…

You'd be better off if you stopped seeing groups of tens of millions of people as enemies. That sort of thinking is how genocides start.

You forgot to include an argument in your comment. I cited specific positive impacts (tax revenue) but you just talked about negative impact in the abstract, without citing anythin…

Why? Datacenters have smaller effects on neighbors than other industries. No runoff like farming, no pollution like factories

One out of three. Datacenters use small land and water compared to just about any other industry. The power consumption is significant.

The French are just arrogant enough to believe themselves major players on the world stage.

You're right about the values disconnect. In America, we believe in democracy and individual rights. In Europe, y'all still have kings and queens and authoritarian governments.

In 2025, USA GDP grew by 2.0%. In 2025, EU GDP grew by 1.5%. Government spending (a proxy for government power) is a fraction of GDP, usually between 10% of GDP and 30% of GDP. So,…

If Europe didn't have America as an ally, Europe wouldn't exist in 50 years.