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The only thing more boring than government work are tired lazy stereotypes accusing government employees of incompetence/lazyness/wastefulness.

Despite your (and many others in this thread) assertion, this is fundamentally new because it hasn't previously been done in political campaigns in any meaningful scale. The mere e…

No, it wouldn't help. The typical scenario is Comcast asking "startup X" for money to allow them to reach you. You wouldn't have to pay more, nor would you necessarily notice: esta…

None of that has anything to do with NN. NN is when you can't get to "Social Media Startup X" because they didn't pay your ISP. You are unlikely to even notice this, because only n…

It's somewhat unlikely that there are X ISPs times Y "established players" = a few hundred contracts at least, without any of those arrangements leaking, nor anything showing up in…

That's not a scenario net neutrality regulation would affect. Larger companies will always have more resources, and with that they will have opportunities to invest in infrastructu…

> A single pipe can only handle so many providers A single pipe can handle only so many customers. I don't see how it limits the number of providers? There actually are countriess …

I believe people arguing "politeness" are missing the point, though. What I most value is "dialectics" (not sure if that term is commonly used in English). I. e. the willingness to…

It would have been impossible for Greece's GDP to drop by that amount (in absolute terms) before it joined the EU. Because it quadrupled after joining. Here, check out this graph, …

People in this thread seem to mostly not even consider the value that the ability to (sometimes) speak privately has. As an analogy: would you want your spouse (and vice versa) to …

Oh, that old chestnut. The believe that other countries are bound by what you promised local voters. I'd quip that politicians making that argument could just as well legislate for…

That's an extremely one-sided point-of-view. The net effect of the whole saga was Greece getting to spend a lot of money in the 90s and 2000s, and the stronger countries of the Eur…

Please don't use "third-world" as a generic insult for countries. Even the wrong-yet-common definition of "poor" doesn't fit here, because internet censorship isn't a function of w…

Just look at the ugly violence of nationalistic hatred currently gripping, oh I don't know.. let's say India ? If that's too much recursion, consider the World War I and II (among …

I'm starting to believe this meme was really concocted by some of those "big companies". It's quite brilliant, actually: using the public's hatred of big corporation to actively pr…

> established multinational corporations > money being extracted from local economies > the coffers of the ultra-rich For someone complaining about "environmental debt", a term I h…

A union is run rather democratically. It will tend to reflect the attitudes of its membership, i. e. your coworkers. In some old industry on a downward slope, employees will tend t…

So I guess we should take the overwhelming majority in this threat rejecting the idea of democratizing private companies, and the at least skeptical attitude towards unions as indi…

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Not if there's a warrant out for your arrest, no.

It's sad to see this conspiracy theory being voted to the top. For HN, the only cause more motivating than functional programming seems to be accusing women of lying. With, in this…

Great! I'll just run a forum on "everything chess that isn't trolling, bullying, or flamewars".

Your relationship with both your sister and Apple users seems to mainly consist of condescension. For your sister, there's some added dependency: of course she's eventually gonna f…

i believe OP would, for example, want to start training locally just to check for errors, then do the run somewhere remote. Synchronizing local and remote code shouldn't take much …

How can there still be people writing these yearly "I'm so disappointed" articles. It's the same for every single MacOS release . I bet if I look through the archives here, the las…