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I think it's fair to say even if we adjusted for lower US taxes, higher livings costs, that the Californian worker would be far better ahead still. There is a reason the entire Sil…

From a purely business decision? Sure. But why does Valve support linux and attempt to bridge the gap with steam play if it's only about profit? There are other reasons to support …

Moral of the story is actually to use a VPN regardless of what you do, so you can't be held accountable for someone else's actions or lack of security of IT department of some comp…

Once you get used to Linux updates happening without restarting or freezing your computer, you'll never want to go back. In a world with security updates, updates seemingly every d…

Websites choose to use AMP because it has favourable search results.

Google is trying to monopolize the internet, and they also sell data / ads. So inherently "spending more time in google ecosystem" leads to inherent value.

Isn't Netherlands in the nine eyes? EDIT: "We will never share your personal information with any third party, except when we need to respond to a legal request from Dutch authorit…

> the capital gains which is lower, as it should be Why should capital gains be lower?

I don't think censoring facts is ever anything but black and white. The fact that Taiwan exists, Hong Kong exists, Falun Gong, Tibet... These are all real things. There shouldn't e…

The most important and missing information at the start of the article is _why_ the OP had their information posted on the forum, why they were getting sent this package.

FOSS has always been a give and take. You use FOSS every day in your daily life from software on your phone, your computer, maybe even your microwave is using FOSS! No one has to d…

I still firmly believe Reddit is only usable with RES infinite scroll enabled. It's such a joy not having to click the 10px wide "next page" button. Infinite scroll works in a lot …

The article mentions how a very small fraction of adults have jobs, and who are diagnosed with being on the autism spectrum. I wonder how accurate that number is, or how far on the…

> instead of just regulating drug prices domestically The current administration is very anti-regulation, so this would be a bad move. Also, allowing Canadian drugs to enter the co…

It's satire playing on the fact that the entire Node.js ecosystem is built around 1-liner packages that in any other language this would just be code snippets you'd find on stack o…

There is absolutely no way the bad press they're getting is worth saving a measly 3430. HOWEVER, from this 1 point alone (and the thread from last year about the same issue with ki…

This sounds familiar: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18332918 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18340552 "... They’ve also assured me they are making improvements to their…

I feel like you're assuming way too much when the only evidence we have to base YC's rejection is by their rejection email. They clearly wanted MRR and company that moves fast, and…

You might have missed it in the article, but their explanation is really apt. "Therefore, we thought that if we can get first paying users and MRR over the weekend and get back to …

This is moreso "how to start using SDL2". These tutorials exist and are really well thought out here: https://lazyfoo.net/tutorials/SDL/

Tracking the movements of all citizens is not a compromise that ought to be made to keep society safe. This power can and will be abused to target minority groups (closeted LGBT, m…