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As a generality, the winning side's historians write a lot of that kinda stuff.

A title like "Latest winners of the International Obfuscated C Code Contest" might be more useful.

Late-stage capitalism wants sleazy intermediation and get-rich-quick scams. Talk about "honest hard work" is just a tool, for keeping the serfs where they belong.

Google also could eliminate hunger for hundreds of millions of people, reduce spam email from their infra by 95%, and many other nice things. Don't hold your breath.

Okay, cool - measure "bad vs. good" however wish, and shop wherever you want. I'm focused on my own use case, and how bad or good their tech-plus-all-the-rest-of-their-operations is for…

> Ok, load the app and search ... > Go to self-checkout and grab ... Okay, but what if I really don't care about those important-to-you features? Based on Costco's membership numbers, …

Very few people are shopping at Costco for their tech stack. And maybe it's just their talented/experienced/numerous staff, but my in-store experience with their tech is as good as it g…

Yeah. But even when you can, how many bosses might forbid it - because there's already too many arguments over the thermostats, or it's kinda noisy outside, or HR warned 'em of lawsuit…

Nope. Opening windows is very often disallowed - whether socially, or you'd need a hammer, or the space doesn't have windows. Or opening windows would have other downsides - letting in rai…

> That said, there is no question that, in a better society than the one we have, key parts of Amazon’s operation would be retained for offering functions that contribute to the social good. The ca…

> An industry source said at least 60,000 metric tons of gasoline have been dispatched from India to Russia. Another source said that two tankers, with parcels of 30,000 to 40,000 tons each, have…

> Returns per acre are far higher for corn ($604) and soybeans ($544) than for oats ($111). How much of that difference is "natural", and how much is the Federal Gov't spending $bill…

> There are a lot of lessons here, but they start with training every member of the team to be suspicious of people coming from the outside, without badges, no matter what they say or do. Schloss n…

"And that is why God is far less interested in modern mortal affairs than Theists want Him to be." - [source forgotten]

How convenient that Mr. Orwell's patents have all expired, eh? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescreen …

[2021] Originally 2333 points and 392 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26991300

From what I've heard of murine health and life expectancy stats, all those "good medical breakthroughs" aren't actually doing them much good. Vs. there's a whole lotta of mone…

Most humans would prefer hiding in a bunker to burning. And far better to be hiding, than watching and playing a fiddle from atop some convenient high wall. Or plotting how to destroy your fellow alp…

They need to add an apologetic legal disclaimer, about why they can't currently accept job applications from intelligent extraterrestrials.

tl;dr: - barely a wrist-slap Daydream: The Egg Producers' C-suites are shipped off to an exclusive conference facility (sign out front says "ICE Detention Center"), to consult at lengt…

Sadly, no: > Native American Tribes Came Together to Secure Their Rights to Colorado River Water. Four States Are Stalling the Deal.

In many ways, it's a story about far more than just oats. US Ag policy is so, so screwed up. But with more entrenched interests than the US has Congressmen, and probably 10X that number of ful…

Ask a rocket scientist how many up-front tons of CO2 a rocket launch puts into the atmosphere, per pound of will-eventually-reenter satellite mass. This is kinda like how it's "rational"…

To paraphrase Napoleon - because India has the will to do it, and the EU does not.

Might the Evil Overlord List be due for an update?

> an account-takeover problem email doesn't have, for a couple of reasons. > For email, the namespace is large. > As far as I know personal email providers don’t reuse identifiers. Email…

Only if lawmakers and bureaucrats are allowed to bet on legal and regulatory changes destroying the business models of the prediction marketplaces.

It sure doesn't help that New Zealand's housing market is one of the most unaffordable in the world.

"Unobstructed view of the stars" will soon be how space tourism companies upsell their customers to higher orbits.

If you are questioning the gov'ts motives: > His guilt stemmed from the fact that, despite his excellence, “you are obviously someone who is struggling to make the switch from your own skills …