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I always wonder, who are the developers doing this? don't they feel bad about going through with these changes or do they fool themselves thinking it's the right thing? is it greed? many oth…

>> speaking (say) Hindi rather than English to eachother. What's the problem? They're not speaking to you and they share another language that's not English. Integration doesn…

The article says it was demolished in the 1700s

These are the pictures from the camera, incredibly beautiful stuff https://science.nasa.gov/gallery/junocam-images/ …

>> It keeps you updated on the status of cell performance and heat through a Bluetooth-connected app why an app? Why not a simple light or error code on device?

What's going on with so many people defending this as if it's actually better for the consumer? It's not, it's enshittification of the car industry, it's wanting to extract mo…

sure, but are there any alternatives? To make data backed decisions you need to measure something, even if not perfect it gives you some sort of relative direction for the things measured. Not perfect…

> EDIT: The democrat brigade is busy downvoting me to deny reality. Poor children! Per the guidelines ( https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ) Please don't post insi…

I don't understand the rush to adopt things if they're not really giving you a boost right now, some people still use vi and hammers, both invented by early humans. Adopting a new tool while…

Or replacing CEOs, investors, bankers? I would have thought those would be easier to replace than creating robots to clean or replacing artists, or even developers. Maybe I am wrong?

Is that actually true? Do we have data for that?

those are interesting links, but it doesn't account for the amount of energy each person consumes in each region. Probably this one is better? it's the share of the electricity from renewabl…

that's alright! a 5% is infinite times better than 0% ;) Will probably not make you a millionaire but it put you in a better position than without it. I'd recommend not getting stressed abou…

It works but relative to the local rates of course. Although you can try and get a remote job for an US company

Have you really ever had to show proof of an offer? That sounds wildly inappropriate, I've never been asked for that and would definitely not comply

That's a bit of a strawman argument, no? The options are not only become a tyrant or let Putin rule the world. There's many and more clever options. I think we can demand much better from th…

ah, I tried to avoid that leap with the "it doesn't matter" but probably didn't come across properly. The point I'm making is that market value reduces the problem to just mon…

that it reduces everything including culture to just one metric, money. Are you a fan of a band? can't go because you got outsold by some rich person that maybe cares or maybe not, it doesn'…

that's addressed in the article. It's the privacy unfriendly solution of venn diagram

It was indeed researched by a combination of countries and institutions

What a shortsighted view. The technology used on this same article was funded by Max Planck (Germany), Sweden and the NIH to a french and a USA scientist. Should those collaborations stop?

> VAT makes it harder for US car company to sell in UK. It reduces number of US jobs making cars. that makes no sense. Assuming the same amount of cars sold, with or without VAT the amount of US jo…

because they already do? https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/ please, stop spreading your weird anti-europe views

Which restrictions and tariffs are these?

Don't know much about that policy but I frequently monitor electricity usage via https://app.electricitymaps.com and Germany has usually the highest carbon intensity electricity in we…

it's not about being a know it all, it's a regulation you can look up. Look here: https://gdpr.eu/cookies/ > Receive users’ consent before you use any cookies except…

why blame the rule and not the people adding tracking and cookies without reason? You don't need those dumb banners if you don't try to cram cookies in everything

> There's no point in me putting the effort to dig them up and share them here for the hundredth time again Went looking through your comments to find those mysterious sources and couldn'…

> UK (while not officially in Europe) You mean the EU. The UK is definitely in Europe