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* [...]Could Have Saved[...] Cannot Now Save. Unions get power when labor is at its strongest, not when labor is at its weakest. When tech labor was at its strongest, it became super-libertarian, star…

I think they're saying that's exactly what you're buying for 3€/yd.

I miss when people used to hide emotional fragility, and not publicly brag about being physically and emotionally devastated by an HN comment.

> It's a blog post. It was written. The person you're replying to is saying that it wasn't written. If you are the author, I will believe you that it was. If you are not the author…

There was a burst of improvements over the year after Musk bought it, then it stagnated. The Hasbara bots are drowning every conversation about any subject. I'm sick of hearing about Mamdani or r…

You can't be implying that twitter's UI suddenly became shit when Musk bought it. It had become the worst popular site on the web years before.

That's what they tell us, but for some reason software still looks just as bad or worse than it ever has.

> but because of the "hurr durr" connotations I have no idea why you think this. You might be terminally online. Hurd is just like "herd" because it's a microkernel, and hu…

The throbber was the beginning of developers gaslighting users. It began as an indicator during long loads that your system hadn't frozen (because whatever process was running had to update it), …

No, what they're referring to as a GNU/Linux is in fact GNU Hurd.

God willing

OpenAI settles claims of discrimination for 25¢ and a half empty pack of gum.

> Require stores and publishers to use language that reflects the nature of the transaction. After this law is made and they change the word without changing anything else, that won't save the…

> The problem is that the technology [1] to do this simply doesn't exist. The technology is tort law.

I feel like the only important point in the article would be to explain how the random data was generated, yet it was relegated to the single sentence: "There was no bias in the coding that would…

That rent is simply a tax (tribute) paid from people (peasants) to property owners (lords.) It's why people who own capital are the wealthiest that they've ever been in history despite produ…

I programmed this way my first year of community college because I didn't have a computer. I'd retype all of my work in the computer lab.

Yours is a controversial view. It is lazy and selfish to try to get other people to explain their case that it is not exclusively that, when saying that it is exclusively that is the weaker case, and …

What is government giving money to foundations that donate to other foundations that in turn lobby the government but money laundering? Or worse, government giving favorable regulatory decisions to co…

I don't buy this a bit. Pirates weren't holding back until they got really upset about something. There will be absolutely no punishment for this change, because it is a minor change for the…

It is absolute garbage. I don't let sites set cookies (unless there's a session, or I'm forced to temporarily because of the new anti-scraping regime), and while Google lets me load or …

Yes, it's disgusting that the people who show up to meetings match the demographics of the neighborhood. Why aren't there more rich immigrants and purple-haired bearded programmers who moved…

YIMBYs specialize in pretending to be black and in gentrifying black people out of their homes.

> No. What's the purpose of this? You didn't disagree, you just went on a tangent. Is this another "brain hack?" If so, there is something wrong with them. They often make words…

I spent a little time unsuccessfully looking for a reference, but in some ancient Greek and early Roman governments, newly elected officials who were in charge of money were required to personally ind…

Sounds like it has been disabled, which is exactly what was said.

> They don't care to understand what they're allowing If you told normal people that they could get free content with a TV streaming stick that would also constantly fake clicks on AI gen…

Why would it be different for a robot?

> You'd have a hard time convincing most American families to purchase anything with a >$1000 price tag. They all have cars. Turns out you can finance things, and turn them into forever deb…

The heads of tech companies in the US are no less embedded in government than the heads of tech companies in China.