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I wasn't making a general statement on the American poor (poverty and debt can turn into a vicious cycle, sometimes one has no choice but to borrow and there are complex political factors at pla…

When it comes to smartphones, there are only two practical options - ios and Android - and amongst both, only Android based smartphones are available really cheap (there are Android smartphones that …

Another "non-profit" organisation, like Mozilla, that is swimming in 100's of millions of dollars, but doesn't put it to use effectively.

I have come to the realisation that it just makes more sense to buy repairable / upgradeable electronics / computers and cars, used. You save a lot of money that way, and the second-sales ma…

Or, they can still pay the $400 and try to resell it for higher. And then buy a cheaper Android when they finally realise being in debt for making a fashion statement is stupid.

If everyone was as rational as you, Americans wouldn't be living in debt that most cannot afford. Most Indians have a healthy fear of debt, and that is why the iPhone doesn't have a larger s…

Is this true of the UK too?

God, imagine being trapped in a plane for 24 hours! And I just checked the current flight time between Melbourne, Australia and London, UK, and, even with 1 stop, it's still around 24 hours - ht…

What stand people take, or what people do, depends on how educated they are on the specific issue. Creating awareness is the first step. > overwhelming majority of users are going to install the ap…

I am somewhat confused - does this mean we can all now legally scrape Google search results?

By "understand", I was not alluding to their political leanings. What I was implying is that some rational comments can still lead to inflamed / emotional discussions (which is against …

Direct source - https://turntrout.com/why-i-left-google-deepmind This may be controversial (and I will understand if the mods want to remove this comment) but this made me really wond…

See Flag State vs. Port State - https://www.mitags.org/flag-vs-port-state/

> but for these news outlets to spread government propaganda would constitute corruption. You would think so, but that isn't the reality because journalistic "corruption" is judged…

I should have been clear it is from 2019 - just providing more history here. The US was already aware what Iran could militarily do in the Strait many years ago.

Yes, this is a no brainer. Whenever someone accesses NetFlix on a Firefox with no EME, just display a page which has a short description explaining why Firefox doesn't support EME ( "EME is …

See also: Tanker attacks in the Gulf — evidence or warmongering? - https://www.dw.com/en/tanker-attacks-in-the-gulf-evidence-or... …

> Explain to me why reading news from the state is a good thing? When you get your news from RT, BBC, France24, DW, PressTV, NPR, Gulf News, DD, Al-Jazeera etc. you get "official" poli…

This is fantastic. Now if someone can figure out how to replace Ubuntu with Sailfish OS (a Linux based mobile OS - https://sailfishos.org/info/ ) that would be awesome! The lack …

Dupe - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49024436

Technically the phone isn't wiped - what GrapheneOS apparently does in this case is to delete just the encryption keys (deleting all the files would take too long). So, theoretically, the data ca…

See also - Bahrain Held the Data — Riyadh Held the Vision - https://houseofsaud.com/aws-bahrain-vision-2030-irgc/ …