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Looks like the world has come full circle - from China analysing how capitalism worked in the USA and adapting many of its processes, to the US now adapting Chinese practices of using government influ…

Exactly. But clearly we - people who are cost conscious about getting their money's worth - aren't the target market for these "niche" devices. Which is sad, as there is a real mar…

Smartphones are also available for $100 today! And it doesn't even have a "premium" look - not even a metallic body.

Yeah, ffmpeg is a pretty successful open source project to now give credit to just one man. I remember the times when AviDemux had a much faster / better H.264 encoder implementation than ffmpeg.…

$500??

There is no "$300 billion fund" or "peace treaty" - these are all "carrots" being dangled to entice Iran. What we know for sure: 1. An MoU has been signed by both sides e…

It is fair to say that the approach I have suggested wouldn't generate as much revenue as force-bundling something to every user of Firefox. But it would generate revenue. Diversification is real…

Or you can just use PaleMoon browser ( https://www.palemoon.org/ ) and install the original Flash player plug-in in it.…

Those downvoting you have no idea of what you are talking about. Flash was what truly brought multimedia to the internet. You could make complex vector animations so easily in it, and it would only …

Sold or outsourced?

Thank you for engaging politely and reasonably in discussing this. My complaint wasn't about AI ... it is about force-bundling whatever this-will-make-us-money-feature or we-think-its-a-great-f…

Yes, I should have added it is harder now because it now requires "constant vigilance" - receiving mail is easy and fine and dandy, it's the delivery part that has now become a real pa…

I was explaining why stopping the circulation of harmful substances, like Heroin, do require government intervention and that parents alone cannot fight it. Your conflation that such drugs are equival…

Why was the full title cut - China’s universities cut 12,000 ‘obsolete’ degrees amid race to embrace AI era - even though it meets HN title character limits?

Oh ok. I agree with you from that perspective - phone are indeed a distraction and should be banned in school. I do find that whole debate strange though because in India, schools (not government) hav…

Perhaps it may surprise you to know that's exactly how it works in some democratic countries - e.g. India and Japan - as the system does provide some leeway to the police on how they extract info…

Do you really believe parents can realistically protect their wards from getting hooked to any harmful, addictive drugs? How will they ever know if their kids are experimenting with these drugs? The p…

I too don't like all this "age-verification" approach, but how does banning phones in school prevent kids / teens from using social media?

> The internet I grew up on was all about freedom and resisting the police state. I grew up on that internet too (the freedom part). Do you really believe it is the same internet now? Gone are th…

Russia Today has some details on the operations of these firms: - Wired for War: Why is the EU ignoring the Israeli cyber threat? - https://www.rt.com/news/639159-israel-spies-e…

Not an American here, but I too never knew the skull and bones symbol is somehow associated with the Nazis. So I would disagree that it is "extremely well known".

So what? Russians are good programmers.

Don't entirely agree that a local Taxi service is necessarily costlier than Uber. In my indian city, Uber and Ola cannot compete (and have been nearly wiped out) because a local Taxi service (tha…

What's new is that this isn't "dbdiagram" - it's good to have alternatives and even competing products.

Older Firefox extension feature-sets were quite powerful before Google financially coerced / induced them to support the kind of crippled version that is today's "Web Extensions". …

Agreed. For some reasons, the powers to be (Google?) didn't want someone who was independent (not be "guided" by Google), understood the core product technically and from an actual user…

That is true - Firefox is definitely held to a higher standard here and elsewhere. They marketed those values to us. So the criticisms, in my opinion, are definitely justified. And no, they aren'…

Anyone can read your email if it passes through their servers - it's the biggest drawback of email as it is unencrypted . So switching email services (or rolling out your own mail servers) isn&#…