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The sad part is that Speed Queen, while absolutely worth it, costs 2-3x the price of the average pile of junk sold in [Home Depot, Lowes, etc]. Buy once, cry once and a legit example of the boots theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory

Terrible article. Broch's story is a tragedy but one that's tenuously linked to that famous painting. I kept reading waiting for the substance promised by "life imitating art" and all I got was a set decorator's coincidence and a Goethe quote to paper over the gap. Which is kind of ironic because that quote ("you work out what their intention is and it breaks the spell") applies to the article itself: once you see the author struggling to connect Kramskoy's painting to Broch's death, the spell breaks and all you're left with is empty padding.

In my opinion, replacing ads is worse than simply ad-blocking.

Imagine a scenario where a replaced ad actually degraded the website's performance more so than the website's own ads, which is not all that far-fetched, and users end up blaming the website for having crappy ads.

Additionally, what if Google and Mozilla started doing that with their browsers, would you still be okay with it?

No, I don't use NoScript, just uBlock. It seems to be sort of intermittent, as when I pulled it up again, I got the title loaded, but still blank page.

I think all the HN traffic might have crushed the website - I'm getting a blank page and when I refresh it seems to be stuck. Not very encouraging, assuming they're using it to serve their main page.

Yeah, this seemed more like a listing of the operating systems than a comparison.

Thank you, that worked great as it had majority of my library saved in JSON format.

I was also expecting a new GUI shell and used to run GeoShell and Litestep. I got somewhat excited and hoped that there might be a resurgence in the popularity of Windows shells but it seems like that time is gone for good now.

If I recall correctly, the Windows XP release managed to stabilize the Explorer shell quite a bit (compared to Win9x) which in turn decreased the demand for a lightweight, stable and customizable replacements.

But this wouldn't affect Apple as much. By destroying the phone, they're effectively reducing the number of users. If they sold it, the number of iPhone users stays the same. Not to mention that it makes quite a dramatic statement: "I'm so upset, I'd rather lose $xxx dollars than continue passively supporting Apple's policies"

The controls are pretty horrible, especially when using the mouse and the cursor leaves the viewport.

I wouldn't be surprised if they try to sneak in a provision in the Terms of Service prohibiting VPN use.

What if they made the door-to-door delivery a premium subscription that one could opt-in? That could provide some revenue to offset the losses they are posting. If you decided not to get it, your mail goes to the community mailbox.

I don't see what this has to do with iOS7 looking similar to Windows.

See: https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/tu-quoque

It was Amazon's existing customers that requested that the book be published according to the article.

I used to do that all the time (until I grew a beard), but I would only do it after taking a shower. I found that shaving cream just got in the way.

I think it might have been taken down (for whatever reason).

What you have is a plan that provides _up_ to 20Mbps. Since you're most likely a residential customer, there are no service level agreements that you can hold your ISP to.