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Cost of living is irrelevant when the cost of certain goods like iPhones, computers, Internet subscriptions and other things is fundamentally determined by strong markets like USA or EU.

Or are you going to tell me that Indians don't deserve to use iPhones, watch Netflix, or learn new skills through online programmes? Because that would be pretty racist, and I don't suppose you consider yourself racist, do you?

Further, the fact some countries earn astronomically high wages means they can, when they retire, take everything with them, into a cheap country like Egypt, India, or Greece, and live like emperors. Is that fair? Especially when hard-working people in India can barely afford vacation in their own country.

"It is okay to pay sub-living national wages to foreigners in other countries because their cost of living is lower"

And I suppose you should also add they must stay there and never come to your country because then your job is at risk?

Like someone else mentioned, this is not a source code issue. I think 90% of the people who got pissed back then thought Microsoft stole the code: get this, they didn't steal anything. One is C++ and the other is C# so it is literally impossible for a license to matter here. This would have been solved only with software patents. But I can very easily guess you're against software patents, aren't you? Or only when they're used by big evil corporations.

I hope next time you put a little thought into things you get outraged about.

Oh, and the cherry on top is you victim-shaming him. "So stupid, he used the wrong license".

You claim to with the good fight but in reality you only want to win Internet battles to enlarge your own ego.

That is a fair take. Public groups and channels I would agree with being monitored, as long as there are court orders and a cooperation with the police.

No.

You forgot one subtle but very important detail.

Personally, I am not even mad about CEOs earning billions. What is however totally unacceptable is how corporations systematically try to lower pay to maximise profits. I am pretty sure you're American and that's why you haven't mentioned it. You probably think making 300 or 400k is normal. But it very much is not. Amazon, Google, Microsoft, open offices in India to hire cheap labour. How many Indians would you say earn above 100k USD would you say? I can tell you none or not many who are in non-management positions. An engineer @ 400k in California may very well earn 40k in India doing the same job.

"But India is cheaper" sure. That's true. But what's your disposable income in San Francisco and New Delhi in those scenarios? I can guarantee you that your disposable income is at least one magnitude higher in SF than ND. Like, rent is expensive, yes. But nobody pays that much so that salary compensates. The real reason why they pay less in India is because they can. No competition. In USA you will never get good engineers if you pay a shitty salary, because engineering salaries are ultra inflated in any company anyway.

I agree with this sentiment. I used to be a Reddit user. With my Reddit account and my Reddit app. I say used, because I too, grew tired of the constant, aggressive, innecessary nagging trying to push me to install the app. I already have the app. Let me just read this short post in peace. I don't want to open it in the app. I want to read it here and now, and then close the browser.

But since they decided that I don't align with their business plan, I had to close my account and stop using Reddit completely.

It is very disappointing but I am not exactly sure why Telegram should be held accountable. I understand Telegram facilitates this behaviour, but I think we should be prosecuting the offenders.

You can also print and mail (physically) revenge porn pictures of your ex-girlfriend to their parents and coworkers. Does that mean your country's postal system should open and inspect every single letter they handle? Not only this is a gross violation of privacy, but this is also logistically unfeasible. UK's Royal Mail would probably have to hire 20 times its current workforce, and they would still face significant delays.

But again, I am 100% for putting the people who share revenge porn in jail. There is no excuse for exposing someone's naked body without their consent to strangers.

I suggest you put your TLDR at the immediate top of the article and not the middle. Good article, I didn't realise this "everything is a file" thing is true also for "folders".

It should be. If your company has a lax attitude to WFH or is even fully remote, then it may even be better than going to the office. I know some extremely high-performance companies that swear by WFH. Like Coinbase, GitLab and a few others out there. You'll hardly have issues in companies like that.

If however your company is a bit more traditional, then you run a risk that, psychologically, your manager think more about the people he sees at the office in person, and less about the people he only sees through video chat. This will hinder your career progress significantly.

In general, a good rule of thumb is: the more your career growth, or potential growth matters to you, the less "wiggle room" you have, and the more you will simply have to accept certain terms and conditions. For example, if you think it is unacceptable for you to attend the office, and your prospective employer wants you at the office at least a few days a week, then it is obvious that you will not be able to choose them, and you'll have to go with another employer that won't place that big of an emphasis on office work. To this end, it is obvious to conclude that your career growth is going to be more limited the more constraints you throw into the equation.

No, Twitter API nowadays is extremely limited and getting an API key is nearly impossible. And even if you do, it lacks functionality. Spaces aren't exposed via API. And also there's a hardcoded request limit.

I believed in Reddit very strongly. I did. And then they started pulling off all these user hostile moves. "This community is better in the app" when I wasn't logged in. I understand why. They need to protect their investors' interests: which is collect as much data as possible. But if what you're doing is introducing friction to your own users then that seems like a clearly stupid move. Then again of course Reddit admins don't know if I'm a user because, after all, I didn't log in. But perhaps I just wanted to check out a specific posts in my phone web view without opening the post in the fucking app?

So I deleted my account. And I don't miss it too much, I never really found actually interesting content on it. On the other hand I've regained so much time that I used to invest in mindless scrolling.

"No codesigning" because JDeploy is codesigned.

What will happen if malware is distributed like this?

I doubt Apple would tolerate such blatant code signature abuse.

Apple restrictions are not ideal but they're there for a reason.

Care to elaborate what you would have expected instead?

Maybe you should have asked him how many friends he has.

When MSN Messenger existed, I pushed hard to get people on XMPP. "It's no problem, there are multiplatform, multiprotocol clients anyway". I had more than 200 contacts on MSN Messenger. Most or all of them, people I met in real life.

On XMPP? Maybe like... 10? Out of which perhaps only 2 I met in real life, and the rest I met on Linux forums. I was really aggressive on getting people to XMPP to the point I eventually closed my account and told people to reach me on XMPP. Nobody gave a fuck, of course they didn't. The world doesn't revolve around me.

Look, we get it. It's sad that corporations are realising they can hold users hostage for profit, but unfortunately that's the tradeoff with ease of use.

Oh, and Discord does so much more than IRC. It has voice chats "well just use Mumble", yeah but... why? Discord already has it. Or desktop sharing "use Jitsi", again, Discord already does it. Or large file sharing "roll your own FTP server", uhhh... no? Discord does it?

And a web UI if you don't want to chat online. And reliable mobile notifications. And two factor authentication. And in-game overlays.

FOSS fanatics struggle to admit commercial tools are so frickin' easy to use. I used to be like that, I understand. And then I got a job :P

"If you don't like surveillance just vote for another party"

Absurd and dangerous simplification of democracy. You will not get anywhere with that kind of thinking.

No.

This is a daft proposition because there is no way in hell (I can guarantee it) that the first Mars colonisation ship will be running an off-the-shelf OS like Windows and a Core i7. No. It will be, from top to bottom, purpose-specific computers and systems tailored exactly for that end.

Further, this is not even about the user. Do you think Microsoft cares about the user? No. If they did, they wouldn't be plastering Windows with ads everywhere. Microsoft, like any other corporation (including Google, Apple or IBM) exist for the sole purpose of extracting monetary value from customers, and generating revenue for stakeholders. It really is that simple.

If you don't want to play the game, you can always build your own Linux distro.

You stink of privilege. I suppose you are probably a highly-paid engineer coming from a very rich country in Europe or maybe the US, where you never had to face economic hardship because your parents were there to help you every step of the way.

What if you can't afford university? There's people literally living in their cars with full-time jobs, you know?

What if you're a good engineer from the technical point of view but find it hard to socialise with others? Maybe you're just introverted.

"Failing to impress" lol. A professor or an alumnus with a company. Yeah, you're definitely American. No such absurd things exist where I come from. Professors are burned out and alumni are lazy as hell.

Booking.com employees are bound by non-compete clauses so you will never get anyone directly from Booking.com in your company.

ProtonMail. After applying for a 90k CHF Zurich SRE role, and seemingly ending second in their week-long IaC take home assignment on building a virtualised DC from scratch with KVM and CentOS, they offered me another role in Czech Republic for around 35k USD.

Indeed, when one side argues for dialogue, human rights, cooperation, peace and maybe a bit of socialism, and the other side argues for kicking immigrants, building an ethno-state where anything manufactured on foreign soil is heavily taxed, and the poor are left to starve to death, the middle ground really isn't the right answer. Middle grounds are rarely conducive to any intellectually honest discussion and this can clearly be seen in American politics: where the GOP has been sliding more and more into the right, the Democrats have followed, trying to capture the moderate Republicans that don't agree with the new "extreme" GOP.

Middle grounds are a slippery slope.

And Apple Pay is much harder to trace (except for Apple and your bank I guess?) than just using a plastic static card.

I can't count the amount of times I've lost or been robbed physical bills. Never once have money siphoned out of my online bank. I don't use cash anymore, I'm all digital, and still use a VPN to watch porn.

Turns out different people have different threat models. My threat model includes my neighbour, my ISP (to a certain extent), my employer (again, to a certain extent), private companies like Google or Facebook, burglars, thieves, and scammers.

It doesn't include the NSA, the government, the NSO group, banks, or North Korean government-sponsored hackers. If you think you can defend yourself against the NSA, lol. Good luck.

I'm also pissed off when I see HN people seeing 200k or 300k salaries as "too low". Jesus, Americans are millionaires, what the hell?!

I'll tell you the reason: they do this because they can. It's not talent, it's competition. Who in EU is going to give you even 80k as a junior? Nobody. So why bother offering 300k or even 150k when people will take the tole for 60 or 70k?

Inb4 "but housing is more affordable!"

Whatever. That's not related to the employer. It's simply racist. "You earn less because you're European" is the truth. It's not because cost of living is lower (although it's related) but it's just a matter of employers being able to get away with shitty pay.

Threema allows phone number, email, both, or neither and just a random PIN like BBM

Absolutely not. I completely disagree with your claims. https://mobile.twitter.com/realsexycyborg/status/13807504757...

https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/140404849753222758...

This kind of rhetoric can only be used by privileged (often white) western people with access to international financial markets, PayPal, stocks, and free (or cheap) cross-country transfers like and unified banking regions like USA or SEPA (EU).

I will continue to strongly and energetically defend that cryptocurrencies and blockchains are just a tool. Tools aren't good or bad. A knife can kill people but can also feed a family.

Sure, there are scams occasionally but it is nowhere as bad as some people seem to think it is. Blockchain and cryptocurrencies are two technologies that vastly improve distributed systems design as well as allow otherwise financially oppressed people to conduct their finances in a secure way and spend the money wherever they want.

I will never shut up about it. But unfortunately, because of this ridiculous cancel culture, I also can't publicly defend cryptocurrencies under my real name, as I'm not privileged enough to not face consequences.

Using Linux is not a practical decision. It is an ethical/moral decision or simply just because you like tinkering. That's fine. I like getting shit done.

But then, getting mad because your favourite closed source company doesn't support Linux well is a little ridiculous. Zoom works fine on macOS and Windows. Linux is always bound to have issues one way or another, and if that's not enough, there's not even an incentive for developers to do things the right way, so get over it.

I get this all the time. I can only ever dream of joining Facebook, Google, or Microsoft, ethics aside, but because I’m an immigrant from a no-name university, nobody gives a fuck about us of course.

Americans be like: “man, this 400k USD job is so boring, I need better work-life balance”

Meanwhile Europeans have to make do with 60k EUR jobs with zero work-life balance but hey, at least we have free healthcare, right?

Free healthcare that costs us half our salary. Cool.

Why do you think Brexit was what it was?

UK wants to dominate and enslave its population for the political gain of the ruling class.

It is clear as day to me.

Fastmail uses @fastmail.com (the default domain) for randomly generated aliases. Good luck blocking the hundreds of thousands of fastmail users by trying to block the minority using masked addresses.