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StronglyTypedon We’re headed for a future where only the wealthy can enjoy nature

Clearly you've never been to Appalachia. It's beautiful, and it's full of poverty.

StronglyTypedon Square announces the Register, a $999 point-of-sale device for larger businesses

No cash drawer?

StronglyTypedon Cryptocurrencies are the tulip mania of the 21st century

Parity is a 3rd-party wallet application and is not Ethereum.

StronglyTypedon Apple Park employees revolt over having to work in open-plan offices

Where are they gonna go, though? The whole Valley has succumbed to this fad.

StronglyTypedon How does FreedomPop make money?

I tried out a FreedomPop phone once and they ended up taking my credit card number and began billing me at the end of some term they had. I tried to cancel the service using their online service and got an email confirmation that it was canceled, but they billed me for months and I had to keep filing disputes with my credit card company. I won't touch or recommend FreedomPop.

StronglyTypedon “Bing is bigger than you think,” Microsoft boasts, at 33% of US searches

This is because when I go to the start menu and start typing the name of the application I'm looking for, a large percentage of the time the Cortana search process is corrupted and my start menu is not searched, instead, I get an Edge window opened with a Bing search for "Photoshop"

I don't trust those numbers at all.

StronglyTypedon Safari Should Display Favicons in Its Tabs

Is Apple even still working on Safari?

StronglyTypedon World air pollution map

Any policy to reduce carbon emissions that does not include Asia is a scam to take your money.

StronglyTypedon Study: Sitting is no worse than standing without moving

My lower back pain from sitting all day won't kill me, but it does significantly lower my quality of life.

StronglyTypedon The Way Humans Get Electricity Is About to Change

The governments of the world will allow decentralization only to the point where it starts to cut into the tax proceeds of centralized energy. In the U.S., solar isn't going to move to rooftops, it's going to move to panel arrays on large swaths of government-owned land out west where it can still be metered and taxed.

StronglyTypedon A Pixel Artist Renounces Pixel Art

Isn't all computer art pixel art?

StronglyTypedon What We Learned From 40 Female YC Founders

I'm in a graduate CS program. Half, maybe more, of my cohort is female.

StronglyTypedon Ask HN: Maybe found huge security problem, unsure what to do

What do you think this site is? Reddit?

StronglyTypedon IntelliJ IDEA 14 Released

Wait, I did that too. Is the upgrade perpetual like the previous license?

StronglyTypedon How My Employer Put the “FML” in FMLA

The problem has nothing to do with the country. The problem is that the HR clerk, like all HR clerks, is an idiot.

StronglyTypedon Your friends are lying to you. For $10, I wont.

Shit, I've been giving this away on facebook for free.