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> NAT is good.

It isn't. Routing is good though.

There's a thing called reputation. It has nothing to do with prejudice.

> I don’t think you are actually arguing with me.

I'm not. I just know for a fact that statistics (and indexes) are lies.

Did RMS ever call people fascists for simply trying to discuss the proposed change?

What do you mean by no? Can you read their minds? Their reputation suggests that, yes, they’ll likely block something else.

> the median American generally has q higher standards of livin than the resident of pretty much any major country (including Europe)

If you say so. I visit the U.S. quite often, and the homeless and mentally ill people on the streets there don’t seem particularly happy. I haven’t seen anything like this on such a scale either in the country where I was born, in the countries where I used to live, or in the country where I live now. But yes, the index suggest otherwise, so I suppose it’s just my misconception, sure.

I see no contradiction here.

> you, me, and so many people in the United States still have a far better quality of life and level of freedom than most people in China

Whether this is true or not is still open to debate, but the fact that it’s presented as some kind of absolute truth that needs no substantiation is simply ridiculous.

Were there the days when it was easy for you? Do share the memories, please.

This comment is just unbelievable. With Kagi "canceled" you're back to use your regular search engine powered by the sociopaths destroying the world. But hey, at least your 5 bucks didn't go to Kremlin!

> Bitcoin doesn't waste energy, it uses energy to encode and secure the blockchain.

Which is a waste of energy.

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I think almost every company would benefit from that.

You just nitpicked his words and made a big deal out of nothing, ignoring the actual message. Classic.

You should probably try replacing the name of the country in the phrase “<nation> is not allowed” with your own nationality to understand what the problem is here.

> You accuse them of being hypocrites

They are.

> while you are here downplaying the importance of a large scale war

They aren't.

I reread your original comment. It would have been better if you had included those small details that, for some reason, you left out. In my opinion, you simply failed to get your point across.

Anyway, my point stands. "Absolutely no one" without any context makes no sense whatsoever. There are a number of tasks that are much, much more efficient to perform in the terminal than in a graphical interface. So no, I didn't misunderstand your point - you're just wrong.

> any cases where a GUI is definitely better

Sure I can. Not all of them are though. So be careful with exaggerations.

That's exactly what I did when I was writing code in a paper notebook around 1995. Mainly because I didn't have a computer at home, and I wanted to program more than anything else in the world.

That's a weird thing to say. GUI slows down me A LOT when I sometimes have to switch to it from my terminal for whatever reason. Where did you get your "absolutely no one" data point?

I’m not disputing how intuitive the GitHub interface is, but seriously, why is it so hard for technical professionals to set aside 10–20 minutes of their time to learn a new interface? Why has this even become an issue worth discussing?

> “Ooh cyber” is a lame straw

No, not really. To me it felt exactly the same (immature) way. That was a reason why I kept using htop instead. I feel the same about eg k9s, but there's nothing better to migrate off it.

I don't see any contradiction here.

> people will be bored to death

As opposed to what? Be entertained by all the bells and whistles of modern operating systems that have practically unusable user interfaces?

Not arguing here, but htop can do the same, no?

What's so good about btop? I personally can't stand its interface, I don't need bells and whistles in my terminal.

Or, to look at it another way, the answer is that it’s the developers who don’t want to learn something new that, objectively speaking, might turn out to be better than what they’re used to.

It's not a problem though. There is absolutely no need for “quality content” whose sole or primary purpose is to monetize it. What we’re all missing is hobby content created out of passion, free of ads and all the nonsense that plagues the modern internet. And another thing - there’s absolutely no need to explain here the basic fundamentals of how money and the economy as a whole work, as if it were some kind of revelation. It’s actually better to think about why this approach is in fact problematic. Look at what it did to the world.

The answer is not that obvious as you might see or imply it.

> rob your house while leaving it untended

Yeah, that's nonsense - licenses exist precisely to solve this problem. Read up on it - do everyone a favor.

> a good portion of HN is composed of pirates who don’t like rules and have a higher tolerance for risk

That's cute.

As I've already said, I don't play online games, and I'm not particularly concerned about all the fuss surrounding anti-cheat measures, so I don't think that suddenly makes Linux a "second-class gaming platform." For the games I do play, it's a first-class platform.