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More to the point… at what point do the countries of Europe ask the US to remove its military bases from the continent?

Yes, this seems to be common practice.

1. Borrow lots of cash

2. Buy a victim company with the cash

3. Carry out weird financial/legal alchemy to make the victim company solely responsible for paying off the loan

4. If the victim company can’t handle the debt and goes bankrupt, then you don’t own the company any more. That’s sad. Especially for the people who lose their jobs. But the people you borrowed the cash from can’t chase you for it, so no harm done, eh?

5. If the victim company pays off all the debt, then congratulations: you bought a successful profitable company for free!

I don’t understand step 3 or why it’s legal.

The full screen option is the icon at the top left? It has no effect.

Also for me (iOS safari)

When the US president repeatedly threatens to annex your country, you don’t have the luxury of being able to laugh it off.

Why would anyone even think it’s funny?

Bug report: only the very top of the bottom row of tiles fits on my screen, and I can’t scroll down to see what’s on them because it gets misinterpreted as dragging a tile. So that’s frustrating . iOS safari.

Looks nicely done otherwise.

Start by switching to a different ISP.

I thought the $1 millions were protection money?

What would it take for a consumer grade or business grade device and messaging app to be suitable for discussing matters of national security?

The article mentions being able to use a single account across multiple devices as being a problem — what other issues are there?

Not really. He has the sense of entitlement that comes from being super rich, and a track record of ignoring the law and others’ rights when expedient.

I’d say it was more amazing that such a person had been appointed to such an important position, but, you know, Trump.

Because AI scrapers are indistinguishable from a DDoS attack. See e.g. https://status.sr.ht/issues/2025-03-17-git.sr.ht-llms/

What’s the overlap between “wants indie games” and “students who don’t work hard on their grades but could”?

There’s a danger that students will see indie games as being “games that aren’t good enough to be worth anything” which could be reinforced by them being given away by schools.

What would the schools get out of it?

If this worked, would it undermine students’ intrinsic motivation and set them up for failure further down the line?

Sure — but if the CCP decided it wanted the benefits of owning a reserve currency, it could change that. Then suddenly it looks more attractive.

I would say yes, but the key words here are “democratised” and “advanced”.

How advanced do the AIs need to be to have this effect? Is current AI tech on a path to reach this level, or will we need to go through another AI winter or three?

Will we avoid a monopoly or a cartel controlling access to the technology? (The answer may be different in different parts of the world.)

I suspect many countries would prefer a Chinese reserve currency to a European one, due to past bad experiences of being ruled by Europeans.

But even on a purely economic level… does the Eurozone even have a larger economy than China?

I can see countries moving away from USD, but I don’t see them coalescing around a single alternative.

As a software engineer I see the dangers of a nominally exhaustively-specified system. Where people would spend their lives in jail or go free depending on whether a majority of legislators had considered that particular edge case.

It’s better than judges have some discretion.

What do auto pens have to do with this?

People have been forging signatures for centuries.

The whole thing from Trump is bullshit. “Plausible justification” for those that want to believe.

This is bullshit, US presidents have been signing laws etc by autopen for decades.

I don’t think so.

The decision came too late to save Netscape. Microsoft then stopped competing, and were slow to react when Firefox emerged.

Meanwhile, Apple were always going to create their own browser — as part of their own OS — eventually. Opera kept on keeping on. Konquerer was never going to live or die depending on what happened on Windows.

Article has nothing to do with the headline.

Gmail was free (with ads) from the very beginning, before Chrome existed.

If Google charges for Gmail in the future, they might try to spin it as being because of not having Chrome, as an excuse, but it won’t be why.

Yeah. I think that was the wrong decision. The problem was introducing features between IE and IIS and using that to extend their end user OS monopoly into a server OS monopoly. MS should have been blocked from the server OS market instead (or maybe some some of consent decree, I’m sceptical it would have been appropriately enforced though).

HN doesn’t have lots of simple features. I wouldn’t read too much into that.

Browsers shouldn’t be a product because any modern operating system that doesn’t come with a web browser is defective.

A browser is an operating system feature.

I mean, you can get alternative file manager programs. Pay for them, even. But most people will never bother.

I think the author mentions that first theory in order to implicitly reject it in favour of the second theory.

Native English speaker here.

The number of times I’ve returned to a message I’ve left in a slack/forum thread to find typos, missing words etc is embarrassing.

I can’t imagine my emails would be any better.

What’s with all the flags hovering round the page? Very distracting, worse than most adverts.

It’s a good place to find recruiters (and for recruiters to find me).

I don’t waste my time on any of the content.

War, crime, climate change.

> Our internal clocks are most stable when morning light exposure occurs early in the day,

This argues for continually adjusting our clocks throughout the year, so that sunrise happens at a stable time of day, doesn’t it?