dendriti

You sure do have a LOT to say about Audible, despite demonstrating here a clear lack of understanding of how the service works, its market position, how much it charges, and so on.

JAQing off in defense of a monopolist is a bad look.

The government is deeply involved in the "free market", like when it defends trademarks, copyrights, and contracts by force or threat of force.

The story in D4 is fantastic "for a video game". It's still a shitty video game story that wouldn't succeed in any other medium.

I don't think this is a very accurate description of how things work in Germany. It's exceedingly rare in any Western jurisdiction for the aggrieved party to press charges. This power is usually left to government prosecutors, who are probably more impartial than the complainant.

So you're not going to admit you were ignorant or just lying?

Libertarianism has been exposed as bullshit over and over again. To dismiss these well-documented concerns as "ideological defense mechanisms" is just sad.

FWIW homeopaths and chiropractors use the same sad defense.

There are PLENTY, certainly thousands and probably tens of thousands, of works which represent this monster's "view/ideas/philosphy" and weren't written by a deranged murderer. So you can understand the concern.

I can access BBC.com and Medium.com from Malaysia without a VPN or alternate DNS server.

Most of what jobs?

Nearly every time a user whines about being banned from a subreddit by evil mods for "muh different opinion", they were just being assholes.

The Right's devotion to truth and honesty in politics and society should serve as a beacon to us all.

If I use ChatGPT to "hallucinate" a source, and post it here, am I lying?

Yes, my tenants certainly do. Thanks for the support.

Why is this a non-story?

If you are copying your passwords into the clipboard, you've already failed at using a password manager. Might as well just use an unencrypted text file.

Wow, that sounds awful. Any proof?

Who said anything about "entitled"? Folks are ALL OVER this thread using emotionally-loaded language, because it's hard to argue for ads any other way.

Anti-piracy folks love to use bullshit loaded terms (such as "piracy" itself) to justify some megacorporation taking over shit on my computer. Adblocking is now "cheating"?`

Let's not forget that a significant part of the first world ships much of their trash to the third world, often illegally.

There's been a bizarre shift in discourse about privacy in the last 15 years. When most of these posters were young, they actually cared about keeping their personal information private. The idea that you would carry around a device with a location tracker that could only be turned off by deactivating the device, would have been horrifying.

Now, at least on HN, these same people are saying This is Fine. Maybe their companies depend on exploiting the ignorant.

Nobody mentioned anything about lack of disruption except you. Moving those goalposts.

Apple earns more from gaming than Nintendo.

It's difficult to separate Persian history from Islam during the Golden Age of Islam in Persia.

Well shit. Does your "Canada Fiber to the home" come with unlimited fast storage for free?

Of course they are 'limited functionality' kiosks, they exist to print boarding passes!

This tracks, actually - Spain (or Spanish monarchs) ruled the Netherlands for over 170 years.

Fashion is LITERALLY what you just defined.

Malaysians commuting across the bridge make up about 10% of Singapore's workforce - huge, to be sure, but nowhere near the ratio seen in Monaco.

It's hard to take this author seriously when he makes a big error in the first sentence (non-Muslims are allowed to enter Medina). Additionally, the population of Saudi is not anywhere near 100% Muslim.

If you're limiting support of Z-Libs to only those 'slightly technically inclined', you're leaving a lot of support on the table.