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Did they hire those software engineers along with their unions?

Not quite. It's all about labor and getting rid of the class that used to (and could have) threatened the elites.

Yuck. Do your users know that they are reading recycled LLM content? Is this long winded post generated by an LLM?

That was Windows 2000.

Civil disobedience is breaking the law. Are you suggesting that Rosa Parks should have sat in the back of the bus?

Maybe he was trying to torpedo CDL from ever being viable again? It seems a pretty despicable practice that attempts to shoehorn artificial scarcity to digital media, and I hate the fact the our libraries waste their monies propping up archaic monopolies, so maybe this is a win after all.

It's not the speed, it's saving the carpal tunnel for video games... :)

I just switched to Libre Wolf, seems like a pretty good Firefox replacement but without the malware.

Do you have use the mouse to use rich text? If so then no thanks.

Given China's experience with the West's sordid attempt to subvert them via opium, it seems highly unlikely that roblox would ever be legalized there.

This does not belong on HN.

Because people with kids won't stop talking about how wonderful their kids are.

Workplace surveillance of employees became widespread in part because of sexual harassment laws, employers suddenly had to protect themselves from litigation.

See:

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/r/ro...

Mediocre!

For the first time, I can see the advantage of AI for a forum like HN. Have the AI scan the comments and generate a summary and links to show/hide, as an example:

80% of comments are pedantic. 10% of comments discuss the actual topic. 5% of comments are excited/hopeful. 30% of comments are probable astroturfing. 20% of comments are by users who are most likely millenials. 1% of comments are by former /.'ers. etc.

Ideally this could just run locally and operate on any website as needed, like browser userscripts now.

Yes, this is the situation for my dell laptop's i7-1165G7. Alleged turbo boost to 4.7ghz! In reality, it will hit that for a sec and then throttle to ~1ghz. I had to disable the turbo boost AND two cores in bios to let it even achieve ~2.0ghz speeds consistently. It's a total scam. Turns out my 8th-Gen i5 laptop is almost the same speed on benchmarks, just because it's a few mm thicker with better cooling.

They are not usernames, so why do they call them that? They are more like disposable per-conversation identifiers.

"Usernames in Signal do not function like usernames on social media platforms. Signal usernames are not logins or handles that you’ll be known by on the app – they’re simply a quick way to connect without sharing a phone number."

Also, this is not finally the feature Signal users actually want - not having to sign up for Signal with a phone number and using a username instead.

This new "feature" does very little to make signal more secure or private.

Eagle and Autodesk deserve each other:

"In spring 1991 the dongle protection scheme of EAGLE 2.0 had been cracked causing a decline of 30% in sales, while sales for a reduced demo version with a printed manual saw a significant increase.[4] As a consequence in 1992 CadSoft sent thousands of floppy disks containing a new demo of EAGLE 2.6 to potential users, in particular those who had ordered the former demo but had not subsequently bought the full product.[4] The new demo, however, also contained spy code scanning the user's hard disk for illegal copies of EAGLE.[4] If the program found traces of such, it would show a message indicating that the user was entitled to order a free printed manual using the displayed special order code, which, however, was actually a number encoding the evidence found on the user's machine.[4] Users sending in the filled out form would receive a reply from CadSoft's attorneys.[4][33] The act of spying, however, was illegal as well by German law.[4][33]"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EAGLE_(program)#Controversie...

Thanks. I wonder which mode works best in linux?

But regardless, when a product chases the mac crowd it makes me think it's probably overpriced or sacrificed functionality for the sake of design.

"Built with the Mac users’ experience in mind while still retaining compatibility for Windows devices..."

No thanks!

Corporate workplace spying on employee communication became prevalent in the 90s to prevent discrimination lawsuits. This predates what we think of as our contemporary "surveilance capitalism". There were a series of court decisions that enshrined this practice in law and since then the limits of proscribed speech have expanded.

"The Unwanted Gaze" is a good read on this subject. <https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/157389/the-unwanted...>

The H1-B program and its system of internationally sourced indentured captives.

So in your opinion the sinking of the Moskva does not herald the end of surface sea power (within land-based defense range) in the missile age?

Why is uninsured a separate category from insured driver insurance? The insurance company should just pay out regardless of the characteristics of the other driver. What if they are wearing a funny hat instead of a serious hat?! Seems like a scam by the insurance companies to pad their premiums.

For every Israeli Jewish civilian, there is an equivalent Palestine refugee living in a camp (~7mil). Israeli can only exist as a Jewish majority state as long as the original inhabitants remain displaced. So the Gazans are probably not going to be pro-Israeli any time soon.

I'd be curious to see a citation for this claim if you remember it. Thanks!

Why spend $$ on a high performance air-superiority fighter when you can have one flying truck (F-35) controlling 20 cheap air to air drones? Even if a drone is just a disposable way to draw fire it's still a deal compared to a manned F-22.

Q: How do you drown a hipster?

A: In the mainstream!

What a waste of money. Just get rid of them. Most countries don't have a ground-based ICBM deterrent, SLBMs are sufficient. Fixed silos just mean that you're willing to have have a large section of the homeland irradiated from a preemptive strike and are just a liability in the era of satellite reconnaissance and precision weaponry.

There is no reason why the air farce needs to host two legs of the nuclear triad. Their entire doctrine is to kill as many enemy civilians as quickly as possible, because it's cheaper to kill them from a distance than sending in the army. This entire doctrine is the reason behind the existence of an independent air force, such as the RAF, which was designed as cheap alternative for maintaining imperial control. If we ever actually need the air force then we have already lost the war.

Does anyone else remember when LI had the basically illegal idea to replace users mail servers with their own, so they could scrape email content/address information? I remember hearing an interview about this on NPR, I think. They were quite pleased with themselves, too. Since that day I've always blocked them in the local firewall.