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The only winning move is not to play (i.e. don't have offices in authoritarian states)

Oh wow I remember using this distro on a very old Toshiba 386 laptop, good times...

> If that is the case, why did they remove this statement?

As far as I understand according to several comments I read here in HN "99%" of the people don't understand what "by default" means, making the sentence misleading for most.

I use proton-bridge and a normal email client, although I've never tried to use it with Tor.

Well I am getting 500s instantly, not after some internal timeout

What's the difference between this and this other work also from the Max Planck Institute published back in February?:

https://is.mpg.de/news/world-s-first-video-recording-of-a-sp...

In Argentina you have to pay 50% of the market value for all electronic imports and you will have to deal with customs officers (who will usually try to make your day quite miserable if you don't "tip" em)

I have no idea how you can conclude that this lobbyist is exaggerating his accomplishments, specially considering his career and what Exxon have been doing since the 70s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExxonMobil_climate_change_cont...). I guess one could claim that there is nothing "new" into this story, but how can you possibly say that there is nothing controversial regarding being part of a massive decades-long disinformation and anti-environmental campaign?

I was surprised to learn about "shadow groups": I thought all lobbyists were required to be registered, but turns out that's actually not the case in the US.

Maybe you can but the tweet is just Carmack expressing his opinion.

Cool project! Have you seen any interesting correlations between languages, paradigms and the accuracy of your suggestions?

I'm not sure why you are being downvoted: 130k is a lot, specially when you consider this is just one warehouse in the UK. Extrapolate this number (including other retailers) and we might be talking about millions of products being destroyed daily on this planet just to increase profit margins for a few people.

The negative externalities from this must be tremendous.

To me "spent on wages" means on every employee's salary, not only the top 0.01%

It would be pretty awesome if companies increased salaries for everyone at the same proportion of their interment of profit.

When companies generate more profit they very rarely do any of the things you mention, why would they start doing it if they didn't have to pay taxes at all? In reality when a company gets to generate more profit the result is an even bigger gap between C-levels and normal employees salaries.

Here is a better idea: companies should be the only entities paying taxes in a capitalist society. If you think about it it really makes perfect sense :) since they already do all the boring accounting stuff and with the power of their lobbies they could make tax law simpler and more efficient (something that normal citizen will never be able to push forward).

This case is from 2010: https://www.vice.com/en/article/9kj3vp/this-woman-says-a-hos...

Here another one from 2017: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-november...

> The way vim works is actually the opposite of what your brain wants, this is one of the reasons why learning vim tricks is hard.

Do you mean that you think "word change" instead of "change word"? To me this sounds like you have been programming in Java-like languages for too long :)

I really don't get why Mozilla keep making disruptive UI changes while a very significant amount of users take the time to ask them to please not do it. At this point it feels almost as an act of aggression, it's honestly incomprehensible to me.

"Tooling is just terrible." <- this is a generalization, to which I strongly disagree :)

I strongly disagree with your generalisation regarding the tooling: Mix and Hex are without any doubt some of the most pleasant tools I have ever used. (I personally don't care about IDEs so can't comment on the lsp implementation or idea plugins)

Last time I checked standby power consumption only in the US was an order of magnitude higher than Bitcoin mining all around the world, but it's hard to estimate the emissions of the latter due to its decentralised nature.

I sometimes feel like Mozilla knows exactly what features I love and then they go one by one and remove them (or make them only accessible through about:config) because "nobody use this anyways", then you see threads with hundreds of other users asking to please put the feature back and finally some bugzilla administrator locking the thread because "it's not the right place for this kind of discussions"...

I still miss vimperator and a few other XUL era add-ons by the way.

> As a European, this article is the degree of pretentious, market-driven, and stupid, that fits perfectly with the Economist.

Almost every time I read an article from The Economist I see that many of their arguments are founded on false premises which are (usually) trivial to fact-check. I really don't get why this publication gets posted here on HN so often.

I believe the parent means that MathJax uses MathML internally:

> MathJax uses MathML as the basis for its internal format for mathematical expressions, so MathML support is built into MathJax at a fundamental level.

https://docs.mathjax.org/en/latest/output/mathml.html

I seems a requirement for accessibility.

WhatsApp users who in 2016 opted out of sharing data with third parties are now being asked by Facebook to either accept a privacy policy that states their metadata can be shared with third parties or stop chatting with friends and family through their app.

A poster bellow in this thread quoted a Wired article where some FB representative says they will "honor" the opt-out, yet this is not stated anywhere in the privacy policy as far as I can tell. I think it would be trivial for Facebook to make this clear in their new policy.

> WhatsApp will continue to honor that choice.

That's good news but I can't find this stated anywhere in their policy:

https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/updates/privacy-policy/?lang=...

It seems like an important thing to mention.

In 2016 WhatsApp let users opt-out of Facebook data sharing with third parties by just checking a box in Account Settings [1]. Most of my friends and family did opt-out. Now, as far as I understand, they are being "forced to opt-in" by accepting the new ToS and Privacy Policy or, otherwise, getting locked out.

1 - https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/25/whatsapp-to-share-user-dat...

To me a boring movie is one that is mostly a constant flux of extremely predictable events with near zero content to analyze (e.g. a Marvel superhero movie). Tarkovsky is nothing like that, in fact I think his movies are the exact opposite of that.

Idris for instance is strict "by default" but still supports laziness through the Lazy data type.

I know but I believe they should rephrase that: I have been using their VPSs for ten years and they have the best customers support I have ever dealt with :)

But that's exactly the point isn't it? I mean, using pgp because you don't trust the communication channel. And you would still have the same issue with a mailing list.