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Yes I've donated to some :)

For an end user who isn't a Linux enthusiast, generally working headphones aren't sufficient. They have to almost never not work.

I record music on Linux, and one of the reasons that I never recommend it is that I can imagine people dropping real money on a sufficiently powerful laptop and finding things don't work without a lot of configuration, or perhaps not at all. That doesn't cut it for the average user.

California and New York are nowhere near asking people to prove they're in the right place with a 15 minute window to comply.

The problems you've described are very minor relative to how much more difficult dissent and whistle-blowing become if your statements can be connected to your true identity basically everywhere.

"Better Amazon reviews" and "fewer Reddit shills" aren't worth much.

> I'm not suggesting stripping anonymity or free speech, I'm just pointing out the problem with anonymity online.

In the context of an article about removing anonymity, I don't think it's possible to set "removing anonymity" aside.

I think the comment is clearer than the linked content as a basic explanation. The linked content covers "the difference" with two bullet points, and uses the term "origin server" which isn't super-intuitive.

If it wasn't for the possibility of COVID transmission, an office with remote management sounds like it would be a fun and conveniently located place to hang out and chill.

Maybe not as productive as they used to be if the rents are down.

Nevertheless, 8.5 million is a small cohort relative to 300+ million, and if they're the "most productive" then they're not representative of the median-productivity experience that matters on a national scale.

For what it's worth, I think this concentration of high-profit business in the Bay Area may be (finally) coming to an end with the ascendance of remote work, which may be a factor in the locally declining rents.

San Francisco is neither large enough nor representative enough to be that meaningful in a national context. SF is a small enclave of ludicrous pricing, because of the huge amount of investment capital flowing into a fairly small city. It still has a lot of room to move down even if everything else is going up.

> Highly public failure on high profile, must-win episodes like COVID & the Afghanistan exit indicates that the US government may fail on any nontrivial physical world endeavor.

This seems like a non-sequitur. What would the underlying cause even be, a sudden outbreak of incompetence, in every area where the US government operates?

I think there's potential for confirmation bias here because the US's "state capacity" was never that impressive in the first place. You can point to "power, water, fire, public health, public schools, public safety", see problems, and characterize it as a "collapse". But these areas were problematic long before the COVID-19 pandemic or US involvement in Afghanistan.

Affordability is only part of the picture though. A higher value loan means higher risk as well.

If interest rates rise, or something else happens that reduces the value of the property, then that $500,000 mortgage might be against a house worth less than $500,000. At that point people have to start playing chicken with the banks again, trying to mitigate the losses with strategic defaults.

If they do this to a person from an EU country, won't that person have a potent issue to raise via GDPR?

Making money is not about deserving the money, it's about being good at getting money.

Not really. Netscape wasn't trying to be Mozilla Firefox, it was trying to be The Internet.

Makes more sense than "I just read about bitcoin and I am going to buy some."