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It is unflagged, because at this point it doesn’t matter - thanks to scoring very few people will see it here.

Boycotting doesn’t work. And realistically we can’t do anything about the regime because they are USA’s strategic ally.

Calling it an Israeli-Hamas war is a manipulation. Israel isn’t fighting against Hamas, it’s fighting against civilian population (https://www.npr.org/2023/11/06/1210831466/death-toll-gaza-is...) which happens to include some Hamas members.

Hamas wouldn’t exist if not for continued Israeli occupation and genocide.

Israel [..] is a country which upholds Western values.

Such as genocide? Like, actually murdering 15 thousand civilians, https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/10/9/israel-ham...? How many did the “terrorists” kill?

Even NPR is giving roughly similar numbers, https://www.npr.org/2023/11/06/1210831466/death-toll-gaza-is...

20 year old load-bearing m4 tends to be less of a technical debt than 20 year old load-bearing Java - because it keeps working and doesn’t need constant maintenance.

Security: with cloud nobody cares, things leak all the time w/o much consequences

Reliability: unless you’re multi-bilion customer nobody cares, Google can simply ban your account and they won’t assign a human intern to perhaps reconsider dropping all your data because the effort would never pay

With local storage there is at least one person who cares about those problems. With cloud there is none.

He was attacked for no reason. Sure, it would be more convenient if he just let himself be killed.

Police officers protect people, not harass them.

So, is it actually dangerous, or based on fake science again, like with the MSG ban?

Except in this case you still don’t have any accountability, so the site (eg HN) can still shape the narrative by slightly altering the scoring.

It’s hard not to notice all articles that oppose Israeli propaganda quickly get flagged. Not that I’m surprised.

This site is trying hard to pretend it’s not about selling some snake oil courses.

Apart from that he was a warmonger and presumably a shit person overall.

“In his book, Body of Secrets, James Bamford, who spent three years in the United States Navy as an intelligence analyst, writes that the primary purpose of the Maddox "was to act as a seagoing provocateur”

There is no such thing as workforce shortage. What is there is a salary shortage.

You could do it with a trivial C macro instead.

Oh, sure you can develop it - same as with every other open license, including public domain. But it prevents you from replicating the original business model.

Yup. You can’t effectively fight an enemy by his rules.

Instead of writing new browsers - and getting them easily broken by Google again - we need to focus on stuff like providing an open YouTube mirror, or helping users jam AdSense with fictional data, or flooding YouTube with autogenerated videos… Lots of possibilities really.

Perhaps you shouldn’t put so much trust in marketing videos.

https://www.quora.com/How-thick-of-a-hardened-steel-plate-do...

If your safety features could be disabled by root on a non-safety critical subsystem, it means your car is already unsafe by design.

When things grow, they change, often becoming worse from their “old” users point of view. So, why would you want it to grow, as opposed to staying the way you like it?

90% of middle management could be replaced with simple shell scripts; LLM would be a vast overkill.

In other words, we might need a browser that’s actually an Open Source project, as opposed to something built by company and released with source.

Chromebooks happen to be a perfect example of a product that’s only ever used by people forced to, in this case by their school, as opposed to something people buy with their own money.

Broken adblocking is immediately visible to anyone, including non-tech people.

With BSD, anyone can take the code and build a derivative product, under whatever business model, open source or not.

GPL, on the other hand, can make it possible for a corp to buy the project and effectively prevent further development, like it happened with MySQL.

Can you provide some examples of open source projects that did this?

Looking how Russia still can’t make their own drones and needs to buy them from China and Iran - nah. They lost most of the potential inherited from USSR.

As for TLA - what’s wrong with asking questions? Especially when they might also provide you with a free legal advice wrt ITAR ;)

Imagine someone who hates the exponentiation operator but wants to do mathematics nevertheless. For a living.

More like with Usenet where every user would have their own scorefile, which determined the order they would see posts. Except without having every user to manage it for themselves, instead choosing which "frontend" to use.