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And Ukraine would not have been invaded had they agreed to Russia's demands, you fucking bastard.

Some of us do - but our voices will be silenced by the powerful and mighty. As an Indian, my government is already being bullied for our stance.

Using GNU/Linux. Rejecting most tech even if it is “inconvenient” for me. Use cash only except when absolutely required. Use of torrents.

He foresaw way back in the 80-90s that corporations are going to put software on their dishwasher anyway irrespective of what people want. If his idealistic goals were to be realized by now, at least they would have full control over it.

While not Microsoft history, try "In Search of Stupidity: Over Twenty Years of High Tech Marketing Disasters". Has many stories on what made MS successful.

Well their observation is completely wrong. Timing is the most important factor which matters. I have seen thousands of extremely good non-political, neutral, tech related articles not getting a single upvote if it is submitted at times most of US/Western Europe is sleeping.

I strongly agree with you. In fact, the article mentions a Assistant Secretary of Defense under Obama calling to prepare for war against Russia.

Ever since a bigoted scoundrel had to resign as CEO of Mozilla by trying to deny humans theirs rights, HN always has a generally negative view of Firefox. Just notice the outrage on the paltry 2 million salary of their CEO, while the same people will come to defend multi milion dollar salaries of white male CEOs who are far far worse than Mitchell Baker.

So? A criminal country with the worst instances of human rights violations and violation of international law all across the world illegally detains the CFO of a company because of their country; and you expect that her country is not going to take action on that?

Funny how China doing something are always in the future tense. Whereas the ones who have committed the atrocity of actually illegally detaining an executive by putting pressure on a friendly country is the USA.

Ok was not aware of that. Thanks for the tip.

No advice, but an observation from someone who completed his CS degree a couple of decades back.

The best computer scientists I know (PhDs from top universities in US) cannot write hello world in any programming language.

Some of the best software developers I have met, with a history of shipping performant and intuitive software, have no clue about computer science.

I jumped into the Netflix bandwagon and stopped using torrents few years back. Then I realized that Netflix has almost no content at all, and primarily interested in pushing "their content" onto the masses. Now I am back to torrents. One big difference is now it is harder to find torrents - earlier, it was easy to find one say for a Uruguayan movie from 2004; they are becoming quite rare now.

Nice initiative. Other than HN, I only use RSS to consume content which I care about (I use theoldreader.com). While I currently don't have the time or technical skills to contribute much, would be happy to support financially if required. I also encourage anyone I know to use Firefox, Duckduckgo and RSS; however, most people (especially the intelligent technical ones) are not willing to change.

I would say that if all facts point to the fact that Russia did nothing wrong, perhaps Russia did nothing wrong. And junk articles in NYT, WSJ, Guardian or BBC are not "evidence" that they did something wrong.

Another relatively neutral source on reporting on Central Asia is https://www.indianpunchline.com/about-me/ if you are interested.

No. Yes, he is generally what I would consider "anti-US" but Media Bias Fact Check reports no failed fact check in last 5 years. Also, before people label him as "left-wing", he was a very strong supporter of Kyle Rittenhouse from the beginning (even supposedly good sources like The Intercept lamented the acquittal). I have linked to his article on the day of the verdict below.

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2021/11/kyle-rittenhouse-is-no...

Lots of weird extremely Russian-patriot sounding comments in this thread.

This kind of nonsense comments appear whenever there are people with positive comments on China or Russia. I guess my top level comment on this thread will be one of the "Russia-patriot" ones. For the record, I am an Indian living in Malaysia - I simply choose to read proper sources and be informed of geopolitical events rather than parrot US propaganda. I learned to do so after reading a book by an American, often mentioned in HN (the book is Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman).

you have no idea how hard we work

I'll believe it when I see "anti-China" posts being removed from the first 3-4 pages with as much enthusiasm as much as "anti-US" posts. Or when flags are removed from posts related to death of Kobe Bryant (or conversely, discussion about the death of a nobody like Bill Gates' father demoted by moderation action).

Nice talk, but you are one of the biggest offenders by using moderation powers to curtail discussion around topics which may not fit the majority world-view while refusing to treat the view of ignorant morons similarly. I have seen it happen several times over the last decade. And no, I am not going to present any "evidence" here.

Nice real-life example to demonstrate those who blindly conclude that "government is inefficient and private companies are efficient" without the full context are generally wrong.

I've been reading this forum for around 12 years now. One thing I have learnt is that you cannot speak or point out the truth here.

More often that not when I see a video with tons of dislike it's because it's been brigaded by an adversarial community and not really an indicator of the value of the content.

Strongly agree. For example in HN itself if someone poses a fact-based positive opinion about China, it is down-voted whenever Americans are online and voting (does not happen when Europeans are online).

So dislike/down-vote has 0 value. In fact, majority of the comments in this thread are against Youtube, which tells me that Youtube has made the correct decision.

I was a student in the early 2000s and part of the academic community and have personally seen some of the world's best scientists working on physics or computer science. Not one of them used Python - in fact our professor chose to teach us Haskell and C in the first year of under-graduation. C, C++ or Fortran was quite common for scientific programming.

One of Aaron's contributions is not mentioned very frequently. He is also the co-founder of the site Demand Progress, created to fight for various progressive causes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand_Progress

No one cares about how you feel. I want to be able to have the freedom to install whatever I want on a device I have paid for.

As this does not infringe on your freedom in any way, I expect my government to legislate on my behalf to force Apple to do what I want.

I found an interesting side story about the lack of coverage of the story by the larger journalistic publications referenced a few times

This is pretty standard as noted in the book Manufacturing Consent.

Generally people have vision of a lot of "tech" in a futuristic city. To me, the following conditions are sufficient

- Free healthcare - Free high quality education - Everything else is free market (which includes legal but controlled access to drugs, prostitution, etc.) - No private ownership of vehicles; everyone MUST use public transportation which should be accessible - clean air - walkable - diversity of culture (so for example it should be as easy to find a Bible reading club as a psytrance nighclub)

In addition to being a "dystopia multiplier", I predict this is going to cause a lot of social problems going forward. This is what the Black Mirror episode "The Entire History of You" warned us about.

If you are interested in a more detailed story, listen to this Darknet Diaries interview with one of the co-founders of PirateBay.

https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/92/

In this case "consumer" is better off so seems like market works as intended.

How is the consumer better off when a choice for them has been removed? If Apple's keyboard is superior, then consumers will automatically chose that and not buy this guy's software. How is this "nanny state" behaviour by Apple justified?