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This is deeply ironic given that an number of the best software engineers I know have EE degrees.

Spot on. The absurd nuclear family culture it's a product of the car and real estate marketing efforts.

Canonical contributes very little back to Debian.

But they do a lot of marketing.

The antifa lot essentially define fascism as an eternal set of human psychological impulses: nostalgia, in-group preference, desire for cultural homogenity, etc.

Add authoritarianism and militarism to it and you have the definition used by historians and political scientists.

Fascism was a direct result of, and contingent upon, the mass death and poverty caused by WWI.

"mass death and poverty" in Italy? This is plain false. But it's also besides the point:

The word "fascism" is used to describe any similar pattern of thought and behavior, just like "communism", "skepticism", "pacifism".

Why the stupid downvotes?

For a for-profit company spending millions needs a justifications stronger than a penchant for vigilante justice.

A lot of big companies have a proven history of quietly cooperating with cops, three letter agencies and military.

That type of cooperation often leads to multi-million, even billion $ contracts and special favors from political power.

What is facebook trying to achieve?

And you are supposed to trust images not to have vulnerabilities?

It isn't because the Tokyo Tower is more important than the Eiffel Tower

That's debatable.

There is no oppression

Please tell me you are being sarcastic.

people collecitvely want to have black characters in power to do the dirty, making their live easier overall.

As if the appointment of people in power was decided democratically.

This is terrible, I'm [genuinly] surprised that other people recommend fastmail.

It does not work on some group accounts.

It's really time to move away from Gmail & co.

Any suggestion for a comparable email service?

...because researchers are idiots and HN knows better.

I'm not saying Go programmed products are lower quality

I've met plenty of good developers that complain at how Go ties their hands and creativity. Unsurprisingly, the language has been designed for "cogs":

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The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language but we want to use them to build good software. So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt. – Rob Pike

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how could America have influenced a place into a behaving a way that is completely foreign to America

Authoritarianism is hardly "completely foreign" to America.

But even if we ignore this, US government has a long established pattern of supporting any movement that opposes left wing politics across the globe to the point of funding coups.

The list is very long: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...

The whole SaaS industry and most of "tech" companies are little more than middleman between open source software and end users.

More like:

Proprietary software reinvents itself as corporate-driven Open Source with SaaS Lock-In