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> - Sue them, aggressively.

On what grounds?

> - Looks for exploits in their own systems and publish their code, making it worthless.

Are you saying Google should publish exploits of Variston's systems? There's kind of a "two wrongs" problem there; such information would likely require illegal hacking ("accessing a computer system without permission") to discover.

> - Publish lists of their owners and employees

I'm sure they do as much as they can in that regard, but I'm sure such companies do much to hide their ownership and employees, and at any rate it could be seen as encouraging illegal harassment of said employees.

> ban them from Google/Microsoft services.

To the extent possible I'm sure they do this, but Google can't really stop someone from using Chrome, or always reliably detect when someone representing a malicious company is using their services.

> One of the first FOSS projects I ever used. I pirated Photoshop soon after trying it.

Oh… okay.

Did you also steal a car right after you learned how to drive?

I recently dropped the expensive-as-hell Illustrator license for Affinity's vector drawing program, Affinity Designer, for when I need to slop together SVGs (which isn't that often), and I've been pretty happy with it so far. I've already got Acorn for my bitmap needs but I will definitely consider Photo if/when it's time to change. I would definitely suggest people fed up with Adobe's pricing schemes and awful UIs to give Affinity's products a look.

Copper salts are a start, but I think I'd prefer mine with copper pepper as well.

My friend, I don't think that's the epic airtight gotcha that you think it is…

That can't be it. How many mining operations are operating their own power plants?

"Usually don't" and "often not" are comforting words but regardless there are always risks involved when committing illegal acts.

Whatever the default search engine currently is, don't change it. Moz earns a kickback every time you use it.

It's probably still Google and I generally encourage people to get weaned off the Google product teat as much as possible, but that search engine integration is how Moz makes most of their money from what I understand.

> The law will prohibit Environmental Conservation Law permits from being issued for two years to proof-of-work cryptocurrency mining operations that are operated through electric generating facilities that use a carbon-based fuel.

Not really clear at what point your mining approaches an "operation" which requires a permit, but perhaps that's spelled out in some other law somewhere.

I love the two year time limit. I'd love for it to be constitutionally mandated that all laws have to have a time limit of no more than five years or so. If the time passes and the law isn't renewed, into the incinerator that law goes.

I’m dumbfounded by the idea that Musk was under any societal or business obligation to keep underperforming employees on his payroll.

As much as you may hate Musk, if you’ve been in this industry for a while, you know SV is full of people who are better at slacking, whedling, and coasting than coding, and in some cases have no skill at all and are clearly nepotism hires. Musk clearly does not have time for that sort of hiring, but I don’t think it’s a unique thing to him; any other non-SV businessowner would almost certainly be doing the same.

Hmm. One Baha'i temple, one Buddhist temple, and eight Protestant churches of various types - not all that interesting. These are only on this list because someone used the word "cult" in a comment on each house of worship's page and I found similar results searching for "cult" in other major cities.

Yeah, I guess that’s true as far as Blow goes. But there are other people interested in this thing (hence why the OP exists and why we’re commenting on it). And I presume not all of them want to lock themselves in to the apparent dead end that is the x86 platform in the current year when both cross-platform languages and cross-platform game engines are all over the place.

> No native macOS then?

Or Pi, or iOS, or practically all Android hardware… Kind of a non-starter IMO. Maybe this was marginally acceptable when the language started in '14 but it becomes less so every year.

Maybe it's a marketing thing. Creating a perception of exclusivity. Making Jai the Maserati and Gucci of programming languages.

That's ridiculous but seeing the odd level of interest in this language that almost nobody can use means maybe it's working.

Yeah, I have both of those bookmarked myself. I know they sell posters of the articles. I've always wanted to get them, though they're a tad pricey. But I guess I can write it off as a business expense…

Yeah, it's all subjective and contextual. I don't know if I or anyone else can give an easy checklist to define what is or isn't "Karen" or entitled behavior, but having done my time in various positions in the service industry, it's certainly something I can know when I see it.

If I had to try I'd say it's when you have a problem and you try to resolve it in a way that gets you the most personal benefit and hormone rush instead of just getting the problem solved in an efficient manner, that's Karen behavior. Like if you order a sandwich with no tomatoes and it comes with tomatoes on it; if you call over the waiter, describe the problem in a normal tone of voice without assigning blame, and ask for a replacement, that's fine. If you use a tone of voice loud enough that other tables can hear, blame the server or cook or even take the tomatoes personally as if "ignoring" your request was a personal attack, launch into a diatribe bout how you could have bene killed if you were allergic to tomatoes, demand not only a replacement sandwich but a free side or even your whole order for free, etc, that's Karen behavior; those sorts of actions are getting you free stuff and serotonin bumps but they're causing undue stress on the staff and other people around you, who are human and have their own limitations in terms of stress and mental health, what they can do in terms of the law or dealing with their managers, etc - and they're certainly not solving the original problem (you want a sandwich without tomatoes) any faster.

> and generated wiki articles about the history of bears in space as readily as ones about protein complexes and the speed of light. It’s easy to spot fiction when it involves space bears, but harder with a subject users may not know much about.

Well, that matches our current experience with human-written Wikipedia articles pretty closely then.

> (has anyone even been legally named Discord before?)

In this post-Brony society, I’m sure of it.

(Discord was the name of the villain on the show… I think. Never seen more than half an episode myself.)

Complaining doesn’t make a Karen. Entitlement does.

But 95% of the time, they’ll just want the closest one. It’s a sensible default.

Jesus, people see nazis behind every blade of grass nowadays.

Pray tell, what is antisemitic about "YewTube?" Just that it's one letter away from "JewTube?" Sure, but if the creators intended to be antisemitic, why not just call it that then?

What a bizarre conclusion-jump. More than one person in the world is named Prager, you know.

Learn to mine coal?

If we are to have a strong federal government and borders, then we will have a distinction between non-citizen illegal immigrants and citizens, and people in each group will be held to different standards. I'm not saying it's right, but those families made a conscious choice to illegally cross a national border before they ended up in that situation. The Japanese internees were just living their lives.

Not sure what this has to do with the article. Did you post this comment on the wrong page or something?

To this day I am dumbfounded that Roosevelt is still as revered as he is. He had other problems like poor economic policy that probably prolonged the Great Depression, but you don't even need to look at any of that - the dude implemented an executive order which put American citizens into effective prisons with no due process, based only on their ethnicity. Trump, who I'm told is a racist and a fascist and so forth, never even tried to do anything close to that.

You want to start toppling statues and changing street names of dead white guys? Start with that one. What a creep.

> Called it here back when it launched. Streaming video of a slightly more powerful browser in a browser (electron) never made sense to me.

Wait, the client was an Electron app? Are you serious?

If so, this just goes from a poorly-executed idea to an outright fraud.

I wonder if there's some sort of implicit "you hype my product and I'll hype yours" deal that these people have.

I think the product in question is this: https://www.mightyapp.com/

It's basically Google Stadia for web browsers; do the computation and renderning in a far-away data center and stream the result as a video feed to a local thin client program. I suppose this is an idea that could work better for web browsers than video games, but modern web browsers and sites/"applications" require fewer resources than modern AAA video games by at least a tiny margin and the pricing just wasn't competitive.

I'd imagine it's a step up for someone who lived in an airport for 18 years.