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This is a bit of a fairytale. Probably true for a certain subset of high earning westerners. Not true in general.

British class definitions are not at all the same as American ones. At least as traditionally defined, upper class pretty much meant you were in the titled aristocracy.

Not the heckin doggos :((

Certainly most of the independent internet.

It's the old IBM thing. If your website goes down along with everyone else's because of Cloudflare, you shrug and say "nothing we could do, we were following the industry standard". If your website goes down because of on-prem then it's very much your problem and maybe you get to look forward to an exciting debrief with your manager's manager.

Cloudflare'nt

The terminal remains an extremely compelling computing environment in spite of its limitations and fifty years of technical debt. As anachronistic as arcane escape codes and box drawing characters seem in $CURRENT_YEAR, the fact remains that nothing has arisen to fill its niche.

Yes, that's the point they're making. Arguably US citizens are more complicit in the crimes of Israel than Iranians are in the crimes of Russia since Americans have more capacity to choice their leadership.

I wasn't being sarcastic? I heard they're making a new Koenigsegg and I'm genuinely concerned that without corporate sponsorship it might be out of his price range.

Glad to see them sponsoring struggling indie developers like DHH.

Given that this is Hacker News, I think it is worth pointing out that Durham's strong suit traditionally is the humanities. In my opinion a CS degree from Oxford, Cambridge, or ICL is considerably more impressive than one from Durham.

Not saying the theory is bunk but I think that basically everything about this on Wikipedia is written and illustrated by the researcher who devised the theory. So it's that guy.

My heart bleeds.

Yeah bro I'm sure you know more about handling precious manuscripts than a Cambridge University archivist.

You think at the time they openly said they were trying to take the vote from black people? Or did they say exactly what you're saying now, that they were simply trying to ensure that only smart and educated people could vote.

I'm not even American and yet where I'm from it's common knowledge that literacy tests were used to systematically disenfranchise black people from voting.

My Danish is not very good but I read Politiken sometimes and it seems quite good.

I doubt it will be sold in the US, there is not really any appetite for small cars with limited range.

There's healthy scepticism, and then there's wondering whether VW can do volume production of hatchbacks.

true

> just rewards

* liberalised labour market rewards

unless you think there is inherent moral justice in being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to write software

No one ever asked us that which is good because I don't think either of us would have been much impressed by the suggested :p

I have my own mildly amusing story of breaking systems with my name. I have a twin with the same first initial. Any time we had to use a system at school which constructed usernames from some combination of first initial, surname, and date of birth, only one account would be provisioned between the two of us.

It became almost a ritual in the first term of the school year for us to make a visit to IT Support and request a second account... there was always a bit of contention between us about who got the 'proper' username and who got the disambiguated one!

It's the natural extension of the startup ideology to non-software industries. How many times on this website have you seen 'founders' be celebrated for doing 'epic demo hacks' at least this fraudulent? How many tech startups achieve massive valuations with a broken product and a totally hypothetical pathway to profitability?

It's easy to see through this showmanship when the product is a car. So why not when the product is software?

I'm pretty sure it's a very wide angle camera and the operator is panning through the recording in a software viewer.

What a life, huh?

Captain, you're 84!

Sure, the Aeroflot Sukhoi crash a few years back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgWSwbXMehI

I was recommended to do it by my Year 3 (age 7/8) teacher because my handwriting was so poor.

It was on the day he died, too.

Sounds like a really good way to get a robust implementation of a fiddly and novel algorithm.