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Remember, it's important to not discuss politics on Hacker News. Politics being things like "Is the current government threatening to put people in prison if they don't do them political favors?"

You know, just politics.

Because if you're a startup, you probably don't want to deal with something like that. You want something that "just works."

It doesn't have to be formal. Everyone does this today, and keeps a kind of list of debts in their head. "Bob asked me to help him move this weekend, and I really don't want to, but he helped me move last year."

If you don't repay your social debts, you're going to find yourself getting a lot less favors done for you, and having a lot less friends in general.

I was in the market for an Android phone a few months after the Essential came out, and bought it at a much-reduced price. As others have said, it was a really nice phone except for the camera.

I'm not sure exactly why it failed. I remember showing a friend a picture on my phone once. His eyes opened wide and said, "That phone is all screen!" He was amazed by it, in an era when most phones still had big bezels.

You are aware that people can have multiple jobs, right? It's very common for poorer people especially

The iPhone

How would an attack on a git repo work? You create a repo with identical hashes but different content and next time the user clones from scratch they get your modified version?

Microsoft products get supported basically forever. But they're not cool/trendy.

I don't think that's necessarily woman-specific. I'm a guy, and if I could stay at home all day and spend time with my kids, I would too. Certainly, I would if my wife was making 330k/year :D

Oh, and if you try to organize people speaking up, you'll be fired.

Which I still prefer to YouTube music, it's theoretical replacement

In fact, it's sometimes the only way to get help

It's good PR too. This really makes me appreciate GitHub that much more

I think Brave is fine, but the important difference between the two is that Brave is Chromium, and ultimately dependent on Chromium development. Firefox is 100% independent, and a true "third party" browser implementation. With Microsoft/Edge switching to Chromium I think that's more important than ever.

Ugh. Good to know, thanks.

EDIT: I said I used IPVanish mostly because the EFF endorsed them, but someone pointed out below they got caught logging. I suppose that would explain why they're not endorsed on the EFF VPN page anymore. So, I guess time to find a new VPN. :(

I mean, if someone was constantly making me feel uncomfortable at my job, and hitting on me even after I'd ask them to stop, I'd tell my boss and would quit if it wasn't dealt with. If enough people complained and/or quit, that person would eventually be let go. That's just life.

I didn't mean "not taking no for an answer" in the sense that he'd get mad or force himself. I mean in the sense that people would tell him they weren't interested, and he'd just keep hitting on them.

I agree that based on this single email alone, it would be shocking for someone to be forced out. On the other hand, apparently RMS has had a long history of making women feel uncomfortable around him, and not taking "no" for an answer. I feel like this is probably something that's been building for a time, and this letter might have just been the straw that broke the camel's back. It wasn't that bad in and of itself, but it's just the latest thing.

Most of the people around the campus probably don't think of him as "RMS, open source evangelist," they think of him as "RMS, that creepy guy who keeps hitting on people even after they ask him to stop." In that context, this letter can be read in a much worse light.

I don't know. Have you ever read Stallman's appearance requirements[1]? I mean, yeah, it's probably a joke. But I wouldn't be shocked it it were true either.

[1] https://github.com/ddol/rre-rms/blob/master/rider.txt

This article takes me back. I remember being pro-trillion dollar coin, if it came to issuing that or defaulting. Too bad Obama didn't know what Trump does: obeying the law is optional for the president.

Considering the Ghostbusters were operating an unlicensed nuclear reactor, I actually think the EPA was right in that movie.

Maybe they shouldn't have used an on- premise lisence in the cloud in the first place

Freedom of speech is not unlimited. Different countries set it in different places. In the US there aren't many limits, beyond the old "shouting 'fire!' in a crowded theater" thing. But in Germany you can't deny the holocaust, for instance.

Maybe we as a society need to decide that some things are just beyond the pale. Trying to indoctrinate young people into ideologies of hatred doesn't promote free and open discourse, it shuts it down. Let's just take sites like his off the Internet - nothing of value will be lost.

One of my old friends got sucked down the rabbit hole of YouTube conspiracies. Someone who was once fairly normal now believes in all kinds of crazy things, including flat Earth. It's definitely a growing belief.

Considering we actually have internet connected teapots now, I wonder if any mass market products have implemented this.

>If you want to compete with Amazon, do something Amazon cannot do.

That doesn't sound like competing

I wonder if Uber is going to turn out to be a MoviePass

As of right now, the stock price has dropped even further to $37. This is a brutal day for Uber stock holders.

Crappy vanilla gives real vanilla ice cream a bad name