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Websites are funded by open source. Open source developers didn’t give it all away to reduce the cost of ad delivery.

The author believes Mullvad is sincere about security. I don't believe that's true for other VPN providers.

Are you interested in traveling to conferences?

Article says data is anonymized before dev use. Pretty standard practice.

Nice site but would look more pro if the spelling errors were corrected.

Using the title is a little more than paying a fee. I have an MSc in CS from a Canadian University and that doesn't get me very close to a P.Eng.

I remember migrating job titles from SW Engineer to SW Developer for this reason. Over 20 years ago, Alberta specifically.

Hard to imagine loss leader birds are raised in acceptable conditions. The article mentions Costco is being sued over this.

Customer support doesn’t scale so it is minimized. Stripe is not unique in this regard.

Looks fun. I only have positive nostalgia for a couple of my CS courses and compiler construction is one of them.

I wish they wouldn't break the back button by inserting a redirect when you visit via a search engine.

Browser anti-fingerprinting tools may alter the timezone. Mine does.

It's one conventional blood marker, widely used in medicine. Not suspicious IMO.

Brave blocks YT ads for me.

Maybe I just hate money but IMO there are no good cashback schemes. A merchant-to-consumer wealth transfer that piggybacks on every transaction? Has a smell of fraud or corruption but not stinky enough for American regulators. Good job to the EU on this one.

It's unethical. As unethical firms are powered by unethical people, I wouldn't consider a job applicant with work history in this sector (e.g. AirBnB engineers need not apply if I'm the hiring manager).

I found the summary accurate, at least from my knowledge of the treatment of indigenous people in Canada (the subject of this HN post).

Good read. After reading this article I picked up Moitessier's memoir of the race. Since simplification and minimalism were key to his philosophy, it stood out that he almost ended his race for lack of a radio (he crashed into another ship trying to get close enough to communicate). At a dozen points or more he expresses distress at not being able to send communications, relying on the goodwill of other ships encountered at sea.

Not really. All shareholders are paid out in proportion to share ownership. Musk’s share goes to Twitter.

At my local supermarket debit was down but credit card (Visa) was working.

Seems like some assumptions baked in there. Each working half-time would be more equitable and probably a more resilient arrangement.

The article, and people in general, don’t seem to acknowledge that consumption has increased as well. For example my 795sqft house would not be on the radar of most families but it was typical for the area when it was built in 1946. Productivity gains have been directed to increased consumption rather than leisure as Keynes envisioned. If you ask people how much is enough, the answers are often laughable.

To be explicit, I don’t think individual consumption explains the whole story (e.g. inequality and wealth distribution) but normalizing for it paints a clearer picture.

Without loginwall:

https://nitter.net/hodlKRYPTONITE/status/1536902115540742144

Putting servers in Canada is a good idea but Vancouver is in the same seismic zone as San Francisco.

Good to hear. Today I used my 2010 scandium Kona for the first time this year. Has a creaking noise I need to track down.

I'm not wed to GPL specifically but I feel better if the license is tested rather than theoretical so cases like this are a step forward. Without getting into details, I've released BSD-licensed software that has been used in commercial products and integrated into the surveillance apparatus (without my knowledge or consent). A copyleft license would have made that more difficult so the stronger the better IMO.

Great. I'm even more likely to use GPL now (which is a complete 180 from my early days where I would only consider BSD or MIT).