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Fuck that cookie screen. Vice is one of the biggest offenders of the GDPR law. It’s outrageous that they expect me to manually untoggle hundreds of individual switches just to avoid being tracked and having my data shared with the entire multi-verse. At this point I prefer to avoid any Vice link.

I apologize for the rant.

> No substance, just a rant with absolutely zero data or meaningful insight.

How is your anecdotal evidence more valuable than the GP’s?

Would you please delete it? I shouldn't have replied in the first place.

> Third, they secretly deleted over a decade's worth of company chat history shortly before making the disastrous blog post. Why?

I can think of a reason. To protect employees who are not part of the woke mob from being “canceled” by the woke mob.

In Germany, I would still use Amazon over the local companies that have no idea what customer support is. Until they learn to care more about customers you really have no choice. I’ve banned German retailers in my household for that reason.

That would be great, but in that case governments can’t double- or triple-tax the same money. Governments are used to tax the same income multiple times and then complain when someone does shady stuff to avoid paying. For example:

Sale -> VAT -> Corporate Tax -> Employment and social security taxes -> Dividend and capital gains tax

This particular situation has nothing to do with tax havens. Amazon is employing tax avoidance practices such as building up losses in Luxembourg to prevent paying corporate tax. You can do this in any country.

I am not in favor of Biden’s proposal as it would only impact small companies or start-ups who can’t afford to employ teams of accountants only to report and pay profits in each country where they have sales. Look at the mess that the EU VAT reporting system is. It’s totally unattractive for small, honest businesses. Biden is basically proposing the same thing, only for corporate tax.

And Ctrl + 9 will always take you to the last tab.

Depending on what you do, Go will suffice for 99,999% of use cases. Since I know Go, I would never start another project in Node. Also, I would never reach for Rust except for very specific cases when low level control over memory is needed. And that means probably never.

Since I value simplicity, productivity and ease of deployment, I would say that Go is the best server language out there.

Now, if you‘re learning for the job market, probably Node is king, even though Go is constantly gaining popularity.

Waiting for a chess competition where the winner doesn’t necessarily/always win. Extrapolating the logic used by the said school, losing at chess doesn’t account for the systemic reasons for which players fail.

> Too often, says the lesson plan, "students have to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and if they fail it is their fault." This approach is wrong because it "does not give room for the systemic reasons students fail."

Non-welfare states also have infrastructure, so no worry about that.

I pay for my own healthcare insurance, as healthcare is not free in Germany. So your points are invalid as far as I’m concerned.

You’re saying it like everyone can’t wait to live in a welfare state and having to provide for the “welfare” of others. I for one am not looking for anything else than good healthcare.

There’s nothing “tilted” for life when you struggle to make ends meet while paying sky-high rent and having no prospects of ever owning your home.

This is already the 5th submission on the topic in less than 24h.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=figjam

I still don’t see the link between what you say and this rust tutorial.

> Oh and also - it’s a trap. Microsoft are not friends of free software.

How does a freely available tutorial on a programming language have anything to do with someone's position on free software?

Curious, what are those laws and regulations that apply in Berlin and are different from any other german city?

> And flights costing 29 EUR are simply a market failure

That’s actually the market working as intended. In the case of flights you have competition which drives the price down, in the case of trains you mostly have a monopoly of the national operator which increases prices each year (DB, Germany). Train prices are prohibitively high, and when I face the choice I always end up driving vs taking the train (the price advantage grows larger with the number of people travelling).

For some reason, the gods of HN don’t want this topic to reach front page. Yes, it’s political, yes, it’s divisive, but judging by the original thread it seems like there is interest for this topic in this community.

There shouldn’t be any “sensitive” issues in a university context. These “universities” look more like re-education centers than educational institutions.

All those “sensitive” issues are plain ideological ideas and some people want those ideas to prevail by suppressing all conversation around them.

> On November 26, this suggestion became a mandate: The student was informed that he must be evaluated by psychological services before returning to classes.

You know that something’s wrong when someone is forced to be psychologically evaluated for asking uncomfortable questions. This entire story looks like something straight out of a dystopia.

When I go to bed, I think about how I’m going to wake up next morning and have a hot cup of coffee, a marvelous breakfast and brush my teeth before sitting in the comfy armchair that I have next to the couch in my medium-sized living room. Then, when I wake up, I do all those things that I have in mind that I went to bed with, that I dreamed about while sleeping in my large wooden bed that I inherited from my grandmother who is not with us anymore.

I loved my grandmother, we’ve spent such a great time together as we used to do our daily walks in the green park in front of our house and we watched all those dogs running around and birds chirping, while enjoying our ice-cream that we had acquired from the shop around the corner.

Then I wake up, and I go on Hacker News to read about all those interesting and innovative things that happen around me all the time, while my little dog wags his tail and watches me as I click every link on the front page.

Thank you for reading this.

Pro tip: Jump to paragraph 11 to skip the life story of the random person and get to the point.

> Whatever happened to technologists fixing problems with technology?

That ended when they got into politics.

I disagree, most of the countries with booming populations are rather poor and don’t do much innovation or research. In the age we live in it’s almost impossible for a lone wolf to fix a big problem of the humankind because of complexities involved. What is necessary instead is team work and funding innovation. Individuals don’t count as much anymore.

What about the hardware? Are they temporarily licensing me the console?

What happens with your Steam Machine if Steam decides to pull the plug for whatever reason?

That would be a good opportunity for a class action lawsuit. They should normally release a software update to allow users play their games without a PSN connection.

That would probably be the only way of doing it. And you would have to give Google a 3 months notice to remove a photograph from your album.

Because it‘s good for business for left-wing politicians. If they didn‘t stir the shit up by means of data skewed in their favor, we‘d all be living more satisfying lives.