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ekc··on How an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure
You might find this paper interesting for a counter perspective. http://joelvelasco.net/teaching/3334/block99-how_heritabilit...

The person is biased and dismissing is a good option.

ekc··on Why does the Librem 5 phone cost that much?
Both.
ekc··on Why does the Librem 5 phone cost that much?
You're forgetting that developers exist.
ekc··on All Magic Leap Patents Have Been Assigned to J.P. Chase Morgan as Collateral
They released their product months ago.
ekc··on U.S. opens a national security review of TikTok’s acquisition of Musical.ly
> Most people probably realize it. What we need is for the American CEOs, financial elite, members of government that have investments in China...

The person you were originally replying to's comment.

ekc··on Blizzard Cancels Overwatch Event
This isn't relevant to the article.
ekc··on White House Weighs Limits on U.S. Portfolio Flows Into China
They are running rival concentration camps, I can't imagine the competition is welcome.
ekc··on Kiss – A Linux distribution with a focus on “less is more”
KISS is great. Been using it for two months. No complaints.
ekc··on Uber proposes policy that would pay drivers a minimum wage of $21 per hour
The goal is to force every other company to do it as well, protecting the long-term prospects of Uber. A smart thing, and possibly a good one in the short term.
ekc··on Introducing nushell
UNIX philosophy. You mean the UNIX philosophy.
ekc··on Video Game Preservation – An archive of commercial video game source code
The GPL is no less commercially friendly than the MIT, given it allows commercial usage, and explicitly protects commercial usage.
ekc··on Video Game Preservation – An archive of commercial video game source code
The GPL is a commercial-friendly license, and in fact, that's one of the freedoms it explicitly protects.
ekc··on A Walk in Hong Kong
No. You're either misinformed or intentionally lying.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/16/an-eye-for-an-...

https://www.reuters.com/news/picture/medic-shot-in-eye-durin...

ekc··on A Walk in Hong Kong
Ignoring that police shot a medical volunteer's eye out.
ekc··on Apple files lawsuit against Corellium for iOS emulation
That is what freedom of speech implies, yes.
ekc··on I feel like im talking to the borg
You can read Twitter.com in a browser.
ekc··on CutiePi – All-in-one Raspberry Pi tablet
If you had read the thread before commenting, you'd find that the developer of this used to work at Canonical, which lends them at least some credit.
ekc··on Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic
No, not for an online company, and especially not the exceptions it has.
ekc··on Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic
This is interesting, given Automattic has one of the...weirdest views on free speech there is today.

Near-absolute free speech, within the means of the law, with really odd exceptions.

ekc··on Technical Vision for Qt 6
I don't believe so, unless it's changed recently.
ekc··on Technical Vision for Qt 6
Blizzard launcher.
ekc··on We shouldn’t take peer review as the ‘gold standard’
Medium, The New York Times, and Washington Post all have easily circumventable paywalls, though I can't vouch for the other one you listed.
ekc··on Google search takes 7 seconds on certain queries
For me:

About 6,060,000,000 results (6.82 seconds)

ekc··on Hong Kong protests: 'I'm in Australia but I feel censored by Chinese students'
> Ms Fan and Ms Leung say such harassment has also continued off campus. They have found pictures of themselves being shared on Chinese social media sites next to threatening messages. Ms Fan said one comment warned she would "face consequences".

If anyone's there, or knows someone who's there who happens to be protesting this, you should probably recommend they wear Winnie the Pooh merchandise, or wear t-shirts mentioning the Tiananmen Square protests, for their own personal safety. This has already gone too far, fighting fire by taking advantage of censorship your opponents are defending with violence is the most rational thing to do.

ekc··on Launch HN: Tandem (YC S19) – A Virtual Office for Remote Teams
> What's unique about us is you can see what app your colleagues are working in (e.g. VS Code, Google Docs, Figma), which gives you a surprisingly clear sense of whether you can interrupt them or not. In fact, we've found it makes you feel like you're sitting around a table, without being overly invasive.

This seems like it could be invasive. Is it opt out?

ekc··on IBM Fired as Many as 100k in Recent Years, Lawsuit Shows
Haven't they gotten headlines for this almost every year for the past three decades?
ekc··on ColorForth (2009)
It's a purely functional language; how exactly is it influenced by the best parts of Forth, then?
ekc··on You’re Paying into a Broken System Whenever You Buy Something on iOS
> No it's not! I can run whatever software I want on Windows, Mac, Android and Chromium.

Just as you can on Safari!

ekc··on Report on Microsoft Office and Windows software: still privacy risks remaining
Office on iOS is free.
ekc··on More Older Couples Stay Together Because They Live Apart
They could just, not get married.
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