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I think the answer is much simpler: at the time Windows was created, no one in their most sadistic totalitarian dream could have imagined such evil as an app store.

I like powdered instant coffee with condensed milk, now kill me.

Apparently they made a truce, Russia stopped blocking Telegram recently.

Windows is Microsoft own product. Anyone can run anything on it without anyone's permission.

This is extremely flawed reasoning, and I'm sad to see a comment of this low quality on HN. Tether's valuation is based on free market trade. If an insider knew they are not 100% backed, he has a billion dollars incentive to short the trade and then drop the bomb. However that has not happened.

Cleaning fee is actually a discount on longer stays. Hotels offer such discounts too.

When it lifts something, it can apply the force gradually. When that force approaches the tipping limit, it would abandon the lift.

Most people think Bitcoin is a gambling chip, but it is first and foremost a new form of money. Let me repeat Bitcoin's benefits:

- You can pay anyone and been paid by anyone without anyone's permission. Not so with government money.

- Can't be counterfeited. You don't need to check the bills under UV light, no need to check if your gold bullion has lead or copper inside.

- Can't be inflated

- No one can take it from you. No one even knows that you have it and how much.

- Safe for merchants. If they got it, they got it, no risk of transaction being reversed because the shopper paid by a stolen credit card. Because of that, merchant doesn't need to ask for your name, phone number, home address and other information required to sue you in case of a fraud. So the shopper in turn enjoys better privacy.

- With second layer solution in place, such as Lightning Network, transactions will be fast, cheap and private. We are not there yet, but will be in a few years.

Except there was no faked value injected anywhere, all tethers are 100% backed by USD in the bank. The reports are fake news. If it were not so, the freely traded tether/USD value would be below 1, but it isn't, it's traded at exactly 1.

Doesn't work against China and Russia ... doesn't really work even against Venezuela.

He might be right. There is a considerable work being done currently on Bitcoin to improve it's transaction throughput, speed, privacy and fees. Once it's done, in a year or two, Bitcoin will have great utility as a modern form of money.

What prevents government from paying their bills, rent and loans forever? Warren Buffett said that US gov can never go bankrupt because it owns the printing press.

So what, out of fear to earn too little interest (0.25%), risk to lose 50% of your investment? +0.25% looks better than -50% to me. Don't see a rational logic here. Though humans have been shown to be irrational, especially in a group.

I think Satoshi Nakamoto used double VPN. Haven't been found yet, in spite of EXTENSIVE search efforts.

But people routinely buy insurance, and it's considered a right and moral thing to do. Though the math is exactly the same as with the lottery. Statistically, odds are unfavorable. But it buys peace of mind, so people pay.

For example, in some cases (I won't specify for the fear of being cancelled) your chance of becoming rich by your skills is exactly zero, and you know it. Chance of winning the lottery is small, but higher than zero.

What's the big difference for a driver? It's still the same time, same gas and miles put on the car. True, the food won't throw up in his car, but he should get out of the car to pick up the order, often has to wait at the counter.

How is that in the US there are always monopolies everywhere? Where I live, there are at least 10 different car sharing apps, and there is an app that lets you see which app offers better rates for a given destination. I think it has something to do with regulatory culture.

If delivery costs the same as an average Uber ride, say, $10, it makes every order under $100 unprofitable. An average food order is way below that, I think. So the math doesn't add up.

Confirm that. A lot of spam and SEO recently.

Truth is only important to us as long as it contributes positively to our well-being. This sort of mushrooms is edible and this one is poisonous - everyone would agree on that. As far as more abstract truths are concerned: people believed for centuries that the Earth is flat. Many still do. If you said otherwise, society would probably burn you for heresy, so the cost of truth was hugely negative.

Testing arose with the advent of PHP and JavaScript. Because compilers check nothing in these languages, testing must be written separately, otherwise it's impossible to make even a short program without errors.

I don't know about Linux Kernel, but in 99% of projects, 99% of commit messages are write-only.

But what if Alice is right and silent majority is wrong? I would say silent majority is mostly wrong in recent times.

confounding variables can't be quickly and cheaply measured, that's what IQ is - measuring all the confounding variables.

Apartment managers see credit score below X and reject an applicant. If they were to make their own decisions, it would be a legal liability. If they reject based on credit score and other non-protected criteria, they can't be sued.

Yes, it's not quite the same. One time update vs everyday bombarding with ads and popups and making it so that large percentage of WWW sites doesn't work with anything but Chrome.

Is amount of money in someone's bank account a subjective trait? IQ has been shown to correlate with income.

I can assure you weapon developers also think they benefit society. They usually say: WWIII did not happen only because of nuclear weapons. The question here is, what would benefit society more, spending said $21B on virology research or on a collider? Or maybe if you spend $21B on AI research, the computer will solve all the remaining theoretical problems of string theory in 0.21 s.

In fact, bias in statistical models has existed long before AI. For example, credit scores are biased, they will on average give lower score to a black person. So what is the politically correct solution here, to multiply credit scores by a certain factor based on race so average scores of all races are the same?