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I thought people were paying for Mullvad for a service. "Oh, my money is going to fund a political party I disagree with". You pay for a service, and thinking you now have a say on how the service provider decides to use the money they've received is such hubris. "But instead of using the money I gave the company to buy healthy food for his kids, he chose to buy processed food. I'm out." It's sad, almost immature.
Re:Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024) on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @07:31PM (#47682677)
Missing some graffiti.
Rename it to "Make it Soviet".
Re:Jerome Powell Responds on Monday January 12, 2026 @05:47PM (#46595281)
"In every case, I have carried out my duties without political fear or favor, focused solely on our mandate of price stability and maximum employment."

I take any claims of absolute neutrality with a huge grain of salt. Besides, he's an unelected bureaucrat. He can only pretend to represent the interests of the people.

Re:Penpot: The Open-Source Figma on Thursday November 27, 2025 @03:40PM (#46073063)
I'm glad that at times like these, I switched to Brave browser on all of my platforms (desktop and mobile). I can't recommend it enough.
Re:Tiny electric motor can produce more than 1,000 horsepower on Monday November 03, 2025 @06:37PM (#45805804)
Having that on a e-bike would be wild.
Should we ever consider broad societal harm, or just focus on individual harm? It's to me just short sighted to only consider the later.
I'm not sure that can be applied consistently. Would you say the same about heads of drug cartels or human trafficking rings (not equating these to Kim, as I'm sure you understand)?
Re:GitHub Is Down on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @07:34PM (#41251771)
Yep, angry unicorn. If the copilot debacle wasn't reason enough to make people migrate or diversify the code repo efforts with, let's say, GitLab, this should.
Re:Suspicious data pattern in recent Venezuelan election on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @11:16PM (#41125835)
It will be interesting to see if they release the tallies by region, on how those number will match with the overall result.
Oh, look, the moment decisions don't go the way I agree with, we throw democracy and institutions out of the window. Who's a "threat to democracy" now?

Good on you!

Re:Obituary for a Quiet Life on Sunday April 14, 2024 @06:45PM (#40035170)
A nice personification of the common man from G.K. Chesterton, like uncountable others we will never hear about outside our own real life circles.
I think we have to make a discernment between operating and manufacturing when referring to knowing "how it works". The pilot needs to understand how a plane will behave on the fundamental level when given a set of instructions. A develop should have that understanding as well (and that's coming from a person who's been through CS, but have lost a lot of that understanding).
Nobel prize recognising effort and intent, not outcome. Didn't stop infection. Didn't stop transmission. Adverse effects overlooked and long term ones unknown.
Re:Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @05:08PM (#36779125)
Well, haven't you noticed how the DIE cult is already all over entertainment? Sports teams kneeling down because of "oppression" and pop culture being absolutely dominated by sex and violence propaganda? Specially those being produced targeting the "minorities".

It's a brave new world.

Re:Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @04:17PM (#36778513)
In the name of progressivism, epistemology in humanities has been dismantled, and business schools soon after were captured by the DIE (diversity, inclusion, equity) religion.

Finally the demented Paulo Freire idolaters are coming for stem fields. Let's see if the push back is too little, too late, or if there's hope. Otherwise, do tutoring or homeschool your children.

Edit: and of course, the result of those last 2 proposed actions will be that the gap between social economically well off kids with good structured families and those in difficulty will soar sky high. And progressives will use that increased gap to double down on asinine policies.

How about "ChatGPT will fabricate rhetoric regardless of logic or truthfulness"? Which just makes me think ChatGPT could replace a great majority of politicians.
Using Brave Browser and never looked back. I use MSEdge for work stuff (client testing as it's their default). It was vanilla, but recently I had to install uBlock (minimum).

It was too unbearable to do a simple search for some technical info and end up on a website that would LITERALLY slow the OS as a whole due to spike on Edge's CPU and memory usage.

Re:YouTube takes down independent court livestreams on Monday November 15, 2021 @10:18PM (#29236349)
How big of an Ice cube? As big as a brick? Yes, can be just as deadly and a coble stone.
Re:TSMC hikes chip prices up to 20% amid supply shortage on Thursday August 26, 2021 @05:05PM (#28320766)
Market forces at play. Good on them. Move along, nothing to see here.
Re:All public GitHub code was used in training Copilot on Thursday July 08, 2021 @05:35PM (#27777879)
The way I see it is that MS has probably put as much financial investment in the development of this product as in the research of legalities regarding its release with its highly paid legal army. To expect a multi billion dollar company to not do its due diligence seems naive.

Maybe this could spark a discussion to change the current rules that allow them to do this, but questioning the current legality to me is a waste of time.

Re:UMN CS&E Statement on Linux Kernel Research on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @08:13PM (#26897055)
I'm still expecting the: “We apologize again for the fault in the commits. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked have been sacked.” - UMN CS&E
Re:Thomas Sowell interview on Monday August 03, 2020 @07:06PM (#24044552)
They are the anointed ones of which Thomas talks about in https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3044.The_Vision_of_the_A...
Now with MS Edge, wouldn't it be an option just to move to its store and flip Google off? Just a thought.
Well, now with MS Edge, wouldn't it be an option to move to its store and flip Google off? Just a thought.