Glavnokoman

How do you do that? Directly into currency or in china-traded stocks? Which broker do you use for that?

yeah... and it would be great if decrease in quantity would come with increase of quality. People themselves, their life conditions, human life appreciation all that stuff you know. (Cause I do not understand why would somebody want 2x of fat dolts).

Half of software you mentioned is just garbage inside. And it will never be rewritten simply because it happens to work good enough to discourage any serious investment in rewriting it.

Here! I'd say it is most of the time the bad code.

Same here. And every time that was a mistake and the fork sucks.

Why not? It is very young (on countries scale) and burns money of investors without producing much value. Typical startup.

No. I do not think he's implying it is a bad thing by itself. Instead he explicitly says that those are the people who try to solve their problems at expense of others.

Amazing. Kind of a gem that still keeps me subscribed to HN.

Just read the article. That particular "source of information" is one-sided at least. I guess on Russian side that's still an overreaction but the country is at war (although they claim the opposite) so its... hmm... natural?

Apparent reason is losing hope to monetize the product. They literally do not care how popular or beloved it is. In the end it is the business and not a charity foundation.

Go to defense sector. They are darn honest about what they are doing. They are doing no nonsense, guaranteed to be some interesting stuff. And killing people is the best thing you can do for environment. Space can also be an option.

"Plus the whole modern hardware comment is not well founded, since I like..." That is exactly the essence of Linus comment. If some people choose to do something that does not mean the rest needs to accommodate. 80 chars limit is just ridiculous in 2021.

"In reality, the biggest source of water pollution is farming, followed by sewage" That's from the article. I do not see how the proposed wealth redistribution would make people eat and shit less. Accept it - we are just tooooo many. Rich are not the problem. Poor are, cause there are more of them and they breed faster.

"The government making a value judgement about what type of commercial activity is worthwhile is extremely risky" Bullshit. That's what government is for. It already forbids commercial activities as robbery, stealing, fraud etc. If they put crypto into the same basket I wouldn't cry much.

Where do you get the number of 4 billion? I mean I think that is still too many but I really wonder how you calculate that.