aboardRat4
Joined 2 years ago
Joined 2 years ago
X11 is here to stay, Wayland will never be ready. You can curse others as much as you want, people who need to do work will use X.
This is wrong.
In the UK, property rights are mostly leasehold, just as they are in Singapore for HDB flats.
The government _mandates_ that certain services be used. In which world does this rhyme with "capitalism"?
It's the first rule you learn after joining basically any organisation larger than 5 people.
People on HN who are surprised are seemingly self-employed prodigies who dropped out of middle school.
Suppose you married a partner and had a baby together. When the baby is 2 y.o. you find out that you don't love neither the baby nor the partner.
Should you be allowed to correct your mistake by killing the baby?
Not all mistakes can be corrected.
They disagree with Mullvad, but are fine with Mullvad saying that.
This is plain wrong. Obtaining citizenship literally means "our system decided that you assimilated enough". If that's not the case -- don't grant it.
Otherwise you're making citizenship useless as a concept.
It's not me who is making the market, it's the people who "create content": write posts, share music, take photos.
They are not doing that any more, because smartphones are luring their attention away.
Gatekeeping works when there are no other options.
I remember the time when the only people on the internet were people who could pay for an expensive toy (a computer) with a keyboard, which they used in the evenings after their education-intensive jobs. Ah, and also naive kids of the same people.
This age is not coming back, because the reason it disappeared is smartphones.