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Don't be fooled by the rain of downvotes that some comments are getting: the HN crowd is incredibly biased towards hyped stuff and CV-driven development.

I worked in FAANGS where simplicity really mattered over hype.

> there is nothing wrong with advertising per se, it's a natural part of a free market economy.

There is plenty wrong. Even Adam Smith's purely theoretical concept of "free market" requires buyers and sellers to be purely rational actors and be fully and correctly informed.

Advertising has one goal: making customers less rational and more biased towards a given product.

> getting your app into repository isn't really easier than getting it into app store ... and good luck if you're trying to make money from the app.

Good. That's why the quality is so high.

> when does it make sense to track anything against trader bonuses

It's another a measure of the ever increasing inequality in some countries.

Such topic that certainly impacts the life of people commenting on HN.

> Let's say people thought Bozo the Clown invented the printing press

People write articles to provide information. Reader read the article and learn.

> When did tombert assume that poor = "crazy" = criminal?

It's implied here:

"I think being really broke greatly hinders your ability to think rationally."

...by putting that sentence out alone without clarifying the context.

> psychological pathways

> unfairly reify

Are you feeling ok?

> that's not why we remember him

99% of people believe that he single-handedly invented the press with movable type. Ask around.

No, there are no backports of security fixes for the applications.

Browsers don't block any homecalling either.

> I think being really broke greatly hinders your ability to think rationally.

No: being really broke can cause a lot of anxiety that can lead to irrational behavior.

But often a person has to choose between homelessness and crime and picks the latter as a rational choice, given the alternative.

So please don't assume poor = "crazy" = criminal, it's a bit unkind.

As a non-native speaker I might make other grammatical errors but not the ones related to phonetics.

Often I found more difficult to understand English written by native speakers than by others because of that.

> Is it even possible to do anything else? I can’t imagine keyboards report their physical layout..

You can easily ask the OS what layout is being used or even ask the user.

What do you need exactly? OS packages or tarballs are more than enough most of the time.

> #ffffff is the color of looking directly into the sun and absolutely painful bright, #000000 is the color of the deepest, starless night

No. There's no definition of what they map to.

That's why we need USERS to be able to scale the ranges of brightness and contrast.

My environment changes during the day. I want to be the one in control of my screen, not some random website.

Epub can do all sort of homecalling / user tracking using HTML or CSS or javascript.

What's even worse - almost all Epub readers don't do proper sandboxing.