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Sorry for getting all political on this but we need to stop associating success only with financial wealth.

He is successful at amassing billions of dollars. From my point of view, his success in the grand scheme of things is below zero. His actions have degraded quality of life and hurt future generations.

Well if we didn't have an economy that makes us replace everything every year (an exaggeration but you get the point), we wouldn't care about the expensiveness.

We already have good enough technology that a phone should last us 10 years at least without having issues with the performance. The only problem is having replaceable batteries.

We need to move back towards things that last and backwards compatibility. Then it would make sense to pay $1000 or even $2000 on a phone, since you know it works perfectly and it'll last you 10-20 years.

So she lived in a nursing home for 10 years but still didn't let the guy live in the apartment? I know she had the right to it but come on...

> he outlawed private ownership of gold

So if you buy gold in the US, you are actually renting it from the government or something?

I've seen this in an older version of NFS on PC. I can't remember which one it was (I think Underground?). The way they always caught up with me when they were behind was insane.

I actually tried a bit to look back and see it happen beacuse, I was wondering, do they just teleport or actually drive at like 800km/h.

I dunno, I'd see it as the opposite. The bigger the scale the more cost effective it is to have more redundancy. I can't remember the last time Google search wasn't working or saw news about it being down.

The fact that github keeps going down while being a huge business shows they still need to work on having more redundancy, something that's expected of big services like theirs.

I was thinking the same thing. We need a permission system for websites. Preferably useable on a per-domain basis so I can disable those APIs on adnetworks' domains.

> Minimum requirement: Eligible to work in the United States

Damn

By looking at that I'm thinking that maybe their spamming is the reason for the limit in the first place.

Exactly the problem the author is writing about: because of the way the system works - people are striving to make money, not value.

We could create a political body that is outside any of the countries. Everyone that agrees to be part of it will have to respect its decisions.

Once this is setup the world will be united. We can then call it the United Countries or something like that. It's going to be great!

Or 15MB out of those 18MB are the 100 ad libraries bundled in that serve weird/dubious ads at best.

> "Church of the Byte Savers"

I like that. I see people preaching how we've become accustomed to large drive space and fast internet and we're just wasting it all out of laziness.

Kind of like the post Muad'dib Fremen that got soft on water discipline.

I've been working as a programmer for more than 6 years now.

I still think my best work is a graphical library I built in 9th grade in assembly to use with my Pascal programs in MSDOS.

  mov ax, 13h
  int 10h      ;SCREEN 13 rules!!!