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New comment by _1gwx in "Big tech companies are at war with employees over remote work"

_1gwx — Tue, 03 Aug 2021 01:59:43 +0000

I am actually in a very similar position to yours and agree with most of your points. I also assume you are in tech. I don't know what the immigration situation as a whole is, but I'm not sure tech is a good example of immigrants driving salaries down. Also, isn't it technically illegal for a company to pay the immigrant less? Rather than imposing limits on immigration, which I think is what the average conservative mindset would push for, I'd argue that companies should be punished for exploiting their workers -- regardless of where they come from.

New comment by _1gwx in "How to summon and sell your soul to Satan and other devils"

_1gwx — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 16:00:30 +0000

We're not "innocently" dabbling with it, we're all experts here on HN.

New comment by _1gwx in "A privacy war is raging inside the W3C"

_1gwx — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 02:40:05 +0000

It's not just search advertising, that was in the early 2000s. Their business now is to profile you anywhere, anytime. That's why they bought Youtube, Android, Fitbit, and the reason for their every move.

New comment by _1gwx in "A privacy war is raging inside the W3C"

_1gwx — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 21:14:07 +0000

I thought Korean soap operas were good until I read this article. What a whole bunch of unnecessary drama. The W3C always appeared to be one of the most dysfunctional entities in existence, and now the article leaves no question as to why.

Funny this Rosewell guy. "Should web browsers really become implementation mechanisms of specific government regulation?" -- Isn't everything a mechanism of specific government regulation? We seem to have an autocrat in the making here who would prefer the Web existed in isolation of civilization and where he could squeeze out that ad cash unhindered by government regulations. Given that he likes to ask philosophical questions, perhaps he could ask himself why the Web is being regulated in the first place.

It's also funny how in the article, the only people who seem to actually care about privacy are the non-profits advocating for it and the government regulators fighting antitrust.

New comment by _1gwx in "Please disable JavaScript to view this site"

_1gwx — Sun, 29 Nov 2020 18:03:15 +0000

But you do get the irony, right? It's like a browser is not for reading by default anymore, like stepping into a car and putting it in "car mode".

New comment by _1gwx in "Which colour scheme is better?"

_1gwx — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 23:32:37 +0000

'X is "better", based on "science"'

New comment by _1gwx in "Airbus Chooses GNAT Pro Ada for Development of Unmanned Aerial System"

_1gwx — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 03:55:27 +0000

Not an expert in ADA, but after playing around with it for a while, I don't know why this language doesn't get more praise. It seems to solve a lot of the memory problems Rust solves, albeit in a different way. Its first-class arrays and strong type system seem to go a long way into not having to deal with pointers often, for example. These "features" today would likely be considered part of "a better C", except that none of this is even new; ADA dates all the way back to the 80s. And then ADA/Spark allows for formal verification, which C/Rust do not have to my understanding.

Why is ADA not adopted more broadly?