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If you want to meet pro-palestinians that don't have cartoonishly stereotyped opinions I suggest meatspace and not online.

Really? With GNOME Boxes it's pretty straightforward. I hear KDE is getting an equivalent soon, too.

You can do GPU passthrough in a Gnome box, as in, your VM can see the host's GPU (let's say Nvidia) and it works exactly the same as on the host? Or another metric is if you can run Photoshop in a VM with full hardware acceleration. I haven't tried Gnome box in particular, but this isn't what I'm seeing when I search.

The comment you linked is one of the most misunderstood comments on this site, which makes sense because it's one of the most cited comments on this site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23229275

This probably isn't even the best dang comment about the situation, it's just the one I could find quickly.


I don't see what's misunderstood about it, but also it's not right to make fun of the user for it.

Because it's only silly sounding because of hindsight. With today's context of file sync applications being a huge industry, that comment seems silly. But that was the prevailing opinion at the time. Check out this blog post: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2008/05/01/architecture-astro...

>Jeez, we’ve had that forever. When did the first sync web sites start coming out? 1999? There were a million versions. xdrive, mydrive, idrive, youdrive, wealldrive for ice cream. Nobody cared then and nobody cares now, because synchronizing files is just not a killer application. I’m sorry. It seems like it should be. But it’s not.

That's just what a lot of competent people thought back then. It seems hilariously out of touch now.


But it wasn't my opinion at the time, and I didn't hear from those people. I was in middle school, kids were commonly frustrated syncing their homework to/from a flash drive, family members wanted to sync photos, and everyone wanted something like this.

Before Dropbox, the closest thing we had was "the dropbox," a default network-shared write-only folder on Mac. Of course you could port-forward to a computer at home that never sleeps, but I knew that wasn't a common solution. I started using Dropbox the same month it came out.


I'm happy for you :)

Surely you don't think the executives at Ford expect us to Power Stroke without FORScan?

Ford’s own software is called FDRS.

Forscan was developed independently by some Russian gentlemen, probably with plenty of reference to FDRS/IDS internals.


It's interesting to think about how much money is spent on advertising every election cycle, and how much that influences the outcome of the election.

I'd be curious to see analysis of election spend vs outcomes. Bloomberg's failed run comes to mind though...


Moby Dick seems to be very love-it-or-hate-it. Some people can't make it through two pages; some people can't put it down once they start.

If I'm a working class person without much in the way of assets, what does preparing even mean here?

Oppose government actions that restrict free speech and free press. Do not assume that free elections are an independent variable that don't depend free speech and a free press.

From the personal safety viewpoint, the single best thing you can do as an American today is leave the country. Being working class without much in the way of assets precludes the more lucrative destinations, but there are still many countries out there that are pretty easy to emigrate to, even if quality of life there is lower than what US can offer today.

And where do you go to? Have a look around, most of this planet is screwed up at this point beyond repair.

To any country with a reasonably stable political system and society that is not bitterly divided. Ideally also the one that is not significantly involved in any major geopolitical power struggles, and is self-sufficient when it comes to basics (i.e. can feed itself if needed).

For example, New Zealand.


Can't say it here without getting flagged.

Where did you learn that it contributes to the deficit?

Do people actually think deep dish is the only kind of pizza people eat in Chicago? I thought that was a meme.

Where does it go from here? It seems grim.

Hopefully new upstarts with a vision for quality.

It seems that every brand starts out with noble intentions, then after rising to meteoric success, they get gutted and we have to wait for the new, high quality up start.


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