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I think it's insane to do three months of work without a backup. I get worried if I don't push my commits once a day.

On the other hand, I definitely agree with him that VSCode shouldn't delete files when it doesn't detect a git repo. And it should be clearer about what it's doing.

> Unfunded pensions are a ponzi scheme that should have never been allowed. I think there's a middle ground between fully funded and unfunded. Or maybe companies should be forced to buy "pension insurance." :) Or maybe it's just something we should have the government do (ie, Social Security).

The main problem with the USPS is that Congress has them operating as a semi-business, semi-public service. That is to say, Congress has told them "act like a business, and turn a profit." But they won't let the Post Office do the most basic of business-like things: set prices.

They can't raise stamp prices, they have draconian rules imposed on them about pension funding, etc. Now, I'm not against Congress artificially keeping stamp prices low - we can view that as a public service similar to roads (we don't expect the Highway Department to turn a profit). But we need to pick one or the other - either is a "government business" and needs to run like one or a public service where we expect a loss for public good. Asking for both gets us dysfunction. It's amazing the USPS is as good as it is, all things considered.

Fun fact: in Germany, they don't call them Grammar Nazis (obviously). Their word basically translates as "comma fuckers," which is way cooler.

I can't understand how a rational human woulc believe something so crazy.

Oh well, time to head back to Facebook and post a meme proving how Global Warming is a worldwide conspiracy between every government's climate scientist's.

This has nothing to do with the topic at hand, but I find it interesting how Conservatives have started to use the term "Politically Correct" to mean "thing I disagree with." Here it means, "scientific." He disagrees with the scientific opinion on the matter, but since it's something he opposes politically, then it is - to him - the "politically correct" opinion that humans cause global warming.

They didn't steal those $15-$18 million from EA, though. They got that money from other players. If they didn't deliver on the virtual coins, then yes, that would be fraud. If the virtual coins arrived as paid for, it wasn't fraud.

Let me put it another way. Let's say I sell my World of Warcraft account to another player. It violates Blizzard's TOS, but it's not illegal. I may have also obtained the characters on that account through illicit means - using bots. Again, that's not illegal (maybe a DMCA case could be made for it - I'm not familiar - but it's not fraud). Substitute WoW characters obtained through hacks for virtual currency obtained through hacks, and here we are.

This is entirely how many games make their money. Is League of Legends fraud?

Right. Gene Roddenberry certainly never used the show for social statements.

I remember when I used to come to Slashdot for the comments, but now it's full of science-denying idiots. Oh well, back to Hacker News. :)

There is not "hiatus." Get your head out of your ass. http://climate.nasa.gov/vital-...

But... But... But... Twenty years ago, Microsoft was almost broken up over building a browser into the OS! A clearly evil practice no one would do today.

So what's the news? Google pushes you to download Chrome every time you visit their site.

Exactly! At least with Google I know that they're not tracking anything I do through my web browser. Oh, wait...

I know there's a lot of Firefox-hate at the moment (with some good reason), but I use Firefox as my web-browser of choice on Android. Why? Adblock. No other mobile browser has add-ons like Firefox. And the ability to block ads really speeds up the browser compared to Chrome in any real-world situation.