Exactly my point!

Well, it is technically “piracy” but it’s amateur piracy. No need to get fancy with torrents and VPNs or whatnot. Just download the software and… not pay.

There are 48 list seats, plus at most a few more overhang seats, and people can decline seats, so I’m guessing it’s to prevent parties from putting everyone and their mum on the list since it’s of very little practical use after some point.

It doesn’t hurt and it essentially becomes an honour roll for party members I suppose. Tow the party line and make the list, I guess.

That’s because even a grey market Windows key costs US$20 nowadays and that’s over ₹1,600. For comparison purposes, the largest Indian banknote is ₹500.

The Google front page is no longer plain HTML but apparently, they spent a lot of time optimising the logo so it could load in less than a second on a dial-up connection. It’s still remarkably plain when compared to other search engines though.

I like using email client software instead. It just uses Gmail as a backend and the inbox looks however I want it to look.

Plus, it works while offline on the train or with Amtrak’s shitty WiFi

Raw HTTP with no protection is as dangerous as the activity implied by this innuendo.

Hey, they even have an old-school tracker-free static advertisement image on that page. Now that’s a classic.

Well at least it didn’t save us -10^100% and just post the text equivalent of a ZIP bomb

I would love it if Boost supported Regex blocking.

What’s a good alternative?

I have a lot of Amazon gift cards that I want to use up

I’ll give an anecdote that I experienced just now. I bought a computer component, but I had to dig through the “other buying options” to find it on Amazon. The default recommended listing had a price of $207, delivered to me by 2 October. The listing I eventually found was priced at $206, delivered by 28 September. So it cost less and would arrive sooner, the only difference is that it was a third-party seller and not Amazon.

It indirectly comes from shareholders. Money gone to pay fines isn’t distributed by dividends. Theoretically, this hurts shareholders by decreasing the value of a share, since the company is worth less money after paying the fine. However, assessing a fine that shareholders have to pay out of pocket would trample the concept of limited liability and cause financial panic. I remind you that it’s not only rich people that are Amazon shareholders.

I understand the sentiment but this is a pretty uninformed take.

No one realises they’re the fool because they’re too busy laughing at the “fool”!

(guess who said this!)

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For me, nothing. Everything I want to do works without root. I don’t tinker with my phone. It doesn’t do anything cool anyway and that’s what I have a PC for.

I love playing these games. Everyone thinks I am an idiot at poker because I always make stupid bets and give off obvious “tells” in the first few rounds.

People are unbelievably easily manipulated. We were playing a big blind of ten cents and I managed to win twenty dollars in one night.

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