I hadn't read this exact article but still commented because I've read about the same events in other publications.

I read somewhere that people who fork over money for a special visa to Saudis Arabia have access to air conditioned stations along the way. Most likely the Egyptians are doing it unofficially, which is likely easier to get away being in the general region already.

I both agree and disagree. I agree that there isn't going to be a single 'straw', because everyone's thresholds are different. For me it was back when Microsoft auto-upgraded my PC to Win 8, which was also when they started putting in hard-to-disable telemetry and bad UI. It sounds like Recall is the threshold for some other people.

Also don't discount that MS' market share is dominated by a ton of corporate users (who lack a choice) and casual users (who don't care / are unaware), but at least anecdotally they've been losing the power users in my life, which if true in general which will have negative downstream effects for them moving forward (IT departments working to support alternatives, software developers refusing to build on Windows Server / MS software stack, etc.)

He's a Florida resident though.

There may be a component that felons have to have finished their sentence which could exclude Trump.

That just means the DDOSer is taking Internet Archive down without any further work required.

Lol I'm neither Graeme Wood nor am I associated with Israel in any way. At the start of this conflict I was much more pro-Israel but it's been clear that they don't care one iota about minimizing civilian causalities (or worse, they do care but in the opposite direction). But being anti-Hamas doesn't make you pro-Israel - sometimes there are conflicts where both armed sides absolutely suck and civilians are stuck in the middle, and this is one of them.

Paywalled, but the word does have some subtle sexual connotations: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/05/israel-hamas-female-captives-sabaya-translation/678505/

EDIT: Try this link

I too use Kagi but it's worth noting that Kagi gets most of its results by paying and using other search engines including Google and Bing, so it's not 100% independent or immune from say Bing's outage. Still the best option by far though.

Only to countries that are part of the ICC. Many countries, including the US, aren't a part so Netanyahu can safely travel to those places.

Cue them freaking out when bearded hairy trans men are forced to use women's washrooms because of this law.

Many condo projects take years to complete. Are you suggesting that years ago, when housing prices reached their peak, condo developers should have stopped development?

Oh I'm not saying they should be bailed out or anything, just that I wouldn't call developers 'parasites' as they actually are building homes.

Would you rather that no one builds any condos?

I'm going to be more sympathetic for the developers which is that they likely spent a ton of money for the land already when prices were high and after expensive building costs they're struggling to not lose money.

They've designed their platform so that you can outsource different aspects to different servers. So you can choose a moderator who curates your experience and that's a different person from who hosts your data, which may be different to who sorts and determines the 'top posts'.

I'm not sure that math works? They earned $460M in profit for Q1, so that's about $1.84B in profit over a year. Divide that by 39 million people in Canada and you have $47 per person, which is nowhere near $300 per person plus $1B.

Still obscene profit margins, but let's do the math correctly.

Looks like Microsoft needs to further enhance the consumer experience by adding more personalized product recommendations, that'll fix it right up!

I mean the sale agreement could require the buyer to never expand outside the US.

I'm referring to the the Charter of Rights and Freedoms from 1982. But yes there is still a lot of unwritten rules too like the UK.