"attitude" which is calculated as follows: (upvotes cast - downvotes cast) / (upvotes + downvotes). If your "attitude" is < 0.0 you can't downvote.

The math here is hilarious.

a message to China and Russia that this is how the world works now.

It's not now though, it's how the US always did things regardless of the party currently in charge.

The people who block HDMI for Linux are also the people who make TVs and other media stuff. So you may not be able to use displayport or hdmi just because some rich people decided so to make more profit.

Do you need a test? They will.

Do they even have one? I thought it's rare situation when the product speaks for itself.

I'm okay with that.

He doesn't care about their political system. What he cares about is that they are Kurds. Kurds did some terrorism in Turkey. Some Kurds want to separate from Turkey. Both things are a serious problem. Also, Syrian oil fields those particular Kurds control. Yeah, it's actually probably mostly about oil.

And it changed the Internet, for good and a lot.

I don't think the original books ever told anything about it.

If the numbers are true it costed him less than 0.1% of his wealth which is surprising how little it takes. Would you spend 0.1% of your wealth to elect a President and gain a government post that will bring you more wealth? Would you spend 1% of your wealth to become insanely rich? 10%?

In the society where power is measured by wealth ultra rich should not exist. Or better such society should not exist.

Also Musk wasn't even the biggest donor. And Harris was okay with this whole thing, she also received enormous donations. Who was against ultra rich? Bernie Sanders. No wonder he was sacked despite popular support.

What would the answer otherwise be? "fuck your save, start over"?

Isn't it the usual answer? If there's any at all.

That's a small step towards enshittification

Going away from opensource model that you built your business over is a pretty big step.