the transfer fee isn't the main appeal of Wise, the currency exchange rate is. I've never seen a bank that offered anywhere near close as theirs.

> Honest question, what does Bandcamp provide?

Actual money going to the actual people who make the music you listen to on spotify.

... for them. Not us.

And evasion of capital controls.

Classic Faustian bargain. Offer people money, obtain control in exchange.

I'm pretty sure that this took more than 1 junior engineer-month.

I love that you're being downvoted for saying something so utterly non-controversial. It's almost as if the fact that there were large matriarchal societies inhabiting America for centuries (arguably millenia) before the first European man set foot on the continent has never been taught to the average HN reader..

"I know of many exceptions to your evolutionary argument, which makes it entirely worthless"

It's not controversial, but it's missing the point. Nobody is arguing that ever single woman in our history preceding capitalism had to prioritize child care over leadership or labor.

If you're talking about the role of women over time, you're talking about how it applies to averages. It'd be impossible to discuss this with any sort of scale if you had to reconcile every generality with it's various exceptions.

"at the launch"

mac os at large has a quality problem. I have gotten more kernel panics on my personal and work laptops in the last 6 months than I have on my windows machines in the past 5 years.

I think the difference is, that Apple threw everything they could to fix iOS13, as their survival depends on it, so it did stabilize, while Catalina still hasn't recovered.

> I think that the main reason for that is that they have their own French speaking view of the planet in which they happily live.

Americans also live in their own universe. And so do many others...

China has better rail infrastructure than the US, and is much bigger as well.

The highly urbanized parts of China have a lot of advanced rail. The rural areas, not so much.

I think they were still running steam engines on some routes until quite recently.

"Why did you FedEx your SSD to the destination? Do you have something to hide? You're gonna have to follow us."

"everybody's got something to hide! I've got nothing hidden that's illegal."

If they find even one pirated song on your drive, they've got you on a felony. "Lying to federal officials" is a great catchall they regularly use to force a deal.

That's now.

The future is simply interdiction of every device.

Actually, every device will just be bugged with a thousand backdoors. The end.

Cory Doctorow - general computing is the enemy of governments.