do people still use acrobat? since pds becoming prolific in browsers and word and stuff i mean

IE was used well until EOL and is still being used in some places. I have no doubt Adobe Acrobat is the same way. Likely few if any new users but old ones will keep using what they're familiar with.

i don't think the math checks out exactly

HN is a marketing platform for ycombinator :p

Who is we?

so are the banks?

>> SpaceX is a private company

> so are the banks?

Which relevant bank do you have in mind that is not a public company (listed on a stock exchange)?

The killing in Bosnia and Kosovo were stopped by Bill Clinton. The bombings were what brought all sides to the table to broker the Dayton agreement. The siege of Sarajevo ended. The peace has held for nearly 30 years now.

OK, but this was more like Serbia/Kosovo/Bosnia.

Maybe GP was asking about previous Yugoslavia war, where AFAIR there was no intervention and massacres continued for quite long.

Seems clear they were talking about NATO intervention in 1999 and the ouster of Milosevic. Also notable as a military intervention that was at the time widely seen as a "Wag The Dog" scenario.

not sure if you're joking but it's an emoticon:

=3

look at it like a sideways face of a cartoon cat, with 3 being the mouth shape

so their actual sentence ends at the period

Ok, I see it now. I thought the period was a typo and they were trying to write some sort of expression.

I still don’t understand why the emoticon is there or its purpose but whatever.

[censored]

Cheers =3

I don’t have autism, but thanks. Ending a (every, apparently) comment with “=3” is not normal so I mistook its meaning.

Apparently there's a lot of dogs[1] that like to pretend they're cats. I just roll with it.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_...

Yep, there’s always a new kind of weird to discover online.

Don't worry about it... =3

Please stop jumping to conclusions about what diagnoses you think other people have.

That is not helping.

that's the point of opinionated crypto libraries, yes

i think this comment is referring to the uniquely american controversy over "gun free zones", ie zones where... you aren't allowed to carry firearms by law, often marked with a sign

which i find very entertaining, saying "a sign can't stop a criminal!" as if that's not the case with any law enforced via threat of criminal prosecution

I don't think I'd call it a controversy exactly. There are places where the signs make sense (ex court buildings) and then there are places where they are purely performative. When a school in the ghetto that suffers gang related violence prominently posts such signs they rightfully get made fun of. Meanwhile most schools (at least where I grew up) either don't bother to post such signs or only post a subdued "all weapons illegal" near the entrance (that includes even pocket knives BTW it's not just a gun thing).

Another great one is "drug free zone" seen plastered all over a seedy highschool. Drugs are blanket illegal everywhere here. The US has made an art form out of persecuting drug users. We've peddled our "war on drugs" globally. What could possibly be the point of posting such a sign?

> What could possibly be the point of posting such a sign?

If you want a real answer, its increased penalties / extra charges if caught in the "zone".

am i missing something? is the call to action "don't participate in capitalism?" please just read lenin or something istg