preserving

This hasn't to do with culture or coddling, but with preserving HN as a place for civil discourse.

Or, more pertinently, what's the point of preserving the human race if the only outcome is planetary destruction?

Seychelles/Iceland-based cloud storage providers, and rk3xxx-based mobile devices (with VoIP) keep us relevant and reasonably modern while preserving our rights.

Per-unit software sales and most standard proprietary software business models are deadweight losses that rely on unsustainably preserving artificial scarcity.

There is value in preserving heterogeneity just as there are in metrics derived from a unified market (or state) economy.

In that case, preserving full privacy is still possible, though it may require sophisticated cryptography).

Anyways, this makes YouTube even more useful for preserving and making notable videos more accessible.

The article mentions the difficulty of preserving or changing the privacy settings in Windows.

Diversity does not survive in expensive areas and I strongly believe that is worth preserving in San Francisco.

Building up is a perfect balance between preserving beauty and nature and price.

I would say that in some cases, lying is a means for interacting with people while preserving their feelings, but not the only means, and certainly not foundational.

China is far below our current environmental standards, so raising the standard isn't something 'environmental', it's more like self preserving pragmatism in the short run.

I do not believe that preserving the legacy names of commands and packages is a benefit for a "new systems programming language" that is intended to replace the very legacy it is preserving.

"If you violate the rules even slightly, you will be executed." Is that a good strategy for encouraging lawfulness while preserving efficacy?

“Never mistake a clear view for a short distance.” Paul Saffo “We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.” Roy Amara I looks like they have mastered funding the transition to the next generation--yet to be profitable according to the NYT article--by preserving the DVD business as a cash cow.

Preserving data integrity tends to be a much more worthy use case for database logic than retrieval display.

Preserving state is just a matter of mounting a volume.