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> I get that everybody is tired of it, I am too, but it feels like we wasted two years of everybody's life just the take the bullet anyway. One year, not two. There was never any h…

The year is 2027. Power grids still go dark for ransom, but at least the internet has been turned back into TV. If you know how to use Linux, you might be able to pick up a fourth …

What's the merit in distinguishing between bias and factual misinformation? The Westboro Baptist Church could start a news outlet and report on every single time a gay man did some…

> the underclasses who are routinely beaten, robbed, and killed, with no consequences for the attackers Most of the people I know have been beaten or robbed at least once, or narro…

Is it a symptom of that, or is it a symptom of the fact that it's much easier for the sorts of people who'd go to protests and do things that get them arrested anyway to call thems…

If you don't rule out hobbyists, freelancers, and the self-employed, I can declare myself a journalist, start a blog or a Twitter, and start throwing Molotov cocktails, and if I ge…

> If you wouldn't be granted press credentials for something, you're probably not a journalist. But if you would, you might still not be. I once got press credentials (and a steep …

It's also how you get a list at all. I don't like EA's "Jeremy Bentham solved philosophy forever" worldview, but at least it gets them thinking big, you know? Is anyone else making…

AI safety isn't an EA "preoccupation"; it's just weird enough and noticeable enough that it's easy to mistake existence and prevalence. It's also not even their weirdest position. …

Brave was a good browser. Now it's... what, a Chromium extension? I liked pre-rewrite Brave much more than post-rewrite. The tab contexts (or whatever they were called, it's been s…

SAT IIs are pretty obscure, and I don't think there's any benefit to taking them over AP tests, since APs can sometimes be translated into college credits and have much more suppor…

As other people have said, they're different sorts of thing; but the sort of thing React is wasn't as big a deal in 2010. Backbone and AngularJS, two frameworks that are practicall…

Do none of these designers travel? If you go to Amsterdam, you notice motifs from the flag of Amsterdam everywhere. They're everywhere because they're the sort of thing you can put…

> Because the fact that China has not engaged in non-local applications of violence Yet. The PRC has been internationally relevant for a few decades. The US has been internationall…

And large-scale automated farming is less productive per acre than small-scale labor-intensive farming.

Looks like it's mostly Bing. First five results for 'big chungus': Google: - dictionary.com - knowyourmeme - artsatmichigan.umich.edu - urbandictionary - thetab Bing: - knowyourmem…

> I agree that Twitter using this to get people to give them PII those don't want Twitter to have, especially when Twitter aren't a good custodian of that PII is terrible, but it's…

The same thing happened to me. But I was somehow able to create a new account on Microsoft Edge. It hasn't been disabled, but I don't plan to use it. If they want to kill their own…

What about a spreadsheet program that can be scripted with Javascript? JS is nice because all you need to write it is a text editor and a web browser, both of which just about all …

Major gay cities aren't necessarily major lesbian cities. The Castro happened because the military discharged gay men from the Pacific theater and a lot of them ended up there - wa…

Fraktur ß is a ligature of s and z; the current form came into use in Latin-script German because the Latin script already had ß, for the ligature of s and s. Some sort of orthogra…

Chlorination cycles are part of the regulation. You're supposed to leave pitchers of water out overnight to evaporate the chlorine. But some fast food places hook their water suppl…

Drinking fountains aren't all there is to drinking water infrastructure. If your tap water has never come out yellow, reeking of chlorine, tasting like dirt, etc., consider yoursel…

The last time I had to go through Union Station in DC, I tried to get water and it tasted like it had come from a pool. An unusually chlorinated pool. I almost threw up. I also don…

On HN, everyone sees the same things - the same front page, the same comments, and so on. On sites like Twitter and Facebook, this is not the case. What's good for a site like HN i…