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It never fails to amaze me how many non technical people - run of the mill (fill-in-a-word) people are on "hacker"news. The person who said that he was an idea person who executes …

Well, maybe first they will appeal to "the we", "the collective", "the identity", or the will of the emperor. Then it will descend into the superstition after the dictatorship. I m…

east and west were fighting and differentiated since at least before Alexander the great.

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Atheists are immoral, because it's an illogical premise, proving a negative, and in the face of lots of evidence at that. That's why athiests always turn to insults, they have no a…

Another article I see where a bunch of non-Americans are going to comment on an article which was obviously written for an American perspective (and afterwards a western one), all …

rip.

Just looking at alexa (or facebook's unethical early research), there will be a social engineering aspect to it too. Time to reread the moon is a harsh mistress!

I hate the term "pentest", but apparently people who want lingo over the ability to do anything have won out over the decades. Besides being a meaningless inaccurate shortening of …

website is still up. I remember when they took over outpost.com, and then mucked it up. Went from overnight shipping, and in my case sometimes 3 hour shipping (and this was almost …

What we really need is a feely user interface. This would consist of users blindly groping in the dark for the thing they need.

The articles everyone really wants: There's Gold in Them Thar Plants | Phytomining | Live Science https://www.livescience.com/28676-plants-grow-gold.html Phytomining? - Gold Refini…

"The father of modern mineral smelting, Georgius Agricola, saw this potential 500 years ago. He smelted plants in his free time. If you knew what to look for in a leaf, he wrote in…

You don't need more space then that. That's for the summary of what the article / media is that follows - which all books/news articles, etc should have, and which few nowadays hav…

Or look at twitter. It encourages extra small glibe comments as the standard instead of long thoughtful posts. Possible, instead of only small posts it should be only long posts or…

It doesn't matter how good some results are, if the search engine manipulates the results, tracks the users, and even more so - steals the ideas and profiles the users. Google has …

they need you at the controls to use your brain as part of their extended grid.

I used this in beta on a cheap chromebook. It worked great, and since I don't like putting games on my machines or upgrading hardware or using windows, perfect. Realistically, the …