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The least they could do, after ruthlessly bombarding my employer's servers with requests, ignoring the robots.txt, scraping everything, and incurring significant Google Maps costs …

Who needs Dropbox? At my shop we're sharing skills with rsync...

What is the obvious?

I have heard that this is called the Benjamin Franklin effect, and it appears to be an inversion of the principle of reciprocity coined by Robert Cialdini.

Reading this thread makes me wonder if I'm the only one who really tried to learn to juggle, only to fail even after a whole month of brute-forcing it, while my partner at the time…

>It doesn't mean they are going to call up the draft. Are you aware of the concept of "boiling the frog"? 2027: "It's just calling up the draft. It doesn't mean they are going to b…

I was always curious about how Tay worked technically, since it was build before the Transformers era. Was it based on a specific scientific paper or research? The controversy surr…

Could you perhaps link a picture of that vehicle? As searching for "luny cycle" doesn't bring up anything relevant. However, there this, which looks like an interesting take on the…

Paywalled article. Seeing that OP almost exclusively submits links to their own paywalled blog, I'm not sure if this doesn't fall under HN's "blogspam" rule.

> there will be large posters reminding the doctors "Could it be sepsis?" I'm not sure how effective this is. Information presented this way quickly fades into background noise..

>Like Kim Peek or Scott Flansburg? Interesting cases, thanks for sharing. I didn't know what real-life inspiration the movie "Rain Man" came from. However, the two people seem to b…

Isn't that basically like ChatGPT's Monday persona? Morose and sarcastic...

What does "D&R" stand for in this context?

I once had a mystical encounter with a drunk guy on a train who advised me to learn Spanish guitar before turning 30. However, my path preordained by the universe was interrupted w…

Why do these articles about social “trends” so often seem like poor attempts at social engineering to promote social atomization or hostility between the sexes?

Google search (for those who are still using it) comes up with a funny little Easter egg when you search for "Chicxulub asteroid" or "Chicxulub crater".

>what does LNW mean? "Liquid net worth", I'd assume.

>I thought this article would tell me about things that wealthy people buy that those of us who aren’t as rich would never even think about. In case you want to look those up, I kn…

How would this affect Go dependencies?

>It’s about a foot tall. This is also a great way to signal to other people in the office that I’m busy. Why do I now imagine a queue of colleagues standing restlessly at your desk…

I did something similar with a Telegram bot in order to remind myself to look away from the screen, get up and stretch for a bit. However I started to ignore it in favor of "more p…

>put it somewhere safe What is even "safe" these days? ETFs? Treasury bonds?

This could simply be an alibi to obtain funding or appease an ethics committee (if there is one involved). It's become a meme to label research as a "search and rescue" application…