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Sorry to see the down votes you are getting. I am an inveterate knuckle-cracker, but I very much understand that a subset of people find it unpleasant and irritating to hear.

It is distressing to hear someone on hacker news describe this, and the history of Syria over the last couple decades, as something that might be "propaganda" and "partisanship." M…

The irony being that in the 90s nascent online world, "cyber" as a verb meant "cyber-sex".

Your comment kind of reminds me of the old slashdot spam-email-solution copypasta - the purpose of it is to highlight how so many sensible sounding ideas just can't work in practic…

I definitely get your broader point, but it turns out the smallpox blankets things is a myth. But I know what you mean, nonetheless.

No, I think it's about people - about us. About you, me, all of us.

It really is a strange and horrific metaphor, analogy, and parable about the effects of isolation - made all the more distressing because it wasn't intentional. It was just our bro…

This is wonderful! You should submit this to the HN feed.

Article grabbed at random that provides some more context (tho could use more): https://www.cyberkendra.com/2026/07/deepseek-pauses-fundrais... "The Hangzhou AI lab has told prospe…

Holy crap, this article has been active here for 13 hours - it really needs a country callout (ie India) in the title.

Still not journalism. Just paid opinion blogging.

And then they get un-sick of it. Fads come and go, constantly re-inventing themselves and getting rediscovered.

It's been everywhere for decades - that's not the point. It's fadishness that is what may be going on here: restaurants are the tip of the spear of new trends.

Oh, the pandemic - that's a great counterpoint you bring up. And I like the distinction you make that the collective experience was quite strange: collective in the aggregate, but …

Thank god. Win 10 continues to be the most attractive OS Microsoft currently kinda provides, despite being borderline unsupported. It continues to astonish me just how staggeringly…

so therefore don't create laws or pass city ordinances? I don't understand your logic.

I think veganism in America went through a popular phase, then simply faded as a pop concept. Perhaps your experiences in the UK merely reflect that, there, it is just going throug…

I don't know that I would characterize the typical Substack writer as a "journalist." It's just opinion blogging.

"a society needs to face a potential collective crisis to "produce its own fabric."" Good point - the linked article, and the article it itself links to, essentially, but without r…

Pithy rejoinder, thanks! If this were /. in 1999, I'd call this +1 Insightful.

The majority of people live in cities - and a growing majority.

Quick reminder that Apple was part of the silicon valley crew that partook of illegal non-poaching arrangements with other SV companies, helping to stifle salaries and more. But, t…

And at a macro level, often found to be accurate due to how the businesses in India operate. Poll the west's engineers: you'll find that engineering from India is not currently vie…

Yeah, good point - I assume a lot of the seeming anomalies are due to conurbations that, as you say, aren't obvious when just looking at borders.

My goodness, I didn't realize how many states are dual time zone. Florida, Oregon, Idaho, both of the Dakotas, and many more - I assume there's a historical reason for each, but th…