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I guess I'll need a burner phone when traveling to the US in the near future. Just as a lot of people do when visiting China. What a turn of events!

There is a circle with 10 nuclear stations that is erroneously located (on the map) in the Atlantic just south of West Africa. That should be in/near China.

I would not use any influencer product either. But as an observer of the world around me I am intrigued. When I first heard the word influencer I thought that this is something tha…

Travel companies, places and influencers are changing the economics of travel. Here is an mutually beneficial system that is forming due to the need to travel somewhere with people…

Thanks for the link.

When I say "hard to believe" I don't mean to say that I don't believe it. With that out of the way, I am merely stating that it challenges my gray cells: how could sound waves hitt…

Hard to believe that such severe health issues can result from noise. I find it harder to believe that Bitcoin mining can cause so much noise. Shouldn't Marathon realize the evil o…

Not only is it not funny, it isn't true at all. Disclosure: I am Swiss too, albeit a naturalized one.

That Wikipedia article makes no mention of the new currency being gold-backed.

This post in HN has made my day! I have been a Digitec customer for over 15 years and I still buy all my tech items from them. Or from Galaxus if it is a non-tech. I am thrilled to…

It was, for a while. It could have been much much more but I was just a nerdy engineer with no idea of marketing and full of idealism in my head. I asked for $2K for a perpetual li…

Congratulations! That is a good feeling to see money trickling in. Since I am probably one of the older ones here let me tell you about my experience in the 90's. I had written a t…

In contrast, the EU is moving boldly forward with the Digital Markets Act [1]. It looks good on paper but I wonder what it means in practice. I wonder if this legislation will fizz…

It is quite common here in Switzerland. Cafeterias serve it as well as regular restaurants but, admittedly, it is not as common as beef, pork, chicken or lamb. Surprisingly, it is …

It would have been so easy for the article to state upfront that QR codes are URLs coded as a monochrome patterns of squares. Scanning a QR code is like clicking on that URL. Nothi…

I recall using this on a SunOS 3.x system (BSD 4.2-based) to build a message passing system. Over the years I expected it to be used more often for machine-internal communication. …

I agree that the number of people that can understand a cutting-edge paper will be low. But, in CS for example, the number will be much higher than 100. I would assume that it woul…

In a book on mathematics by Alex Bellos he says that any contemporary cutting-edge research mathematics paper can be understood by no more than 100 mathematicians. The field is get…

They could follow the path taken by judo and karate and become a sport (ie mock fighting) or a form of self-defense. That will include meditation, mental control and confidence-bui…

> 150k for software engineers... That may be true in the Valley. The media US salary is $36k. Only about top 16% of the US population gets $150k aor over.

I agree with you. I had used micro-emacs in the 80's and when, about 3 years back, I heard about org mode I wanted to become a big boy and start using emacs. It was a bitter strugg…