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In July 1992 five MoD members were charged with hacking, and they were basically defunct as an active hacking group after that. LoD was mostly defunct even before that, although th…

The writer of Hackers, Rafael Moreu, went to New York 2600 meetings and talked to various members of MoD (a hacker group which had a book written about them by a local New York rep…

Should point out this is not the first time the BLS came under serious fire, politically. When the Republicans regained control of the Senate in 1995, they set up a commission (Bos…

In 2015, the Nobel Prize in Medicine was won by Tu Youyou. During the Vietnamese resistance war, Vietnamese moving down the Ho Chi Minh rail were contracting malaria in the jungle.…

Can't forget his appearance at the beginning of the classic hacker movie, WarGames.

> flipping quantum coins...Newsflash: neurons and digital computers both have to play by the universe's stubbornly deterministic rules I don't really understand what this means - y…

> Hunter gatherer tribes Hunter gatherer bands. There's no evidence of any tribes 20,000 years ago. > Unless you are arguing semantics, yes there were. Tribes and tribal violence. …

> What kind of world do you live in that has denied you access to evidence of early human existence? I didn't say humans didn't exist 20,000 years ago, I said there was no tribal v…

Professor Michael Rosenfeld at Stanford does research on how heterosexual couples in the US meet ( https://web.stanford.edu/~mrosenfe/ ). In 1940, over 50% met via friends or famil…

> What about simple tribal violence? Is there any evidence of any tribes whatsoever existing over 20,000 years ago? All the evidence points against it. There was no tribal violence…

That is a statistic on one chart on that. For only those who are 65 and up, total spending of the top 1% drops to 17%. In the charts posted, from the ages of 19 to 44, the amount s…

I worked with a guy who went to a public university - not a top 25 public university but in the ballpark. He was hard-working, smart and "got it", but he wasn't at the level of som…

There is a push, which has been around for decades, to measure how effective teaching is for a school system taking in taxpayer dollars. This is measured via standardized tests. Th…

Madoff took in other people's money. The Medallion Fund stopped taking new outside money in 1993, and in 2005 it got rid of all outside money. The people making (or potentially los…

Right. The current world population growth rate is about where it was at the time of World War II, and that growth rate was the highest it had been in about 8000 years. The baby bo…

> population doomerism In 1927 world population was 2 billion - now, less than a century later it is 8 billion. In the 1960s world population grew by 2.1%. For most of history unti…

Didn't expect to learn about Sahlins posthumous book via HN's front page. Stone-Age Economics and The Original Affluent Society (the title a pun on a book well-known by 1960s intel…

Reading this article and other things, I don't see it declining so much. It was the most downloaded app worldwide in 2023 and had the largest consumer spending in 2023 ( https://te…

I demand to know why "Men are going to brutal boot camps to reclaim their masculinity" was removed from the front page!

> "Believe that people can change the world", or caring for and investing in employees... Can you point to any industry that was sustainably disrupted by a company following such a…

From my knowledge of and participation in hacker spaces - I would say this is it. My understanding is hackerspaces like the L0pht were not paying exorbitant real estate prices, and…

Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy gave a speech 13 years ago saying Kashmir was never an integral part of India, and New Delhi just announced she is going to be prosecuted for her …

I just listened to the beginning of one of these books. The book text starts out "I." as in, roman numeral for chapter 1. The audio book read this as "eye" (or "I", but not 1). The…

> Rule 7: Don’t use leverage. > Using margin accounts or mortgages (for other than your home) puts you at risk to lose more than your original investment. As this says, margin acco…

> Dawn of everything ... one specific (anarchist) viewpoint in his work Anarchism means without a ruler, and there is scarce if any evidence that migratory hunter-gather bands at t…