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The photo of the wall in the article is obviously digitally altered, just to the left of the person walking. The rocks change into uniform smooth grey, and it doesn’t match the ref…

You should edit the code in your original comment, someone is bound to copy paste the code somewhere…

What took down SVB was mortgage securities. In the USA mortgages are typically 30 years long, with a fixed rate the entire time. Actual average duration is only a few years in a de…

I’m sorry, this was an utter mess, shouldn’t have happened and lots of people share blame. But I don’t think it was wrong for depositors to pull deposits from an insolvent (or near…

For one this article is now on the main page of hacker news and it reports four days since last Elon on hacker news :D Might just be that it hasn’t been on the front page long?

As I’ve gotten older I’ve fallen into this problem but also climbed out of it. It is worrisome that it is permanent, but it likely isn’t. There were several things about my life th…

It’s actually significantly less capable than the network being attempted by ASTS.

Your argument basically boils down to you don’t really use your glove box and prefer the slightly cleaner aesthetics. In your case you might argue for a car that doesn’t have a glo…

This is an amazing explanation, thanks

This is the most common approach even if it isn’t done on purpose, and I think it should be formalized with terminology and studies. The current zeitgeist of immunity as understood…

Could you expound? Are you saying strong quads + weak hamstrings == knee pain? I recently started using an exercise bike in addition to squats and climbs in order to get in shape a…

These are some very smart academics who have figured out how to get their institutions to fund their parties, and probably became very popular in their social circles

Yes, and the carbon storage of all the seagrass sugar in the world is roughly equivalent to one day of automobile driving in the USA. But everywhere in the article it is phrased to…

I love how the article says that ground water and microbes are responsible for most of the degradation, then blithely quote the computational evolutionary biologist “This confirms …

I had to cancel my gym membership because I was moving, and it required me to send a physical letter. I did this, but found out later that somehow I owed like 2 dollars, so they di…

You’d have seven roommates and would also have no window. Looking at the layout, it’s like sharing a tiny apartment with 7 other people. This is the worst part, if you have one dis…

This is why I often read the comments more than the articles here on hacker news.

Thermonuclear weapons use fission to ignite fusion, and is how modern nuclear weapons work. Developed in the early 1950’s.

I don’t understand the appeal of this type of fusion (as opposed to the plasma reactor approach). We’ve known how to get positive energy out of fusion fuel since thermonuclear weap…

Mozilla (the non-profit that makes the Firefox browser) has a VPN service and not only do I trust them more than these other private companies but I like supporting them as an orga…

I knew a guy who was Canadian, but had a summer job in the USA. Everyone got told they needed to register for the draft so he did and got drafted into the US military for the Vietn…

It's good to also think about security of paper ballots. Usually, in the United States, public observers from all political parties are allowed to be at all polling places and obse…

You missed my point entirely. The fact that a "breach" could happen and is something that is dangerous means the conspiracy theorists are correct. They feel about the Secretary of …

Your implication is that whoever has the administrator passwords can tamper with the machine to affect the results. And that someone, who is not the general public, should have acc…

The Colorado Secretary of State is unintentionally showing the conspiracy theorists are correct. A single person having physical access to the voting machines, months before the el…