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Hello all, As someone that has struggled to find a healthy balance with social media for many years, I wanted something more effective than simple blocklists or screen time limits.…

If the short-term rental market suddenly evaporates, and you have a chunk of the housing stock full-time serving that much more lucrative market (and not catering to locals), this …

I admit that both my observations, and the ones in the Wired article I cited, are anecdotal. And it's certainly not the only factor driving those rent decreases. But it's oddly coi…

While I don't want to seem like I'm wishing unemployment or hardship on anyone, the implosion of Airbnb is already causing a rent price correction that was sorely needed in many ci…

We're about to get quite the stress test. It feels like we're living through an accelerated version of the disintegration of the western Roman empire. In a matter of a few weeks, d…

Like many of you out there, I imagine this period of social distancing and self-quarantine has produced a fair bit of reflection. Perhaps the worst part of watching the crisis unfo…

There are plenty of Italians, Chinese and Iranians in Switzerland - not at all clear why you'd choose to pick on eastern Europeans given how few cases there are in those countries.…

I initially started with 1000 IU of Vitamin D3, Costco brand, and eventually settled on 5000 as I noticed improvements in energy level as I took more. I am at 43 latitude so I only…

After reading the "Big Vitamin D Mistake" article on HN in 2017 I also started experimenting with larger doses of Vitamin D and can attest to life-changing effects. It has been lik…

As you indirectly allude to, peak oil is an economic issue, not a geological one. Due to a combination of technological ingenuity and externalities in the form of current and futur…

What I was thinking of is something along the lines of the agreements that some European countries have with each other, where residents that live within a certain distance of the …

This is a semi-serious suggestion as I am just a techie without enough background in the legal and political side of things, but it has always struck me that cities like Detroit an…

I find this odd because I am the opposite - one of my primary use cases for Jupyter/ipython in general is the ease with which I can get 'live' code introspection and intellisense. …

On that note, I stumbled on an LWN article a couple of years ago that made me reflect on this miraculous balance of new features and stability: https://lwn.net/Articles/645020/ Any…

This would have been my explanation too, but to my surprise, wood is only about 1/3 of the energy density of diesel fuel. I'm not sure why i expected it to be an order of magnitude…

For now vscode is certainly far behind in terms of java ecosystem support, but it feels like not long ago that pycharm was way ahead.

I love using VSCode and find that I have less need for any other IDE with each new release. This one might finally eliminate one of my remaining needs for pycharm. I can't help but…

FDWs can be incredibly useful in the case of needing database-level, low-latency access to a reasonably small amount of data managed on another server, and you don't want or cannot…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines This is why we have governments with the power to enact regulations. I'd like to think no one still believes in any sort…

> The researchers used different strengths of alcohol concentrations to combat the bacteria, starting with 23 percent. Eventually, at a 70-percent alcohol mixture, the bacteria wer…

The UK has always had the advantage of being an island protected from the wars that periodically sweep through mainland areas. There are plenty of cities that I have seen Europe th…

The only hope the Toronto tech scene has to escape from its mediocrity is, ironically, a renegotiation of Nafta, or a major change in government policy on immigration. As long as t…

I also will never understand why people have so much trouble decoupling SQL, the query language, from classic RDBMS systems. Being able to use a SQL-like dialect in systems like Hi…

Metrics like Github stars can be gamed, but it doesn't mean that the number has no value. I would conjecture that the # of stars correlates strongly with other desirable things. I …

I'm surprised at how much dislike there is for the stars metric, and I wonder if it's an allergy that devs tend to have for software development metrics (which is understandable wh…