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This! People need to get a life. I wouldn't have any trouble keeping myself busy after retirement. I do not have nearly enough time for the things I really WANT to do beside work.

This is a great idea but I'm not sure it will work out. Numbers are touched up all the time, both in politics (e.g. few governments will admit to lowering the employment rate, if t…

It may be readable by them but their life (as a business) does not depend on the content of your conversations. That's a big difference.

I'm wondering if they'd make more money with very cheap subscriptions (a.k.a. "long tail") and no legal department.

> Don't panic. > Users sometimes post bad content on websites > that are normally safe.

Recently, I updated my Twitter profile and included, in quotes, my name with the é replaced by the Unicorn replacement character [1]: André “Andr�” Wendt It was meant as a joke. I …

Someone came up with http://unmaintained.tech/ for exactly this reason. You can add a badge to your README.

Note: Most of these links have "Man does X" in the original headline. In only two cases, the "man" part has been added by the HN submitter.

My thoughts exactly. This "Woman does X" is unnecessary and might turn the discussion in the wrong direction.

same here

Compare this statement: > "Interns get a lot of experience," says Ahmad Fawzi, head of the UN's information service in Geneva. "First-hand knowledge about how the international sys…

OP here. If you already have a working Ruby environment, it's not a lot. If you have to start by installing Ruby, then yes, don't bother. BTW, this does more than "cat", it support…

In an age where everybody talks about cloud infrastructure, I find it a very interesting decision to spend $30k on servers up front. Apart from reducing operating costs, I never th…

Given that the owner originally wanted $100k, $33k seems like a steal.

You get sent an OTP that expires after half an hour. So in order to attack someone, you need to gain access to your victim's e-mail account beforehand. Which is quite hard if if th…

> This is still nothing more than a password No, it's an OTP. And that's so much more than a password...

Yes, this. Excellent point. Also: This is the same Apple that put the Stocks app on everyone's iPhone.

I'm not saying I don't want both :) All I'm saying: If budget is the issue, I'm all for kindergarten. If it's not an issue, make everything free.

I'm surprised no one brought up the bigger picture of which types of education Germans pay for and which they don't. While going to university has been free for a long time in Germ…

OMG, are you serious? Ok, let's play a game then: Here's a group of 100 people. Your assignment: 1. Find 10 women who already track their cycle because it's important to them. 2. F…

> None of these women had children or had to worry about pay discrepancies. Every woman has to worry about pay discrepancies. In every industry, at every job level. That's what thi…

This is now fixed.

The score depends on how fast you can get from 1 to x. A stopwatch is started when you tap 1 and stopped when you tap the last number. If you improve in each level and remain a con…

No, it's not. Should I start the clock right when the new level is displayed instead?