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History rhymes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wag_the_Dog

Keeping a variety of houseplants seems to help at least a bit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Clean_Air_Study

Big fan of BlueScreenView and WiFiInfoView! Thanks for all the great products.

My understanding is that a good number of the exchanges currently operating require payment to list new coins, often in the form of a significant stake in the coin itself. At any p…

Are there specific reasons for that particular date?

What a great game! It worked so smoothly over dial up. I put a lot of hours into this back in the day. The balance in the ship types and the teamwork required is brilliant. And the…

If you want to help get it to zero there's a UN program: https://wfp.org

One side might have on street parking.

I imagine that in the future giving a child any significant quantity of a super sugar liquid like soda might be seen as child abuse. The way it triggers the human brain isn't much …

Built in camera and video capture has improved an incredible amount. I think the value this provides to people with modern "phones" is pretty significant.

They raised $7.5mm towards the end of last year, so maybe there's more ad spending going? https://digiday.com/media/atlas-obscura-ceo-david-plotz-vide...

atlasobscura.com seems to mostly be click bait and paid placement these days, and it consistently gets spammed to social media platforms. I wish there was a way to filter out certa…

It's the same as the Microsoft "How old are you?" and Google "What painting do you look like?" apps. People don't think about what's going on behind something that seems trivial.

I switched to only playing and buying games that work on Linux a few years ago and haven't regretted a moment of it. Indie games might not be as shiny and realistic looking but the…

That whole article seems like an ad. I also don't see how it's in any way hacker news related.

Deflation decreases the velocity of currency (less incentive to spend due to rising value), which is bad for the economy (less activity, so fewer job opportunities, leading to even…

What are the odds of this being intentional? They had what, 140k pounds of potential payload? And all they sent up was a car?

You can use it to record your screen, not just to live stream.

It's not just Bitcoin, it's every altcoin listed on that exchange, and the other two big Tether/USD exchanges (Poloniex and Bittrex).

OBS is fantastic for screencasting: https://obsproject.com/

Please cash that out before this whole Tether mess unwinds.

Is there anything that it can exclusively do? I mean functionally in the real world, right now.

Or they already have a good idea about the credibility of the news sources and this will let them determine which users are credible.

For digital movies/music the credits do stack.