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I know this will be seen as a troll comment and downvoted, but, who doesn't China oppress?

I think the worst thing about gym is that I didn't learn anything there. I didn't learn about calories, or healthy eating. I didn't learn about basic cardio, why it's good for you,…

So you're telling me I can't make my old Pentium immune to bullets? Well that's disappointing.

The ONE good thing about Bank of America, and it was only available on their credit cards but not debit cards, and I don't even know if they still offer it: You could generate new …

The chat networks do. As well as several of the methods outlined for protecting/locating the dead drops. WiFi hotspots, bluetooth beacons, etc.

The elephant in the room that this article highlights, but never addresses. A mobile phone has become a de facto a requirement for illegal commerce, as described, and to me present…

Sometimes it is. Listen. I'm from the Midwest, so for all you #WestCoast refugees seeking asylum here. Sometimes you gotta drive a half an hour, and you'll find a really shiny gem …

Yeah, the article goes on to explain why the premise of the headline is wrong. But it is a fascinating unintended consequence of the algorithm none the less.

A few months after seeking help for my mental illness, I had this moment of clarity. All the relationships that laid broken, all the opportunities that were missed. I could suddenl…

Just as a counter to your anecdote. I'm 35. My mother wouldn't let me so much as cross the street. I live in a small rural town with little to no crime.

Well that explains it. I wanted exciting new news in the world of squashed rocks, dammit.

That sure was a lot of words to once again raise the question, "Why hasn't the LHC found what we thought it would?" And I never did get to the point, if there even was any, that th…

I've known this since I was a young boy and Tetris was new. Knocking out 200 lines is faster acting and more effective for me than Hydroxozine, and I think that pill has done wonde…

Comedy Central is doing a similar but different thing. They're adding more commercials to a commercial break, so now a 30 minute block is like 34 minutes, creating a weird stagger …

TBS has been doing this for YEARS. They use every trick in the book, but messing with the timing of episodes is the most jarring. And frankly, ruins a lot of shows, comedy is all a…

Despite RSS' cult status among Hacker News readers, I'm sorry to be the one to tell you that RSS is already dead. It's been dead. I would even go so far as to say it was dead on ar…

RSS always made more sense to me in a mail client than a browser. Live bookmarks were useless to me.

"Launch all the nukes"

Switching to Arch was revelatory, and I've been using some form of Linux at work or home since 2001. It's hard for me to describe, or quantify. But it's almost like, with a distro …

Because where I come from, a crime has a victim. Even traffic and moving violations have a kind of victim, in that they help maintain safety on the roads. A thought can never be a …

I once saw a very drunk woman drive her car at full throttle into the corner of a hotel. It's like he describes it, snapshots. My brain throttled hard, and locked up at the amount …

Oh, look at them rush to White Knight their own bubble. "Not OUR echo chamber, no! We're different, you see, because reasons."

That's an interesting point I hadn't heard before. Exactly. Because why would they? Why would we even need speed limits, if the computer it in control and proven safe at X speed, b…

We haven't even begun. Gearheads will refuse to let go of their cars. They love driving and maintaining their vehicle. They'll argue that no robot can drive better than they can, n…

Very excellent write up, Jasper. Thank you. Your closing paragraphs are spot on. I remember a magazine review of Metroid Prime 3 said "Wii games aren't supposed to look this good."…