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For at least a few years, "common sense" has been hijacked by populist politicians, now it just means whatever simplistic idea that fits their worldview, even when it's not complic…

The three six rule is a low bar for dating: you should also have a 6 pack. If you only want three sixes, here are 666 cents I keep in my pocket!

You can go to the source website https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/?dm_id=nino3.4 There's is an interactive chart that's easier to understand

If it works it could reduce the electricity price in the evenings and mornings. Now if I take the french grid example that I know best, for the past 7 days the usual spot price is …

I guess you can have both positive and negative externalities. I went back to re-read reflectorbital.com, indeed if you're only lighting a solar farm in the middle of nowhere maybe…

One question I have is about apparent magnitude: given the satellite's small size (relative to the apparent size of the moon) it would have to be very bright to match the luminosit…

I once worked with smart meters for electricity consumption that do run 24/7. Leap seconds were not an issue but we had a very similar one now that I think about it: DST shenanigan…

> age verification doesn't have to be a nightmare dystopia But I feel there's not a lot of trust that whatever implementation we could end up with wouldn't be such a dystopia. The …

The Man vs Horse marathon is interesting but in a real race we have no actual chance of winning. There are horse endurance races where the winner arrived in 7,5 hours after 160km[1…

It doesn't seem like owls have infrared vision, in that case an IR camera looks like the easiest way to go.

I understand the moral argument, yes tell me about your product or company from time to time, can be interesting or even funny sometimes but it should stop there. I always use an a…

Previous discussion (2017): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15772065

Someone, somewhere, probably has a "% of commits co-authored by copilot" KPI.

> My NFC chip data — the digital info stored on the chip inside my passport Do we know how they get that? Because my fingerprints are also in there, so...

I love the logo, go ahead and click it!

As much as we speak about slop in the context of AI, slop as the cheap low-quality thing is not a new concept. As lots of people seem to always prefer the cheaper option, we now ha…

Ah nice to know! In my defense I only searched for the English version. That being said, Robespierre was a key participant of 'La Terreur' where tens of thousands of people where h…

Ok so this "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" argument is so recurrent I once went looking where it came from. The oldest account I found is in a religious book from 1832 [1]: "We …

Pretty sure virus creators could just pick a real ID leaked by the "adult only logins" shenanigans, whereas legit app developers probably wouldn't want to commit identity fraud.

Nice project! Reminds me of a startup whom I met the founders several years ago: they had a system of hexagonal wooden tiles you could put on a device to play a specific songs (als…

I understand but frankly "doesn't do anything if there is no illegal material" reminds me too much of the old anti-privacy argument "nothing to hide, nothing to fear". It is about …

I regularly see similar articles with similar comments here, but there's one thing I still don't understand: From the European Convention on Human Rights[1]: ARTICLE 8 Right to res…

> It is the most technological color, and I’m willing to claim that this is why it is usually, in science fiction and elsewhere, used to represent the future. For me it is because …

Ok, now if we took a picture of all the food in the world, a more accurate caption would be: "The staff threw away 30 to 40% of it and ate the rest later."

> it becomes impossible to look at the crescent moon at night and not immediately triangulate the position of the sun I do that too, like the moon is lit from the right, slightly f…