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I find it fascinating how some of the early Zionists explicitly described Zionism as a colonial project, complete with the Palestinians as natives. https://youtu.be/3xottY-7m3k?si=…

Stop flagging this stuff. Stop it. Where is your humanity?

The last press conference today from the US Coast Guard stated that the evidence (debris spread over an area hundreds of meters away from the Titanic) is consistent with the catast…

Read Cal Newport’s Digital Minimalism . If you’re like me, you’ll substitute one digital addiction for another when trying to give up something; his book is helping me to break tha…

Scientific paper/article: https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-37... A 2013 news report about how the leprosy bacterium is also able to convert nerve cells int…

The scientific article/paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-022-01910-z

I love how Signal (and WhatsApp adopting Signal's protocol) made privacy easy for the general public and technically inclined alike. Privacy will never be the default until it's ma…

First I've heard of this project. Though I don't have a use for it yet, it looks cool. Keep up the good work!

If you can learn to differentiate between what you want and what you need, you'll be a lot happier.

Being quiet in a taxi is perfectly normal. Barking orders at them, complaining that they're not going fast enough, treating them as beneath you, etc.: those are rude.

In my experience, it's not the scientists (NASA or JET in this case) that utter such statements but journalists. NASA scientists will say something like "we've encountered somethin…

A bold idea! Whether it succeeds or not, it'll make for a terrific experiment.

Seems their plan is for public posts to be $1/post but "Posts among friends will always be free." I imagine if they become successful they can look into lowering the public post pr…

This is really cool. I have 7 tabs of quirky barely known websites open after maybe less than 5 minutes of interacting with Marginalia. This is so much fun!

While calling mental health facilities to get advice on a similarly mentally ill individual (homeless for probably decades, delusional speech, probably paranoid schizophrenic, afra…

Hey OP, to go off what lhorie said: 1. Does the company actually know what your open source project does and how they want to fit into the company's product? 2. Agree with lhorie t…

Have you compared similar font sizes on different monitors? I’ve realized monitor quality makes a big difference when reading text for hours on end. Some produce very sharp text, o…

Glad to see the word Niger (as in the country) wasn’t blocked. Ran into this with Venmo a little while ago and they thankfully backpedaled. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=240…

There’s something about llamas! Related from 2018 which I also submitted: “A key ingredient for a universal flu vaccine may come from llamas” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1…