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I left a water bottle in my bag at SJC once. The TSA agent pulled me aside after I went through the scanner and pointed to it on the X-Ray to ask me what it was. I said something l…

Watts measure power, Watt hours measure energy. A 200 GW power plant could output a maximum of ~1,700 TWh in a year which is about 8% of 21,000 TWh.

It's probably not very common but it has definitely happened: http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/31/living/florida-mom-arrested-so...

Sex, sexual orientation, and gender are different things. By gender spectrum she means that most people's behavior is somewhere along a continuum between completely masculine and c…

Hybrid graphics likely depends on a proprietary driver to work so that's probably where the problem lies. As for the RAM, you might just need to expand your swap partition so its t…

Yeah, there's really no excuse for the safety record at Tesla's factory. At least the workers seem to be organizing so hopefully things will improve soon. Also FYI it's takt time: …

That sounds infuriating. Have you started looking for another job yet? I know I would.

Wow, that's just extra obnoxious then. I wonder why they go to the trouble of breaking their website just for people who disable JS. Ads maybe?

I doing some work in a school just a year ago that still taught cursive to their students. I asked why and their response was pretty much just "because that's what you do in third …

Where are you that your local library is like this? I've been to a few public libraries in my state and none of them have been like this. Most of them aren't very busy but they're …

What are some of them? I'm not too up on the latest research in this area so it would be interesting to know how you can do a cryptocurrency that doesn't depend on proof-of-work ca…

Iowa's redistricting commission is truly non-partisan: no politicians are allowed to participate. Seems to work fairly well for them just looking at the maps and variety of results…

I dunno if they've changed it since you looked but scroll is zoom for me (Firefox 52 on Debian).

Not OP but I do some of these things with KeePass as well. For autofill, KeeFox works well for me on Firefox - there's probably something similar for Chrome. I think KeePass will d…

Yeah, it was probably a smaller amount. I would think most people's credit limit is less than the cost of a boat.

Most utilitarians turn out not to actually think that way in real-life situations so I wouldn't worry about it. Moral realism is tied to religion for a lot of people and so some no…

Some kind of cryptographic challenge-response system might be a good solution but I don't know how to get your average computer user and customer support rep to use a system like t…

I haven't tried Brave but that sounds like a good development. I still don't really like being advertised to but if it's relevant or at least easy to ignore then I don't mind eithe…

Meh, it's still kind of interesting though. Just because something's unpopular in general doesn't mean the specifics aren't worth looking at.

They mention this at one point; 4 is neutral on their scale so an average of 5.23 just means that people have a mild to moderate dislike of advertising in general. I don't know any…

I like Bill Wurtz and all but I'm kind of surprised to see this on the front page of HN.

I mostly agreed with what he was saying until he made that non-sequitur about "postmodern neo-Marxism." Universities are just giving the students what they want: a piece of paper t…

Google was perfectly willing to self-censor in China until they were hacked by the Chinese government in 2010. That's when Google China moved to Hong Kong. https://googleblog.blogs…

Just because it makes your job easier doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

It might be; looks like they were both added in 38.0.5: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/38.0.5/releasenotes/