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In the gratuitous conflation of reality and fiction department: almost everything hyping blockchain reminds me of the unique, hilarious romcom Shooting Fish (1997) where a couple o…

Sounds like an opportunity to reboot something vaguely similar to Rapportive, or is there already a good replacement?

Tomatoes, parmesan cheese, escargot, sushi ... coding. True that.

It's less effort and seems kinder to give a soft "no" by more-or-less ghosting the candidate. It's better to focus on "yes," actionable interest than get hung-up on where there's n…

Hmm.. in production, this makes sense. On a laptop, running an an OWC SSD for 6 years and zero errors so far (knock on silicon).

Perhaps it's an idealism that shouldn't be temporary like "Earth Day." Live consistent to one's ideals, such as say going vegetarian, everyday rather than temporarily going on a Th…

There's a similar festival in Norway where they climb up 30m to burn a tower of wooden pallets. And another in Ireland IIRC. The unique aspect of Burning Man is the self-assembling…

Honesty and integrity > "nicely" not-nice

Holy moly! The irony is private gun ownership is illegal but all/most of the criminals have them. Two people on a motorcycle is an implicit threat of robbery, kidnapping, murder, e…

What's with all these political / negative articles from The Atlantic? Are they right for HN?

I always serialize in the morning, unless I'm running late.

So the search for Grand Unified Theory might be waiting for Godot?

Donahue, Peter Arnett, Chris Hedges and more sacrificed their careers and lost corporate-sponsored, mainstream audiences for doing the Right Thing(tm). Layer waves of journalists a…

This sounds like a job for dum-dum-duum, Braille Skateboarding If they can make a truck out of an NES or a piece of glass, I think they've got this. https://www.brailleskateboardin…

The US desperately needs an entrepreneur-specific visa. I know a Slovak with around 6 businesses spread around Germany, Netherlands and Switzerland but is unable to enter the US wi…

Zip drive condoms should've been a thing.

Oh Zip Drives... In 1995, I worked at a software store and they were flying off the shelves. For a virtual portfolio investment, I put about 95% into IOMG and returned 150% in a we…

Like RF design: some science but mostly trial-and-error "art."

Watch out for those Soviets, they're gonna fluoridate our precious bodily fluids.

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Yup. One of the oldest, popular, surviving distributions. There's a transfinite number of distributions.

Another consideration is that, long-term, the vast majority software jobs are likely to be as common as piano tuners and truck drivers: most automata will no doubt program themselv…