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Went to a new doctor. As part of the check-in process, I was asked to "sign" a little digital pad, so, as I was told, they could properly use my insurance. I asked to see the hard …

One one hand, it's political news, which I abhor on HN. On the other hand, international travel out of SF provides underlying support for the tech industry and without it, would ca…

Yeah, we got sucked into the hopefulness, the promise and the excitement of a new technology. It was a great feeling and primarily one of optimism. I remember being blown away by t…

I certainly don't condone the experience I had in junior high school, although it seemed to work for our specific environment. As a child I went to a well funded Catholic school in…

I can recommend A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine. Heartily recommend in fact. And if you're like me, always looking for a series to fill the time, I can recomend the Solar …

It didn't grab me at first but your comment makes me think I should give it another go, thanks. I remember that initially I had a world of trouble with Conrad's Heart of Darkness b…

It seems that low quality human customer support, or rather, no support at all, has been normal for some time. I don't enjoy talking to an AI, but if they are constructed to be eff…

In my personal experience, a divorce, money (child support), if I couldn't change it, I'd ignore it. But to ignore my own adversity, I had to intensely focus on something else, typ…

What aspect of technology or science is reflected in this report regarding a crime? Does this type of reporting belong on HN?

Abuse from scraping has long been a serious problem for many, good job!

It might have been 2002, can't remember, when they upgraded the e-QIP software for the security check form. I was doing my mandatory update coincidental with the roll-out and when …

My offhand impression is that when I was in Germany, consumers were oddly suspicious of the Internet in general and very suspicious of social media in particular. That suspicion wa…

I read von Daniken as a very young kid and loved it. But I read it, and enjoyed it very much, as a science fiction genre. I never bought it, but I admired the effort. And so I than…

Many thanks for this entry. Knowing the reason for the shutdown hang is very valuable. It prevents me futzing my brains out and doing damage whilst trying to repair it. I did exper…

It's less dangerous but man oh man did my life improve when I quit. I now wake up refreshed, my cognition seems sharper and my sleep now generates dreams again, which I suspect is …

Back when my daughter was small, I was waiting in a line to get to the ticket window at the ballpark. A woman walked up to us, said my daughter was lovely, and gave us 2 tickets to…

Libraries are community centers in many cities and towns, and, to my own family offer much to pre-school learners in events and activities - friends are made during these events an…

A few more than 30 years ago it was possible to buy plane tickets from the classified pages from people who, for whatever reason, couldn't take the flight. And of course the ticket…

Happened to me in the '80's. '71 Buick Skylark. When we went to lunch, our receptionist asked us to drive her Buick as it "was making funny noises." We found it in the 5 storey car…

Speaking of junk, I was in Syria, many years ago, when it had about 250k tourists yearly, under Hafez al-Assad . I was in the company of an Assyriologist and in a shop of a vendor …

Eagerly anticipating the article in some fru-fru travel blog, "Man travels 28 countries with nothing but his passport and Cosco ID." "It's a livesaver," the traveler gushed, "Never…

I lived 14 years overseas (federal agency), in various countries, and my living quarters usually had a safe room, typically just a bedroom steel door with ballistic and forced-entr…

Coincidentally today, I received an automated text from my heath care entity along the lines of, "Please recognize this number as from us. Our AI will be calling you to discuss you…

Available residency slots are dictated by the funding made available through the Medicare program and ultimately Congress.

I'm ok with this decision. In my 3 decades experience of being responsible for handling and storing classified, including comsec material, no one goes to jail for mishandling class…