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Chuck Schumer is trying to mollify his constituents. The one thing a politician can never tell his constituents is that they are being morons, even when it's true. Your last link h…

Rapid iteration at the component level would obviously require custom components, and maybe vertical integration, which clearly conflicts with point #1 about riding existing supply…

Demoralization of the enemy. Every single Hezbollah member is now paranoid that every single surface they touch is either listening to them or trying to kill them.

They lose in the short term, but if you're buying and holding to maturity, you get that money back. If you're worried about losing "market value" in a rising interest rate regime, …

In five years you might be able to start teasing out the effects of the sudden rise in interest rates. Right now, we're still feeling echoes of the pandemic and subsequent "snap-ba…

Does it matter? It's a wasteful process, and not the only one that has been introduced into the parent commenter's workflow. In a private company, you can just say "I don't care if…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity_paradox . "You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics." There are definitely companies that are winning f…

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DGS10/ Zoom out to "Max" to get the full 60 year history. You can clearly see a full four decades of declining interest rates running from 1981-2…

A large part of the United States' economic leadership is specifically concentrated in the tech startup sector. Whether or not you think any of the companies funded by YCombinator[…

I wonder if something like Slashdot's metamoderation system could be used to tamp down such abuse. One problem with metamoderation is that once a particular forum becomes an echo c…

> But also going to the dentist already isn't exactly pleasant, the pokes, scrapes, drill noises, etc. Maybe we improve that first before sticking it in a robot? From the article: …

The Federal Reserve, the central bank of the United States, has been raising interest rates very aggressively for the past year and a half to fight inflation. This has ended a very…

Designing a new product can often be thought of like one of these puzzles. E.g. designing an "integrated" traffic system for a city that balances use by pedestrians, cyclists, cars…

I was wondering why China wouldn’t include a self-destruct feature. My daughter pointed out that crashing into a US city, even unintentionally, would probably be seen as even more …

I don’t know exactly how fast the air currents at 40,000-60,000 feet will drive a balloon, but I would assume that this most recent balloon was already airborne by the time the pre…

I'm actually in agreement with you here, but I can see the other side. You have a substance that you know, for a fact, a certain proportion of the population will abuse, to the det…

Is the article wrong on the facts? That is the only thing that matters. Many Hacker News readers are in the same demographic that would be in contention for National Merit honors, …

I would bet that there has literally never been a school that failed to notify the recipients before now. It is not just an honor for the student, but the school itself. Yes, now, …

Isn’t this basically what 4Chan did with the “OK” hand symbol?

At some point, weakness became a virtue.

It does seem silly that someone would advocate making the supreme law of the land easier to change at the same time there is widespread concern about the government becoming more a…

Frame challenge - 2FA doesn’t solve any problems that are actually problems for the homeless. A homeless person has a vastly different cybersecurity paradigm, specifically, they do…

At some point, I think we have to start asking if the addition of non-critical features like having a favicon for each radio station is worth the increased attack surface.

They probably gave the marketing department a QC reject to take pictures with, since marketing can't be bothered to worry about things like proper ESD protection =)

I read it as the phone itself.