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would you mind saying what the main roadblock to more productivity in rails was for you, compared to react?

i've been using nothing but rails for the last 10 years, without missing anything. though had i known that tech like cableready/stimulus was on the horizon, i probably would have m…

I don't fully understand your requirements, but there might be something here: https://github.com/2020PB/police-brutality

it's so weird that my experience of melting into the floor is nothing unusual, as i've now read a few times. it was terrifying by the way, and felt 100% real. crazy, crazy stuff.

a word of caution. if you have a history of substance abuse, you're probably better off trying most other meds before this one. the abuse potential due to its recreational value is…

it's been really sad to see the trend of downvoting things that hurt people's feelings carry over to hacker news.

or maybe they want to be seen. either to gauge our reaction, or for the same reasons we want our own areal craft to be visible: to help avoid collisions.

this recent article might have an answer or two for you: Estimating Flight Characteristics of Anomalous Unidentified Aerial Vehicles https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/201908.023…

you can buy a key for the game for around $5

my adhd was still undiagnosed back in my school days, and i guess i'm kind of traumatised by that time because i regularly have nightmares about it, and am 100% certain i'd ball my…

the whole concept makes zero sense. when did i decide to enjoy the things that i like? when did i decide how my parents should raise me, or what personality forming experiences i s…

i switched from irfanview to xnview about 15 years ago (now under linix), and never looked back. mind you, i don't know about irfanview's developments in that time.

is it really a good idea to let a 4-year-old watch star wars? doesn't seem like it to me.

looks that way to me too. seems to be a non issue in germany, i don't see why it would be different in other european countries. i live in one of the largest, and second most dange…

how anyone could look at this contraption, and think "yep, this is fine" is beyond me. but so many things going on across the pond are. this is just one more.

then you'd have to take literally every antidepressant off the market.

have you had a look at https://github.com/onivim/oni ? heard good things about it.

you could maybe try getting him to take some CBD, if it's available and legal where you're located. looks very promising. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5099166/ http…

"Although we do not comment on specifics, as a matter of policy the United States does not engage in kidnapping and torture, and does not condone or support the resort to such ille…

a lot of those countries practice immediate punishment in the form of bodily harm.

In 1989, for instance, two teams of electrochemists independently announced that they’d achieved the holy grail of nuclear energy, cold fusion—that is, controlled nuclear reactions…

Terre des Hommes has for years worked to combat child prostitution in Southeast Asia and staff members noticed in recent years that young prostitutes were disappearing from their u…

that's like saying it's ok to shoot at people, as long as you miss. it's a miracle that no one was hurt (or worse) in this race, and that's exactly why this sort of thing is illega…

i remember the Gäfgen v. Germany case quite well. that's because it got a ton of media coverage, here in germany. i don't recall anything of the sorts happening before, or after th…

i've read about these skin tone filters more than once now, and i'm really curious to find out if these take all possible skin tones into consideration (i can't really imagine that…