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Well, that's another thing. I'd love to get my hand on a 1980-1980 Mercedes. Another thing build for live https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_W126 I'd love to import a well…

They prey on nostalgia, but the rugged aspect also speaks to me. Casio watches, Nokia cellphones (formerly, now Huawei or Xiaomi), Thinkpad latops and Panasonic Toughbooks - if you…

excess stiction - so you means the keys requires a lot of strength to be activated. Could it be the plastic getting older and less soft?

Is anyone using a 2004 era CTB100 at home? I love the extra buttons and that it comes with a speaker for voice chat. I'm considering using one for programming, with the extra butto…

I care more about freedom than performance here. Not feature complete is fine as long as it works for what I do, and that I can tweak it to do more. Eventually, something that is n…

Medical information is likely to be ICD codes for the active diagnosis, and antecedents (history) for this patient. This is worse than full text medical information because everyth…

After they received training when they learn that this step is important and not just a formality, and why it is done, I found that people do observe procedures, especially when th…

(see my comment suggesting disposable keys, like for crypto wallets: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20088758 ) If the "allowed" ICD code is linked to the public key, or in th…

In spreadsheets (excel) and notebooks (ipython/rstudio), having the data bundled with the code is a feature. It provides reproducibility. > a destroyed formula can go undetected fo…

One of my eyes has myopia. The other one is fine. Did I play out too much as a pirate with an eyepatch? Joke aside, the disease has many causes, and there is some genetic predispos…

There is absolutely no technical reason why it should be the case if done properly. With SIM cards or other hardware devices, your private key is never leaked (if "done properly") …

Name + ICD diagnosis, what a wonderful leak for blackmailers wordwide! (/s) Seriously, these two pieces of data that are innocent alone, when taken separately (HIV, chlamydia, canc…

The beautiful thing with democracy is that these housing solutions that provided an actual solution to homelessness where banned, are still illegal, and thus won't be "brought back…

> the MT7621 based board you cite has two MIPS 24k CPUs, straight out of 2005 Yes, I'm having a lot offun with a 14 year old CPU, so I want to see a modern one, if possible with fr…

Then please stand by your username and explain me, with rational discussion, why you think I'm wrong, and how Russia is so much better. And FYI it's not a mockery - I'm watching TV…

And personally if I had to live in either Russia or China, I know which one I'd pick to maximize not just my purchasing power, but also my freedom. I guess this unpopular yet factu…

> VThe problem is with building a competitive stack, Huawei can't get access to a 7nm fab in China yet > Huawei can build 7nm chips at TSMC, but due to their ARM l ARM -> RISC, as …

We can't ever know the counterfactual. If these had degenerated into a revolution, there would have been many more casualties. What we know for sure is that, 30 years later, the co…

The whole point of my post was to look for the root of the disagreement. What you call luck (as you suppose human beings are naturally inclined to do evil), I call that normal as I…

> Using fission as your go-to example of "See? It's OK, we can handle world-ending technologies" is just appallingly wrong, it actually demonstrates precisely the opposite. We can'…

No. I decided not to have kids after realizing it came with the "risk" of making me prioritize their life over the life of many more human beings. I do not want to alter my utility…

Maybe not in the beta, as mentioned in the article where there may have been a risk of imminent collision. But in the stable version? Yes it should. Your daughter is not more impor…

Reading the comments here, all I see is doom and gloom. Not a single positive view. It is sad to read that on HN of all places. Will some bad things happen? Yes, like when humanity…

Why am I not surprised? They just provide plausible deniability to clients, who may not be able to pay the ransom for legal reasons.

HN in 2010: don't touch bitcoin. HN in 2019: it's Dutch Tulip Bubble! (in the midst of the next bull run) Meanwhile, those who followed contrarian advice did great. It feels like S…