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That's what I was thinking too. Lyn is super cool.

The London plane tree, a hybrid between the eastern sycamore and the american sycamore, could be an example of this. They were some of the only trees that could cope with the heavy…

An interesting and related story: European newspaper couriers used 6 wheeled Citroens to transport the paper across countries overnight at nearly 100 mph. [1] https://petrolicious.…

Well certainly nobody feels its necessary to run illegal corn growing operations in national parks. But as long as legalized drugs have a significant price premium over black marke…

I don't see why a CAD file would be any different than normal instructions for building firearms. For example, building a 12 gauge shotgun from 1" and 3/4" steel pipe is cheaper, e…

Click the "web" link just below the article's title. Most sites with a paywall let you read an article if you arrived at it via a google search page.

Related: Humans have twice as many female ancestors as male ancestors. https://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/09/05/the-missing-...

These traits would make it a pretty good guard dog though.

While not quite from scratch, I have built guns. I might add that it is a very interesting and educational experience for anyone interested. Also, know that so long as you aren't a…

I don't think you can relate toxic masculinity to stoicism or suppression of feelings. While there are toxic attitudes that are merely acting out some misunderstood idea of masculi…

I like this a lot. I also believe that taking complete responsibility for all of the issues in your life (some call it extreme ownership) is better than the inverse. If everything …

I'm about to graduate high school and train become an electrician. I chose this route over college because I know I would be miserable at a normal desk job and going into the trade…

At least they're all really cool cars.

I've heard Joe Rogan talk about this on his podcast. It sounds like there is an epidemic of cartoon styled videos with dark endings that wind up autoplaying after kids' videos.

The police have held a press conference. https://twitter.com/search?q=san%20bruno%20press%20conferenc... It looks like shooter was a female who is now deceased with 4 or 5 others i…

It also might be helpful to do the opposite. Write out what your life will be like if you continue down the wrong path or just let yourself go entirely. I think we all have some id…

At my high school - a private prep school - we are required to have iPads. All of us were required to install a monitoring program that has access to most of what we do on the iPad…

I gave up pop a while back. I never drank coffee so breaking the caffeine addiction wasn't too hard after the three day hump. Also, because I would normally drink pop in the evenin…

Jordan Peterson talked about this in his infamous Cathy Newman interview. I think it's worth a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMcjxSThD54

Or you could have a combination of both. I'm currently in high school. I live in a small town's school district but commute into a fairly large city to school (about a 35 minute dr…

The amount of civility on HN is almost unbelievable. The behavior of the users is one of the HN's biggest strengths.

I'm interested in hearing more.

Theres a lot of really intelligent people on here. To me, its often more interesting to read their insights and debates on an article than the article itself. HN always introduces …

I've heard this phrased in another way. The question isn't why many women seek more balance, it's why some men are insane enough to want to work such intense hours.