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I wrote about the tools I use to help with this a while back: https://auspicacious.org/posts/2020/10/03/rehumanize-yoursel... For HN specifically, I don't browse the site but rathe…

Or at least a no-OS version, quietly offered through a few tech-friendly resellers.

I would not be so ambitious -- but I have to believe that any entrepreneurial activity is better on a resume than nothing at all. It can't lose money.

Something of a different challenge for HNers. I have a friend ("from the Internet," so to speak) who is in a difficult situation. She's highly literate and intelligent, although ad…

I haven't tried this in a few years, but I recall that Kubuntu and Ubuntu desktops used to have serious issues co-existing on the same box for some reason. Don't really care, now, …

Remarkably, I know of at least one early-1990s film -- Rockula -- that was never released on DVD, but is available on Netflix Instant streaming.

This is not "starting to become" for South Korea. The fact of the matter is that South Korea is far more democratic now than it was during the Cold War. These laws restricting the …

Probably a bit late for most readers here, but I highly recommend taking advantage of whatever opportunities for public speaking and performance your high school offers -- whether …

Libel laws place more burden of proof on the accuser there? I understand that's the way it is in the UK.

Sensationalist headline, interesting article.

Thanks for clearing that up. They are a very different sort of organization than the one behind my old summer job. That being said, I don't really care what their Web interface loo…

Everything that China blocks with their national firewall is considered "illegal" in China. That is, in fact, the exact same justification, even the same wording, that was used to …

What on earth does "read-online access" mean? Are they making people use some kind of Flash application to read them (so you'll have to screencap important stuff), or are they just…

new legislation must be narrowly targeted only at sites beyond the reach of current U.S. law, cover activity clearly prohibited under existing U.S. laws, and be effectively tailore…

It's not an attack, I'm just pointing out that it's unprofessional and makes the author look like he pays no attention to detail. When dealing with legal issues, detail is of cours…

I applaud his efforts, but he's aggressively misspelling Barnes and Noble's name in that post, and that lack of attention to detail makes him much harder to take seriously.

A lot of people in this thread seem to think that being in school until 5 or 6 PM would mean being in the classroom for ten hours a day or more. That additional time would be fanta…

Registered mail is supposed to be held to a different standard for proof of delivery than delivery confirmation as well.

By the way, you can get a prepaid Softbank mobile on a 90-day entry permit if you look in the right places. I had luck at the Don Quixote in Roppongi (no surprise there). It probab…

Hey, if you're willing to shoulder the true costs of that style of living -- environmentally, that's at least air pollution, and runoff from increased paving and lawns replacing wo…

Effective, good-quality regulation is a form of subsidy. This article is right to look at the costs of not updating regulation to meet reality.

I don't buy that. Every other country with high-speed rail has rail regulations as well.

To be honest, I have their business service at home to avoid trouble when I'm running VPN servers, etc. and the occasional Web service from home -- not to mention the usage cap iss…