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for a less misanthropic take on the same idea, I recommend Ted Chiang’s “The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling”

I do think it’s bad that almost everyone will die before any work that influenced them enters the public domain

> I have a few qualms with this app: > 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftp…

Should you get a ticket for accidentally driving over the speed limit because your speedometer was broken? Should the company who made the speedometer get the ticket? What if the s…

They voted to become a state in 2020 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Puerto_Rican_status_ref...

Ironically, if enough people gave them a penny they wouldn’t have to run those quack informercials.

That’s a lot of words to say you’re scared of needles.

Pol Pot did want to teach history, after all.

Because the toxo doesn’t want us to sound the alarm

Taking degenerates makes you a psychedelic?

It’s just Hacker News confirmation bias. San Francisco has roughly the same level of property crime per capita as Toronto, Canada.

I don’t want to starve

I would think the margin comes from their cut of software sales. Seems to work well for Apple.

https://lmgtfy.app/?q=tf+idf

Do not ever allow an election for who gets to control the nukes be decided by an e-vote. I don’t want Boaty McBoatface to be the president.

Wow what a fair and balanced headline.

Baltimore police are not exactly inactive, they are more like an organized gang ( https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/b... ).

If you don’t need to be near Manhattan you don’t need to live there. Or maybe your loud neighbors won’t need to live there. Ceteris paribus working from home kinda sucks, but if yo…

Current non-foldable phones have gorilla glass on top of their display.

A toilet that monitored urine and stool samples would be a major lifesaver.