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It's like people took the idiom "throwing the baby out with the bathwater" as a thing to aspire to.

Just wondering, why does that not worry you? Requiring people to play the favoritism game seems like a terrible way to govern. Unless I just misunderstood, in which case I apologiz…

It's much easier to convince a family member not to share DNA with a data broker than it is to stop government corruption. Is it ideal, no, but it's realistic.

Just offering alternatives seems to solve most of that issue. I've got some friends who are vegetarian, so whenever they come over, I just grab some vegan sausages or some vegetari…

Sure, but there's a clear difference between a man who dresses feminine sometimes but otherwise still prefers being referred to as a man and Marsha Johnson. She moved to a new town…

In that case, yes there were. They were generally worded as anti-crossdressing laws, but that is what they were. Here's a quick excerpt from the wikipedia article on cross-dressing…

Alright, sure, some of the flag designs are not well done, but I doubt you're talking about vexillology. Queer just refers to "not straight". It's a general term. Bisexual people h…

Wording has changed throughout history as has our understanding of gender and sexuality. While the specific word "transgender" may not have existed, it's still true that she lived …

There were laws in many places in the states that banned "crossdressing" which was applied to trans and gay people alike. While the specific term "transgender" hasn't been around v…

> Maybe very small local cells to improve connectivity in difficult landscapes (mountains, skyscrapers, underground) Something like this would've been useful in a couple remote net…

Looks cool. It might be helpful to mention somewhere that it's for Emacs. I have never used Emacs before and had no idea what note-taking app this was for till I googled "org mode"…

I'm not an ecologist, so no, I don't have a particular technical solution in mind. I'm going off of memory from living there at the time. That said, I would expect any oil company …

I don't know the actual statistics, so I can't say for sure. From what I remember, it did hurt tourism but people quickly forgot about it. The fishing/shrimping industry locally to…

Florida is such a weird state. Their main income is tourism by a lot, yet the government keeps hurting their main money-maker by not taking care of their beaches and environment an…

DMCA is for user generated content on platforms, so microsoft wouldn't have a lot of surface-area to target. That said, youtube gives preferential treatment to the largest creators…

When the penalty for frivolous and fake dmca takedowns is basically non-existent, it practically is.

What a fun project! I think if I ever get around to opening my own makerspace/cafe, I'd like to have something like this running in the lobby for people to see how early computers …

They can be used to decrease orbit as well. Since you just need to bleed off the speed from Earth's orbit, you could angle the sail diagonally so the the reflected light is pushing…

They can eventually decrease orbit toward the sun. They just need to be angled in such a way that the thrust is retrograde (not the sail itself). It would be incredibly slow though…

They're $5 spatulas that melt and shed bits of plastic over time. Wood, silicon, or stainless steel are all better and not too much more expensive. Even if this was a hoax (which i…

> We must rise above our animal selfishness and will to competition, and embrace humanity and humanitarianism. In other words, we must resist our common enemy, who works on all our…

No matter your beliefs on the supernatural, it should be clear that the story of Wiggo was an actual "fairy tale" made up by Einhard as a proxy for airing his disdain for the curre…

Kinda, yeah. It's open source in the "intelligence" sense of the phrase because it's openly available information (like OSINT), but it's not freely usable.

HN seems to be doing it too (though they're just hidden, not deleted). None of the UHC posts are on the frontpage and I checked all the way to 200 posts down. I had to google just …

Interestingly, I can't find any of the threads about the UHC CEO on the HN frontpage either. I've gone back 200 posts (around 3-4 days old) and only one loosely related post up. I …