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Technology Connections did a video (because of course he did) on how gas furnaces work. The short of it is that the flame is contained inside of metal tubes and never mixes with in…

Conspiracy theories thrive in environments of silence. If no one can talk about their time in government organizations (military, CIA, etc.), speculation is all we have left.

At this point, there are enough commenters in both threads to justify a merger.

>>US government is working overtime to make sure legacy technologies stay around while the rest of the world is investing into the future. >"Rest of the world"? Europe isn't even a…

Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220350 256 comments, 8 hours ago

The flagged/dead comment contains a copy of the entire page, but the relevant part is: > Built by us, not rented from someone else > We’ve installed our own servers, co-located in …

Primaries are not for down-the-ticket party voters. I didn't bother to vote in the primaries because I don't really care about the subtle shades of blue or red, I only care about a…

Not always. There are diminishing returns at the top end of the quality spectrum. I tend to go with the cheaper item even if I can technically afford the more expensive one if thei…

He isn't blaming the software problem on the government. He is saying that if we apply this reasoning to everything in our lives , then we have a race to the bottom in other facets…

I can't believe it has been 10 years since Microsoft's "Hitler did nothing wrong" AI chat bot. I didn't realize LLMs were that old. Was this an LLM or something else? https://www.t…

There was a service called Baller Alert (the name seems to be ungooglable now) that would stalk basketball players and send announcements whenever they were spotted in clubs/bars j…

It isn't a summary. It is every word of the original article copied and pasted. I can understand doing that in something that is paywalled, but I didn't have any problems getting t…

oh, so when https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html says: >What does [dead] mean? >The post was killed by software, user flags, or moderators. "moderators" isn't referring to jus…

We stopped high sulfur when we realized it was causing acid rain. CO2 is also acidifying the oceans, so there aren't a lot of things we can pump into the atmosphere without consequ…

To answer tyromaniac's question that is dead and therefore I can't reply to: The United States utility companies bill by the kWh, so American-centric news will report in multiples …

The term you are looking for is Defense in Depth/Layers

Don't know much about bitcoin, but if they know which numerical wallet it came from, can't send it back even if they don't know the person who owned it or communicating with that o…

If you buy now, you are buying high. The time to buy was before the war was announced publicly. That's what insider trading is for.

People can make up their own minds as to whether they are willing to take the risks, but first they must be given accurate information. It is important to know if the studies that …

Not at Walmart. They want their employees to get on government assistance to justify paying them less. https://factually.co/fact-checks/business/walmart-workers-go... https://www.c…

True, but I am upvoting it just to get discussion on the general topic (which seems to be happening).

Parents homeschool or private school their children for lesser reasons.

The people deploying them know how to make money off people's fears and the "we have to do something " mentality.

ETA until a shooter brings a mask? They spend weeks if not months gathering guns and bullets. Oh noes, they have buy one more thing off the web.

I zeroed in on khalic's mention of "far right populism" which I thought was a universal term, but skrebbel made it sound like that doesn't apply to Italy (but I still think it does…