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Getting a request for a provocative picture of eating a corndog was definitely the most funny to me. The Chris Hanson moment was usually when the victim suggested a real date or of…

>Emotional damage Just for clarity, I'm talking about adult males whose job description is essentially "jump out of planes and kill people." We're not made of quite such fragile st…

That depends. Do senior CDC or NIH staff stand to collect patent royalties on its administration? The former (and probably informally mandatory). If not, then the latter. Given Sté…

Fun prank if you have some young male friends: 1. Create profile with hot babe pictures 2. Set search proximity to lowest setting 3. Swipe furiously until you find your friend 4. W…

I think the number of people killed in the world each year by personally owned novelty military vehicles is approximately zero. Hundreds of people are killed in the United States e…

Ah, so we just eliminate low-cost transportation, agriculture, textiles and consumer goods and consequently starve billions of people. A modest proposal for such an ill-specified p…

I've never dealt with a city in my region that didn't have variance procedures for building and land development permits. In my own experience, these committees are nearly a rubber…

Obama invaded Syria "in the name of Christ and oil profits"? That justification was a myth, even when the Trotskyites-cum-Conservatives asserted it as truth 15 years ago. Creating …

I think the refugees are motivated much more by the financial incentives those governments provide. They usually pass through multiple safe countries to get to places like Germany.…

>It isnt about money, I am juwt ashamed to have an American passport and know my tax dollars are being spent on war and murder in the name of christ and oil profits. You know Bush …

The allure of becoming a billionaire with almost no productive effort spent is the heart and soul of the pop-tech. Crypto that you have becomes more valuable only if more people de…

Do you think the folks with real decision making power (I'm thinking people invited to Davos, rather than people in mostly ceremonial political roles) in the United States actually…

The HN server or moderators promote literally anything with “Rust” in the title to the front page. Yes, Neo, you’re in the Matrix.

Comments like this are why I read HN before the left coast wakes up. As for the article, it reads like teenage-angst Marxism.

Is there even a clear line where intelligence agencies end and Google begins? Google was an In-Q-Tel baby, after all.

A Malthusian crisis has been “imminent” since the 19th century. I think that you should try writing down what facts you think support the a priori assumption that our sinful ways a…

Having observed the quality of the commentary here, particularly my own, I would not want to be friends with someone who posts here. Game-ified bloviating is no virtue.

I don't think there is an absence of software with the purpose of convincing the public to consume the right pharmaceutical products. I would say every owner of major internet prop…

Exactly!

Buoyant forces apply to things in the ground. HDPE pipes without adequate backfill or anchoring will float out of the ground, like zombies, in flood conditions where the pipe itsel…

>$ 888 M Google, is that you?

I was really curious about bearing capacity of this material, and I found this spec sheet: https://my.civil.utah.edu/~bartlett/Geofoam/EPS%20Geofoam%20... The compressive strength …

HN meta question: When I see all these double-returns at the end of each sentence, should I assume it's because someone is using Slack (or another chat program where mashing return…

Exclusionary rights to make, use or redistribute a thing. I’m under the impression that patent rights allow one to sue to prevent others from making, using or redistributing a thin…

The manufacturer is making food production at scale possible . John Deere does not “fuck with” you when you buy its products. Expropriating their trade secrets because someone deci…