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can you, or someone who understands this, explain to the layperson what this means. the last sentence in particular, what does reinfection have to do with error correction (what is…

do you have a link to this solution

It seems like most people I chat with on a day-to-day basis blithely brush off the risks or worry associated with coronavirus. I myself am not the alarmist or prepper type, but wha…

why was this flagged? i would be interested to hear the perspective of the HN userbase on this event / issue?

what are the three you are thinking of? USA China Russia and their respective allies / blocs ?

"It is my perception that, at least in America and I suspect in many other places, competition pressure centered around places with strong "second place" (Job) opportunities combin…

why did this get downvoted, my first thought was exactly along these lines. does anyone have an answer?

Ever since practicing mindfulness and become more aware of my emotional state, drinking alcohol has become a nonstarter for me. It took a while for me to truly connect the dots, bu…

what brand / dose do you drink? looking to switch off coffee to something more benign

I don't hold any bitcoin or cryptocurrency and am a crypto skeptic in general but isn't this argument commonly rebutted with the comparison to gold, to which all of the same critic…

how would you reword it?

It's all anecdotal, but: When I was an adolescent I was diagnosed with ADD after a few days of examination, and was recommended adderall, which my pareents thankfully refused. My m…

A lot of people seem to be willing to kowtow to the current dogma of the medical / psychiatric community with regards to mental illnesses (depression, ADHD, etc.) Once you categori…

can someone ELI5 this? I am a former SW engineer, but havent read through code in a couple of years, so it can be a technical explanation. I just don't understand what is different…

what does 3LA mean?

Can you (or some other knowledgeable person) explain the mechanics behind this. I've heard it a bunch of times and looked into it but I can't fully grok the advantage (and magnitud…

Same here! Glad other people felt this way.

Can someone who understands the mechanics of this ELI5 how this works? so the parent is a UK citizen but can't pass his citizenship on to his children? And his future wife is a tai…

presumably for time to detect and prevent fraud or illegal transactions.

what about product placement, PR in print media, "native" or content ads. to say nothing of social media "influencers"

Isn't India English speaking? And HN has a huge Indian demographic I would imagine. And historically, I believe they have been allied with the Soviet Union whilst the USA has histo…

But Hitler truly was great at building relationships with the German people. Depending on the context you can interpret that as spin but to me it is also a factual statement, to ri…

Why are you using 1% of GDP for your number? 2018 spending will be 4 trillion 2018 GDP is 20 trillion so a thats a 5% increase

What's the difference functionally between a tax on your competition (all except you) and a subsidy for yourself?