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Did you ask one of your poorer friends before putting words into other peoples mouth?

This whole bunch of comments shows that y'all have far too much money for your own good.

you don't see why? really? Please ask one of your poorer friends if they see why.

Your comment made me remember another handy rule: "if stuff doesn't cut both ways, find out why it doesn't"

Normal rpm's for a spin welder are Datasheet: https://www.sonics.com/site/assets/files/2949/spin-welder.pd...

Wut? The prices have risen since? surprisepikachu.png

> would spin the rivet to about 11,000,343 RPM I just checked with the datasheet of a current commercial spin welder.[0] The rpm's given on the datasheet are 500 to 2500. I think t…

Some friends in the US are really non-ironically worried about the country coming apart within the next few years.

Look how often this has been posted already: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=russia+to+quit

Do you, by chance, write cheap adventure stories for a living? Cause this sounds like something I read a few months ago. A pretty silly plan.

I care about these things and left crypto over a decade ago.

You are missing the central point of the Walkie-Talkie and Disney-Concert-Hall controversies. These are Frank-Gehry(-style) buildings, and in those roughly half of all surfaces is …

With an express train from the easternmost stop to the westernmost stop, zero in-between stops... possible, but not very practicable.

You are right. And I do understand why he does it. I can see his side. But I sit on the other side. I hate it and will tell everyone how much I hate it. --- Edit: Or, if you prefer…

There have been many great suggestions, but I am surprised at the lack of: - Tom7 / Suckerpinch - it feels like hackernews catnip to me

I want to very much second excluding Veritasium. Whenever he talked about something I was knowledgeable in, he made mistakes. This combined with branding himself as 'the element of…

Think about how the hosts.txt file was originally used before the DNS. It's closer to that (with a lot of extra sophistication and 40+ year learning)

There is another consideration that people on YouTube ignore, but Apple doesn't. You don't want the underside of the computer to reach substantially over 40deg for a considerable a…

What is the price? shut-up-and-take-my-money.jpg Where do I sign? Can we make it same-day delivery?

The way this is described it reminds me of the and tags in HTML, most often used for spoilers. But I am not sure if I understood it correctly. This might be more for different leve…

Why is this titled "Advice for New Developers"? The actual blog post is called "The best investment". A proper title for HN, imo, would be "A personal fitness trainer is the best i…

This is very close to (and at times is) climate denial.

I would say it helps to first think what you want to get out of it. If your task is "show me something that breaks through our hyperspeed media", then I guess some obscure museum i…

"Neural Head Avatar" is not a good name, but it sure beats "deepfake".