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If you have a VR setup and you haven't tried either IL-2 Sturmovik (for WW2) or DCS World (for modern jets and helicopters), you're missing out. You can even try out DCS World for …

For a high-traffic train, you need to have someone manually open and close the doors. You can't use automatic doors like on an elevator because someone will invariably keep them fr…

* Cryptocurrency * Fiat currency * Economics is not a real science * I understand what the author is trying to say, but I don't like how he says it * I didn't read the piece, but w…

Here's the paragraph that's making everyone mad: >Like the student and other forms of personal debt that prepare undergraduates to say two words—“Yes, boss”—the ideal of the entrep…

>the article would be inaccessible to many due to being steeped in elitism. Inaccessible to who exactly?

If you don't understand what the speaker is trying to say, then there's no need for you waste our time with a comment letting us all know that.

In every HN comment section, there's always, 100% of the time, at least one person who only reads the title of the piece (in this case, a song lyric from The Verve) and still has t…

No way in hell I'm clicking that link.

Ultimately, that's what made them stop: somebody (or most likely, three somebodies) was going to get killed.

Every HN submission from a real news source (newspaper, CNN, whatever) will always have at least one commenter complaining about the link title being click-baity, as if they've nev…

A good rule of thumb is to never believe it when a company or industry says they have razor-thin margins.

If you hover your mouse cursor over the underlined words in the article (these are called 'hyperlinks' or, more informally, 'links') and then hit the left mouse button, your World …

Luckily, none of it is true. Or at least a gross exaggeration. As one example, yes, many untouchables didn't support him (there were 300 million people living in India then), but m…

>He was against giving his wife penicillin to safe her life for religious reasons and she died. This is one of those debunked smears that instantly disqualifies whatever else the s…

Putting a link to the "Lykov Family" Wikipedia page in the middle of this article is just plain evil; I'm trying to get some work done here!

I called it.

>But he never made a dollar illegally. Blackmail is illegal, by the way.

Ito will be gone within 24 hours, I guarantee it. And I wouldn't be surprised if the entire Media Lab is shut down by the end of the week.

Epstein, a convicted and admitted pedophile, got MIT Media Lab kowtowing to him.

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That same order from June 2000 included five other books and one Sega Dreamcast game (Grand Theft Auto 2), so they must have had a few non-book departments back then.

I'm so old I bought this when it was published in paperback. https://www.amazon.com/Beginning-was-Command-Line/dp/0380815... Edit: Amazon informs me that I purchased it on 19 June …

The headline on that magazine cover is pretty evil: "Kris Kristofferson's Miracle Recovery from Alzheimer's Diagnosis"

>This must be the most American thing ever. Guys, who's going to be the one to tell him?