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I've come to the realization that planetary colonization is sort of a dangerous and anesthetizing science fiction fantasy. It allows us to mentally defer our reckoning of the finit…

Prusa makes the best open source 3D printers. This makes it cheaper. No different than when RaspPi announces a new board.

If the period lasts months, then sure. People go on meds for temporary events all the time, e.g. Seasonal Affective Disorder.

That's usually SOP at companies which have suicides. Suicidal ideation is contagious. They'll bring in a grief counselor, and encourage you to talk to them , instead.

My brother, a GP doctor, said that he writes a lot of scripts for antidepressants every performance review season. Performance management sucks. The racial tenor of this article se…

* Everything is a "workflow" and you often find yourself stuck in some terminal error state for no reason. * No JSON, everything's a page load. * ...or, if there is JSON, it's done…

https://www.propublica.org/article/secret-border-patrol-face...

Self-hosted, I'm assuming? Their hosted service is shutting down. https://sandstorm.io/news/

The HN hivemind leans very pro-regulation these days.

Misaligned incentives cause good people to make bad decisions.

Also, what if the TV communicated with its OEM's backends instead, which communicated with malicious third parties behind the scenes?

Is this a fiat gateway for USDT? (aka Tether, the "stable coin" which is the subject of NYAG’s lawsuit: https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/20978/ny-attorney-genera... ) EDIT: Ahah…

Most--if not all--coins are just scammy as hell, and the US has resources to fight crypto-related crime.

What if the communication is benign? What if the TV is simply refreshing a list of recommendations? Everybody - including this forum - is so primed to read nefarious motives into b…

I like clipless because they enforce better form and don't stray into the chain.

It's fascinating that Netherlands made a deliberate, pragmatic step to take their streets back from cars in the 60's and 70's. I had assumed that they had simply never lost their l…

>With the current system, you have to hold your phone really close to the reader for a few seconds You do? Mine is almost scarily eager to pay the bill.

Spawn a cryptotoken (BAT, in this case) and you're rewarded with true believer shill army. Pumping their coin and FUDing the competition. https://www.reddit.com/r/BATProject/

Uh huh. You should visit the Building 17 courtyard sometime, it's basically a graveyard for defunct MS products.

Author is a developer on Brave.

The ISA is virtualized (and much faster) if you have KVM installed and your processor supports VTx extensions.

A week ago Lyft driver who drove like a maniac. Will he get a saucy exposé too?

So every DNS change is stored into the blockchain, forever? Will you have to download terabytes and terabytes of the blockchain in order to serve as a node? Why is that kind of aud…

You're probably using dedicated FTP clients, right? FTP browsing on a web browser is a hack. Uploading files, downloading multiple files at a time, doing _anything_ is just pure pa…