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When I find a glitchy site in Firefox, I try chromium. Usually turns out it's glitchy there as well.

Windows is practically clean on install compared to any Android phone I've owned My Nexus Android phones were clean. And yes, Sony etc phones are adware, but so are Sony Windows co…

Sugar in coke doesn't sink to the bottom, indeed, but if you put a sugar cube in water, it first sinks to the bottom, and then (slowly) dissolves. Likewise, if you release helium i…

And if you do contemplate them, you'll be accused of participating in project fear.

They may want to know who is leaking the sensitive information to the journalists

When I compile the example, i get: 0x7ffd0b57ebd0 0x7ffd0b57ebd8 0 OK, so gcc reordered a & b; I'll fix this by chaning the initialisation of p and q to: int *p = &a + 1; int *q = …

Response by one of the original authors: https://jasoncollins.blog/2018/05/31/the-marshmallow-test-he...

"It’s not clean until it’s been soaked in sodium hypochlorite and sodium hydroxide, UV sterilised, gamma irradiated, then parked in a decaying orbit above the sun." By that time, y…

Often the poor are fat because healthy food is more expensive. So yes, scarcity of healthy food is linked to poverty.

Multicast may be useful when the hairdresser is busy at the requested time, and algorithm searches for an available option.

But then, why is it called "twenty years of speedcubing", if he started in 1981?

So what if x > MAXNUMBER/2 ? Also, how can this be faster than x=0-x; ?

Many stories on HN, for example: 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11984609 2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6309618

Because when your home gives free access, sharing the connection (and cost) with your neighbors becomes easier. Yes, it's possible now already, but now we're all afraid the others …

If downloading more than 5% of stored data is so expensive, wouldn't it have been cheaper to upload a file 19 times the size of the stored data (containing /dev/urandom)? After tha…

About tethering restrictions: I would have hoped network neutrality would forbid those as well. Probably not though.