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A couple of maths professors I worked with had very poor spelling, grammar, etc. Good luck with your approach, if you are trying to hire a specialist in an area that is not middle …

Wow! Not using social media and avoiding your photos from being publicly shared is what distinguishes a North Korean hacker? I see how ex-CIA guys would expect to get a profile on …

There was a post on HN some time ago about a candidate for a senior IT role, who wrote code in MS Word. I can't find it right now. Maybe I should try Bing search

I feel like Elon Musk is about to propose a tech-driven innovative solution to this centuries old problem.

Sorry to disappoint you, mate. Weizsäcker is much more likely to be an equivalent of Wheatbagger. Weizen - wheat Sack - bag

There is a point in moving the FROM ahead of SELECT and getting sensible auto-complete suggestions from your IDE as you type. LINQ, however, attempts to solve a much bigger problem…

Being able to pick the source (i.e. the FROM clause) first is useful in itself, as you then get the benefit of sensible auto-complete suggestions.

To skip TSA nonsense you just need to skip TSA nonsense. Outside of the US airtravel is still relatively similar to rail. You have to be on time, you have to handle the baggage, bu…

> Wikipedia is nothing but a superminority making the website their playground, though[0]. It's more like the minority of the minority does a lot of spellchecking and editing, but …

Why not call your children John or Maria Smith at birth then? Wouldn't this guarantee almost full anonymity in most contexts? The typical security precautions are very hard to main…

Came here to say the same: "wtf how are bananas and pineapples trees? Shall we get him to look up the pictures or ask some AI model to get the images of wikipedia and to classify t…

"there are objectively no advantages to having your privacy taken away..." Your words, correct? My claim is that whenever you do something of high consequence, it is safer for you …

How nice you brought up the vaccine example. So would you like to a live in a country where the government can mandate a vaccine and you have no way to find out who owns the VAXXPR…

No, it's not! When you surf, you get used to punching through the surface and then holding your breath and dealing with the water movement. You have to consciously remind yourself …

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> you're all drawing a distinction that I don't see? The distinction you are not seeing is between actual harm and a pretext for lawyers to sue. Actual harm to the environment and …

The next step is to change your legal name to Zhang Wei or at least a John Smith.

Where is the Occam's razor? If I am a dictator sitting on an oil well, exporting more and more oil and keeping 100% of profits to myself, the GDP will still grow in line with the a…

What? No one has shared this link yet? I was sure the whole content of the article and of the discussion here would boil down to this: https://m.xkcd.com/1667/

Just realised that the point I've made in response to a comment probably should be a level higher: Don't trust the radiation monitoring system , the actual monitoring system has be…

The monitoring system has been shot down on 1 Sep. Here is the statement from the Nuclear Agency in Ukraine: On March 1, 2022 at 11:40 as a result of rocket impact, the communicati…

Here are some details from Patreon. Though "we are investigating" during an evolving emergency situation is the least helpful of approaches. https://twitter.com/patreonsupport/stat…

related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30461038 edit: the tweet provides Patreon's comment re their decision