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I tried contacts twice, a few years apart. On both occasions, a few weeks in, I ended up sitting in front of an opthalmologist having had what seems to have been a corneal abrasion…

Agreed. I don't even know any europeans talking about leaving.

That is interesting, ta, although more work for the author.

I think the striking point is that you're forced to use a throwaway to have an opinion.

I've given up on my dev dept. I'm sitting in the finance dept.

Battery chickens.

Avoid success at all costs. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12056169

An overloaded shortcut is a trap.

So you're saying it's only self defence? In that case what's the fuss?

What is NK's goal? They know perfectly well that to launch a nuke against another country, especially the US, could result in NK being entirely obliterated. ~30 mostly little cites…

There your result: https://www.google.com/maps/@50.8132986,-2.4755472,263m/data...

Ah, but the two Italian Lamborghinis were donated. Otherwise I would've been very unimpressed.

This might help you see that view is simplistic: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37786467

"Owing to Britain's recent Brexit-related problems.." -- I'm not aware of any Brexit-related economic problems. On the contrary, all news I've seen since has been positive, to the …

I can't even begin to grasp how this is HN front page. No offence, but in the world of tech is this really in the top 30 most interesting things?

Use an umbrella.

Agreed. I used to use the app religiously, I'm now using News Republic more often. I don't watch on the TV at all anymore, it makes me feel foul. I remember watching a BBC journali…

The UK is as corrupt as everyone claims Russia is, starting with the BBC. Theresa May has turned out to be a tyrant. As a Brit, I don't know if I'm more disgusted by the arrogance …

Yes. These companies have teams of people spewing out a list of values for PR, and thinking that they have Jedi mind trick powers over the employees (on some people it actually wor…

As a non-physicist I was thinking the molecules become jammed, immobilised upon expansion; for want of a better analogy a swollen foot in a shoe, no more wiggle room. But the artic…

What are the estimated costs for (something like) this?

I've had similar, but not with skydiving. I've only done one dive, and it was pleasant, lovely view, but did absolutely nothing for me in terms of adrenaline, at all. What did work…

The BBC is dodgy. That might sound like blasphemy, but year after year I'm increasingly aware of blatant bias, omissions, misrepresentations. The BBC is not to be trusted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veil_of_ignorance