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I wonder whether the threat of attack from North Korea is felt in daily life in Seoul.

https://qntm.org/abolish

What are your favorite vehicles?

That is the whole point of DST, although many people seem not to realize it. It allows us to wake up around sunrise all year long, which is our bodies' natural tendency. Another th…

Pricewatch still exists!

I worked for Bill for about a year at GV. He was one of the friendliest managers I've ever met at Google. I randomly met Dave Drummond once at a coffee shop in Sausalito (I didn't …

I live in Los Angeles, and I can schedule as many free bulky item pickups as I want, at any time.

Even in that case, it may make sense to diversify. The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

"An update on Larry and Sergey"

What sort of infrastructure is China building in Xinjiang?

This comment nicely explains the concept of the "veil of money": viewing economic activity in terms of real products and services instead of money can clarify what's actually happe…

Compare that to a rail system that's actually useful: 472 stations, 36 lines, 850 miles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Subway

Counterpoint: I think most people would gladly pay a bit more to not have to deal with the annoyance of only being able to use strangers' cars, of variable cleanliness, only after …

It's not just cyclists: https://youtu.be/BpRfUh1Dzlw

> AFAWKT "As far as we KAN tell"?

When you have to generate your own kinetic energy, that's not due to a lack of patience as much as trying to minimize the amount of exertion you must do.

That's how I've set mine up, but even that mode is significantly worse than having physical keys, due to the lack of tactile feedback. I still accidentally touch the software keys …

Posted dozens of times already: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+...

To nitpick your nitpick, the word "extraordinarily" here is not an adjective modifying "activity"; is an adverb that stresses that debugging is uncommonly "first-class, up-front, a…

Which law is violated if you enter the intersection when the light is green and exit it when the light is red?

Colloquially, "random" does imply a uniform distribution.

Leverage only matters if your home appreciates (or depreciates!) in value relative to inflation. There is a very large section of the article devoted to explaining that on average,…

> Who is being harmed by a rent-controllee sub-leasing? Literally no one. The owner is harmed, because otherwise they could have gotten a new tenant and raised the rent back up to …