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It's fascinating to see retrofuturist ideas being built in real-time. Being able to translate your thoughts instantaneously to cogent written text and using it to make a PowerPoint…

I don't have much familiarity with composting or fish sauce production, but wouldn't the high salt content make it a bad fertilizer?

I call him "my son"

Most young people are familiar with lowercase sentences and have been for a while, yes

This is a good encapsulation of why the year of the Linux desktop is perpetually fifteen years away.

Surprised to read this as a Queens thing, this sounds perfectly at home in the Midwest.

I'm...not old enough to read a Business Insider article about being annoyed by lowercase letters.

> forced lowercase ??? shift is an extra key to press

Fun coincidence to see this mentioned today, just recently I rescued my DroidWorks disc from my basement and was looking into how to get it running on a modern system. Obviously Wi…

All places laden with useful information.

The style of plastic bin definitely looks the same. The ones we were getting looked something like this[0], same folding-flap top as in your link but form-fitted insulation inside:…

I used this service before it rolled out widely and these boxes were a mixed bag. On one hand they worked really well, they were essentially insulated hard totes with styrofoam lin…

I'm glad to see more of this approach to modernizing education. I roll my eyes seeing people argue that we should go back to pen + paper or other weird rose-colored regressive appr…

See my other comment. I want my doctor/plumber/etc to be able to recall faster, type faster, work better under pressure. If you're better at those things you should get better grad…

Those are all proxies for "is smarter". They have better memories, perform better under pressure, etc. Universities are meant to prepare students for the real world where these thi…

Fast students are smarter. Why avoid grading on that? EDIT: Rate limited so: "smarter" here means how well the student will perform in a career in their chosen field. Fast + accura…

Agreed. A lot of my countrymen have forgotten that America generally kicks ass, it's sad to see.

This might explain my confusion. I went to the inflation calculator to see that $60 scallops in 1917 would be $1700 now and was a bit taken aback.

I had a lot of very good times with CoffeeScript but I'll never forgive it for having implicit returns. So many subtle event-bubbling bugs caused by that.

My bad, I meant for this to come off more funny than snarky. Appreciate the check. EDIT: Upon finishing reading the other comments on this article though...I feel a bit singled out…

I think, therefore I am seeking 2.5m total comp

Same here. Every time a thread like this comes up it brings out that a surprising number of paranoid helicopter parents browse HN, which is a contradiction in perspective that I ca…

Let's ban books and skateboards too

If they're not building reactors on the land allocated to native tribes, why should they?

Indistinguishable from a joke