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Nor was anyone looking to go to the Arabian Peninsula on their vacation 30 years ago, and yet here we are.

Or they use a device like a Tablo to get free OTA TV with all the advantages of streaming to devices, no subscription needed. I've done this for several years. I can be out working…

The conservative perspective is not, and has never been, that poor people deserve to stay poor. It is that I can and will give my money to poor people, and you're free to do likewi…

Biblical eyewitness testimony also requires multiple witnesses: > One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the m…

Apropos of nothing, I notice that your comment is post number 30 000 000 on Hacker News. Congratulations, I guess?

Recently ran across this interesting guide to Moby-Dick: "The 100 Chapters of Moby Dick You Can Skip - And why you won’t want to" https://baos.pub/the-100-chapters-of-moby-dick-you…

Or build a house from a kit, as noted building expert Buster Keaton does in the short "One Week". What could possibly go wrong? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd6ddOlbKp8

I did that once, 10 years ago or so. My reddit account is coincidentally 10 years old now. Beware of unintended consequences.

Viasat also heavily throttles video streams, so as not to allow a user to accidentally reach their monthly data cap in the first day or two. I currently average 25-30 Mbps on speed…

I don't understand where this question is coming from. How many Americans have you met who believe the moon landings were fake? For me that number is 0. Beware of polls showing a s…

I'm just tired of "commuter" EVs that don't have enough range for my 30-minute commute (17 miles each way). I'd need at least a 60 mile range to be able to get to the farthest reac…

> A professor naturally speaks with the authority of their corresponding institution Does she though? She had every reason to believe her choice of email address would remain priva…

Is he starting to memorize jokes from Centurion Vilhelmus's Whiz Bang?

One of Red Alert's hacks was making dogs (the unit) distinct from dogs (the projectile). That is, a dog was a dog until it began its attack. At that point it transitioned into a do…

I'm currently behind a corporate firewall which blocks Imgur. Not being very familiar with Futurama, I thought the entire joke was that the quote for episode 1 was "Episode 1", the…

I admire your optimistic view of how many users would read such a manual when all they want to know is why doesn't this code do what it's supposed to and can you hurry I need this …

I'm not that familiar with soccer stats, but this section needs a reply: > A “shutdown” cornerback like Richard Sherman can be a star in the NFL thanks to interceptions, broken up …

This is the paradox: Every new language feature in C++ has, as you say, a rational argument for inclusion. Yet when you combine them, you get a language that I will never use if I …

You can either flag for another moderator to take a look, or (better) bring it up publicly on https://meta.stackoverflow.com . Most times you'll get an answer from the moderator in…

2013 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6074388

It's not common for those backups to actually kick, but it does happen. Wes Welker was placekicker for the Dolphins for one game as a rookie in 2004, besides being the team's kick …

A frost fair was held on the Thames that very winter of 1776 [1], so I imagine the British were familiar with hard winters. The problem was more that the professionals couldn't pre…

> This page crashes my chrome tab!! The problem appears to be the SVG image http://mooooo.ooo/chebyshev-sine-approximation/horner_ulp.sv... , which has a path of 5000+ points.