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It's kind of dystopian that it would even get to this point, but I wonder if there would be a business model that could sell "squatter insurance" to people, requiring that they fol…

I’d hate to run out of battery or accidentally break my phone and lose access to something as basic as an identity document or my main means of transportation, at the same time as …

??? Are you claiming the Fed has directly purchased US stocks? I don't think they have. I've only ever seen reports of them buying government and mortgage debt: https://www.cnbc.co…

Not sure, but BOJ was a net seller of stocks in 2023: https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Bank-of-Japan/BOJ-turned-net... So, it seems like they're at least starting to offload their s…

I liked Gerrit when working on OpenStack several years ago. The use of patch sets seemed pretty intuitive, and it was nice that there wasn't a "force push" workflow available that …

I wish the map were higher definition. I see a line from San Antonio (or Austin?) to El Paso, my most traveled route, but nothing in the text description about it. There are also s…

To me, it seems like more of a competitive issue for OpenAI if part of their secret is the ability to synthesize good training data, or if they're purchasing training data from som…

I wonder how they chose which countries to include in the graph. A lot of my family's Venezuelan and have 0 spice tolerance whatsoever despite growing up near the equator. They als…

That's an interesting fact about the ketchup. What other everyday similarities like that did you notice?

Would they need to do it all at once like this? How have other countries that have officially dollarized handled the transition, if there are any major ones? It looks like the list…

My eyes popped at that salary for a notary in Spain given most eng positions seem to pay under 60K euro. It looks like they need a law degree, too, so I'm sure they offer legal ser…

On the topic of fire codes, most Spanish apartment buildings also don't have smoke alarms, as far as I can tell. HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31246950 I'm no…

It looks like this will only be available in a few countries to start, but what would the implications be for censorship resistance if this were to be available in countries with s…