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Surprisingly for many, Wittgenstein had a deathbed conversion to Catholicism.

thanaverage.xyz actually suggests that only 54% of people think they drive better than average, with 19014 participants https://thanaverage.xyz/

This stopped being supported half a decade ago

If anything, the fact that George RR Martin and this vlogger obsess about fictional governance, while Tolkien was more interested in myth and language says a lot about the change i…

Still valuable reading, if at least for historical knowledge!

Exactly this - most of the libraries in my area have little if no technical books. I know exactly why too - I've frequently come across libraries in the UK that are selling off the…

Books. I read about 30-100 work-related books a year and have seen salary double every few years. I try to alternate books between different areas, more or less from these sections…

I am wondering what coronavirus has meant for people all over the world with regards to transport: 1. Personal - how have your views of transport changed? Have your preferences cha…

That would not be noticeable to HN people apparently "Scientists discover it is turtles all the way down" Bad: 0.9998 - Good: 0.0002

Although it turns out "covfefe"0 by itself would not have been a hit with the HN crowd. That is probably why it went on Twitter.

Turns out Trump was onto something: "Planning sophisticated covfefe" Bad: 0.0002 - Good: 0.9998

Current top 10: 1. "Apple introduces 16-inch MacBook Pro, the world’s best pro notebook" Bad: 0.9964 - Good: 0.0038 2. "Developing open-source FPGA tools" Bad: 0.3381 - Good: 0.665…

A great article and a lovely author - he helped me develop some ideas on my final year essay while I studied at the University of Sheffield, even though he wasn't lecturing me.

Wouldn't that be quite useful for police? They may be able to pinpoint a location - the barber where all the DNA matches go to have a haircut, and a time - soon after all those wit…

It seems the whole thread is breaking the guidelines? "Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle"

This article is full of ad hominems and doesn't present any challenges to ideas. Rather poor in my opinion

Thanks all for the help - some of you noticed the data was erroneous. It is all fixed now

CityMapper are doing a really great job. Have you been tempted by their new card?

Interesting! How do you usually plan your journey in Rome, and how often does your journey work out like the plan?

The first thing I thought about was - what if a tiny part of the plate is cut off by e.g. the side of another car? It would get the ratio entirely wrong and think it was anything b…

How does it not affect others? 1. Vapours/Smoke affects those around you 2. Your behaviour change due to the drug affects those around you 3. Your behaviour change due to the need …

Does anyone have any data of % of accidents of autopilot vs drivers that don't speed? I am wondering, because I recently say some statistics that showed that a majority of drivers …