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Multi-year web traffic statistics for HN?

English people learning Chinese are told that goodbye is zài jiàn ('again see'), only to find that most Chinese informally say bái bái ('bye-bye').

I think the basis of this is the same as WFH, which has not been mentioned in the article or the comments: insurance, mostly on probabilities of fire and injury.

Their infamous editorial Drowning in oil (4 March 1999) bottom-ticked the oil price.

Counter argument from Matt Ridley: Why the flames of Britain's wildfires have been fanned by the Green agenda as much as the weather https://www.dailymail.com/debate/article-160179…

Good inside analysis from Martin Shkreli: Martin Shkreli Breaks Down the Collapse of Situational Awareness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJdgh9eEZvw

Also Nicolas Gisin on Curt's podcast: Nicolas Gisin: Time, Superdeterminism, & Quantum Gravity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcHzgy0I6gk

We should also mention Nicolas Gisin. One of his mantras is Time is real; Real numbers are not. He conceives of real numbers resulting from processes (approximations, relaxations, …

All integers are happy; each real is unhappy in its own way.

Lotteries are pay-to-play and always have a negative expected return (like the fairground). Participation (like second marriages), is always the triumph of hope over experience and…

The problem is believing the fairness of the toss. The odds with a fair toss are obviously stacked to prefer taking the gamble, hence inducing all credulous rationalists to take th…

How many are available on Safari? ($43/month)

and the Earth's orbital diameter is 10^3 light seconds so the Earth's orbital velocity is 10^-4 c

Windows 11 seems to feign forgetting your PIN password to force a restart.

A long-form critique of Suno by a musician/producer: Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future | Adam Neely https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dcFhF0Dlk A detailed philosophical discussion…

Consumption taxes and sin taxes. Consumption tax is sales/VAT tax excluding some necessities and capital goods. Yes, there are some awkward edge cases: in the UK the exclusions wer…

Also The Shock of the New with Robert Hughes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_galaxy

Obituary at The Telegraph: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2026/03/23/sir-tony-h...

Typo? I like the idea of a noun collider. Then we could smash apples and oranges.

Maybe they're original, found buried in some obscure monastery in the mountains of Umbria. Perhaps Leonardo invented the LHC!

Here is the BBC's own commentary on their much respected Indian correspondent: Sir Mark Tully, the BBC's 'voice of India', dies aged 90 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4nnp4d0…