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Yeah, I saw this headline and immediately thought "these people are living in an entirely different world than me". Of the restaurants I regularly eat at, I can just walk in and ha…

Guess it's time for Trump to fire another BLS director and find one who's better at cooking the books...

It's been reported that William Gibson saw Blade Runner before releasing Neuromancer and was worried that people would think he stole ideas from Blade Runner, as the aesthetic of B…

Exactly. That's not just a load-bearing truth — it's a testament to the power of the contemporary zeitgeist!

I believe they are referring to the millimeter wave x-ray machines.

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Not sure if you're familiar with this or not, but that concept appears as part of the story in the novel[1] and movie[2] "Johnny Got His Gun". The premise is based on a badly injur…

See, to me, you're just leaning into the outdated and archaic aspect of this. Sure, that's the way encyclopedia's have been for a long time. But none of that means that they need t…

Not really relevant in this case (that the article talks about), but I don't think that it is so cut and dry as "someone spent time on this so we have to keep it". No, and I'm not …

Wikipedia seems stuck in an antiquated worldview where things like traditionally-published books with second- or third-hand reports of what happened, and which are frequently incom…

This is why you clone a copy to a machine you have full control of!

You're right, I was looking at submissions for userplane.io[1] and over-fixated on it only being submitted twice. My mistake. Nonetheless, the basic principle is the same. Looking …

Nothing weird about it. The HN guidelines[1] make it clear, IMO, that while some self-promotion is fine, the intent here is NOT to use the site primarily (or exclusively) for self-…

Call me nostalgic or whatever, but my laptop to this very day... https://fogbeam.com/free-kevin.jpg

Depends on how they address the side fumbling between the Spurving bearing and the Dingle arm, vis-a-vis the lotuso-toroidal damping force.

I'd be working on AI.

Interesting. I think I see what you're getting at, and I can kinda buy that.

Speaking as Libertarian, I generally agree that the two major parties have been more alike than different over most of my 50+ years on Earth. But right this minute, I think the Dar…

> The surge of authoritarianism is a response from people who, much like you, have tried to unplug but who realized closing their eyes does not stop the changing world around them.…

> Do you think humans in the future in general will be more or less happy than they are now? I honestly have no idea. I strongly want to be optimistic and I am generally an optimis…

That said, I'm kinda hoping somebody does create a "GNU deadline" project now. I'm curious to see what kind of project it would be.