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Also used at the so-called Mother of All Demos [1] in 1968. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos

Yes to all that. I'll add: loved ones often have the idea that they will take care of the afflicted one until the very end. What they don't realize is that caring for an Alzheimer'…

The email service luxsci.com scrubs a lot of information from your headers, if you wish [1]. Another well-known email provider allows you to scrub the IP address, but it isn't clea…

Note that Twilio numbers (in the US, anyway) cannot receive SMS messages from short codes [1]. This means that you may not be able to receive SMS 2FA messages from your bank. [1] h…

The Norwegian Meteorological Institute provides free, worldwide weather forecast information via an API [1]. Perhaps some public-minded German-speaking developer could create a fre…

A facetious/serious question: If "Sold by Amazon" had too high a rate of reported counterfeits, could it be kicked off the Amazon platform? But seriously, my point is that "Sold by…

Good to know. Thanks.

> ...so they know to punish the right seller when a complaint comes in. Since (according to others in this thread) the Amazon "Reason for return" menu does not provide the option "…

There is an elsewhere. The OP suggests bn.com (Barnes and Noble) for books. I haven't tried them myself. Yet. For household goods I like walmart.com (the sold-by-Walmart items, not…

A handy website [1] notes at least a couple of B-52 nuclear incidents. In 1961, a B-52 carrying nuclear weapons broke up in mid-air over North Carolina; the bombs did not detonate …

Which gives me an excuse to post a link of Tom Lehrer singing about Wernher von Braun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJ9HrZq7Ro with the famous lines, "'Once the rockets go up, …

In this discussion, I've explicitly (and quite off topic) expressed support for the Union side in the US Civil War, and I've implicitly supported Ukraine's side in the Crimean disp…

Are you asking me? I would find it hard to be consistent: Kosovo, Abkhazia, Palestine, Chechnya, Crimea, so many choices to make, so many fine differences, so much tangled history.…

The US has in fact sanctioned Russian officials associated with the annexation of Crimea. [1] You might also spare some sympathy for those residents of Crimea who did not wish to j…

I think your numbers are probably correct. I don't happen to know another number: how many people in Chechnya would rather be independent than part of Russia. But it doesn't matter…

Welcome to HN. A quick Google search on "Chinese grad student restrictions" yielded an article [1] from December 2018 with the headline "US Considers New Restrictions on Chinese St…

In the "past" that the minister is referring to, Taiwan was a military dictatorship; other than a few brave souls sitting in jail, there was no political opposition, and there was …

According to the official website [1] (which is linked to from TFA), the images were processed using PixInsight, a program popular among amateur astronomers. This page: [2] explain…

Indeed from "The Nine Billion Names of God", but this classic of SF was by Arthur C. Clarke, not Isaac Asimov. However, Isaac Asimov did write "Nightfall", another classic, which d…

A pitfall not mentioned in the article: a private-industry member of the standard-setting body may fail to disclose that they are applying for a patent on an essential component of…