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Would you refer to someone as a midwit in a typical office environment and expect your professional reputation to remain intact? If you were to do this on an ongoing basis for what…

I would bet real cash money that many many people, including your coworkers, think that anyone who unironically uses the term "midwit" is completely and totally obnoxious.

> surely you realize that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are large cities today? I don't think you understand the massive difference in scale between detonating a couple of atom bombs vs. …

> HN users just like the rest of the normies will happily oblige and upload their passports. Speak for yourself; I would drop HN like a bad habit and never look back.

It was the most random thing I could think of to ask at the time. It is apparently pungent enough to be banned on public transit in some Asian countries, though I couldn't tell you…

Durian fruit -- yea or nay?

I keep chromium installed mostly to run virtual tabletop software (specifically Foundry VTT), because webgl performance in firefox is not great (though it has improved somewhat in …

So all it takes to overturn federal statute is an authoritarian decree and maybe some signage changes then? That's not how any of this works and you should know better. It's more t…

No it isn't. The name was set in statute by the National Security Act of 1947 (as amended in 1949); as with many if not most of Trump's regal decrees, changing it would require an …

Department of Defense. Don't obey in advance.

In the mid-80s the world was estimated to have some 60000+, so 12000 is somewhat of an improvement. Ideally through arms control we could reduce this further, but that's no trivial…

Are the livelihoods of the original creators still there?

> We didnt go extinct from the nuke Yet. We've come very close (see e.g. Daniel Ellsberg's The Doomsday Machine or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_close_calls ). A catastroph…

Well, that AI mouse pointer idea is one of the most horrifying things I've seen in quite awhile. Hard pass, do not want, do not trust anyone involved.

I always thought it would be low-grade hilarious to record a fairly long video of the unboxing and assembly of a ridiculously elaborate in-case LED setup, only to reveal with a str…