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The traditional pattern seen here of serving pages under a hierarchy called `~cks` indicate this is the personal site of someone who is affiliated with the university. Unless other…

I am assuming the "SMW3 cable" mentioned is SEA-ME-WE 3, which was mentioned multiple times in "Mother Earth Mother Board" by Neal Stephenson (1996, Wired) [0]. It was noted as a c…

It doesn't talk about a senate at all: > It is divided up into 10 districts, each of which sends one representative to the national legislature, which consists of 10 people. They t…

Why do they need to only have single-member districts? How about having fewer districts with more members per district? It seems like Fix Gerrymandering is a solution aimed at the …

Read Snow Crash

Allow 3rd party resources, it has visual aids and buttons.

> PGP is still fucking awesome and should always be used for any sensitive communication (best case scenario: all for every contact you can get to use it) - in addition to secure p…

Printing presses are also giant, asynchronous CPUs. Depending on what you put in, they can cause society to take certain actions. Perhaps in recent years their effectiveness has be…

If someone knows your account number, they can take money from it, there is no separate secret or anything. It would be illegal, but they can do it.

Stands for 3 monitors should be broken down by whether or not the middle one is fully adjustable. Do you know why there are no wall mounted 3 monitor stands?

I can forgive the somewhat limited user interface for setting these up that is in the stock add-on, but the lack of automatic syncing of rules to all computers with the same Firefo…

In many places, the frost line is more like 3 to 6 feet, than 6 inches.

I have had this happen to me twice as a pedestrian, in 2011 and 2012. I didn't care about what it does to the environment, it felt like a personal attack upon me.

> I can't use my Twitter!TeMPOraL_PL account to talk to you, because there's no transport between Twitter and HN. And even if it was, now two brands would be involved in communicat…

Hmm: - Are variables allowed in the links? - Can you set it as the default search engine for your browser so these can just be typed into the main search bar instead of going to th…

Probably was supposed to be \notin rather than \not\in? They are not pixel for pixel identical.

I was able to complete one problem within the 3 minute time limit. I had to try multiple times to get the right code for two of the symbols required. The linked symbol drawing site…

> are users really expected to be able to improve their browsing experiences with custom CSS Actually, yes: https://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/cascade.html#cascade User stylesheets are sup…

> Browsers have supported user defined CSS defaults since forever, and plugins like Stylish have been around for a while. It looks like Chrome removed these several years ago: http…

What has happened to the concept of "User Defined CSS"? Is it totally gone? Did Chrome kill it? Browsers should be making this a prominent and first-class feature. Users should be …

The length of the line corresponds to the number of people.

Can you add a column for whether or not these have cellular data capabilities? The HP Chromebook I bought in 2014 has cellular data and if I ever replace it I'll probably want one …

The author of this page has made critical errors in either interpreting or creating many of the graphs on the page. > Another housing trend that popped up in 2014 was the rise in h…

Here are some details about this process. Basically, your submission can get a second chance if a moderator thinks it was a good one that everybody missed: https://news.ycombinator…