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>So what is this conflict all about? The evangelical Christians who are among the largest of the Republican Party's voting blocs believe that the biblical "end times" are nigh, but…

>How was it foreseeable? I guess you had to be there. I certainly saw it coming. >Expert systems worked on quite different principles. Actually, not so much. The inference engine h…

>Sci-fi is Lt. Cmdr. Data, HAL, Skynet, Culture Minds... The current state of things is closer (not close to by a long shot) to Fred Pohl's "AI" programs from his novel Gateway [0]…

>Yeah, seems like either a clickbait title, or maybe they believe their readership is so misinformed as to believe that human evolution could and has stopped. I'd not be surprised …

It appears that whatever issue was impacting Archive.today has been resolved (at least for me). Thanks for the suggestions. It seems odd that I (presumably via GeoIP location) was …

>Who are you using for DNS? If Cloudflare there is a long running squabble between Archive's admins and CF as CF refuses to forward EDNS Client Subnet information and so they retur…

I'd add that every so often I get a "Welcome to nginx" page instead of just a time out.

Archive.[today|is|ph|il|md|etc.] has been unresponsive for the last few days. I've searched around a bit but haven't seen any reporting as to what's up with the site(s). Does anyon…

Underlying paper from Science [0] [0] https://www.science.org/content/article/astronomers-spot-fir...

I don't think so. I prefer the "active" HN page[0] to the front page or page two. I don't even look at the front page any more. I just look at the active and new pages. [0] https:/…

>The article says congress should pass a privacy bill to protect kids. No. The article says: Protect Privacy For *Everyone* There is a better way to protect young people online. In…

Play the game here: https://ludus-coriovalli.web.app/

>the result of changes made in the 80's, like gutting anti-trust. The '90s didn't help a lot either. cf. the repeal of Glass-Steagall[0] which, arguably, did much more to damage th…

I know, right? And those fucking cardiac surgeons are forever telling you that your brother in-law, the roofing contractor, shouldn't be performing your triple bypass surgery and t…

You can go find the linked video[0] which long pre-dates any advertisement around it. In fact, the video is 14 years old and doesn't have anyone[1] from the law firm that linked to…

>and the retired cop is earning money by giving his "don't talk to the cops" speeches. Actually, the "retired cop" (he was not retired at the time of the video) was also a law stud…