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-1 points? OK, I won't attempt good-natured humour here again... lesson learned. :/ Thanks a lot.

50 million tonnes of sarcasm pressing down upon this comment has produced a diamond.

Rambling mini anecdote which may or may not be of useful relevance, but which resonates on a similar frequency: In my 40s now, I've had recent reflections about the small, golden f…

On the flip side, here. That is, those (company complaint incidents) are some of the few occasions I regret having never cultivated a social media world. When I'm on the hard end o…

It's just a different formula. The elements are mostly still there.

The person is simply falling into that all-too-human trap. Where they see something they don't understand, and assign an "alien" status to it. They might as well be saying that BOT…

What troubles me about this is the potential for a class divide. Better, easier and faster access for the privileged, regarding a great swathe of generic services to which access s…

You have a point. However I don't believe anyone here's advocating that Google ignore or break laws. But rather, to (as done with China) voluntarily withdraw certain services in re…

Thank you - likewise appreciated, and points acknowledged. The gulfs between Technically Correct and Socially Correct are ever grounds for debate, but mutual understanding wins the…

Context is subjective, precision is universal. I (perhaps wrongly) don't think of HN as a USA-centric site based upon USA-centric discussion - I think of it as a global community -…

A related article. https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/06/what-do...

I think yes. If we assume reliable conversion of traceroute results to implied distances, and can generate selected data (routes) of our choice. That is, we can see results of remo…

FYI: peoples of many, many countries of North and South America consider themselves to be "Americans", being from one of the "Americas". When referring to a particular country, for…

It's not right that ebay can have their smooth executive fixers organise special meetings to lobby government prosecutors. Then come away having successfully shifted all corporate …

For context: the "Street Fighter Two Cabinet" in the title is actually a modern "Street Fighter II CE Micro Player" miniature toy containing an embedded ARM board. Still interestin…

Sounds like a double-edged sword.

Illustrates one of the big underlying principles of good cooking: moisture management. In this case, removing excess moisture from the outside of something, so that the roasting pr…

The world's already full of businesses that've found ways to turn Status Symbolism into elite, exclusive markets. A significant slice of the world's wealth (certainly dwarfing NFTs…

"Comparing the level of these traits present in online moderators to the level of these traits present in SEALs is inexplicable." As some of the traits noted are binary - either pr…

The figure-of-speech simply pivots upon key traits common to both parties. You're perfectly entitled to not like the choice of common traits in somebody else's figure-of-speech. Ha…

Figures-of-speech allow for a broad range of comparison. As mentioned already, several key SEAL traits such as: presence in conflict; mental strength; role as specialists; frontlin…

Agree + acknowledge. It's an arbitrary constraint however, to imply that any comparison to SEALs must be based upon physical prowess. Why should metaphors referencing the SEAL's me…

The original comment we're discussing is: "comparing anything done sitting at the computer to the Navy SEALs is risible". Some of the work done by Navy SEALs literally does involve…

Not automated, that I know of. However, you could replicate the functionality/outputs (for a given location) by using open source GIS software, any available free geospatial data, …

It's good that nobody said they were comparable jobs, then. By the way, regarding computer work, I was talking about actual SEAL work, not support staff. The direct intelligence an…