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Ah, the bland words of a milquetoast centrist reformer. Revolution on the internet is a victimless crime.

http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/01/25/

This kind of speaks to a premise discussed later on in the article regarding the manner in which the gist of interesting trivia tends to drift as time passes, the longer trivia is …

For example, there’s no truth to the idea that the brain is half android and half artist, with a left hemisphere dedicated to logic and analytical thinking and a right hemisphere f…

Wow, horrible title. Save Indians the blushes? I have no idea what that is supposed to mean. A sensible title would be more like: Shortage of dermatologists in India could be remed…

Hush! Don't speak of such things, or before you know it there will be DRM enforced IoT dongles with 4G cellular radios, requiring a subscription plan and annual fee before the guit…

WPM is an archaic metric, and as my top speed I target only a reasonable conversational pace in chat windows, comparable to verbal conversation. Anything more is kind of a waste. A…

What a terrible idea. The ~15 year-old trilogy remains awesome, and needs no competitor. This is just going to needlessly mutate a familiar and well-received thing. If Amazon wants…

These days, though, there's an odd mix of typists, because everyone is self taught, and most people have begun typing as soon as they learn how to read and write. Both touch typing…

Since when is voluntary experimentation on a test rig, under controlled circumstances, criminally stupid? It’s not like this was a passenger flight. It would warrant criticism if t…

If you read the parts where they mention “buffeting” that’s the dangerous part, where uneven airflow introduces instability, causing the airframe to rattle. Buffeting occurs when t…

tricking business Is that supposed to be " trucking business" or is there some other business like souping up automobiles, referred to in a regional dialect I'm unfamiliar with? ED…

I was with you until you mentioned Seinfeld.

It's really weird to me that you've caught some downvotes for this benign and not innaccurate remark. I've upvoted you to compensate, but to no avail.

Most commodity ballpoint pens didn't have rubbery grips prior to the mid 1990's. I remember back-to-school shopping at the end of one summer, and most of the bags of pens were upgr…

It means the whole server-side JDK API, including the servlet spec, jsp libs and JDBC SQL framework under the javax.* packages, whether actually distributed as part of the JDK or n…

This is the most "out there" thread, involving emerging technology, that I've seen on HN in a while.

This person holds a number of similar patents from the looks of it: https://www.google.com/patents/US8434019 https://www.google.com/search?q="Daniel+Paul+Nelson"

Probably was supposed to be steganography, since stenography is what courtroom reporters do.

I still fail to see why having a single neuron that circumnavigates the brain should lead to consciousness. Me too, but what an experiment it could lead to, and the questions it wo…

Well, there are a couple of angles on these machines: 1. An overload of Big Macs eventually becomes bad for you. 2. There's no real barrier to people helping the homeless by donati…

We're going to have to get the ball rolling somehow, when it comes to space fashion. When some of us get re-orged to that remote mining outpost and are forced to share quarters wit…

Question: How secure is LinkNYC Wi-Fi? Answer: The LinkNYC Private network is one of the first free municipal Wi-Fi services in the country to offer an encrypted network connection…

Uh, so... how will we know it's not being spoofed? And uh... how many people will know enough to be mindful on the total lack of encryption? You know, just like at Starbucks and th…