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Nature could act as a filter. If you reach industrial production and you destroy nature, your entire planet may die. So only civilizations that have some level of respect for life …

Do all participants have iPhones? Apple could have an almost complete social graph. If Y Smith is the common acquaintance between you and your friend, then it would be the best sec…

Off-topic: If YOLO and you want to join Google, wouldn't that be motivation to study?

>and psychokinesis (which consists of effects like metal bending). Can I bend cutlery and coins? Sure, but I heed Cassidy’s advice, and I don’t. If I step onstage and bend a fork w…

Choose a supplier with a 100Mbit limit and unlimited bandwidth.

Do you know https://webassembly-studio.kamenokosoft.com/ ? I don't know if it compiles in the browser or on a server.

>Some offsets may come down in price due to economies of scale, but they will never be cheaper than “no offset” There is one: pricing carbons out of the energy market. If there is …

IBM has Eclipse. Not only is it an underhanded offense towards Sun, but IBM has shown that they are not willing to push the software to its best possible state. Eclipse is nice but…

HN makes sense because votes shouldn't decide about the value of a comment. That's why the votes are hidden. You would destroy threads where people reply to your 'bad' comments. Gi…

Have you tried contacting the developers? This seems like a feature that every pdf viewer should have.

Also related, taking compassion one step further: Study conspiracy theories with compassion https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00879-w https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=…

>If I have empathy toward you, it will be painful if you’re suffering. It will be exhausting. It will lead me to avoid you and avoid helping. But if I feel compassion for you, I’ll…

Why do we accept the risk of intrusion from antivirus software at all? All antivirus software developers should open-source their traversal software and thus guarantee that no harm…

Just why do they care about the profit margins? Alphabet has several companies that are not as profitable as Google. If the low margins destroy morale within Google, then they coul…

If you cannot trust the network, where is the advantage of keypairs over passwords? If you have a one-time password, worse case is that some man in the middle gets that password. I…

That's funny: Their slogan: >try Neeva, 100% ad-free search engine, Totally private Their founders: >Neeva was founded by Sridhar Ramaswamy (ex-SVP of Ads at Google) and Vivek Ragh…

>>What else might be possible? This comes very close to: >Fisher feared that we were losing our ability to conceptualize a tomorrow that was radically different from our present. O…

>Buzzfeed said quarterly revenue grew 18% year over year to $146 million. Profit rose to $41.6 million It's not the organization, just the division. News is responsible for the ver…

Google has prepared counter-moves for every step of your path. E.g. can you guarantee (2) against all moves Google could make? Even if you succeed in securing an island of quality …

Check the 'Small or non-commercial Web' search engines on this overview page: https://seirdy.one/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexe...

This reads as if innovation can simply be bought. Why should Intel be able to buy back leadership when China is trying the same without much success?

Why can't most people open a server on DigitalOcean or Vultr where the price is $0.01 per GB? 117 Subscribers, for $300 per month, it's almost possible to start a VM per customer.

Indeed, why does Google not use their full stack? Other competitors have the problem that SEO agencies can flood the feedback with manipulated data. However, with Android, Google k…

>have properties its parts do not have on their own That could already be the root of the problem. The properties don't come out of nothing. They must already be in the parts. The …