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"The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting." — Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

One of my all-time favorite essays is by the same author: "The Shape of Rome" — https://www.exurbe.com/the-shape-of-rome/

> - Do a quick mindfulness/breathing exercise. Clearspace does exactly this: https://www.getclearspace.com/#how-it-works I've been using it for a month or two, with good results. G…

Another nice write-up at NYTimes (gift): https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/technology/microsoft-quan...

When possible, they pick "control points" at places where there are usually no passengers on board — for example, the ends of a linear route, or the bus depot. But otherwise, they …

This phenomenon is called "bus bunching". My friends, two profs from Georgia Tech and UChicago, came up with one solution for it. They wrote a paper about their solution[1], and th…

If you were founding a new startup with a couple of employees, what set of SAAS or firms would you choose to take care of your non-tech needs like health insurance, banking, and le…

I very much wanted to believe this, but the study you linked to lists "Percent of national health expenditures for physician and clinical services: 19.8% (2015)". What do you think…

PROTECT IP already has 41 sponsors out of the 100 members of Senate: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:SN00968:@@@P The facts that almost half of Senators are sponsors a…

Thanks for the suggestions. Will get that info up asap.

I wanted people to see at a glance whether there's a chance their own representative is supporting the Act. Also, the reason I started looking at it was to see if there really was …

hey HN - I put this together because I was curious who the actual sponsors of SOPA were. I welcome feedback on how to make the site more informative. In particular I would like to …

SEEKING FREELANCER -- Looking for someone to build a web client for our existing backend, which was developed for iOS and Android apps. We're in Chicago but remote is okay too. Rub…

From one of the author's responses to comments: "It’s that insurance is fundamentally zero-sum — the only transaction is money going back and forth. When you buy a refrigerator, sa…

For what it's worth, I dropped out of college, ended up starting a company, and had a decent exit (fortunately). But I'm using the freedom that gave me to go back to school. I was …

I think we've encountered all of these issues already :) Definitely would appreciate any resources for them that people can suggest.