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Why is genetics more important than any other tie to the Roman empire?

What facts are you hanging that hat on?

The CFTC commission comprises five seats, four of which are currently vacant: https://www.cftc.gov/About/Commissioners/index.htm

Africa is not a country.

Well, we ended up on the same page in any case, in at least one sense.

That link is broken for me but I assume you meant to link to [0]. I think if there is a “safeguard” in a system, that definitely fits the bill of a supply chain risk. The only vagu…

I don’t see a contradiction here. If control is out of the hands of decision makers, that’s a supply chain risk . Were it not for that, the service is seen as critical to national …

Yes, there's no way that capturing all the information needed to reconstruct a useful trace would be possible without built-in hardware support.

Previous discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42944203

Yes, it’s a cop-out and smells mostly of dualism: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/properties-emergent/

I have a copy of Snow Crash by Neil Stephenson signed by They Might Be Giants, somewhere.

For the pitbull lovers, there's http://www.pitbullparty.com/

It's astounding how much better of a reference this is than the equivalent page on Wikipedia.

A buddy won a bet with me by editing the relevant Wikipedia article to agree with his side of the wager.

Are there any paid search engines that the HN hive mind would recommend? I pay for my news to ensure quality. It stands to reason I should also pay for my search as well.

We Greeks contain multitudes.

I find it hard to believe the lack of housing is caused by a labor shortage in construction.

I find it funny, and not in a euphemistic sense, just funny, that two of the sponsors of this site are Canadian entities. The most wholesome PsyOps campaign you could imagine.

I went to a Simons Foundation lecture in like 2014. The topic and speaker escapes me now, but at the reception beforehand there there was an old man smoking. At the time I indulged…

Tell that to my retirement-age mother.

The post is written by a guy named Ernie that writes a newsletter called Tedium, which I highly recommend. Today’s newsletter about BuzzFeed, which came out earlier this afternoon,…