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Lots of things break at hobby scale, mainly because hobbyists can have a huge range of experience, expertise, and willingness to do things themselves. Anyone serving hobbyists, com…

> Natural splendor includes forest fires and suffering animals. Correct

They are; the whole idea of a national park is to have a minimum of roads so that natural splendor is preserved.

Craigslist the corporation was not even a party to this suit, and it continued operating the same way after this decision as before it. eBay’s only recourse to that was to sell its…

> The only real practical difference is that they give directors a little more leeway in their fiduciary duties to say "no" to doing evil things. I’d like to provide maybe a clarif…

You can’t make it expensive enough to stop scammers, while not too expensive to impede legitimate calls like businesses, family overseas, or tourists calling home. There is a very …

This is true, but it’s also true of many other OS X and MacOS releases over the years. You’ve definitely hit on the core of the issue with the Snow Leopard myth, though: comparing …

The DC area used to have two IMAX theaters with film projectors: one at the Natural History museum, and one at the Air & Space museum. The one at Natural History lost tons of money…

Em dashes—if properly used—are really useful. They help convey that I am so smart—and I think so fast—that I have to constantly interrupt myself. But—and I think this is important—…

I remember when this happened. Apple’s corporate staff screwed up and didn’t have the contract done in time to have the music in by the keynote. And of course they are not going to…

From the HN guidelines: > Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be inte…

The atmosphere is the lowest possible value for your inhaled CO2. So it might be useful to think of this more in terms of impaired recovery rather than direct harm. Imagine a healt…

It’s a bit silly to be so sensitive to “AI tells” in phrasing. If you go look for them in original human writing, you are guaranteed to find them—just like the AI training did! Tha…

I know of people who bought property in western North Carolina with this mindset. It’s higher elevation, far from coasts, near fertile farm land, with lots of surface water to drin…

What does this have to do with their insurance business? As far as I can tell this is just a random complaint about USAA. And it doesn’t even make sense financially. The “brand” of…

It’s not in Endgame , it’s actually in Infinity War , but everyone knows The Snap. It’s a generationally iconic movie moment that seeped into the entire U.S. culture. I had 65 year…

If anyone is still following this, it is July 10 and my GizmoHub app is still connected to my kid’s watch, and the map and messages still work fine.

And the bank of pay phones is one of the coolest little scenes in the book. Put me on team “don’t update the text.” Books are written in their contemporary cultural contexts. LeGui…

Here’s another fun nitpick from Neuromancer . The opening line says the sky was the color of a TV tuned to a dead channel, which in Gibson’s day would have been analog static that …

At the beginning of William Gibson’s Neuromancer , the protagonist is trying to sell 3 MB of RAM in underground markets. This is often cited as one of the ways the book has not age…

You can tie the same knots without cutting the string. Just grab the two sides, pull them snug, then tie the knot. The fact that the “free ends” are connected at a distance doesn’t…

Nah, this is not correct. The Gizmo watches work fine with the GizmoHub app, but not the new Verizon Family app. You have to authenticate in both apps. I have Verizon service and u…

A vector against a standardized XML+ZIP document format?