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Call me crazy, but I think we need more Dropboxes and fewer Metas or whatever. Make a product that solves a sufficiently common problem, and make it extremely high quality. Want mo…

2024 stats, road accident fatalities, per million inhabitants: Portugal: 58 Romania (highest in EU): 78 EU overall: 44 Sweden (lowest in EU): 20 https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/stati…

What do you do? Walk up and place him under arrest. He might have a bomb. He might have a trigger for it, or he might have a dead-man's switch. It might detonate and kill you along…

And those groups still have lower rates of abuse than Schools What evidence do you have of this? The only sources I can find that would even vaguely support your claim switch to ta…

Unrelated, but I saw a movie in the early 2000s while visiting San Francisco. One of the trailers was for the Ben Affleck movie Paycheck (2003). When the trailer voice dramatically…

Nearly everyone on HN would be aware of the great seal of the United States? That thing I see on podiums and backdrops? That all formal diplomatic letters are still sealed with to …

Only the rich can afford to own nothing/exert effort to have empty space without consequence. Reminds me of the reason that grass yards exist: to show the world that one can afford…

I can't speak to GP's intention, but I've personally witnessed a guy on my team who was trying to position himself as the go-to technical dude. He was jockeying for a management ro…

Years ago, an article in MCN said that something like 3/4 of all single vehicle motorcyclist fatalities involved alcohol. They also mentioned that Harley cruiser culture was wildly…

1) Because of the low wages. 2) Pay attracts workers. "Happiness" is a separate and personal issue. 3) Anecdata. 4) The fact is that far higher wages would attract American teacher…

the schools have to choose between giving these kids subpar teachers who are happy to live up there, or miserable teachers who are only doing it for the money. 1) Why is that the d…

whereas Unixen have a core task context model of a bunch of threads that by default do not share memory. How are those not simply child processes? I don't understand your use of th…

Does his car even have an automatic transmission?

I would like to know the history of this car. I'm not doubting the claims, but a plausible explanation is that he bought the car used, possibly with a salvage title, and the flippe…

Now, they have replaced aluminum with lead to increase the strength of the binding of the pairs in the semiconductor, and the key quantum states last 20 seconds Anyone want to give…

54% of Americans read below a 6th grade level. People word-mash "alot", "atleast", and now "eachother" all the time. Sports commentators use verse when they mean versus. I'm not su…

Computer use agents that run on Windows VMs or in the browser. On-premise, cloud I think you meant premises. https://brians.wsu.edu/2016/05/30/premise-premises/

I don't know if it quite meets the criteria, but I really enjoyed Lodge 49, particularly after watching awful people doing awful things in Succession. I've also enjoyed everything …

EVs are required to produce sound for pedestrian safety, but they are absolutely beginning to make faked IC engine sounds for aesthetic appeal. See the Ioniq 5 and Dodge Charger EV…

Five or ten years ago, the local Kroger introduced 3D, photorealistic, shaded stickers as advertisements on the floor. I once nearly fell over because, after peering at something o…

No true Scotsman fallacy Absolutely false. Just because a cook does something multiple times a day doesn’t mean... Strawman. Regardless, I can assure you that most food service wor…

What is the majority of the workforce doing, then? People working in fast food, welders, plumbers, carpenters, laborers, people working in slaughterhouses, janitors, cooks, waitsta…

As a 90s Amiga kid, I am deeply offended by the cultural appropriation. ;-) This was an excellent read. It always amazes me when people discover functionality in old hardware, even…

Windows didn't even get multiple desktops until Windows 10. I believe that it has always supported multiple desktops since the introduction of the NT kernel. There just wasn't any …

Something like five to ten years ago, when AI hype was starting to hit media, one of the claims was that AI would come for middle-management first. Since middle-management can gene…