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I was confused as well. Perhaps they're referring to the actual title of the article on nytimes.com which is "Meet the Beauty Queens of Al Dhafra". I like the HN title better too.

I use WD-40 for my bike chain specifically because it's not an oil and because it dries out fast. This helps prevent gunk build up and makes cleaning the drive train a lot easier. …

Thanks for elaborating on this. I guess the confusion also stems from the word "heat" which we usually associate with something that's warmer than some human day-to-day reference. …

Actually, the heat death is when all potential energy in the universe has been converted to heat. So converting an excess of stored chemical energy in their laptop battery to heat …

This. I couldn't imagine driving in South East Asia without the horn. Scary story: My cousin almost killed a cyclist once after moving back to Europe after living in Asia for years…

Perhaps I'm biased, but I find navigating application menus on MacOS infinitely easier due to the fact that it's location is constant and dictated by Apple. On Windows (or even Lin…

This looks like the journal page: https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/msa/ammin/article/102/7/143... Also has a link to download the PDF for free.

Note that this still leaks DNS lookups. You can use https://github.com/bekh6ex/firefox-container-proxy instead until they fix that.

I sympathize with this argument, but it has several problems: Rights and wrongs are inherently social constructs. The is no (currently) discovered moral potential in the laws of th…

Thank you for writing this out. Very interesting read! I very much agree with you that writing textbooks, digesting and refactoring other authors work, is often as important as the…