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I get the point you're making but this specific example strikes me as so backwards that it's making me question the point being made in the post. In my experience, one of the most …

> A lot of the dam removal pressure is activist not scientific - people who have come to believe dams are evil because they aren’t natural Similarly, a lot of dam preservation pres…

"In a kind of a zen way, those born ultra-rich live perpetually in the moment. Since they understand very little about causality, they do not understand how events happen or things…

What did you think I meant by "PDD/Temu"?

I don't know much about this space, but does anyone else think there's a non-zero chance that PDD/Temu is a massive fraud of some kind?

> Amazon S3 is the original cloud technology: it came out in 2006. "Objects" were popular at the time and S3 was labelled an "object store", but everyone really knows that S3 is fo…

> Is this mainly a US myth perhaps? I have basically no physics education, but I was educated in the US. In my high school, where I took an ordinary, low-quality physics course (th…

ebikes, phantom power in audio equipment...

yesterday on my way to work i saw a guy in one of those huge pickup trucks cut a corner on a right turn, run over the concrete bike lane seperator, which was marked by a row of rou…

> but maybe AI mainstream adoption will take longer than we anticipate. Here's how the adoption of this technology is going to go (this is the way all AI technology adoption has go…

> And just a daily reminder that biometrics are usernames, they are not passwords. I think you should stop giving out this daily reminder. This meme has outlived its usefulness. Us…

> unhedged duration risk, nor the moral hazard created by the bailout Just making sure I understand your point here, are you just against "banking"? Unhedged duration risk w/ LOLR …

Go on ebay and by the "international" edition

It's so weird to me that "write programs that do one thing well" is constantly referred to as "The Unix Philosophy" by people who presumably use Unix? Maybe it's a philosophy like …

yeah I have to figure out how to use the extra layers better, and then use it enough to get used to them I think. Printing out is a good tip, thanks.

For anyone else reading this thread- FWIW I bought a Moonlander a few months ago and I haven't been able to switch to it. It's missing just enough keys that I haven't been able to …

there should be a feature on hackernews where anything Derek Lowe writes on any platform is automatically sent to the front page.

A lot. for example: jainism, zen buddhism (shōjin ryōri), rastafarianism. There are also a lot of religious practices where the religious doctrine doesn't _require_ adherence to a …

The person you're responding to isn't talking about internet service, they're talking about premium sports video packages like NFL Sunday Ticket. > I know this has come up before, …

WWI is actually one of the most interesting parts of the book. I read this book a long time ago so I'm probably remembering a lot of it wrong, but basically, by WWI, the decline al…

If you're interested in answering the question "How, from their peak at around 1870, did this insanely wealthy and powerful group come to lose so much of their wealth and power ove…

oh yeah good call.

I keep catching myself thinking this too. In general, I think it's kind of an interesting heuristic to think about every so often: right now, putting aside practicalities like my c…