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I agree. It's so grating. "This isn't an issue—it's an epidemic. Here's the takeaway: attention span is a load-bearing element of cognition. And honestly? This article nails it." (…

When all labor is automated, is it a problem for the elites if people stop having children?

Long ago I used KDE's "fuzzy clock." the fuzziness was adjustable to as high as "middle of the week," which is funny but not very practical. At a higher resolution it was fun for a…

Regarding the dams, I recommend the book "Cadillac Desert" to anyone even remotely curious about the background and scale of water projects in the US. It's not boring despite the w…

Sibling explanations are correct re: direction of rotation. As to your second question, the flywheel keeps things spinning so it doesn't lock up and has the momentum to compress th…

A different time. I remember the first question from the host at a restaurant being "smoking or non?"

Even secondhand smoking makes you cooler. https://theonion.com/secondhand-smoke-linked-to-secondhand-c...

Some sources suggest cigarette smoking is cool again. E.g., https://www.wsj.com/health/cigarettes-popularity-celebrity-s...

The article doesn't address treatment efficacy in humans. How is it treated? How effective is the treatment? Can this develop resistance to the treatment? The spread mechanisms and…

Yes but your approach requires parenting, which is unacceptable to many people with children.

See also https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/youtube-chromebooks-sc...

I'm glad you addressed that your house-building strategy isn't feasible almost anywhere. There was an interesting article posted to HN on this topic a while back: https://news.ycom…

I would rather read an email the sender actually wrote even if it looked like your example, as opposed to AI-written. In that sense it is "better" to me.

Companies need to brand as "Not owned by PE" the same way health food has prominent labels on the packaging.

You would install a 240v circuit (in the US) like for an electric clothes dryer. Edit: I now see the author was in an apartment and couldn't do this, so I concede this is not respo…

> it needs to become a real operating system semi-advanced users can use daily No it doesn't.

I remember hearing David Simon, creator of The Wire, predicting this (fall of local news enabling unchecked corruption). Here's an article on it from nearly 20 years ago: https://w…

Still bad for the scientists. They get little money and zero recognition.

Thank you. I heard about The Guns of August when I was looking for related books after reading A World Undone. Then I forgot about it. I never heard of March of Folly but I'll read…

How does that book fit in the timeline? It was published in 1984.

Thanks. I like the spirit of this. I will not assume any liability for damage caused from running this code. Especially if you are running it as root. In fact, we both know that th…

I need to know more about this.

Topton makes a lot of those router mini PCs. I have an N100 with 4 2.5Gbe ports. It has a serial port too, which is nice. It's been running great for about a year now. Then again, …

Interesting, thanks for posting. I never heard of this either and read EDM as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_dance_music Which kind of makes sense.

This is really cool. I'm glad people are out there making this stuff even if I'll never have a use for it. What are the use cases for this? I'm guessing retro computing and possibl…