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Can you share some links please? I'm morbidly curious.

In America, justice is only available to those who can afford it. If you can't afford months or years of lawyer's fees and don't have the ability to take time away from your job, f…

It does! It's called "rubber ducking" when applied to software engineering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

"Representatives" in the U.S. government no longer represent the citizens at all — they represent the lobbyists that pay for their votes. Logically, this behavior should result in …

Even if manufacturers behave nicely, there is still the possibility that the devices are eventually somehow compromised by bad actors and used nefariously. For example, the CIA dev…

The Lightning Network is meant to address this: https://lightning.network/

Spoken like someone who truly knows nothing about scaling.

Corporations are enjoying record profits for years but wages have been stagnant since the 90s. The idea that when corporations receive more money they pass on a proportional value …

An uneducated society is easy to manipulate — easy to convince that climate change isn't real, that evolution is a conspiracy against religion, that creating a social safety net an…

Are there any examples of class-action lawsuits or legal consequences against companies that expose sensitive data like this in the U.S.?

Perhaps it's not the biggest factor, but it is likely to reduce employee benefits like education stipends, relocation stipends and dependent care FSAs. Previously, employers were a…

My firm has been grappling with outsourcing the transcription of sensitive internal communications for years. Our weekly sales calls are done over teleconference, but not everyone …

Oatmeal is a savior. I can’t think of a breakfast food that is more satisfying and filling. 1/3 cup of instant oats, 2/3 cup water. Microwave for three minutes on half power. Add c…

It’s obviously a mixed bag (and sometimes dreadful), but IMO it’s a lot more fulfilling to live and travel in the real world among real people than some aseptic Uber-only lifestyle…

I am confident we are in the very nascent stages of cryptocurrency, and that it will be huge within ten years. I am not so confident that Bitcoin will be the predominant currency, …

By that logic, gold would have crashed long ago and been replaced by all the other alt-rare-metals out there. It has not. The network effect should not be underestimated. The world…

This might be a good companion for elderly people.

> Fuck off with your tone policing [0] of the downtrodden. Oppression makes people angry, if you don't want people to be angry like that then stop oppressing them. Take a breath an…

That's a pretty rude comment. I'm sure cpncrunch understands that, literally, not everyone on the planet can afford to pay a dollar. Please adjust your tone. https://news.ycombinat…

How widely is WordPress being used at NYT today? Seems like it was used a lot about five years ago but don’t see it much anymore.

> There is also a long "tradition" in Germany to detach Germans from what they did in past. For example, average Dutch will not tell you "Germans start World War 2", he/she will te…

I don't think they're saying we should stop eating all meat — just that it should be significantly reduced. That's pretty much a no-brainer for our health, for the environment and …

Writing this as my wife and I are on the way to Ikea for the second time this week to choose a couch ... You really need to see the couch in person before buying it. It’s really ha…

This is a very reasonable comment. The primary difference between being socially liberal and socially conservative is the idea of the government’s role in our lives (and more gener…