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Gee if only the Sun were somehow capable of beaming energy to the Earth. /s

The real question is: why are you using Outlook?

Great website! It looks wonderful on my powerful new Mac. Also, I like how the focus appears to be on how it will benefit the user, instead of focusing on tech specs. Data privacy …

Al Jazeera[0] has some live coverage. [0] https://www.aljazeera.com/

OK so this could go multiple ways. On the one hand, they might be very specific, like "anything other than the Missionary Position between heterosexual couples of the same race and…

Any group who's core values do not include Integrity is a group to steer clear of.

Only someone in league with or benefiting from the centralization of power, mass surveillance, wealth, and the use of technology to further the rapid concentration and centralizati…

That's very generous of you.

When I was at GM Cruise we were using a "semantic map" - the robot cars would drive around the city trying to figure out where they were based on GPS, and then match up what their …

flood...the market!

> "By re-running the same commentary it strengthens the original commentary tenfold each time. ... In the wake of these really terrible things, we have this comment that really hol…

The example "Hello World" program source code shows how simple the event-loop style of development looks here. I like it, and it does look like something that could be useful. Than…

I've been looking at RedPanda[0] for a new project. Any ideas on that? [0] https://redpanda.com/

What's the alternative? Nationalize all online selling, and have a central pricing authority? Where does one draw the line, with an interest in not taking it to the extreme?

> Our end goal is to use this engine to create an online Flash-like hub for games that people can share and remix, akin to Scratch or Tinkercad. AMAZING. Hackable games are such a …

Shades of Cryptonomicon, phreaking, and a flashy Perl script tweaking Finux to overcome the RF/Phreakers in the next room.

I'm glad you're back out, but I know that this side of the fence never looks the same after being on that side. I don't know if it ever does.

Degeneracy is positioned as "tolerance" while traditional morality is repositioned as "hate". "Reality TV" shows like "Ridiculousness" (hour upon hour of groin-shots) resemble what…

Considering all of modern entertainment has devolved into a lecture on correctness, yes, staying home and cleaning things up, organizing, and improving our living space does sound …

Nice. Prison-positive propaganda. Er...I mean...independent, investigative journalism. From the Guardian.

No time at the moment to break it all down, but here's a previous discussion thread on a similar topic. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27483003

Really unimpressed with so many people thinking it's OK to shoehorn their database as a message queue. Use the right tool for the job.

Wow - I just want to express some gratitude for the thoughtful response here. You've captured the essence -- although we have solutions for when the impulse to rewrite an applicati…

Rewriting is so attractive. If the code has aged and is suffering from many code smells and anti-patterns, a rewrite becomes even more attractive. "Why should I spend all this time…