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People have sniffed my socks and thought they huffed ether.

You make HN interesting. Reminds me of slashdot 20 years ago.

Simpsons did it first. Homer had an illegal bar set up in the tree house and when it started burning he told the patrons “By leaving the premises you agree not to sue!”

> IIRC, the famous "Good Friday" psilocybin experiment had some people from the control group believe they were not in the control group. I can find a few people right now that bel…

> Part of it is due to monetary incentives of businesses that now own the media outlets. Part of it is due to what the general public has interest in and will pay for. This should …

Books sales are sales of anything with an ISBN. This includes adult colouring books, which I’ve heard is responsible for possibly all the sales increases in the past few years.

Well you don’t have to listen to me, the X maintainers have said Wayland is the way forward and they’ve stopped developing X as of several years ago. It’s silly this is still an is…

The problem is that X was created over decades for very different eras of computers and it doesn’t really make sense to keep modifying it — there are design limitations to it, and …

X is like trying to fly modern rockets with Apollo-era computers. The computers will work, until they don’t. In which case the only people able to fix them are retired and you have…

Yeah but watching Bezos turn into a household joke is worth it.

We’re seeing a comparable decline in birds that depend on them for food, so probably not. That said, it’s fun to imagine that we just selected against insects that hang out by the …

If you can find a link to that Captain Planet story I’d like to read it. It sounds totally plausible.

I once donated a few Bitcoin to a free software project. At the time 1BTC cost about one tank of gas. I sold the remainder when I doubled my investment and thought I walked away lu…

> x-raying people mmWave or X-ray?

If the police unions don’t like your laws they don’t enforce them. If they really don’t like you, they don’t show up at your house when there’s an intruder. If they really really d…

They let the homeopathy shit fly, not sure why they’d get involved in this. Nuke it all from orbit IMHO.

For someone to find the wiki, read it and then attempt to solve their problem in a rudimentary fashion gets you towards the tail end of the bell curve. They might even follow up wi…

All this just makes it clear to me that we need a time standard which addresses all the problems and of ISO8601. It’ll be painful until it’s universally adopted, but once it is we’…

It doesn’t take long to get used to the basic format. 20211024T090755, etc.

More effort was put into expressing meaning when people weren’t constantly stimulated. There’s still meaning today, but I can’t help but feel it’s shallow and unappreciated by read…

I don’t really understand the whole trans thing and why it’s suddenly become the job of the whole world to reinforce someone’s self conception. Lots of people have body dysmorphia …

Same reason we don’t have stone masons in every town nowadays. Too much time, too much material, not enough customer volume. Can’t operate with today’s (lack of) disposable income …

Or investors are trying to mitigate potential damage to share prices if Tesla doesn’t improve their image.

Reminds me of Philip K Dick being told by a pink beam of light that his son was seriously ill and needed to go to the hospital right away. In one version of the story I heard, he t…