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I think you missed the point entirely. All of these "prediction market" gambling platforms are actively predatory to their users, with very little (if any) regulatory oversight.

That quote also stuck out to me. It'd be more accurate to say a dozen laptops.

Crabs are already quite susceptible to ants, due to ants being small enough to swarm and attack the joints and gaps of the crab's carapace.

I personally welcome this change. Anecdotally, I experienced unimpeded and unsupervised internet access throughout my younger teenage years, and was exposed to some truly horrendou…

Monkeys with typewriters, or teenagers with MacBooks?

Considering that 300 light-nanoseconds is about 90m, getting a response (or even just one-way) in that time is essentially running right at the limits of physics/causality.

I made an art program I titled PixelSmoosh: https://gitlab.com/zanehenderson/pixelsmoosh You give it a set of source images and a target image. For each pixel in the target image, …

This particular robot was revealed back in 2022. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31190875

That seems to be the installer for Asahi Linux: https://asahilinux.org/

It's not you, it seems any site that forces HTTPS will fail.

I wouldn't go so far as to say that it's all a gigantic fraud, as there are some small worthwhile innovations in distributed cryptographic verification. However, almost every singl…

For what it's worth, the work of an few engineers implementing the business decisions of their employer does not make those people inherently evil. It is their job, and they need t…

The first name that stood out to me was Ron Rivest, of RSA, MD5, and public-key cryptography fame.

I've seen a lot of complaints about the minimum requirement of TPM 2.0, and many computers not having one. In my case on a Z270 PC from 2017, a BIOS update enabled the dormant and …

As a correction, they were aiming to replace the usage of Chalk with Nanocolors on the grounds of (questionable) performance improvements.

As a person with minimal academic physics experience, I've occasionally wondered if the action of passing mass through a wormhole would violate the conservation of energy. Say if o…