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Voting with your wallet lets you send dozens of fine-grained messages a day. You support companies you want to support, and don't support those you don't want. Others will choose d…

> Connecting to the grid has enormous value Yet in most locales it's illegal to disconnect from the grid. If disconnection were legal for those who want to be energy self-sufficien…

Students have cheated for as long as there have been tests - AI is just the latest tool. The only thing that matters in deterring cheating is the consequences. As a society we've b…

Sure, but "rejecting all server-side processing" is basically trusting the website to honor my wishes. I don't put much faith in that at all. They'll have my IP and browser fingerp…

That's a nice feature, every OS should have that. I believe the old TrueCrypt had two passwords, each revealing a different set of files. You'd put e.g. your tax forms in one, so i…

> Just set your browser to delete all the cookies at the end of the session except for whatever sites you want to allow to 'remember' you Exactly. I use the "I don't care about coo…

I don't see why convincing people to overpay for something based on hype and artificial scarcity required any "sweetheart deals" via congress.

Wow, you competely edited your comment to say something different than the one I replied to. You also still failed to articulate your argument. I don't think you want to make this …

The study points out that CO2 levels are rising, and in 50 years might cause blood HCO3- to exceed 30mEq/L. It then references https://journals.lww.com/cjasn/abstract/10.2215/cjn.1…

"The one above" is not clear, can you please articulate your argument?

> There is mounting experimental evidence that lifetime exposure to these increasing atmospheric CO2 levels can negatively impact the normal physiology of organisms... Studies indi…

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SpaceX bids on competitive government space launch contracts and wins most of them because they're more reliable and often half the price of the competitors, or less. Government is…

SpaceX has accomplished spectacular things in reusable launch vehicles and space-based networking. It will soon restore the heavy launch capability that the US lost when it retired…

The cops said they had been tracking the car for days. So just once they should have looked at the license plate, and seen the full 7-digit number, which does not match the 5-digit…

Exactly, it seems that HN can assume a certain level of scientific knowledge among its readers that Nature can't.

An engineer friend of mine, after a decade in industry where he rose to management, decided to go get an MBA at a top ten management school. Compared to engineering, he said it was…

That's why democracy shouldn't be worshipped as the end-all be-all key to good government or good society. Or as Churchill put it, democracy is the worst form of government, except…

Years ago the US government allegedly proposed prediction markets, in part to encourage the exact kinds of behavior that the US Special Forces soldier exhibited. Of course they wan…

It depends on a lot of things. If they've also applied to another college that's better suited to their ability, admitting then to a school where they'll likely fail is not really …

I used a discount buyer's agent and it worked great! We viewed houses on the internet ourselves, went to open houses ourselves, and arranged showings with seller's agents ourselves…

Or, the world needs more of your field because it's now cheaper. I've often heard of house painting as an example of this. It used to take a crew of 8 with buckets, paintbrushes, a…

> Anthropic and US Government, there can be only one right in this situation. And just to be clear, that's a maximum of one right in this situation.

> The FDA has approved bemotrizinol (PARSOL Shield). This is the first new sunscreen ingredient approved in over 20 years, offering superior UVA and UVB protection... an advanced s…

Thanks for pointing this out! It seems obvious in retrospect, but the fact that SpaceX will be "valued" at $1.75 trillion after the IPO is irrelevant when only $75 billion worth of…