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Re:Don't Use VPN Services
on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @07:57PM (#21329725)
Exactly.
So when should I use a VPN?
3. To watch US Netflix in <insert non-US country>.
Re:Hong Kong Exchanges Bids $39B to Take over London Stock Exchange
on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @05:08PM (#20944733)
Since when is it alarming to complement another country's progress, especially when you're not enemies? I'm no fan of the CCP (and no Kiwi) but this sounds ridiculous.
Re:Flying with Miniature Horses
on Saturday August 17, 2019 @07:05PM (#20727011)
As someone over 6ft, all I would like to know is what airline has enough legroom for a horse to go in front of you.
Re:Goodbye Aberration: Physicist Solves 2,000-Year-Old Optical Problem
on Saturday July 06, 2019 @08:08PM (#20372808)
The specificity gives it a funny edge though. If I were a math student I'd print it and put it on my wall.
Re:Gorilla Youngsters Seen Dismantling Poachers’ Traps (2012)
on Thursday June 13, 2019 @07:03PM (#20179367)
Or it triggers a cascading increase in intelligence, and they end up taking up arms and conquering us.
Re:Amazon's Satellite Project Will Cost Billions, Jeff Bezos Says
on Thursday June 06, 2019 @11:16PM (#20121351)
> As a perspective if you hold your thumb up to the sky, the distance “covered up” by your thumb (if I did my math right) is approximately 480 miles
What distance? The distance immediately behind my thumb is about an inch. The distance way back at the edge of the universe is millions of light years
Re:Congress Is About to Ban the US Government from Offering Free Onlin...
on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @12:34AM (#19621872)
Forget Reagan, they claimed they were trying to do it last year. Remember the post card?
Re:Ask HN: Which great products didn't succeed?
on Saturday April 06, 2019 @04:58PM (#19592971)
Swype.
It disappeared from my phone this week and I'm in shambles.
Re:Mountain View approves razing rent-controlled units for $1.5M homes
on Thursday April 04, 2019 @11:58PM (#19579561)
In Mountain View 1.5m homes are the rent controlled units. /s
Re:You Don't Need to Quit Your Job to Make
on Thursday February 14, 2019 @10:51PM (#19168337)
Some gyms have showers. Lifetime, etc.
Re:Ask HN: Go-to web stack today?
on Saturday January 05, 2019 @05:35AM (#18830956)
Why do so many people forget about context?
Re:How to Save the Web
on Sunday December 09, 2018 @08:00AM (#18640662)
"That’s why I’m asking governments, companies and citizens across the globe to commit to a set of core principles for the web."
Who does this guy think he is?
"By Tim Berners-Lee"
Oh shit...
Re:Yale putting high-tech tests to its controversial Vinland Map
on Monday October 08, 2018 @02:23PM (#18169923)
Since when is Columbus day an Italian-American cultural holiday? He even sailed for Spain for goodness sake.
Re:Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atmosphere?
on Monday October 08, 2018 @04:26AM (#18165338)
Half of that github doc is in italics too.
Re:75% decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protect...
on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @08:40PM (#15504553)
Not sure how much of a frequent flyer you'd have to be to make a conscious decision to fly less. I'm certainly not there.
Re:Cryptocurrency chaos as China cracks down on ICOs
on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @05:10AM (#15236658)
Instead they're coming from someone with vested interest in delegitimizing cryptocurrencies.
Re:Maryam Mirzakhani, first woman and Iranian to win Fields Medal, has...
on Sunday July 16, 2017 @04:00AM (#14781060)
I have no idea what math and physics visualization sculptures refers to, but would love to see if you can show us.
Re:Ask HN: Is S3 down?
on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @01:17PM (#13756128)
My website is not down.
Re:Scientists claim to have tied the most tightly knotted physical str...
on Friday January 13, 2017 @11:48AM (#13392296)
Get us to Mars please....