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Re:Embrace hope, reject assisted suicide on Saturday September 20, 2025 @10:36AM (#45313782)
Doesn’t this mainly affect people who might otherwise choose to end their lives but are unable to do so because of a disability or similar limitation?
Re:Leatherman (Vagabond) on Friday September 19, 2025 @03:00AM (#45298704)
this kind of freedom, once possible, is now gone.
Re:Show HN: I built a modern Goodreads alternative on Sunday March 02, 2025 @04:36PM (#43235418)
How did you get a DB of all books?
Possibly a dumb question: How do you determine the accuracy of the most precise clock? You don’t have anything more accurate to measure it against, right?
Re:Aphantasia: I can not picture things in my mind on Saturday June 22, 2024 @07:21AM (#40758159)
I am curious: do people with aphantasia dream?
> Wells Fargo holds employees to the highest standards.

I wonder if they also compensate them to the highest standards.

I find myself paying for an illegal IPTV service, just so I can watch soccer from my home country while living elsewhere. I'd genuinely prefer a legal, reasonably priced option, but the only alternatives are these expensive, big-name services that insist on a set-top box. So, reluctantly, the 'less legal' route ends up being the more practical service for me.
Re:Science's Assault on Free Will on Saturday January 20, 2024 @05:52AM (#39066342)
100%

The author themself appears to be unclear about the specific stance they are opposing. While it doesn't seem like they are strawmaning intentionally, they are arguing against positions that no reasonable person actually holds.

Re:Science's Assault on Free Will on Saturday January 20, 2024 @05:49AM (#39066313)
> For, there is clearly bound up in such arguments the assumption that those being reasoned with are free to change their minds based on the merits (or demerits) of the evidence presented.

I understand that the author is arguing sincerely, but certain statements raise concerns about whether they fully grasp the concept of determinism.

Why is it necessary to assume the existence of free will for a person to be capable of evaluating new evidence and have a subsequently revised opinion based on this new information?

Re:Bucket Argument for Absolute Space on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @03:49PM (#39033249)
Re:Bluesky has launched RSS feeds on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @03:55AM (#39011040)
I am so tired of it. I wish there was an AI filter for social media that let me block out this stuff.
Re:Archiving Steam games for fun and profit on Friday January 05, 2024 @10:48AM (#38880291)
Once everything is downloaded and archived, will this enable me to play the game without it having to talk to the steam servers?

Ask HN: How Does Relativity Apply to Rotational Motion?

I'm trying to get a clearer understanding of how relativity works. While I understand that movement is relative in terms of linear motion, I'm curious about how this applies to rotational motion. Specifically, does the absence of centrifugal force in a system indicate that there is absolutely no rotation occurring? In other words, can we use the lack of centrifugal forces as a definitive sign...

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Re:Most 16-year-olds don't have servers in their rooms on Saturday December 23, 2023 @01:32PM (#38746680)
Most 16-year-old don't have rich parents.
Re:BrainGPT turns thoughts into text on Sunday December 17, 2023 @12:34PM (#38674573)
First use will be for criminal suspects, to "save lives". Then its use slowly expands from there.
same in aragonese
Re:Show HN: Airdraw on Thursday December 14, 2023 @05:19PM (#38648131)
Same on Safari on Mac
Re:Why scientists are making transparent wood on Monday December 11, 2023 @10:53AM (#38601656)
Woods seems to have a few cool properties. Other people have even tried to make it bulletproof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CglNRNrMFGM
Re: on Saturday December 09, 2023 @07:03AM (#38581234)
Re:Roundcube open-source webmail software merges with Nextcloud on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @10:03AM (#38460190)
A few years back I used to use SyncThing + DecSync for that purpose, and it worked quite well. Looks like it hasn't been updated in a while though.

https://github.com/39aldo39/DecSync

Re:"Grand Ball Given by the Whales," Vanity Fair, April 20, 1861 on Thursday November 16, 2023 @04:36AM (#38287447)
This illustration was created shortly after the American Civil War began, a conflict that started when the South seceded.
Re:Why you should probably be using SQLite on Friday October 27, 2023 @11:56AM (#38040183)
It's actually quite easy with things like LiteFS Cloud. https://fly.io/docs/litefs/
Re: on Monday October 23, 2023 @03:45PM (#37990587)
What is this? It made me listening to a random Minnesota radio station where people talk about ghosts.
Re:Skip the API, Ship Your Database on Thursday September 14, 2023 @01:50AM (#37505441)
I think this point is addressed in the article.
Re:When did people stop being drunk all the time? on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @11:47AM (#36879711)
I remember reading somewhere that historically, the alcohol content in beer was considerably lower (as low as 0.5% IIRC) than it is today. I'm not sure if the article takes this into account - I might have missed that detail.
Yeah, the US is one of the few exceptions.

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