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Re:Google Groups ending support for Usenet on Friday December 15, 2023 @04:30PM (#38659066)
Good to know. I haven't looked in years.
Re:Google Groups ending support for Usenet on Friday December 15, 2023 @02:05AM (#38651763)
Long live the Scary Devil Monastery.
FWIW, I took a cultural anthropology course in 2003 from a local community college in the Bay Area. We were taught the "Clovis First" theory was on its way out and I remember "20,000 years ago" being the newer thinking.
Re:Meta shares drop 20% on Q4 earnings miss, weak outlook on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @06:58PM (#30186198)
The trouble with democracy is, and always was, the demos
Re:Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years? on Friday October 22, 2021 @02:24PM (#28960695)
Have your team announce that is a purely temporary solution and will be replaced in an upcoming sprint.
It's an easy mistake to make.
Re:Reddit bans subreddit group “r/DonaldTrump” on Friday January 08, 2021 @01:58PM (#25688538)
Although more complicated than just "provider bans speech", this was an interesting case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_Technology_Center_v.....
As I recall, COBRA is pretty expensive.
Re:Teaching Rats to Drive Tiny Cars on Thursday October 24, 2019 @01:34PM (#21347008)
I really feel like we should be teaching them how to ride little bicycles or take public transportation instead.
Re:The Fry’s Era on Sunday September 01, 2019 @11:34PM (#20856596)
Re:Why Are Young People Pretending to Love Work? on Sunday January 27, 2019 @05:27AM (#19011194)
Interestingly, 'passion' comes from a Latin root meaning 'to suffer" or "to endure".
Passion comes from a Latin root meaning "to suffer". If you work in technology long enough, you will become passionate about it.
So, a small supply combined with a large demand creates higher prices? This new finding could revolutionize our understand of economics... we should study this further.
Clearly, I need to stop eating wheat.
Re:CIA declassifies hundreds of UFO documents on Monday January 25, 2016 @09:03PM (#10971442)
The CEO at a very small company I worked for not too long ago made me do this when assigning phone extensions because "Having 4 digit extensions makes us look like a big company." The only people this would fool would probably need supervision to use a phone.
Re:HP Winds Down Cloud Computing Project on Friday October 23, 2015 @07:15PM (#10441738)
The HP-28S