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Re:If I Let My Kid Play Outside, They'll Be Bullied
on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @06:56PM (#44252690)
Naw, they'll get run over by a car and it'll be your fault.
Re:Minnesota middle school students 'seem happy' after cellphone ban
on Monday December 04, 2023 @06:35PM (#38524811)
A walkman costs like what, $20? A cell phone is hundreds. Do you, as a teacher really want thousands and thousands of dollars of students' electronics stashed in your drawer?
Re:My circle is 89.9% perfect, can you beat that? HTTPS://neal.fun/per...
on Sunday July 16, 2023 @06:50AM (#36745492)
My circle is 90.6% perfect, can you beat that? https://neal.fun/perfect-circle/
Edit: Wow!
My circle is 96.5% perfect, can you beat that? https://neal.fun/perfect-circle/
Re:My circle is 89.9% perfect, can you beat that? HTTPS://neal.fun/per...
on Sunday July 16, 2023 @06:49AM (#36745477)
Also got 90
Re:Physicists have designed a urinal that drastically reduces splashback
on Monday November 28, 2022 @05:20PM (#33780686)
you just have to get the pee into the urinal first...
Re:Should we let cars use the road as a projection screen?
on Monday September 12, 2022 @04:03PM (#32816095)
There are already too many problems with cars using roads as cars. Cars have monopolized public space in an unprecedented way that needs to be vastly scaled back.
Re:Venice to introduce entry tickets and fees
on Thursday July 07, 2022 @12:16PM (#32015899)
This is already not always the case, depending on which bridge they use.
Re:New MacBook Air with M2
on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @03:29PM (#32005660)
So strange there's no notch in the main picture on the announcement. The top bezel does not look the same as on the product page either, even aside from the notch, it's too thick.
edit: the very last picture in the article also shows the wrong bezel. So strange...
Re:Sick and struggling to pay, 100M people in the U.S. live with medic...
on Thursday June 16, 2022 @05:08PM (#31770986)
hm, interesting. Even better: potentially, instead of negotiating prices one on one, we could form some sort of large collective enterprise that was beholden to us so that it could negotiate prices on our behalf. I'd bet if there was such an group that represented a large enough % of us, we could get some pretty good deals. Now, what would we call it...
Re:The Absurdity of the Backlash Against Joe Rogan
on Monday February 07, 2022 @06:11PM (#30252796)
If musicians want to pull their music off of spotify in protest, they should. If spotify wants to keep Joe Rogan on their platform, they should. I think think spotify owes Joe a platform, whatever the case may be about his using the n-word or other issues. Cancel culture is mainstream now, not just a leftist symptom any more.
I personally think Rogan will be fine. He makes podcasts, he can host them anywhere he wants and his audience will follow. He'll probably come out ahead if spotify cancels him.
Re:Rotterdam bridge taken apart to let through Jeff Bezos pleasure yacht
on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @07:49PM (#30186776)
I dunno. The boat is being built behind the bridge by a local company. I'd be pissed if it was just Bezos sailing through for fun.
Re:Facing housing crisis, L.A. voters back duplexes in single-family n...
on Thursday December 02, 2021 @02:08PM (#29420929)
Ironically, people do kind of do this, with discussions about traffic, except that nobody benefits. Everyone wants to drive, and no one wants to be stuck in traffic. Restrictions on driving like tolls or special driving zones, bus lanes, etc. all seem to meet the same kinds of headwinds in the US. Maybe this is too far of a stretch for a connection, but your comment got me thinking.
Re:Crews are abandoned on ships in record numbers without pay, food or...
on Friday October 08, 2021 @04:02PM (#28803545)
Yeah, that's why so many ships are registered to specific countries too, so they can operate with looser restrictions. It's basically "offshoring" but for the regulations. When I worked in fisheries, I remember seeing so many boats registered to Panama, and never knew why:
http://www.pmacertification.com/advantages-of-registering-a-...
Re:Prison Company Patents VR to Give Inmates Brief Taste of Freedom
on Monday September 13, 2021 @12:28PM (#28513454)
People often conflate technological progress and some sort of overall bettering of society. Science/Technology have nothing, inherently, to do with morality, and people have not changed much. The future may be published by technology, but it will be written by our impulses.
Re:America’s Dead Souls
on Thursday May 20, 2021 @04:58PM (#27227143)
A big part of the jokes I seemingly missed reading it in English, according to a friend of mine who read it in Russian, is that some of the landowners and other characters' names are untranslated puns.
Re:There’s no such thing as a tree, phylogenetically
on Monday May 10, 2021 @09:40AM (#27105871)
Yeah, I’ve seen some plants, when looking to buy, where they are described as annuals, or perennials if in the right climate.
Re:L.A. startup is building tiny injectable robots to attack tumors
on Friday March 05, 2021 @04:43PM (#26362514)
Homebrewers use them, for yeast culturing or making starters. I guess that's fairly lab-like, but they do it in kitchens.
Re:Facebook reported fake numbers to advertisers
on Friday February 19, 2021 @12:35PM (#26195558)
The article mentions fake or duplicate accounts but not those that exist for dead people either [1] which would seem to become more and more important over time.
1. https://metro.co.uk/2019/04/29/50-years-therell-dead-people-...
Re:Robinhood, in Need of Cash, Raises $1B from Its Investors
on Friday January 29, 2021 @12:53PM (#25960186)
Yeah, lying is probably on the lower end of bad things HSBC has done...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hsbc-usa-idUSKBN1E50YA
Re:Hobbyists beat professional designers in creating novel board games
on Friday January 29, 2021 @12:46PM (#25960088)
> What about professional designers if they were able to work without commercial constraints, like hobbyists?
Exactly, they should look at indy developers like Nate Hayden, Hollandspiele and others who make niche games, but professionally.
Re:The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours
on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @07:31PM (#25665227)
Well that doesn't make sense. The sacredness of the capitol should demand that it be protected. Images of law enforcement preventing a mob from disrupting the act of signing off on the transfer of power would be a strong statement that needs to be made, I think.
Re:Show HN: Juicebox – Quickly create beautiful, interactive data pres...
on Friday December 18, 2020 @02:28PM (#25470891)
How long does the account last? Are there any limitations?
Re:Tabletop Simulator
on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @07:13PM (#24925247)
Vassal isn't a physics simulator like TTS, but it's a widely used board game engine.
Re:All DuckDuckGo bang operators on one page
on Monday September 28, 2020 @07:24PM (#24622354)
These bangs have honestly changed the way I browse. With Ctrl+T, Ctrl+L, Ctrl+W, and tab-switching, the browser feels like vim in a small way.
Without my mouse, I can open a new tab or switch to a new tab and immediately search Wikipedia, Amazon, IMDB, etc. All of this helps me not need Google if I know the best domain to look in, and it saves time.
Re:Chuck Feeney Is Now Officially Broke
on Thursday September 17, 2020 @01:15PM (#24507254)
There will always be force in the equation. Do you think that your payments to the armed bands that would replace government would be lower?
Re:Ask HN: What was your first programming language?
on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @09:03AM (#23975249)
Excel functions
Re:U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American reserva...
on Thursday July 09, 2020 @12:54PM (#23782195)
I was thinking the same thing, if what the court was saying was that the land has always been a reservation, then, uh, get ready for the mother of all tax refunds.
Re:DEA authorized to conduct surveillance on protestors
on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @08:07PM (#23398072)
And w stonewalling from the administration, which really needs to be cracked down on.
Not normally, but temperament depends on a lot of things. I've read that socialization and temperament of the dog's parents are important.