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It's not impossible that one day our rail network could stand shoulder to shoulder with GOV.UK and the NHS – which I don't think it's too hyperbolic to suggest are both the envy of the world.

Wait. An IRC network has employees?

"The key to comedy is to put a delicate idea indelicately or an indelicate idea delicately" – Cicero.

Worth bearing in mind Chaos Monkeys came out 8 years ago – an age in cultural years. That same year Warren Buffett was quoted as saying this: “Credit worthiness is like virginity. It can be preserved but not restored very easily so it is crazy to play around with it.”

I'm not sure if he'd would say that now, but I'm not sure this was such uncomfortable syntax in the 2010s.

I'm curious: do Americans know what shagging is?

I would have been amazed even 5 years ago too. For example, I listened to Harry and Meaghan's cringeworthy new podcast on Spotify. Afterwards I clicked around the web, trying to find some commentary that would truly sum up my feelings.

Eventually I landed on the Daily Mail's site and what do I see? A headline: "Woke Word-Salad". At that point I had to concede: okay, maybe this is where I belong.

I used to be very much of the same opinion. But increasingly I find the Daily Mail to be the only place to turn for a sensible reaction to woke hysteria – like the supposed "rape culture" in schools, and the recent walkouts over the flying of the Union Jack at the Pimlico Academy.

How would the card merchant know what specific product you bought though? Is that data transmitted too somehow?

Bi-modal input worked for me. That’s a fancy way of saying use a trackball and a mouse at the same time. I would use the trackball to fling the cursor around the screen with my left hand, and the mouse to fine tune the aim with my right hand. I can only speak for myself, but this solved an acute pain in my wrist.

Sorry. Starling Bank.

Great to see Plausible on HackerNews. It's one of the few pieces of software (Stripe is one, Starling another) that I deeply enjoy using. I get a good feeling when I open it up. I don't really have the UX vocabulary to explain it better than that unfortunately.

Wha? Can somebody explain to a non-programmer now one character can "flip" in a computer and become another one? Is this quite common?

In the UK, the only place I could find with no cell sites is the Scottish island of Eigg.

I don’t have much to add to this discussion except to note that PG has impeccable punctuation but doesn’t capitalise the days of the week. Odd.

Josh, remember those funny Dreamhost newsletters? What happened to those?

Off-topic I know, but how can I make my blog look like this? So many posts like this on Hacker News have this clean, confident, gentle-exposition style. (As you can tell I don't really have the design vocabulary, but hopefully looking at the site you know what I mean.) Is there a particular Wordpress theme that people use? Or is this another CMS like Ghost?

I think many of us have learned from Matt Levine’s newsletter that even if you do gain early access to earnings, it’s very difficult to turn that into a profitable trade.

This happened to Boris Johnson: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/boris-s-dilemma-relinqui...

Is there a Wordpress theme that will make my website look like OP's?

How do economists measure "productivity", and it is a worthwhile metric? It always seemed super sketchy to me.

Why not the Spectator? I've been a subscriber for 10 years. It's a great way to expose yourself to different views, and Rory Sutherland's columns are always worth reading.

I'm sure it's a great product. But personally, any marketing copy that talks about "your brain" gives off quacky vibes. It would be lovely if we didn't need to pseudo-medicalise everything.

I've observed the NYT's recent drift with dismay. Here's a recent example I noticed: https://imgur.com/a/uST4zE0

Somebody was murdered at a protest, and two bullet-points the NYT splashes with are "blame the victim" context hits because the deceased was on the "wrong" side.

It should not be necessary to visit a toxic site like Breitbart to get a balanced diet, but at the moment as an NYT reader I feel it is.

Why would tabloid glamour models be excluded?

Well, that's all the encouragement I need to finally read this. Thanks dang.

Question: if you started an agency offering SEO and marketing to darknet sites, would you get in trouble for that?

What happened to that little handheld console with a crankshaft Panic was making?

What does “gamma” mean in this context?

You mean if you factor in your time? Okay: in that case maybe.

"It will soon be just as cheap to have your food prepared and delivered as going to the grocery store and making it yourself."

I doubt this very much.

> Attention spans these days are terrible.

The most popular podcast in the world lasts for 3 hours. I don't think it's true that attention spans are getting shorter – long form content has never been more popular.