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I have a valid phone number that ends in 0000 that I got multiple decades ago.

There are many websites where I enter my phone number and it's rejected. Sometimes programmers are too clever for their own good.

People who make posts like yours should be required to disclose how far in the red they are in their Tesla short position.

This thread is replete with ad hominems, mind reading, and speculation ("admit it, Musk's bid for Twitter was to unmuzzle Trump". No proof offered though).

I'm okay with Musk. If you're not, fine. Why the need to constantly assert evil intentions by those you disagree with? It's gets tiring.

WordStar had a similar fate.

I'm a big fan of Bitwarden and have been a loyal user for years. I'm a convert from LastPass and haven't looked back. I'd say more about it but I suspect there are going to be lots of positive comments that will echo my thoughts.

Seems like there would be an opening here for DDG to create a separate section (if they're insistent on this disinformation down-rank path) to publish a clear and falsifiable algo their systems use to determine disinformation and also an option to view those results that are down-ranked as a result of the algo.

Here are my favorites that I listen to on a regular basis and can highly recommend:

EconTalk (Russ Roberts)

Conversations with Tyler

Darknet Diaries

Security Now

Sean Carroll's Mindscape

Lex Fridman Podcast

Making Sense Sam Harris

Commentary Magazine

The Editors by National Review

The Fifth Column

The Glen Show (Glen Lowry)

Longform Podcasts have had a huge impact on my intellectual development over the last decade. And I thank god for speed control (2.2x for me).

Wouldn't it be better to argue why what was heard on Rogan's podcast is wrong, rather than implicitly arguing that all solutions heard on Rogan's podcast are wrong. To me, your response seems like the bigger problem.

Information (including dis- and mis-) is all around us. Arguing that information from sources you dislike is wrong because you dislike the source is illogical. Respectfully, you should address exactly why what was heard on Joe Rogan's podcast is wrong.

This is my experience too. In fact I stopped using todoist due to how it handled recurring tasks - which, like you, is a huge part of how I stay organized. For me, "remember the milk" does recurring correctly and is very low friction.

Epidemiology and history wasn't as effective as you think in identifying the origins of The Spanish Flu. The origin being Kansas is only one of many plausible theories.

I haven't seen him mentioned in this thread, but I was introduced to the phenomenal drummer Dave Weckl through Chick Corea and his Elektric Band. In my mind, Dave is the best drummer alive today. The mix of technical and musical skills is super impressive. After Dave played with Chick and the Elektric Band he's done several albums and is all over the place sharing his gift with folks from around the world. Look him up, you won't be disappointed.

This is why I think it's so important that the internet begins moving towards decentralization soon.

Much of the censorship and top-down control we're witnessing today will only get worse while there's no bittorrent-like or blockchain-like decentralization.

I have been a diehard user of the Vivaldi browser for a while now. I just posted the referenced article to their forum stating that Vivaldi should follow suit. Without such support I'll likely change to Brave specifically due to IPFS support.

The internet is in desperate need of decentralization.

> and a few months of rent amnesty for everyone (including businesses) (it's not like houses will disappear if somebody doesn't pay the rent).

This is being proposed where I live. I'm curious to know who, in this situation, pays the owners of the rental properties for the use of the house, for the expenses and maintenance, for the employees, plumbers, electricians, and contractors, etc. And what about lost profits due for the assumption of the risk of buying properties for the purpose of providing homes for people to live?

What's frustrating is that very many sites know of this method and simply trim the "+uniqueid" from a gmail.com address before inserting it into their database.

Even though I'm not French, not Catholic, not Christian, and have never been to Europe, yesterday I felt this overwhelming sadness and embarrassment about this fire. I was embarrassed that after so many centuries it was my generation that couldn't manage to keep the Cathedral safe.

Though seeing those first pictures yesterday, with the cross glowing as it was, gave me a sense of okayness. "We" responded quickly to a super-unfortunate accident and I believe, based on several sources of comments/Twitter that I've been reading, that we'll be able to rebuild it.

I strongly believe that two-hundred years from now the history books will refer to "The fire of 2019" as a powerful entry of resurrection in the long history of the Cathedral.

Totally share the love regarding container tabs.

I don't, however, like how the UI/UX is implemented. In particular, the management of containers -- why do I have to dig so deeply to add new containers? Also, as a color-blind person, the slightly colored thin bar above the tab is not a sufficient identifier. It just seems all sort of after-thoughty and jumbled to me.

Having said that, I converted to FF being my primary browser from being a long-time Chrome user and am happy about the change.

> This new world driven by the constant emphasis on differences rather than on commonalities is exhausting, frankly.

I know this is technically off-topic and I'll likely be down-voted for an "Amen" post. But, Amen.

I seek, and have yet to find, a venue where folks regularly embrace commonalities, much less celebrate them, while together seeking solutions to society's ills from politically-competing perspectives.

I'm not racist and, as you would expect me to say, have over the years made several close friends of widely-varying races. (As an aside, isn't it part of the problem that I even have to open my comment on this topic by expressing my non-racist bonafides?)

In over two decades of work in corporate as well as entrepreneurial environments, I've not seen a difference in efficacy within groups that would be attributed to being either racially diverse or non-diverse.

For example, if there were three groups working on a given technical project, one composed of all white men, one composed of all Asian women, and one composed of a mix of race and gender, would the diverse group produce a superior result? My experience is that they would not. Sufficiently and equally incentivized and qualified, all groups would likely produce similar results.

So, I'd consider myself as somebody who's "against racial diversity" mainly because I haven't experienced it improving the core competencies of my company -- which is what I care about. Nor have I found compelling research supporting higher performance by more diverse groups. Thus, efforts to improve diversity, for diversity's sake, in my experience, feels like an effort to make a change that's not related, and might even be a distraction, to making my company more effective.

> While a leader with an engineering mindset works hard at finding at a better solution, other leaders use their personality, power or charm to persuade people that their solution will be in everyone’s benefits, even if it actually isn’t. This is why despite his IQ, Donald Trump got elected as the president of US.

I'm no Trump fan, but have to wonder why, in an article proposing an objective truth, I have to read the author's opinion of Donald Trump -- in this case regarding his IQ.

If the author can prove the lowness of Trump's IQ, I'd love to see the objective proof. Otherwise I would suggest the author stick with his main points and not involve his politics.

Moreover, it's sickening to me to read the veiled insult of the voters (the "even if it actually isn't" statement) who put Trump in office. Again, perhaps the author would consider sticking with his main thesis and avoid denigration of those with whom he clearly disagrees.

Your reply started out good then sort of went off the rails. Care to cite supporting data that shows where "religiosity" and Young earth creationists are having a material impact on the overall US education system in the 21st century?

Or perhaps the right wins local, state, and federal elections because a large portion of the country doesn't like the solutions the left proposes.

I've worked on several (poorly designed) systems where the SSN is used as a primary key. In itself, the SSN is not for identification, but as a primary key, it is used to aggregate tons of data about a person. Just think of the scores of databases where data elements exist that are associated by SSN.

It's the possession of that primary key linking all of our data that is the security issue.

Question: Is it expected that, as a result of this legislation, there will be rigorous behavioral and performance definitions and standards that self-driving cars, however that is defined, will have to meet?

IOW, similar to, or in addition to, the FMVSS, will manufacturers have a series of regulations that define the minimum requirements of objective performance criteria for cars sold as "self-driving"? If so, what would those criteria be? Will there be software source code audits to exhibit that the software wasn't written specifically for the testing (vis-a-vis VW)? Finally, will superior test results become marketing fodder for manufacturers in the way acceleration and cornering are now?

One word: Deadlift.

The benefits of the deadlift cannot be over-stated. All adults, especially the elderly, should deadlift on a regular basis. As a compound movement it strengthens so many muscles, results in excellent strength gains, and contributes to quality of life improvements.

- If you're a HackerNews reader you can probably figure out a technical solution to hide it fairly easily.

For sure. Hiding the panel was done within minutes of realizing that Google didn't provide a way to either redefine/block who fact-checks or remove the panel altogether. That doesn't change the point that Google should have provided a way to hide the panel for those who don't want it.

- Being able to choose who checks facts is pretty much the same as being able to decide your own (alternative?) facts, which is the problem they're trying to solve.

They're trying to solve a problem I didn't ask them to solve. I'll do my own fact-checking.

I don't like the fact checking feature at all. Moreover, why can't I control which fact checkers I want or, better yet, why can't I turn off the fact checking panel completely? I'm a big boy and I'll do my own fact checking if that's what I choose to do.

I'm 55 and not nostalgic at all. Weirdly, I can hardly stand to listen to music of my teenage years because it puts me in a pretty sour mood -- and I was quite successful and happy as a teenager and in my early 20's.

Just yesterday I competed in the open division of a regional racquetball tournament and in a month in a half I'll compete in the open division in a regional powerlifting meet. The is not a humble-brag as much as to contrast this to the vast majority of the folks my age with whom I hang out.

Moreover, I'm heavily invested in growing intellectually which seems a contrast to many of my peers.

These folks have largely, though not all of them, adopted the "I'm too old" mentality to try to compete or grow in athletics or in intellectual pursuits.

The point is that this article, I believe, tends to comport with reality: many people begin to accept an easing of their personal standards and drive for growth because they're "too old" to not continue to push and compete.

> Genius has nothing to do with IQ. Genius is a level of creative thought that appears magically simple once you behold it, but yet was beyond people up to that point.

Not sure why the downvotes. While discounting the relationship of genius with IQ is specious in light of their point, this person offers a possible nugget of truth on an alternative understanding of genius.

I actually clicked on the comments to this article specifically to see, and laugh at, the flamewar I knew was going to ensue.