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Two4··on Men and Women Can't Be "Just Friends" (2012)
You might be making the classic correlation-causation mistake, in that promiscuity causes mental health issues and substance abuse; it may very well be that both the sex and the drugs are symptoms of underlying psychological or psychiatric issues, and I can believe that in a society that judges them harder for it, women might be impacted worse.
Two4··on Startup is about to install bladeless rooftop wind turbines on box buildings
1 kiloscrotums per hour is way more than any man would need.
Two4··on How Home Assistant is being used to protect from missile and drone attacks
Sure, but those known text attacks were made significantly easier by German operators using (and reusing) non-random and easily guessable encryption parameters. Once the keyspace became small enough to search, they were able to brute force the encryption.
Two4··on EU Approves AI Act
Also, the popups are designed to be annoying in a way that you click through blindly. Companies can easily comply with these laws without being as obtrusive, e.g. using gradual permissions, using less jarring ui elements, or simply reducing the scope of their cookies in the first place.
Two4··on Ask HN: WhatsApp, now integral to our lives, provides no tech support. Ideas?
As someone who quit WhatsApp a while back when there was a big scare about a change in ToS (and everyone was promising to jump ship to telegram/signal), I cannot overstate the importance of the network effect. For a platform with a userbase this size, the critical mass of users required to pull everyone over to a new platform is simply massive. I'm on both other platforms, and although I see many of my contacts there, they are simply not active. They prefer WhatsApp, and unless something cataclysmic happens, they'll remain there.
Two4··on EU commission designates Booking.com as a digital gatekeeper under DMA
Yes, I'm going to have to see some evidence for a claim as wild as that.
Two4··on EU commission designates Booking.com as a digital gatekeeper under DMA
I thought it was Java?
Two4··on Venture Capitalists Are Using Podcasts to Lure in Founders
As a Reddit refugee (post APIcalypse), I feel individually targeted
Two4··on RFC 9562: Universally Unique IDentifiers (May 2024)
As with IP addresses, UX/DX is not the primary concern
Two4··on North Korean weapons are killing Ukrainians. The implications are far bigger
Silly Americans, you don't win a war of the mind by bringing guns to school
Two4··on Google workers fired for protesting Israeli contract file NLRB complaint
It seems quite strange to attribute the actions of a group individuals to some nebulous force - "the left". It's weird to see such reductionism to a binary axis for something as complex as the intersection of politics, commerce and personal values.
Two4··on Cats suffer H5N1 brain infections, blindness, death after drinking raw milk
So avoid the creme fraiche, dive into the parmigiana?
Two4··on Tesla Lays Off Employee Who Slept in Car to Work Longer Hours
Sorry, I interpreted your comment as a oblique way of saying his purchase of a Tesla was a financially irresponsible choice vs say, buying a van or similar utility vehicle
Two4··on Tesla Lays Off Employee Who Slept in Car to Work Longer Hours
It may have been a financially reasonable choice based on employee discount and resale value after X number of years
Two4··on Show HN: Gamifying Urination: Peezer.io Lets You Track and Share Pee Durations
You can't record me that is against my HIPAA law!
Two4··on Ask HN: In the event of an apocalypse, how long until we could produce CPUs?
During the Christian dark ages, the occupants of Constantinople lived within walls they did not have the knowledge or skill to engineer and build. I imagine that a post-apocalyptic society may feel the same.
Two4··on Why you can’t get a restaurant reservation
Dorsia on a Friday night? How'd he swing that?
Two4··on 'The bane of retail.' Many big chains now lock up all kinds of merchandise
Or internal theft syndicates - but those are even harder to fight than external theft.
Two4··on Amsterdam roofs that not only grow plants but also capture water for residents
Interesting - in our country we have street-level stormwater channels which are separate from sewers, and drain straight to streams, rivers and ultimately the ocean. Is that sort of infrastructure not present in Belgium? I can imagine retrofitting that kind of thing into older urban streets may be tricky, but seems like a wise investment.
Two4··on How Amazon Became the Largest Private EV Charging Operator in the US
I come from a country where most people drive manual transmissions, and the rule of thumb is that you're replacing the clutch at 150-250k kilometers. Automatics have torque converters instead of clutches, so that's probably a non-issue. I do imagine that they're much more integrated, and without a sacrificial clutch plate to take load shocks, the entire system will give out after a certain distance. This is all conjecture though.
Two4··on Help I work in an open office and my co-workers are so loud
Next time they do that, scream. Like, actual-cannibal-shia-lebeouf scream. They won't do it again in a hurry.
Two4··on Women Came to Antarctica for Science. Then the Predators Emerged
The Venn diagram of people who are obsessive enough to become the type of expert to go to Antarctica and sexual predators has a larger overlap than the Venn diagram of most professional populations and sexual predators.
Two4··on Airlines in the U.S. charge separately for checked bags in order to reduce tax
Not strictly true - airlines also optimise on turnaround time. There's likely a sweet spot of bins packed vs landing-to-takeoff time.
Two4··on Bay Area workers charged for building secret apartments inside train stations
</s> ⬅ here, you forgot your closing tag
Two4··on Macron says France and its allies 'could have stopped' the 1994 Rwanda genocide
French interventionism in Africa has increased dramatically since then. Their military operations in CAR definitely reduced the death toll of the entire conflict over all, as a recent example.
Two4··on DataStax just bought our startup Langflow
He's simply affirming the claims made by the company that now owns LangFlow, and he is in the position to make those claims in good faith - what you do with those claims is up to you.
Two4··on I Asked a Psychopath How to Stop Caring About Rejection
I'd like to think of it as a very obvious attempt at subtle marketing - graceful as a gorilla.
Two4··on To Fight Climate Change, We Could Block the Sun
To your footnote, you're not wrong, but climate change is a better and more encompassing description for what people experience: more extreme weather, be it heat, cold, precipitation or drought. We can't feel an average temperature rise of 1.5 degrees, but I can certainly tell you that we just experienced the hottest summer peak temperatures on record.
Two4··on 301,000 Gbps Internet by Tapping New Fiber Wavelength Bands
Nimbys won't let them trench, current trunking and poles are likely at capacity.
Two4··on Silicon spikes take out 96% of virus particles
Silicon wafers come from a large single crystal that has to be grown. It's not a trivial engineering challenge, as you would suggest. There's a supply shortage for the entire semiconductor industry that is driving up prices.
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