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bolasanibk··on HN is up again
I believe this is the official twitter account: https://twitter.com/HNStatus
bolasanibk··on California aims to slash insulin prices
http://www.banderasnews.com/0504/hb-cheapmeds.htm

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas_Buyers_Club

bolasanibk··on What did Earth look like X million years ago?
[TVTrope Warning] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EarthAllAlong
bolasanibk··on The math prodigy whose hack upended DeFi won’t return funds
The Worlds littlest skyscraper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_littlest_skyscraper
bolasanibk··on Twitter Deal Temporarily on Hold
He Did.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-05-13/elon-m...

bolasanibk··on Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal use?
On MySql I used group_concat function to do the same thing.
bolasanibk··on Purple dye extracted from sea snails made the Phoenicians rich traders (2020)
Something like this? How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler [https://www.amazon.com/How-Invent-Everything-Survival-Strand...]
bolasanibk··on Biologist decided to disavow his own study
When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure
bolasanibk··on Washington state shuts down Amazon price-fixing program nationwide
I do not have a reference right now, but I remember reading that one of the conditions for listing your product on Amazon is that you cannot sell it for less anywhere else.
bolasanibk··on When did Maytag go bad? (2007)
You forgot the make it smart/app based/subscription model!!
bolasanibk··on You don't need an EV to cut your carbon emissions from oil
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

People concentrate too much on the last one and not nearly enough on the other two. I presume because they require a change in lifestyle people are not willing to do.

bolasanibk··on Tell HN: Tesla rear-ended me on autopilot, no one will investigate
Nit: 1 $[T]rillion as of today.
bolasanibk··on We're seeing an ongoing attack against our primary network provider
Seems to work for me as well.(from US)
bolasanibk··on A second hexagon in the stratosphere of Saturn
More weirdness in our Solar System

Mimas - A moon of Saturn which from certain angles looks like a death star. [1]

Hyperion - Another moon of Saturn which looks like a sponge. [2]

Phobos - A moon of Mars with a huge crater on one end.[3]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimas_%28moon%29 [2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_(moon) [3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phobos_(moon)

bolasanibk··on Subatomic particle seen changing to antiparticle and back for the first time
Duplicate with more discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27483949

bolasanibk··on The Great Hanoi Rat Massacre of 1902 Did Not Go as Planned (2017)
And what happens with the computer in "Space Odessey - 2001"
bolasanibk··on DarkSide ransomware gang quits after servers, Bitcoin stash seized
I can see plenty of governments doing exactly that.

https://xkcd.com/538/

bolasanibk··on Biden eyeing tax rate as high as 43.4% in next economic package
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/04/05/corporati...

>55 corporations had zero federal tax liability in 2020, including household names like Nike, FedEx and Dish Network, analysis finds

bolasanibk··on Is that ship still stuck?
It is one of the largest container ships in the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_container_ship...

bolasanibk··on Early-Retirement Update
> Every headline that right now seems like a "sad story" - a parent losing a child, a child losing a parent,

> kids in cages, a daughter and father who are estranged, etc -- becomes an absolutely wrenching sadness if

> you even FLIRT with the idea of "what if that happened to me/my child"? You develop sensitivities that you

> are surprised at. You realize you have inherited an impossible and awesome responsibility of providing for,

> protecting, loving little blank slates of humanity... in a chaotic and dangerous world.

This was something I was not prepared for when I had my son. I cannot watch media or news stories where kids suffer or get hurt.

bolasanibk··on I heat my home by mining crypto currencies
https://www.nicehash.com/ got the HN hug of death!
bolasanibk··on Visa Advertising Solutions (VAS) Opt Out
Level 3 cc processing is becoming more common though.
bolasanibk··on How India's ancient caste system is ruining lives in Silicon Valley
At least for Indians, names can be an effective signal for caste.
bolasanibk··on I'm a Coffin Confessor
It's already a well known novel[1]. You will have copyright issues.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaker_for_the_Dead

bolasanibk··on The Big Tesla Hack: A hacker gained control over the entire fleet
The Feed (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feed_(British_TV_series)) is based on this premise.
bolasanibk··on The explosion of new coronavirus tests that could help to end the pandemic
It's not always that simple: French bus driver attacked over mask rules dies [https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/11/europe/france-philippe-mongui...]
bolasanibk··on An update on our security incident
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
bolasanibk··on Tesla Model 3 Drives into Overturned Truck in Apparent Autopilot Failure
As mentioned elsewhere in this discussion, RADAR had a hard time with stationary objects. They get lots of false positives from things on the side of the road, overhead signs etc.
bolasanibk··on SpaceX successfully launches two humans into orbit
They laid off all their employees earlier this year.
bolasanibk··on SpaceX successfully launches two humans into orbit
Bigelow Aerospace lays off entire workforce - Mar 23 2020 https://spacenews.com/bigelow-aerospace-lays-off-entire-work...
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