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It seems to block most of the article for me. Outline link below.

https://outline.com/zAS4mc

I've always found this apparent in Johnny Cash's covers, like "Hurt", "One", "Big Iron", or "If you could read my mind". He manages to add a different feeling to the song that changes the backstory it's suggesting. I recommend a listen and comparison against the originals if you're interested in the phenomenon.

And politicians/powerful people doing and saying outrageous things predates the Internet by far. The fact that now we can be informed about it if we so choose is nothing but a blessing from my perspective.

> (and I suspect the UK)

Can confirm. Or rather, there are tax exemptions for working from home, as opposed to having a home office.

https://www.gov.uk/tax-relief-for-employees/working-at-home

Which specific IRA bombing are you referring to there? If it's the Baltic Exchange Bombing, 3 people died and 91 were injured.

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

Me too, and I would add that I love it when a name is apt/clever/descriptive. Outrun is like outsourcing for running processes.

All the more so in a place without socialized health care.

Yeah, so one would expect the divide to be between collectivist vs individualistic societies.

"Sometimes a difference in scale makes a difference in kind" (heard in a CGPGrey video, but I'm sure the quote predates it)

Dyatlov was one of the featured characters in HBO´s "Chernobyl". His quote "not great, not terrible" became a meme for a while.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/anatoly-dyatlov

> GME shorts and longs are in a knockout battle being waged in the stock market as well asocial media platforms.

That's a very apposite typo.

It's funny to me how misinformation can be used to combat (further) misinformation. Food for thought.

Fantastic, thank you!

I'm on the look for a nice coffee grinder. Can you recommend yours, and are you happy to share brand and model if so?

Is this a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25582834 ?

Thank you!

The book "Conspiracy: A True Story of Power, Sex, and a Billionaire's Secret Plot to Destroy a Media Empire" by Ryan Holiday was very interesting, and it´s a detailed look into this whole case.

I feel the same way about the people who do OSINT, which is featured in HN every now and then. A fascinating world, to be sure!

Apparently it was an Excel file, the solution being to split it into several smaller Excel files.

Kafka would be proud indeed.

Any reason why you went with "guage" over "gauge" for the domain name?

Wow. I'm surprised at how incompetent Ben Affleck is at debating, or even following a line of reasoning.

I was mid-way through watching the newly released (on Netflix) S2 of "Derry Girls" and they deleted it mere days after making it available. I was annoyed. Turns out they had messed up the rights.

https://www.radiotimes.com/news/on-demand/2020-07-14/derry-g...

WhatsApp too. My version of it "expired" yesterday and wouldn't work until I updated it.

For the purposes of preventing locking out, I've had some success installing Autohotkeys and sending the MouseMove event every minute or so in a loop. No need for plugging additional USB devices.

My anecdotal experience suggests that today it is slightly more difficult to find pirated content than in "the golden age of Piracy" (namely the mid-noughties to mid-10s). My hypothesis is that having a critical mass of people willing to search, consume and generate pirated content is important.

I'd agree with the proposal, but I'm not sure it would work equally fine today. I'm starting to think that the advent of Netflix weakened piracy movements too much, at just the wrong time.

After all, media conglomerates have had 10 years to prepare and perfect their anti-piracy systems. What happens in an arms race if one of the sides stops innovating for a decade?

which is the stated end goal of many a terrorist organisation.

Plus a Github repository of companies that kowtow to China's interests from a previous discussion here on HN:

https://github.com/caffeine-overload/bandinchina

I was surprised not to see Kip Thorne there. He has been heavily involved with Hollywood for ages apart from being an accomplished scientist.

Related to the concept of a Dunning-Kruger "test": Shibboleths.

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