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I've come to the realization that planetary colonization is sort of a dangerous and anesthetizing science fiction fantasy. It allows us to mentally defer our reckoning of the finite nature of our planet and its resources.

Prusa makes the best open source 3D printers. This makes it cheaper. No different than when RaspPi announces a new board.

If the period lasts months, then sure. People go on meds for temporary events all the time, e.g. Seasonal Affective Disorder.

That's usually SOP at companies which have suicides. Suicidal ideation is contagious. They'll bring in a grief counselor, and encourage you to talk to them, instead.

My brother, a GP doctor, said that he writes a lot of scripts for antidepressants every performance review season. Performance management sucks.

The racial tenor of this article seems bizarre and over the top, though?

* Everything is a "workflow" and you often find yourself stuck in some terminal error state for no reason. * No JSON, everything's a page load. * ...or, if there is JSON, it's done badly and you have an unholy combination of janky SPA functionality across multiple pages. * Arcane timeouts * "Disable your popup blocker" * Insane data validation errors. * Poor SSO integration.

I could go on.

Self-hosted, I'm assuming? Their hosted service is shutting down. https://sandstorm.io/news/

The HN hivemind leans very pro-regulation these days.

Misaligned incentives cause good people to make bad decisions.

Also, what if the TV communicated with its OEM's backends instead, which communicated with malicious third parties behind the scenes?

Is this a fiat gateway for USDT? (aka Tether, the "stable coin" which is the subject of NYAG’s lawsuit: https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/20978/ny-attorney-genera...)

EDIT: Ahahahaha. Nope. You can buy USDT but you can't cash out. Note that there is a tab for "USDT Markets", and there is no USD entry in that list. Hotel California-coin.

Most--if not all--coins are just scammy as hell, and the US has resources to fight crypto-related crime.

What if the communication is benign? What if the TV is simply refreshing a list of recommendations? Everybody - including this forum - is so primed to read nefarious motives into basically anything a computer can do now. Soon we're not going to be able to write a single "hello world" app w/o having to fill out a ream of EU paperwork and get licensed and bonded in advance.

I like clipless because they enforce better form and don't stray into the chain.

It's fascinating that Netherlands made a deliberate, pragmatic step to take their streets back from cars in the 60's and 70's. I had assumed that they had simply never lost their love of the bike. But no, the positive situation they have today was developed as the result of conscious political action against the scourge of cars and traffic.

>With the current system, you have to hold your phone really close to the reader for a few seconds

You do? Mine is almost scarily eager to pay the bill.

Uh huh. You should visit the Building 17 courtyard sometime, it's basically a graveyard for defunct MS products.

Author is a developer on Brave.

The ISA is virtualized (and much faster) if you have KVM installed and your processor supports VTx extensions.

A week ago Lyft driver who drove like a maniac. Will he get a saucy exposé too?

So every DNS change is stored into the blockchain, forever? Will you have to download terabytes and terabytes of the blockchain in order to serve as a node? Why is that kind of audit history necessary?

Why is the solution to every problem "blockchain" these days?

You're probably using dedicated FTP clients, right? FTP browsing on a web browser is a hack. Uploading files, downloading multiple files at a time, doing _anything_ is just pure pain.

The threat to privacy and security is more fundamental than anything that can be remedied by a GDPR nastygram.

At the very worst it is a blight on the environment.

27kWh of energy burned per transaction, with a maximum scaling limit on the order of 5 or 6 transactions per second. If everybody in the world used Bitcoin, then you'd be entitled to your one transaction every few decades.

What if, like, you had a quantum computer that could guess every password simultaneously? Checkmate, nerd. Give me my bounty.

This just seems like investment in open infrastructure? Any tool can be used for evil. Are contributions to the Linux kernel, then, a kind of contribution to the surveillance state?

What a ridiculous criticism. The media hysteria is boiling over in completely nonsensical ways.

The Earth will be swallowed by the sun before you guess that GUID.

Also, they wouldn't funnel money to human rights antagonists, as per this fine article.

What took them so long?