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s3arch··on UK Government proposes porn-viewing ID
In addition to what @cyberpunk pointed out, Check out this website: http://yourbrainonporn.com/

There is a pool of resources related to damage the porn has done for this generation from scientific studies, ex and recovering porn addicts and as well as from the partners of addicts.

s3arch··on SpaceX shows off how we might get to Mars
We have made our earth worse for habitat, in the name of doing "cool things" and "make life worth living". But still we can live here and find happiness, unlike Mars. Living in Mars and building cities there is wonderful. The project might even succeed completely. But people will find more "emptiness" in space than on earth.
s3arch··on SpaceX shows off how we might get to Mars
Thanks for the link... I was just right on time when Elon came in :)
s3arch··on Show HN: Finding puns computationally
>curl your lisp

>program makes perfect

>No puns found :(

s3arch··on In India, a Rich Food Culture Vanishes from the Train Tracks
>In my childhood days, we could walk up to any house on the street in the middle of a cricket game and demand water. Often we would get rose sherbet or lemonade instead of plain water.

Oh how much I miss those days....

s3arch··on AI’s Language Problem
We might still have to go much more basic.. Or we might end up going there in future.... Some have mentioned here having consciousness is more fundamental than language.

Even very basic creatures with less intelligence "learn" because they "want to live".

That is the key - You want to stay alive.

You can't be immortal. You just don't live to learn forever. You live to stay alive and feel happy. And that is what drive us to learn.

Could this be true in case of machines?

s3arch··on Facebook Offers Tools for Those Who Fear a Friend May Be Suicidal
Some people who are suicidal are not mentally ill. Sometimes they lose perspective of their life, and this may continue for many months/years. They feel that the pain they are in now, is much worse than death. They run out of answers for "why they must live".
s3arch··on How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds
Could you let us know which open source Linux based tools you use, and what mobile/web app you let go loose.
s3arch··on The Loophole in the Hedonic Treadmill
I feel people who work on to fill the void of their inner core, will always tend to stay happy.

Here subjects who carried a void of low self esteem, by changing their looks coupled with how they viewed themselves and the world later on, had a powerful effect.

The same could be achieved if you had a good bank balance, and spent it on the matters, which yields good experiences, and in turn changes the way you view yourself and the world. Most of the time, it requires you to stay humble. But usually people don't prefer this. :)

s3arch··on How I could have hacked any Facebook account
For these individual hardworking security analysts, Facebook awarding cash prices of "any real value" is much worth than some news article reporting it as "...simple security flaw...".

http://www.zdnet.com/article/facebook-fixes-simple-security-...

s3arch··on Naughty words: What makes swear words so offensive?
>Swearing, then, is as offensive as it is not because of some magic ingredient possessed by swear words but lacked by other words, but because when we swear, our audience knows that we do so in the knowledge that they will find it offensive.

Interestingly, While I was a kid, I used to think that since God created Darkness and Light, he must have created both Good and Bad.... But later as I grew up, I have realized that, its the purpose and end-results of something things we do, defines it either good or bad.

s3arch··on Solitaire, written inside the bootloader
awesome...good job.....

You guys did it inside the bootloader.

Whenever I switch on my computer just for watching a movie or listen to music and nothing else... I feel it so unnecessary to boot up my fedora, load my cpu and ram with programs that has nothing to do with video player.... I was wondering if there is any stable minimal OS which is dedicated only for movies, songs, and nothing else.... I am aware of couple of media centers such as kodi, osmc and openelec.... But haven't found any minimalistic systems....

s3arch··on Ask HN: How can I verify that WhatsApp uses E2E encryption?
Having a source code might help you in skipping the first step(decompile and disassemble), but you have to perform step 2 and 3 to analyse the behaviour of the program.

You might have to perform step 1 , if the source code had compiled third party libraries, which might contain hidden routines to perform malicious operations (such as decryption).

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