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Disagree: - In Shakespeare's day, the physical ordeal of setting type, printing, binding, etc. were a non-trivial moat against copying of printed works. Not so now. - Shakespeare was closely ass…

From HN's FAQ: > What does [flagged] mean? > Users flagged the post as breaking the guidelines or otherwise not belonging on HN. I'd favor having a second type of tag, for submissions,…

I'd say WWI was at least as bad for German-language science.

You don't move up the Cyberdyne Systems org chart by caring what the stupid little meatbags think.

True. OTOH, this is a world where many people get yelling-and-cursing angry with a bottom-tier Post Office clerk in (say) Podunk, Montana over the latest increase in the price of 1st Class postage sta…

Tell us two interesting truths and one plausible-seeming lie about yourself. (You need not reveal which is which:)

Unfortunately, real-world bureaucratic orgs of any meaningful size or age always include a third type of person - dedicated neither to the org's goals, nor to the org itself. In general, one shou…

Forget "philosophical thoughts", it is a business deal. What matters is the benefits, vs. the costs & risks, vs. what other coding-assist tools and suppliers might offer you.

> ... like Covid, where I recall almost everyone on HN believed it'd be the end of the world ... Looking back, but don't see that. Maybe I'm just failing to hit Peak Doomer? For exa…

One classic , at-scale disaster, in a should-be-easy field: https://www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/safety-injury-prev/environmen... …

LTO can be great. But if you aren't familiar with modern tape, then two things to carefully note: - Inter-generation compatibility has been going downhill recently: https://en.wikipe…

True-ish. But centuries before the first nuclear power plant fired up, boilers full of pressurized hot water were notorious for killing people. Both those who were "simply not good enough",…

If you have good engineers, using molten sodium as your primary coolant does have a fair number of safety advantages over water. The stuff boils at 1,621 °F - so you lose 99.9% of the traditional…

Unless those weak spots are quietly addressed by a Field Service Bulletin, just before the revolution kicks off.

Yeah - though I might phrase it "don't want to understand this". Which is, in many ways, a mindset which they are carefully taught. Late-stage capitalism's 0.01% need the 10%, …

And at least as important is the title claiming "Told to Stop Hiring" - but then the article walks that back through - "1 in 6 Have Been Told to Deprioritize Hiring White Men" - an…

The USSR was economically socialist, ideologically communist, and politically somewhere on the autocracy-dictatorship spectrum. (That last varied over time, as is normal for such governments. Underl…

> ... Standard and Poor one day being worth trillions ... S&P - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%26P_Global - is a business intel & analytics firm, not an investment …

Collapsed while it was sitting at a gate, with no passengers yet on board - meaning the the gear was under far lower loads than during a landing. While slowly-failing gear could have collapsed anywa…

While I'm neither a Brit, nor a professional historian, my understanding is that corruption - meaning everything from foot-dragging delivery to inferior & defective goods to exorbitant prices…

OP is just using "union" as a way of articulating that he's extremely unhappy with current corporate behavior, and also that he wants there to be some sort of at-scale, easy-ish way to …

"One rule for thee, but another for me." Similar are situations where employees of a labor union are themselves unionized - under a different union - because they feel ill-paid and ill-tre…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Thought_m... ADD: A local press story about Oracle's CEO and Altman "celebrating" a new DC in my part of the co…

Subtitle: > A survey finds that academic supervisors can have a huge impact on their students’ mental health And it's mostly not about America's recent-years drama over research funding…

RAM price booms & busts have been a thing since at least the early 1980's, when Andy Grove got Intel out of the memory manufacturing business - because he didn't like the financial aspec…

> People can surely sue... Would either published indexes or investment funds exist, if suing them for poor performance was anything resembling that easy? I'm thinking "no".

Big Hype, but the reality is only a tiny spaceport on a tiny Portuguese island in the Atlantic Ocean. Their goal seems to be "a cost-effective launch site for smaller rockets with smaller satell…

While I can't rule it out, I can remember when https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netburst was going to be the Next Great Thing from Intel. And when https://en.wikipe…

I'd reserve "hack" for something requiring some technical skill. Or at least scripts or something written by someone with technical skill. Kinda like how it ain't "breaking &…