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> I don't understand... I'm thinking that the landlady's "NO!" is based on: (1) You can't save yourself any money by doing this, so why are you interested?, and (2) Co…

The appeal is strictly to certain sorts of dreamers, ideologues, and tinkerers. The vast majority of criminals are more pragmatic.

> So my assumption is immediately that some relatively large lobbying group feels threatened by 3d printing... I'd say the real groups behind this are the anti-gun ideologues, the "do wha…

However cool this idea might sound, notice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thucydides_Trap#Criticism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thucydides_Trap#Methodologi…

Maybe it's not quite your meaning - but there are browser plugins which allow per-domain blocking of js. I use one, with the default set to deny js.

There's a lot of context (behind Wickard v Filburn) which would obviously not apply to anyone distilling for personal consumption: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._…

Yes. And France has a history of taking its sovereignty a bit more seriously, for us to take the article's "ministries should submit their plans by fall..." a bit more seriously. But e…

Excepting the high-end stuff, ~zero purchasers prioritize your "simple, functional, reliable". Compared to pretty much every other tech product, printers have lots of moving parts. Especi…

Make email reputation a performance metric for upper-level managers, and the situation will improve within hours.

Subtitle: "Linux Foundation Europe boss predicts EU will run as fast as it can from US tech companies" Reality: Linux Foundation Europe boss desperately hopes that the EU will actually do …

Inside the marketing org bubble, quantity is the "any moron could see that" metric. So anyone who wants to get ahead, inside that bubble , had better be willing to optimize it.

> Some people can direct themselves. That's the ideal. Really is a complex grayscale, depending greatly on the person's current circumstances. And, factory or not, for society to functi…

The hard work would be maintaining a database of ideas which were similarly hyped over the past (say) couple centuries - including details on if/when each idea worked out, or fell out of hype-spa…

In the mid-1900's, my parents raised 6 kids. Owned a decent home. And put the 6 of us through good colleges, debt-free. All on dad's so-so white collar income, with close to zero "fam…

On the one hand - d'oh, yes, why didn't they do this years ago? OTOH - from current comments on the article's site, Brit's seem to have very low opinions of their government's…

So...did all Americans like change pre-1970, when America was building plenty of affordable new homes? I'm thinking "no". And whatever sepia-toned tales of the quarter century from 194…

Because the financialization of homes, plus the interests and insecurities of tens of millions of homeowners, create hellishly powerful incentives to restrict the supply of homes. Everything else is j…

Perhaps. But if you look into the history of that idea, you may notice that it's almost always applied to the young and the lower classes. Perhaps the Baron, Bishop, and Business Magnates are t…

Your most important point: > (Honest disclaimer: I am talking here solely about my white collar bubble, no idea about blue collar to be honest. Not much contact with people from that field unfortun…

Become an electrician or power systems electrical engineer. Because in a gold rush it's a crap shoot which prospectors will win & lose. But being in the Picks & Shovels business is a (r…

Good article, but the actual title: > The Climate Crisis: Illusion of Action in the Age of Green Capitalism The HN title is just one brief point in it.

The point is that he came to the table with "ordinary" talents, equipment, skills, financial resources, etc. That he had to get extremely focused on the task, and devote years to it, is pret…

The kind of issue that's better decided by an ecologist than by a judge, true. My curiosity is about how the legal system got it wrong - simplistic or outdated laws, or clueless or corrupt judg…

> Why is it relevant... I'd say the point is "An Ordinary Guy did X". Vs. an engineering genius, or somebody with deep pockets, or a Hollywood special effects model builder, or 3D p…

This being HN - might there be any Costa Rican lawyers in the house? It would be extremely interesting to hear about the legal merits of the rival company's lawsuit, and the politics of the Supre…

<sigh/> Seems like pretty much all US citizens should rushing to amend city charters, county charters, state constitutions, etc. - to remove their so-called elected representative's le…

> [...] why Germany held gold in new york to begin with: It's the easiest way to resolve USD-Euro currency exchange at the central bank level [...] Interesting. Might you know how much US gol…

For Germany's national interests, the ideal probably would have been repatriation back in early 2010. A decade after Poland had joined NATO, half a decade after the Baltic States had - the threa…

For modern ecommerce, figurative recording every twitch of your mouse in their store, I'd believe that. But to save only the "SKU, qty., unit price, date" receipt info - which you would…