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Rather than centering on a "what it's like to be me" look at individual pop culture shunners, I'd focus larger-scale, and longer-term. Over time, society as a whole benefits if som…

My point was that the other stores do, too. Or 90-ish %.

IANAL, nor political expert - but should Costco have just said "this is an unprecedented situation, the US Gov't is still figuring out how it'll work, and there's a lot of uncertai…

Costco's position seems pretty unremarkable to me. What % of modern retail sales are both paid in cash, and unconnected to any loyalty/reward program? I'd bet it's under 10%. An…

Did you mean to say "presumed to be too stupid, or too easily conned or coerced"?

> [...] a Danish warship has been discovered on the seabed of Copenhagen harbour by marine archaeologists. > Working in thick sediment and almost zero visibility 15 metres (49ft) beneath the wav…

Yes... Though compared to most "pointless blue clicks pay the bills" stories, this one at least starts well. Slightly bigger picture - just skim the headlines, and don't bother clickin…

Yeah - in WWI, autonomous weapons were mostly mines (land or naval). OTOH, fire-and-forget missiles have been around for half a century or so. Bigger picture: Yes, obviously this is a good idea. My …

Not an insurance underwriter - but wouldn't the obvious counter-move be to exclude coverage for medical assistance/transportation when you're climbing mountains overseas, spelunking, wi…

Not to rain on the parade...but this is innovation with a very small "i". Aircraft using guns against each other was SOP in WWI, and they were already using recoilless (in the air) back t…

No - but they could hire full-time panels of such experts, and never miss the money. More to the point - if the CEO of DogFoodCo won't let his own family pets eat any of his company's flagsh…

Or, if one is uncertain whether to trust the courier between you and your spy - one can send two different one time pads by two different couriers. If the spy is trained to xor those pads together be…

If you look at a list of known superconductors and their transition temperatures - it appears that the difficulty of getting a material to superconduct is proportional some unfriendly power of the abs…

Is "Why not pay people to do their jobs correctly?" a way of voicing frustration with massive gov't incompetence? Or a way of saying that organizational incompetence is top-down?

The comparison I'd make is between a small section of an inactive salt mine with some people in it, and a "modern" city from a century or two ago . The damp (salt is hydrophilic) walls…

Maybe? The article only seems to note buoyancy assistance for the mother whale - not that whales have prehensile tails or anything, to do a lot more. Vs. elephants have trunks. They normally use tho…

> From what I understand the UK allowed it because ... I'd say "severe post-WWII money shortage". After wartime expansion, the global copper industry could physically meet peacetime…

Conceptually - yes, easily. But to do it literally - I'm not a low-level motherboard EE, but I'd bet you're looking at 5 to 7 figures (US $) of engineering work, to get around all the…

> I think GP was saying... Agree. The article's 2nd para notes "AMD relies on its driver software to make sure that software that benefits from the extra cache is run on the V-Cache-enab…

The article notes that cetaceans and primates are the only mammals known to provide assistance during birth. I would also have expected elephants. Anyone know more?

(The article's title seemed opaque, so I rearranged the article's subtitle and used that.)

Yeah. But with a finite lifetime, and an effectively infinite supply of content on the internet - quick & dirty attention-rationing algorithms are unavoidable.

While factually wrong, "spectrum" descriptions are extremely useful in a couple situations: - Easing people who view autism as a T/F boolean into viewing autism as a more complex, case-…

This is why I try to look at the HN comments first. Then, maybe look at the article.

I'd read "Microsoft lost their way" as a description of how the speaker's worldview has changed, as they've gained experience and perspective. Microsoft is often good to the…

tl;dr; Nobody actually knows... but 60 = 2 * 2 * 3 * 5. Making it very easy to sub-divide into halves, quarters, thirds, etc. In a low-tech society with minimal education standards - yeah . Measu…

So ever-more vulture capitalists and lawyers, and ever-fewer actual honest workers?

"Advantages" are often to the individual's benefit, but the species' detriment.

> The client has not had to pay a cent for ... From human society's PoV, you sound like a 10X engineer and wonderful person. But from the C-suite's PoV ...yeah. You might want to keep qu…