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"... on a busy summer day, Kris didn't show up to open the park ... I ultimately caused the shutdown of the water park" Am I the only one concerned about the lack of respect this show…

Nurses used to take plants out of hospital wards overnight because photosynthesis (input CO2 output oxygen) only happens in the daytime, leaving just respiration (input oxygen and output CO2) at night…

See also "Lego a 'better investment than shares and gold'" on HN 3 years ago[0] and the various Lego investment websites[1]. Not something I engage in myself, but have been aware o…

'The people I hung out with while there were bitter towards the required TV licenses and "religion" for NHS in public discourse. Curious how widespread this attitude is.' I think…

Yes, e.g. for UK: "Most people can make enough vitamin D from being out in the sun daily for short periods with their forearms, hands or lower legs uncovered and without sunscreen ... you should …

Most film quotes on HN would be covered by "fair use"[0]. If someone pasted an entire script in a comment that would be something different entirely, and likely to be picked up by the existi…

See also the YC curated selection of HN highlights[0] and also an algorithmically generated list of (recent) best comments[1]. [0] https://blog.ycombinator.com/category/hacker-new…

Deals are bilateral, but club membership isn't. You wouldn't seriously expect to be in a strong negotiating position with Amazon if you decided you wanted to leave Amazon Prime but retain so…

From the headline I thought it was going to be about the variously shaped concrete blocks, e.g. Dragon's Teeth [0], used as anti-tank defences, which can still be seen all over the British coastl…

Another way of putting this is that leaders determine the best destination and managers determine the best route there.

I used to make a point of submitting a minor contribution to every project's code. I used to (part jokingly) liken it to Alfred Hitchock making a cameo in most of his own films. The stated reason…

The only Choose Your Own Adventure book I had was "Inside UFO 54-40". The objective was to reach the paradise planet called Ultima Thule. Looking through all the pages in the book, there was…

Following the current government's cutbacks to the state-run police, residents in one part of London (which is incidentally the "one of the safest ... seats in the United Kingdom"[0] fo…

I'd rather have state control over money than for-profit megacorps, especially one with such an appalling reputation as "They 'trust me', dumb f---s" F--ebook. This is one of …

Don't want to sound defeatist because I do think it is a good idea, but: The great thing about distributed social networking standards is that there are so many different ones to choose from[0]. …

One of the most exciting and transformative things about the world wide web at first was the concept of "disintermediation", i.e. that small independent shops could reach out directly to cus…

Decentralised blockchain-based solutions either can't scale or aren't secure[0]. There may be some other more viable ways of (re-)decentralising the web though, e.g. Solid[1]. The problem I …

13 square boxes on Linux detracts from the effect somewhat.

I think chrisco255 is saying Basis and DAI aren't one of the stablecoins backed by actual fiat. I believe there are 4 sorts of stablecoins: - Ones backed by fiat, or allegedly backed by fiat[0]. …

Maker DAI is one of the asset backed stablecoins (in this case the asset is still in crypto - there are other stablecoins where the asset is outside of the crypto sphere). What made Basis really inter…

If I've read it correctly the article is saying the percentage of instances per age group have decreased over time, but to your point if there are more people reaching those age groups the total…

> 'I'd think a billionaire with $1 million worth of cryptocurrency would be less incentivized than someone with no other "wealth" but $10k worth of cryptocurrency.' Preci…

> 'what you're left with is "rewards early adopters" and "makes new subunits" and that... is a pretty ordinary startup.' While you could argue that a startup an…

>Who is debating this? It seems pretty straightforward that creating new coins is inflationary. It is enabling coins within a fixed supply of 21M - this is not the same as creating new coins with…

1. There's nothing at the code and protocol level about sustaining the price, but at the human level the early adopters (i.e. the 4% owning 97% of assets) are incentivised to try to sustain or in…

If I were to describe a scheme that disproportionately rewards early adopters[0] and requires a constant addition of new adopters just to sustain the price[1] - would an ordinary reasonable person[2] …