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Like in Philip K Dick's 1969 book Galactic Pot Healer.

Firstly, if you don't like Facebook, don't use it. I know I don't. Secondly, you can still find alternative views on the internet if you look. I know I looked prior to the referendum. U…

"There have been a number of EU nationals quoted in the media as being aggrieved by this, but in many cases they have lived here more than long enough to become citizens and not chosen to do so.…

See also "EU Referendum Rules Triggering a 2nd EU Referendum (petition.parliament.uk)" at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11975680 …

Apparently the Leave supporters were so distrustful of authority that they were taking pens to mark the ballot papers[0], so retrospectively changing the rules would be like trying to put out a fire b…

Here's my cold brew recipe. Note that this does create a very caffeinated brew, perhaps twice as strong as a normal espresso, so it is very easy to overdo it (one of the few times I've ever …

In my case I did see good examples set by my parents - although their frugality was a little too severe for my liking (they had come from poor backgrounds and grown up during wartime rationing), they …

If the DAO is "too big to fail", are Vitalik and the core dev team the equivalent of a "lender of last resort"[0]? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lender_of_…

I toyed with an idea a bit like that a few years back. The tokens would be denominated in your national currency (so no exchange rate volatility), could be bought or sold (in batches) for free (depend…

As a child I very much enjoyed watching Project Blue Book (called Project UFO in the US) [0]. As I remember the episodes, the investigators would often come up with a rational explanation for the even…

So are the "threats and intimidation that sometimes get physical" purely due to ice cream sales, or are there illicit goods also being sold from the vans (as per https://en.wikipe…

Thanks. That helps with my original question - how portable will this be? If it just needs a very small nuclear reactor with a tiny amount of fuel, then they should be able to have a power source &quo…

Might a bigger challenge be the power source? If each firing requires 25MW, then 1000 shells would require 25GW, which is equivalent to the output of several large nuclear power stations. Edit: Apolog…

Hyperloop Technologies is focussing on using it for cargo, at least at first until "the infrastructure is built and the kinks are worked out": https://news.ycombinator.com/it…

Money is a store of value, nothing more. Not quite: "Money's a matter of functions four, A Medium, a Measure, a Standard, a Store"

Back in the days when escalators were made of wood, often had piles of inflammable litter built up behind them, and still had smokers flicking their smoldering cigarette butts all over the place. Ther…

Crossrail is at 100 million working hours so far, with 10,000 people working across over 40 construction sites, according to http://www.crossrail.co.uk/news/crossrail-in-numbers …

If Craig Wright did indeed purchase the supercomputer which was placed at number 17 on the list of the world's fastest supercomputers in November 2015, perhaps its sole purpose was to do a collis…

There was a big discussion about the relative price of eBooks on HN recently at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11207209 . Points include (i) big publishing houses trying to prev…

I grew up in a small town in Scotland, and my mother was always going on about how terrible London was. So much so in fact that when I finished university I was looking for a job anywhere in the world…

Its not just the salaries, its the opportunities. There are just so many tech jobs available in London. And once you have a job, you have much more flexibility to change jobs without having to move ho…

The average time people in the UK spend commuting each day is 55 mins, with more than 3 million spending two or more hours and 880,000 people spending more than 3 hours each day[0]. In London the aver…

Light tubes [0] (or sun pipes) are fairly established ways of transporting natural light, although I suspect they would need modifications to feed multiple destinations. An alternative would be to hav…

I would think the betting odds should very quickly reflect the match results. In actual fact, the betting odds are sometimes updated before the broadcast results, thanks to bookmakers employing cour…