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> What service doesn't let you outright buy the modem? I suspect many (most?) people may not know they can buy their own modem. Internet providers don't typically advertise that fact, si…

Very interesting, thanks for posting the link. I saw a minor typo, but couldn't find an email address for you, so posting here in the hope you see it. In the first paragraph of the addendum you h…

> While I like it, this isn't the title of the linked article. The current post title "What Time Looks Like to Philip Glass" is the web page title, though it's not the in-page …

It depends a bit on my mood, but I generally switch between a zim[0] wiki and plain text / markdown files written in vim. [0] http://zim-wiki.org/ …

> Wow. 1,959 detections out of 10^21 interactions. And they talk about statistical significance. In any other field that is so close to zero you would ignore the results. 1959/1e21 is not the…

> Running a ride sharing service and charging ${WHATEVER} is also not a human right. Did you really wanted invoke this argument? I think it should be permissible to ask ${WHATEVER}, as long as the…

Some comments from 2 years ago when this was previously posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11983716 …

> The side effects of there not being any undetected and unprosecuted crime would be fascinating. The book "Liars and Outliers" addresses this question some, at least in broad hypothetica…

The downside of doing so is that it still gives plenty of time to cancel the changes at year 12 or 16, once it becomes apparent who will stand to benefit/lose from the change. This type of hackin…

Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17173051

I didn't see the mobi format listed, but pandoc can create eBooks from TeX source: https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html https://pandoc.org/epub.html …

> The link goes to the text version of npr.org main page, not the article. For me the link @rhn_mk1 posted goes directly to a text version of the article on sharks.

They even sell an APL keycap set: http://www.pckeyboard.com/page/product/USAPLSET …

> The redirect goes to the main page if the "disagree" to tracking link is clicked. Interesting, are you in the EU? I was never shown a dialog about tracking or an agree/disagree lin…

And the preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.09223

> we have buses and planes that can do the same thing as this train[...]without tax dollars to construct or maintain. Tax dollars pay for road construction and maintenance. Tax dollars also subsidi…

I remember feeling the same way. The website is back now though: http://www.l0pht.com/ However the front page hasn't been updated since 2015.…

Assuming this was intended to link to the most recent post, there's already lots of discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17132939 …