BayAreaEscapee

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by BayAreaEscapee 5y ago
There was recently an interesting movie called "The Sound of Metal" [1] about a drummer who lost his hearing. He tried to live with it and eventually decided to get a cochlear implant. I don't think it was based on a true s
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by BayAreaEscapee 5y ago
Duplicate https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30030454
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The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet (2019)(blog.haschek.at)
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China looks to the Western classics Society and Culture(supchina.com)
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Fail of the Week: A Candle Caused Browns Ferry Nuclear Incident (2018)(hackaday.com)
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Americans Reading Fewer Books Than in Past(news.gallup.com)
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Rushing Headlong Into Electrification, We Replace One Energy Master with Another(aheadoftheherd.com)
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A man who runs a moist towelette museum out of a planetarium(cbc.ca)
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by BayAreaEscapee 5y ago
I like and use Signal, and it's really taken off in the past couple of years. But integrating crypto makes me nervous. It seems like they are likely to come under regulatory attack from regimes that don't like crypto. Signal&#x2
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Israeli scientists train goldfish to steer car around room(timesofisrael.com)
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by BayAreaEscapee 5y ago
> 95% of people I talked to were non-technical. Many were actively searching for a technical co-founder or early engineer. I’m convinced that me being technical is the single biggest contributor to the high response rate. That would be
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by BayAreaEscapee 5y ago
I'm not the parent, but I'm an American who has been living abroad for ten years. The banks know where the commercial mailing/forwarding services are. They somehow keep a database of them. They're fine with you using a
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Hong Kong pro-democracy news site closes after raid, arrests(apnews.com)
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by BayAreaEscapee 5y ago
The EFF really makes a contribution to the world way out of size with their budget. The EFF's budget in 2019 was only $10 million dollars. Kudos for them. https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/cor/04309143
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Child calling Santa reached NORAD instead. Christmas was never the same (2018)(washingtonpost.com)
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by BayAreaEscapee 5y ago
One of the things that surprises me about the EFF is how much good they do with a modest budget. Their budget for 2020 was only $10.8M dollars. [1] [1] https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/cor/043091431_202006_
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by BayAreaEscapee 5y ago
I will second nearlyfreespeech.net. I like the old-school user interface, and the customer support people really know what they're doing.
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The return of the 10-minute eviction(washingtonpost.com)
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‘15 minutes to save the world’: a terrifying VR journey into the nuclear bunker(theguardian.com)
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New Zealand Man Reportedly Paid to Get Up to 10 Covid Vaccines in One Day(mediaite.com)
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by BayAreaEscapee 5y ago
Reddit gets bashed here from time to time, and for good reason. But there are great subreddits. (pro tip: none of them are the default subreddits.) If you want to go discuss controversial topics, reddit is like being in a room of screaming
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by BayAreaEscapee 5y ago
Well, everybody is going to die, and therefore have some kind of end-of-life healthcare cost. If it isn't lung cancer from smoking, then it will be heart disease or Alzheimer's or some other form of cancer.
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by BayAreaEscapee 5y ago
Normally, WSJ is behind an annoying paywall. But at the moment, the whole thing is down! I've been trying to read this page for twenty minutes and I keep getting a 503 error. Perhaps WSJ is hosting on AWS, which is partially down: ht
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by BayAreaEscapee 5y ago
If you move your mouse cursor over on top of the graph on economist.com, you can see that there is a bubble representing SF. Like the parent comment, I was also surprised that LA was considered more expensive than SF.
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by BayAreaEscapee 5y ago
^ this is a good answer. I got an engineering degree but I rarely hung out with the other STEM majors. I hung out with English, philosophy, and other non-STEM people. I also got involved in some other non-STEM related campus organizations
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by BayAreaEscapee 5y ago
There's no actual argument in this article. His whole argument is "The title and subheading say it all, really." tl;dr: man with straw man argument knocks down straw man
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There’s More Than One Way to Make Stablecoins Safe(aier.org)
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by BayAreaEscapee 5y ago
Imagine what a train wreck that could be. You just know that some Fortune 500 is going to have someone steal their private keys proving domain ownership. Bankofamerica.com now belongs to a hacker in Tver, Russia? Blockchains are a great i
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by BayAreaEscapee 5y ago
It seems to me that this is an uphill battle seeing how quickly additive metal printing is going. With each year it's getting easier for an amateur to make their own effective firearm from scratch and and a design downloaded from the
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by BayAreaEscapee 5y ago
I understand that discussion about voting is disliked on HN. But I didn't see or notice the joke until geoduck14's "FOOTage!" comment pointed it out. WOOSH!

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