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> (specifically the lower segment) is surprisingly opposed to social protections They are already in a weak social position and were taught that asking for any kind of protection or assistance is a bad thing. The last thing you want whe
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> you realize you burned two precious decades accumulating money that, honestly, does not help you at all make sense or use of the next two You are describing some extreme case of money chasing and/or complete ignorance to everythin
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But what kind of inspection and registration prevent a ship from minding its own business in any Baltic port, say Sankt Petersburg, and then just drag an anchor across some of the cables on its way out or to any other Baltic port? The whole
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> the panspermia hypothisis is correct What I don't understand is why would chirality and panspermia be so tightly linked. The data right now still leaves every option on the table just because having any ratio of chiral molecules d
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They don't need to sail through territorial waters. The Baltic is a shallow sea (~55m deep on average, 460m at the deepest point) and an anchor chain can be 200-300m long. So dragging an anchor on the bottom of shallow international wa
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If this is the reference for the definition of a Ponzi scheme then the pension system in general is a Ponzi scheme by design and immigration is not "turning" it into one like OP said. But I don't really agree this is the appr
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As a matter of personal character, the people who would be more likely to stand up and shout or protest vigorously in today’s situation are the people which society generally considers obnoxious and disruptive. So in each workplace most wer
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The are a few more things in the equation. Median age in the UK is ~40 while most immigration is from countries with medians in their 20s. Those families are more likely to have more children especially if they reach a stable and comfortabl
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> *Unless you're willing to spend $10,000+ OP is comparing photography tech that made it to the Moon, so not cheap tech. The "special" way the photos look like is probably more a product of the environment than just the eq
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> The US, while hardly benign, have not orchestrated multiples of "largest attack in history" You must be using a very personal interpretation of what "largest attack in history" is. The US is literally the owner an
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House costs are close to nothing for a billionaire. And for the billionaires who are breaking the country's bones so they can shape everything to fit their interests the payoff is so great that a house (or 1000) is nothing.
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If I read 98% of your comment I might draw a pretty accurate conclusion based on the absence of something in it. But if I read just 2% any conclusion I draw is whatever I want to read in the tea leaves. Do you think we investigated closer t
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> Well because you can remove all of this for the inspection and then put it back on after, even if we ignore straight up bribery to pass the test I'm not talking (only) about after market modding, rolling coal, or xenon upgrades bu
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People who skip the regular maintenance either don't understand the outsized impact it will have on long term reliability and the eventual costs, or they do but they have more pressing matters to address with that money. > In genera
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It does sound a bit like the famous "military grade encryption" and it's equally (ab)used by snake oil salesmen. I can't say anything about TutaCrypt's long-term effectiveness except that CRYSTALS-Kyber is touted as
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No matter how it’s formulated it looks exactly like the “opt-out” everyone on HN hates when it’s done to them. It’s effective so it’s great when it works for you not against you.
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Their point is that they are not.
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> a MSI Trident This is diverging quite a bit from "a smart TV replacement". Especially if Steam is a requirement. The gaming PC you have there is probably exactly the combination you want. But for most others it's the com
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> with a bluetooth keyboard that also has a touchpad Different strokes for different folks, having to use a keyboard to control my TV is for me one of those usability compromises I preferred to avoid. It's probably related to how I
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> Get a used mini-pc, install Linux on it As someone who tried that route I'd strongly recommend against it for anyone who isn't core HN audience or just loves tinkering. You're much better off with an Apple TV or an Nvidi
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> which is why children tend to get bored much more quickly than adults, because waiting for ten minutes constitutes a much larger percentage of their current experienced life compared to that of an adult's proportion I think boredo
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> The worst thing which can happen is that there is some misunderstanding and you are delayed a bit Even so, the little things alone can ruin the experience, before adding the big ones. Maybe it's a busy day at the airport and you&#
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> here was a RTO push in the wake of COVID, but its stalled since 2023, and the amount of workers returning to office has been flat Presumably because a lot of the push for full RTO was just a means for companies to implement layoffs wit
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The second icebreaker pictured right below the snowmobile picture was commissioned in 1989 so it's there just for illustrative purpose?
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Aren’t soldiers just that? Governments sanctioned killers? The only “guideline” is that the victim must be the “enemy”. Just that the definition of “enemy” is vague and arbitrary, enough that it can mean anything needed at any time. Being g
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I agree with the sentiment but keep in mind that being able to do that is a luxury, not the baseline. Too many people in the world, very developed countries included, have to take decisions based exclusively on their finances, having no m
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> Generally this is frowned upon in the West. India and Vietnam wouldn't tolerate it either Yes, "frowned upon" is the perfectly realistic way to describe it. Dior was just caught using slave labor including illegal immigr
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For either option you can trace the intention of the definitions to "was it a human coding the decision or not". Did a human decide the branches of the literal or figurative "if"? The distinction is accountability. Deter
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> An Eastern European solution Made me chuckle. Funny 'cause it's true. About the trolley problem, if taken literally (people on tracks, etc.) pulling the lever exposes you to liability: you operated a mechanism you weren'
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> the trolley problem isn’t about really people My actual words quoted below give one extra detail that makes all the difference, one that I see people silently dropped in a rush to reply. The words were aimed at someone taking these pro

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