helterskelter

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by helterskelter 2mo ago
Some people speculate that the USA gained control of Oregon country in large part because Canadians/Brits trading in beaver furs had to send all their pelts back to the UK before they could go out to the rest of the world. America just
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by helterskelter 2mo ago
I like the idea of a shorter character limit as it nudges users to a specific mode of interaction: short thoughts/updates and not long-winded soliloquies. It's signalling that interaction with this platform doesn't demand muc
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by helterskelter 2mo ago
2036 crime prevention, detecting this behaviour and automatically forwarding it to the police to be referenced later for probable cause.
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by helterskelter 2mo ago
I've managed to run Linux just about exclusively since probably just before I was a teen in the early 2000's. I think I bought Red Hat 8 or 9 or something like that at CompUSA on a whim and proceeded to call customer support to ge
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by helterskelter 2mo ago
The greatest rec of all was seeing the NSA crying about tor in the Snowden docs. Doesn't get any better than that.
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Dymaxion Car(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by helterskelter 2mo ago|0 comments
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by helterskelter 2mo ago
A secure browser that loads an ad doesn't prevent you from being surveilled. Tor mitigates this to a large degree but doesn't entirely eliminate it. The only real solution is to block ads altogether. This is a silly distinction an
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Yume Nikki(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by helterskelter 2mo ago|0 comments
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Not Beyond the Shoe(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by helterskelter 2mo ago|0 comments
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by helterskelter 2mo ago
There are two books people ITT may be interested in: How to Read a Book (a classic that everyone should read), and Make It Stick . The latter goes over the current state of learning research and it's helped me out, but both of them
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by helterskelter 2mo ago
NetBSD is the only nix I've ever been able to use for novel (for me) tasks without consulting the internet for help; the design is so clean and the documentation complete that I never felt the need for outside help. I love the package
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by helterskelter 2mo ago
Go through the SE comments on this recipe. The amount of fish sauce makes the broth smell like asshole. I recall several Vietnamese scratching their heads over it. I love fish sauce, but Kenji went nose blind to it or something.
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by helterskelter 2mo ago
Oh man the the amount of fish sauce he wants you put in this will ruin it. Add a teaspoon or a tablespoon or something, but not 1/4 cup. The first time I made it I nearly threw it out.
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by helterskelter 2mo ago
Great way to tank a brand. Part of BMW's value is/was the expectation of an upper middle class snob driving it, but having your car force ads on you is something people wouldn't even expect from a Kia Soul leased off a used l
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by helterskelter 2mo ago
Huh, yeah you're right. I swear I remember hearing about this on an NPR radio piece about how police really don't need to do anything to protect you.
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by helterskelter 2mo ago
Taxpayers will just foot the bill. These cops need their personal funds taken, and before they blow it all on legal bills defending themselves from criminal charges. Come to think of it, this is America dammit. Cops should be licensed, bond
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by helterskelter 2mo ago
IIRC "To serve and protect" was originally from a movie. Cops don't have a duty to protect you, and there in fact many cases of a cop not intervening during a violent crime due to concerns for their own safety, even when the
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by helterskelter 2mo ago
I certainly don't believe everything should be based on essentials, but when very little growth is from honest to god innovation which produces more or better of something, and isn't valued based solely on its anticipated future r
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by helterskelter 2mo ago
Perhaps by some measure, but what I'm referring to is how everything is becoming a fly by night scam-adjacent "product" that isn't much better than Alibaba drop shipping.
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by helterskelter 2mo ago
Ie, a junk economy. None of this produces value, if anything it's parasitic.
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by helterskelter 2mo ago
I got selected as juror once just hoping to laugh at anything the cops said on the witness stand and let some poor soul go free but it turns out the defendant was just a violent scumbag who stabbed random people in public, and there was a
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by helterskelter 2mo ago
Local politicians need to coordinate to remove their Flock cameras at the same time and pass laws to prevent any new one from being put up. Flock doesn't have the resources to sue every single one of them, especially if every city comm
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by helterskelter 2mo ago
Forgot to add, there was one customs officer in $SMALLCOUNTRY who used to take bribes from somebody I knew, but was transferred to the taxation department. The person I knew died, but I found out through one of his coworkers that the former
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by helterskelter 2mo ago
Once you get outside the first world brides seem to be the norm -- every person I know who does international work has a story about having to bride somebody, especially if you need to get something through customs quickly, or at all. It&#x
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by helterskelter 2mo ago
I read about it here originally: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48243666 I haven't read into it much but I believe the circular breathing excercises strengthen some of the muscles that tend to relax during sleep
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by helterskelter 2mo ago
"What is this, a didgeridoo for ants? But seriously, yeah pretty much, usually with some beeswax on one end.
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by helterskelter 2mo ago
Yeah I was expecting somebody to build a gif by hand from the spec using ed.
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by helterskelter 2mo ago
For sleep apnea you may look into playing the didgeridoo for 30 minutes a day. The circular breathing every day really improve people's symptoms, and I've heard you see results after a few weeks or months. I'm in the middle o
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by helterskelter 2mo ago
HN rules are slightly bendy and not blindly applied. Things are generally okay if it's within the realm of good taste and judgement. For instance, I've seen plenty of submissions which were retitled, like a news story which had a
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by helterskelter 2mo ago
Franklin also invented the lightning rod, something which we take for granted these days.

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