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"being tough on Russia" is very far from "aggressively rallying for war with Russia".

"Shadow DOM" has the wrong description, I think: "Web Components is a suite of different technologies allowing you to create reusable custom elements — with their functionality encapsulated away from the rest of your code — and utilize them in your web apps."

Except his autism spectrum disorder isn't going to get better.

This poll only had about 400 self-selected participants. That doesn't make for reliable numbers at all.

The book by DFW sounds interesting, but all I could find is "Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity". Is that it?

Ugly and somewhat reminiscient of the early 2000s

Worth the read, but the first pic is not for the faint of heart - just a warning.

Sometimes Hacker News feels like a really cold place. Today is one of those days - and the tone of this discussion is why I'm shuddering.

Please tell me that you at least so much as hesitated an instant before you typed "embryo hacking", please?

Watch the series "Dollhouse" for a similar topic. Bonus: It's by Joss Whedon, so you should watch it anyway! ;-)

It is called DNS in German, with the S standing for "Säure" (acid).

The world has changed significantly since the 70ies, when such a moratorium worked. I don't think that it would in today's world, where information is more free than ever.

This is not what they want to be good at, because human-to-human interaction doesn't scale.