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Comment · 9 days ago

Recently my friend paid attention to a statue of a man near his apartment he had passed for years. The story is behind this person is worthy of a movie, he’s like a character in a Pynchon novel:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Houghton

https://youtu.be/0MWnSKDsURg

Comment · 10 days ago

> TIL that filtering is on by default on the standard resolver (9.9.9.9).

Their offering is explained in the first paragraph of the home page, in fact the h1 and page title cover it.

Comment · 1 month ago

There are a lot of stupid things being said on hackernews these days. This one wins today.

Comment · 1 month ago

Why have a technician at all? And without the six warehouse workers and one technician, why do you need the robots, the robotics company, or the companies paying the robotics company for the robots?

Comment · 1 month ago

This and Elevator of the Year on the front page, it feels like the good old days of HN! Everything about this site, starting with the domain name, is so matter of fact. It’s fantastic.

Comment · 3 months ago

I loved Syndicate, but I never beat it. There was a mechanic I couldn’t figure out that caused my whole operation to fall apart after a certain amount of time.

Comment · 4 months ago

There is no need to “bring back” forums, there are plenty that already exist. You just need to participate in them if that’s what you want.

Comment · 4 months ago

This analogy makes absolutely no sense.

Comment · 5 months ago

> vacuous empty comments > saying sweet nothings > empty puffery

By definition the only ad-hominem comments to be seen anywhere above.

Comment · 5 months ago

If a hammer had a chat interface that said everything was a nail then the answer would be yes, the hammer lies to you about everything being a nail.

Comment · 7 months ago

'Trivers said Epstein is a person of integrity who should be given credit for serving time in prison and for settling civil lawsuits brought by women who said they were abused.

"Did he get an easy deal? Did he buy himself a light sentence? Well, yes, probably, compared to what you or I would get, but he did get locked up," Trivers said. He said he got about $40,000 from Epstein to study the relationship between knee symmetry and sprinting ability.

Trivers also said he believes girls mature earlier than in the past. "By the time they're 14 or 15, they're like grown women were 60 years ago, so I don't see these acts as so heinous," he said.'

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-epstein-charity-idUSKBN0L...

Comment · 7 months ago

Comment · 7 months ago

Nothing in there about network states, taking over areas of the city and putting people in special coloured shirts to mark them as outsiders and then booting them out, etc

Comment · 7 months ago

> If the past year has taught us anything, it’s that the US can’t really be seen as the “good guys” in such a simple way.

More like the past 200 years. America have never been the "good guys", and it is only Americans who seem to think they ever were.