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Cars suck, man
What better way to start off the new year than with a little rant.
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The most popular blog posts about society, policy & culture on Hacker News. 694 posts.
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Browsing negative content online makes mental health struggles worse: Study
People struggling with their mental health are more likely to browse negative content online, and in turn, that negative content makes their symptoms worse, according to a series of studies by researchers at MIT.
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Learn to Read Korean in 15 Minutes
Want to learn more? Learn To Count to a Billion in Korean in 15 Minutes ! Or Learn to Read Russian in 15 Minutes !
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100% User-Supported
If you want to build principled software, avoid becoming VCware. Stay user-supported. It is now possible for tiny teams to build principled software that mil...
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Jerk
If you’d like, you can listen to an audio version of this page. It includes all the contextually relevant bits of music, and a few ad libs not included in the text. But it doesn’t include the links and images, naturally.
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Are We Watching the Internet Die?
Sometime this month, Reddit will go public at a valuation of $6.5bn. Select Redditors were offered the chance to buy stock at the initial listing price, which it hasn’t announced yet but is expected to be in the range of $31-34 per share. Regardless of the actual
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Findaway's new terms of service are unacceptable
When Findaway Voices first appeared, it made it comparatively easy for independent authors to do audiobooks. Audio was still hard, mind you, but it was possible.
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DEA Accepts Health Agency's Recommendation to Reclassify Cannabis
Determination must be reviewed by the White House Office of Management and Budget
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Our muscles will atrophy as we climb the Kardashev Scale
If you like this, you might also like my Instagram channel Nerd on Bars @nerdonbars where I calculate the power output of various athletes and myself.
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Mass timber is great, but it will not solve the housing shortage
A short policy memo recently posted on the Federation of American Scientists’ (FAS) website argues that “mass timber can help solve the housing shortage.” It was posted as part of the Housing Ideas Challenge, a collaboration between FAS, Matt Yglesias and a few other organizations to generate new, innovative ideas for…
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EFF to Ninth Circuit: No Software Exception to Traditional Copyright Limits
Copyright’s reach is already far too broad, and courts have no business expanding it any further, particularly where that reframing will undermine adversarial interoperability. Unfortunately, a federal district court did just that in the latest iteration of Oracle v. Rimini, concluding that...
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85% of People Want Global Ban on Single-Use Plastics
An Ipsos poll finds overwhelming global support for banning harmful plastics and chemicals, with 87% backing reduced plastic production worldwide.
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What if they gave an Industrial Revolution and nobody came? (2023)
The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective, by Robert Allen
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Research in psychology: are we learning anything?
OR: The mystery of the televised salad
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How long does music stardom last? A statistical analysis
When do music stars achieve fame, and how long does fame typically last?
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The epidemic of fraudulent DMCA takedowns
There’s an enormous and largely invisible campaign to use fraudulent notices under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act to remove critical articles from the internet. We don’t know who is running…
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It's Time to Nationalize and Then Break Up Boeing
If America wants to make civilian airplanes here, the government must step in, take over Boeing, and then design a competitive industry.
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Anti-municipal broadband budget amendment gets nixed in New York
Advocates for better Internet access are breathing a sigh of relief in New York as the State Assembly nixed a budget bill amendment that would have undermined the state’s municipal broadband grant program.
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Anatomy of an internet argument
Social media isn't toxic, most people just haven't figured out the game (yet)
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What Happens When a Fifteen Year Old Pumps and Dumps with a Net Profit of $800k? (2002)
Ranked among the best in the U.S., Illinois Tech empowers students with hands-on learning, diverse programs, and a high career-placement rate. Elevate your
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A science fiction obsession led me to psychological war
I've spent the past three years researching and writing a book about the history of psychological warfare in the United States. It’s called Stories Are...
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Why everything is becoming a game
All the better to control you
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VCard and RSS as an alternative to social media
Last year after talking for a while with someone during a conference they asked me for my LinkedIn to be able to connect with me, to which I answered I didn't have one.
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YouTube video embedding harm reduction
Personal blog of Julien (jvoisin) Voisin
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A journey into Kindle AI slop hell
A journey into Kindle A.I. slop hell with Leah Beckmann
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X redesigns water pistol emoji back to a firearm
X (fka Twitter) has quietly redesigned its 🔫 Water Pistol emoji to display as a firearm. This diverges from the cross-platform conversion of this emoji from firearm to water pistol from 2016 to 2018.