hudibras

If you have a VR setup and you haven't tried either IL-2 Sturmovik (for WW2) or DCS World (for modern jets and helicopters), you're missing out. You can even try out DCS World for free, with two planes.

For a high-traffic train, you need to have someone manually open and close the doors. You can't use automatic doors like on an elevator because someone will invariably keep them from shutting, either on purpose or by accident.

* Cryptocurrency

* Fiat currency

* Economics is not a real science

* I understand what the author is trying to say, but I don't like how he says it

* I didn't read the piece, but website that published it is problematic

* The title is clickbait, and I'm unaware of the concept of newspaper headlines

Here's the paragraph that's making everyone mad:

Like the student and other forms of personal debt that prepare undergraduates to say two words—“Yes, boss”—the ideal of the entrepreneurial self serves a fundamentally disciplinary function: reinforcing the precarious nature of work in today’s digitalized, low-wage, precariously employed, and increasingly automated capitalism, one in which you are casually expendable and which places a premium on everlasting metamorphosis: upgrade your skills, your profile, your resume. But don’t worry, complain, or God help you, call a union: losing your job or seeing your skill set rendered obsolescent is an opportunity for “growth,” creativity, empowerment. When your own exploitation can be recast as a project rather than a problem—a source of fulfillment rather than an instance of injustice—then solidarity with others can be vilified as conformism, the herd instinct of normies, the last refuge of losers and mediocrities.

the article would be inaccessible to many due to being steeped in elitism.

Inaccessible to who exactly?

If you don't understand what the speaker is trying to say, then there's no need for you waste our time with a comment letting us all know that.

In every HN comment section, there's always, 100% of the time, at least one person who only reads the title of the piece (in this case, a song lyric from The Verve) and still has the nerve to post a comment.

No way in hell I'm clicking that link.

Ultimately, that's what made them stop: somebody (or most likely, three somebodies) was going to get killed.

Every HN submission from a real news source (newspaper, CNN, whatever) will always have at least one commenter complaining about the link title being click-baity, as if they've never before seen or heard of what is known as a "headline."

It's getting tiresome.

A good rule of thumb is to never believe it when a company or industry says they have razor-thin margins.

If you hover your mouse cursor over the underlined words in the article (these are called 'hyperlinks' or, more informally, 'links') and then hit the left mouse button, your World Wide Web browser will display other documents which ProPublica used for their reporting.

Luckily, none of it is true. Or at least a gross exaggeration. As one example, yes, many untouchables didn't support him (there were 300 million people living in India then), but many more did.

He was against giving his wife penicillin to safe her life for religious reasons and she died.

This is one of those debunked smears that instantly disqualifies whatever else the speaker says. We're talking Elders-of-Zion level smear.

(This is where somebody will post as a source the Commentary article from 1983, where the author hears this from somebody at a cocktail party who heard it from someone else.)

Putting a link to the "Lykov Family" Wikipedia page in the middle of this article is just plain evil; I'm trying to get some work done here!

I called it.

But he never made a dollar illegally.

Blackmail is illegal, by the way.

Ito will be gone within 24 hours, I guarantee it. And I wouldn't be surprised if the entire Media Lab is shut down by the end of the week.

Epstein, a convicted and admitted pedophile, got MIT Media Lab kowtowing to him.

That same order from June 2000 included five other books and one Sega Dreamcast game (Grand Theft Auto 2), so they must have had a few non-book departments back then.

I'm so old I bought this when it was published in paperback.

https://www.amazon.com/Beginning-was-Command-Line/dp/0380815...

Edit: Amazon informs me that I purchased it on 19 June 2000.

The headline on that magazine cover is pretty evil: "Kris Kristofferson's Miracle Recovery from Alzheimer's Diagnosis"

This must be the most American thing ever.

Guys, who's going to be the one to tell him?

My feelings exactly. Depressing to see so many smart people here on HN saying "We need to do something about climate change!" But then when a presidential candidate rolls out an ambitious, comprehensive, soup-to-nuts proposal that fixes the problem, they say "No, not like that!"

But I suspected it was basically just planting N trees to offset the carbon emission.

No, this is not what happens. Check Wikipedia for "carbon offset" and "carbon credit" to learn more.

The whole point of VTSAX is that you don't have to worry about how well any one company does.

I just checked (I have the episode recorded) and they didn't actually talk about staplers, sorry. If it's any consolation, my "Cool Japan" recommendation is the Harinacs stapleless stapler.

https://www.amazon.com/Kokuyo-Harinacs-Stapleless-Ten-sheet-...

I watched a TV program here in Japan a couple weeks ago where the panelists were all senior executives from stationery companies. The executives were asked about, in various categories (pens, paper, staplers, etc.), which of their competitors had the best product. For scissors, they all raved about the Plus Fitcut Curve (mentioned in the article). They are the best scissors you can buy for less than 10 dollars.

https://www.amazon.com/Plus-Curve-Scissors-Large-35060/dp/B0...

To wit:

https://www.mizutani-scissors.com/en/

If you're in the market for a $900 hair shear.

Up in the Air is her biggest movie. Nominated for an Oscar.