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24 votes
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Jo Nesbø: ‘We should talk about violence against women’
4 votes -
HTML attributes to improve your users' two factor authentication experience
9 votes -
Billions of medical images available online
10 votes -
What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them?
What have you been playing lately? Discussion about video games and board games are both welcome. Please don't just make a list of titles, give some thoughts about the game(s) as well.
19 votes -
Four reasons why millennials don't have any money with Robert Reich
9 votes -
William Gibson, the writer who invented ‘cyberspace’ – and possibly the most influential living sci-fi author – on the challenges of keeping up with a reality even stranger than fiction
16 votes -
Guillaume Laffon landing Air France Flight 334 (Boeing 777) into Logan International Airport (BOS)
8 votes -
The other swing voter
9 votes -
The women of 'The Witcher' get their due
10 votes -
California bill would penalize doctors for performing virginity tests on women
10 votes -
Taiwan re-elects President Tsai Ing-wen in landslide victory, signaling strong support for her tough stance against China
15 votes -
A scandal in Oxford: The curious case of the stolen gospel
7 votes -
The Dogma of Otherness (1986)
6 votes -
2020 Vision: The Witcher 2 - RED engine analysis and performance on modern PC hardware
4 votes -
Hackers are breaking directly into telecom companies to take over customer phone numbers
10 votes -
TV Tuesdays Free Talk
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here. Please just try to provide fair warning of...
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
7 votes -
Free-of-charge public transport isn't free, Finnish experts say
12 votes -
Echoes of the City by Lars Saabye Christensen review – sacrifice and strength in postwar Oslo
5 votes -
Fitness Weekly Discussion
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started...
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started a new diet or have a new recipe you want to share? Anything else health and wellness related?
11 votes -
Infinity Train - Book Two | Official trailer
4 votes -
How to render 3D fractals using ray marching
5 votes -
Norway opens its doors to six hundred people evacuated from Libya to Rwanda
9 votes -
IBM’s lithium-ion battery uses seawater materials instead of heavy metals, charges in just five minutes
12 votes -
Do we have any knife enthusiasts on here?
I’m a spyderco guy
11 votes -
A better boyfriend experience: A small but growing number of men doing sex work are catering to women clients by taking consent, gender equality, and emotional labor seriously
18 votes -
Stable lithium-sulfur battery could see smartphones run for five days
6 votes -
How the US helped create El Salvador’s bloody gang war
5 votes -
African grey parrots are the first bird species to pass a test that requires them both to understand when another animal needs help and to actually give assistance
15 votes -
LA-area residents flock to Taiwan to vote in ‘do or die’ presidential election
12 votes -
Can there be a 'new comments only' sort for people who toggled 'mark new comments' on?
As someone comes to this site a lot and has toggled this feature on, a sort that shows only the threads where new comments have been posted since I last left would be great so I don't need to...
As someone comes to this site a lot and has toggled this feature on, a sort that shows only the threads where new comments have been posted since I last left would be great so I don't need to scroll down the homepage anxiously looking for new comments on the topics I like.
8 votes -
MIT has released the results of the review of the university's interactions with Jeffrey Epstein
6 votes -
GM will resurrect the Hummer name on an all-electric pickup truck to be sold under the GMC brand
4 votes -
Suggestions for a Starter Synth?
I feel like I have gotten as far as I can playing around with my keyboard and LMMS, so I was wondering if anyone here has any recommendations for a synth that I could start out with. As much as I...
I feel like I have gotten as far as I can playing around with my keyboard and LMMS, so I was wondering if anyone here has any recommendations for a synth that I could start out with. As much as I really want to buy a OP-1 or OP-Z I don't think I can justify it just yet. I would like something in the style of the OP-1 or OP-Z, i.e. quite small, with they keys laid out like a piano, and controls for modifying the sound on the synth, although it doesn't need an included sequencer. I'm also pretty open to drum machine ideas, just have never really played around with them at all. My budget is like $200 max.
10 votes -
Neil Peart drum solo - Rush live in Frankfurt (2013)
8 votes -
The ecological devastation of the Victorian bushfires has been laid bare in a leaked report which warns some species are likely to already be extinct
4 votes -
The invisible art of game titles
6 votes -
Mattress maker Casper files for IPO
6 votes -
Farmers are buying forty-year-old tractors because they're actually repairable
21 votes -
Seattle police officer contributed to man’s death with ruse that ‘shocked the conscience,’ investigation finds
9 votes -
UK Ministry of Defence buildings lit up in rainbow colours
5 votes -
CES 2020 summary: Pork, driverless cars, new wearable sensors, folding computers, integrated tech
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OldTimeyComputerShow: 24/7 of retro computer and gaming tv programs
14 votes -
Are there any historical events, periods, figures or concepts that you find underrated?
My personal picks would be the whole of Chinese history between the opium wars and communist rule (or the century of humiliation as it is called), and most especially the warlord era, given that...
My personal picks would be the whole of Chinese history between the opium wars and communist rule (or the century of humiliation as it is called), and most especially the warlord era, given that this was effectively how European powers, Japan and many internal revolutionaries managed to bring down the greatest economy in the world to civil war and then total warlordism for 40 years. For a vague concept, my pick would be the great divergence, the period where the US and European nations rose above the rest of the world and became the predominant world powers and colonized most of it, along with the many potential causes of this.
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Wearable sleep trackers - recommendations?
Is there a good smartwatch/simile that monitors sleep and has excellent battery life (measured in weeks not hours)? I use the Withings (ex-Nokia) Steel HR, but it … kinda sucks. The bluetooth...
Is there a good smartwatch/simile that monitors sleep and has excellent battery life (measured in weeks not hours)?
I use the Withings (ex-Nokia) Steel HR, but it … kinda sucks. The bluetooth pairings very often lose sleep data, it's very inaccurate, the reporting sucks for non-24s, and the leather bracelet is of very poor quality, keeps breaking.
I really don't care for the fitness/step tracking which, as someone else here put it, thinks typing on a keyboard or eating is a step.
I also briefly tried an Oura (https://ouraring.com/), but I never got it to work and had to send it back.
I also don't care much for any of those "sleep quality" trackers that try to detect if I snore and what not. I can do sleep studies in my own time, I just want to have accurate stats on whether and when I am asleep.
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In The Tall Grass (2019) is…
… essentially Cube 2: Hypercube. It's even written and directed by Vincenzo Natali, the man behind Cube. I didn't dislike it, in fact I liked it. But seriously, am I the only one who noticed that?...
… essentially Cube 2: Hypercube. It's even written and directed by Vincenzo Natali, the man behind Cube. I didn't dislike it, in fact I liked it. But seriously, am I the only one who noticed that?
Also, Harrison Gilbertson has big Aaron Paul energy. Especially in the voice.
3 votes -
A New Electorate: Can the Bernie Sanders Campaign Alter the Course of the Democratic Party?
7 votes -
Jonathan Hultén - The Mountain (2020)
3 votes -
Apparently Samsung just put a removable battery in one of it's new phones
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Which books had a major influence in your formative years?
Following on from this post
14 votes