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0xFreebieon "Why does Rice play Texas?"

A short history of JFK's question

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/27581541/wh...

0xFreebieon Why Not Signal?

For me, this sounded reasonable after Snowden and especially Crypto AG. For those unaware:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/national-...

Or more recently RSA:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-DGB-31580

0xFreebieon Bitcoin consumes 2nd highest electricity per capita

The other amazing thing in that tweet is that Norway uses more energy per capita than the next three countries combined? Double the USA? What is the explanation there?

0xFreebieon Ask HN: Is there a point to HN points?

The charitable answer is to crowdsource the ordering of links and comments. The cynical answer is to amplify the echo chamber.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

0xFreebieon Let's declare war on these tired military metaphors (2010)

Fire away at Those Military Metaphors - WSJ (2015)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/fire-away-at-those-military-met...

https://archive.is/TzO9x