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Didn't you have to trade a hermit for the taper? I loved UU, but I was so young I could barely read. It is one of the most defining games of my life, for sure.

I use this service weekly and have had next to no issues for several months now. The quality is as good as my local grocer, although I still prefer to visit there for fresh meat or bakery items; the stuff you get online in terms of "fresh" isn't bad but it is much more expensive, I've found.

I've never been to a physical Whole Foods so I can't say if their quality has gone down as a result of this. My local grocer has a delivery service but I am too entrenched in Amazon to try it out.

The ability in these games to import a character from a prior game's save state was incredible and is something I haven't seen in games since. Unlocking the special character class for doing so (paladin) led to hidden cutscenes and choices. I would be happy with a modern game simply recognizing I played its prior installments with much less programming required.

QFGIV's official remastered soundtrack is out on Bandcamp. I would link it but I am not sure how without creating a mess. It's a treat for the new and nostalgic alike.

I almost bought into Imperfect Produce, too, what a bad taste in my mouth that would have left. Thanks for the good read.

Thank you for the recommendation for a Google Keep replacement, I've migrated over to standard notes.

In older versions of our client, you could click on a portion of our logo five times to get a small pop up image of our programming staff. It was an easter egg, and cost next to nothing to implement.

I hope they change their minds someday.

I was born in 1985 and just turned 30, and I've been in a monogamous relationship with someone I met online when I was 15 for five years living together now. I see others in our age group and they are as much broken as you suggest. A lot of them are selfish and in love with themselves or their narratives, but more are selfish for lack of agency in things; so many people are busy trying to make the basics meet, they don't give the time or energy to think of others as we push ourselves harder to make our personal dreams happen.

My entire presence online with different communities is one of charity and hope, and it's the most wholesome activity I participate in. The same feeling of spending time with friends in real life is the same I purport to have online, and I've seen more matches made among those same friends and strangers when everyone has, for a modern term, a chill place for netflix.

This is a remarkable idea. I could think of no one better, but then again, I haven't really thought about this sort of thing. Bias or no, if it wouldn't impede on what is clearly something we should consider a World Wonder, I would love to see Mr. Kahle fit the role.

He mentions a subreddit dedicated to no rules slowly but surely being taken over by the same kinds of rules lawyer-ing they were trying to escape.

I am so, so glad he mentioned this, because I have seen it happen to two, mid-way three, communities online where these exact societal issues work together only up until they really start to get to know one another, at which point they realize they're at odds. Sometimes it's a clear schism, but the ones that hurt the most are those that remain but are quite clearly forever changed in the favor of one side. It's almost as if they treat it as vindication and banishing a group of people for differences in opinion is, as I said, typically the antithesis of these groups.

My guess is that every online community suffers this sort of breakdown and reinvention if it lasts for more than a few years, but that social justice and other more "modern" ideologies are just the latest and most visible / tracked step in the greater phenomenon.

The internet brought us together, we struggle with that fact every day! :)

I spend at least a hundred dollars a month supporting various artist and musicians I enjoy or actively encourage to make a living doing what they love.

Patreon is doing very, very well for many people.

In a world where crowd sourced moderation is the norm, why they don't hire some dependable, low-paid college kids to help triage that amount of communication is so very strange to me. You do realize these people work for near "resume boost" only, right?

I suppose the biggest issue isn't in a 20-something intern being able to field thousands of words a day, but rather in trusting them not to leak anything or generally tow the line.

Personally, I hope voat.co focuses more on the community rather than the sum of a few corporate-bound individuals.

Sometimes these businesses work because of people like the OP, who shoulders the burden of a bad decision maker for years. We're celebrating one of our big company milestones and we're no different. The decision makers think we're here but by the grace of God sometimes. I say we're here but by the grace of Todd and his addiction to energy drinks.

This is amusing to me, since a good number of people believe it was definitely slaves, and 'definitely' the Jewish slaves mentioned in the bible.

I would have been overjoyed to learn that the pyramids were a stimulus program when I was a child.

"OK, Google" is perhaps the strangest thing to be so commonplace. It will sometimes interpret the shorttalk mumbling I have become accustom to when speaking to my siblings and will go on to loudly interject that it had no idea what I was trying to tell it.

The answer is nothing, google.

I've had friends lose jobs in Amazon warehouses over their aggressive research and development of an all-machine packaging line. They do work now that requires the precision of a human hand and eye, but that job may also go the way of the assembly line. His only hope is that custom carpentry's demand by rich celebrities wanting the "premium" afforded by the work of a Human over the static of a machine.

When I look back at people who invested their lives in the future of mankind, and their predictions in something like the year 1960, it's interesting to note just how incorrect they were. Communication boomed over transportation, for example. Knowing that, I try to think of the ways the future will be so impossibly different than my present. A world without work is one of those, and I hope it angers and confuses every currently living generation enough that we wish we would have made it a reality sooner.

I was born a hundred years after this was gifted to America. When I was young, about the same time my elementary school class could have been covering the importance of France as it related to American Independence, pop culture had decided that making fun of French people was cool. I grew up instilled with the idea that they were lazy, smelly, 'weird' people who never helped in any major wars. My parents said nothing about them, so it was entirely what I consumed as a watcher of television.

That kind of disturbing falsehood wouldn't be changed in me until I was much older, post-911 freedom-fries even.

So when did that all change? Did the Greatest Generation come back from the war and stop thinking about its former allies? I always looked up to the Statue of Liberty, and I was surprised to hear it was a gift from France (certainly not something I heard the first time I saw it).

The fact that "Paypal Credit" is my default payment choice bothers me to no end. If you explicitly select anything else, it demands you log in even after logging in on most sites.

I never thought I'd be on the receiving end of the Paypal horror-stick, as I am a consumer and not a merchant, but wow.

Dropbox makes it easy for me to sync and share files (specifically funny meme images), I haven't found anything else that works the same way but without the, ah, interesting government aid.

I've never heard of Spideroak, but it looks like it could be solid competition for what I want in specific. But now can it be trusted...

Good point on that last part. It's amazing that EzBoards exist in this day in age, in any form, but we've yet to figure out an easy way to gobble things up; I can get my own wikipedia site started in under 10 minutes but I can't get an easy way to archive a bunch of stuff online? It'd be a service for sure, but storage is cheap these days.

Six hours on and not a single comment. I think it's pretty fitting, to be honest.

"Despite the impact of Snowden's disclosures, the general consensus among experts in the intelligence community holds that no amount of global outrage will affect the Five Eyes relationship, which, to this day, remains the most powerful espionage alliance in world history."

No kidding, right? I am not sure I can respect his interests and goals as an innovator when this is a week or two after the latest Facebook drama.

That seemed odd to me until I compared it with the passage before it; that Fukushima grows much of the agriculture in Japan seems startling enough, but then I don't claim to know much about radioactive fallout and growing crops within x, y, z miles. I probably wouldn't eat Chernobyl beets.

I want to do this. I want to give these guys my e-mail address and some basic info and see all of my health data charted out... But I did that with Google Health and it went the way of the dinosaur. IS there a consensus on this web service among the HN community?

Microsoft keeping Gabe happy with the surface line is probably one of their top 5 PR priorities for the devices. I am not surprised by this post in the least, but I am glad that Gabe is going to get something he can use for his work.

I love the look and feel! I'd love for it to come to Android.

This looks pretty good! I am only on Flickr because a better alternative hasn't come out yet. I just want to be able to easily upload tens of thousands of older photos and organize them into galleries with a nice little show-case, maybe do some light tagging.

This doesn't surprise me, much. We were approached by officials from Qatar for an SaaS of sorts, and we learned all about their culture or perhaps, more specifically, their funding. There's so much money in Qatar and so much of it being spent on putting them on the map, a nationalistic software push was bound to happen eventually.

The only thing tying me to Yahoo at all anymore is Flickr, and I somewhat hope it goes under just so I get some sort of archival download of my content and a reason to finally find something better.

As a young 20-something moving out into a place of my own in this day and age, I considered their cheap furniture more of a charity than anything else. I guess a soup kitchen would have been the next thing available to someone in my "salary" range.

A tale as old as time. Or as old as generational gaps. I can't wait for the next one involving virtual realities. Is YOUR child lost to an imaginary world, stuck in his or her Oculus Rift? Here's a bunch of unsubstantiated hyperbole to catch your attention.