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shambolicfrolion Ask HN: How do I make sure my non-technical parents are safe online?

Is there a good simple way that someone nontechnical could become confident that withgoogle.com is a trustworthy domain?

shambolicfrolion Twitter’s Plan to Get People to Stop Yelling at Each Other

To see where new behavior (by the platform) is needed, they should look at what breaks incipient good discussions, and how to prevent that. (I'll also note that the HN conversation on this post seems quite different in tone from the usual HN.)

shambolicfrolion A Man Who’s Going to Save Your Neighborhood Grocery Store

Elorant, what is the one short paragraph summary of this article, please?

shambolicfrolion Jack Dorsey says it’s time to rethink the fundamental dynamics of Twitter

It says I have messages, but I don't seem to have figured out how to view them.

shambolicfrolion Going hungry affects children for their whole lives

What about cheap functional vitamins? It used to be that the pills were small and you could buy a year's supply in one spicejar-sized bottle. Is there anything like this still available?

shambolicfrolion Ask HN: What are good resources for life advice?

The Psychology of Human Misjudgment by Charles T. Munger https://www.harrisonbarnes.com/the-psychology-of-human-misju... (You may wish to scroll down to "psychology-based tendencies that, while generally useful, often mislead")

shambolicfrolion In San Francisco, Making a Living from Your Billionaire Neighbor’s Trash

How about a separate bin for reuseables, with a once-a-month pickup?

It should be clear, so scavengers could easily see if anything of interest was inside.

shambolicfrolion Researchers trick Tesla autopilot into driving into opposing traffic

I wonder how this Tesla issue relates to the admonition "stay in your lane".

shambolicfrolion Show HN: SocialAmnesia – Open-source tool that auto-erases old Reddits/tweets

What are the misuse cases, and what does the software try to do about them?

shambolicfrolion Ask HN: Is there a way to browse YC companies, live ones at least?

Curiosity, and wondering if I'd stumble upon something useful (to me or to someone I know), and wondering if 'make money' eclipses 'social-good'. But also apprehension, about misuse cases.

shambolicfrolion Vanishing Violence

What about countries where there is still a lot of violence?

shambolicfrolion Sam Altman: Bay Area is no longer the obvious place for startups

Where's that map of outmigration by demographic?

shambolicfrolion Sam Altman: Bay Area is no longer the obvious place for startups

I read an article (a month or so back) saying that Austin's great quirkiness was a fluke, of an economic downturn creating a transitory surplus of very cheap housing.

shambolicfrolion Sam Altman: Bay Area is no longer the obvious place for startups

Is there a map of commute-time average traffic speed in the bay area, and how it would compare to an e-bike rider?

shambolicfrolion Sam Altman: Bay Area is no longer the obvious place for startups

How could a company facilitate a mass move, I wonder. Putting "anchor friends" in the new place.

shambolicfrolion We Lost Our Ability to Mend

This fixed mine. A 5 dollar tool.

shambolicfrolion Dear Dawn: How a Nasa robot messed up our science fiction, “The Expanse”

National Geographic autoplays video, to troll its readers.

shambolicfrolion The Zipper Rule on German Roads

The way to avoid queue jumping is to match speeds, then zipper-merge when the lane ends.

shambolicfrolion The Zipper Rule on German Roads

Basically, "lane splitting" for emergency vehicles. This is smart, we don't have it in the U.S. For more info: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rettungsgasse

shambolicfrolion 64 and unemployed: One man's struggle to be taken seriously as a job applicant

Run the text on your site through grammarly.com, I'm seeing a typo at the end of the 1st sentence. And I agree with cottsak that the use of "we" doesn't help. Here's a thought, how about reaching out to @AustinAllred of @LambdaSchool (on twitter) to see if they want to try taking on the more grizzled set? (do they pay living expenses?) Alternatively, there's trucking. Big shortage for now, and reasonably high pay.

shambolicfrolion When Too Cute Is Too Much, the Brain Can Get Aggressive

FYI to readers: The article gets unnecessarily graphic about violence against animals.

shambolicfrolion Breaking Into Android Phones with a 3D-Printed Head

Hmm. When I had a skin cancer excised by a surgeon, in a followup visit a woman with no ID came in and made a point of taking closeup photos of full-face and profile. When I asked she said this was standard (for minor skin cancer removal). (Same place, where I walked into the room for the procedure, they had Carole King singing "it's too late" at loud volume on a portable stereo sitting on the ground.)

shambolicfrolion What can I do about climate change?

Vote for people that belong to a party that accepts the science about severity of the problem and want to fix it.

shambolicfrolion The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Amazon and Apple

Maybe it's worth talking about how we can better secure the chain of custody in shipping? I asked about this a year or two ago and my question got the thumbs-down.

shambolicfrolion The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Amazon and Apple

Maybe it's worth talking about how we can better secure the chain of custody in shipping? I asked about this a year or two ago, here, and it got squelched.

shambolicfrolion The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Amazon and Apple

Maybe it's worth talking about how we can better secure the chain of custody in shipping? I asked about this a year or two ago and it got squelched.

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I look forward to the author's next article, "Joining a Gang is Good."

(I don't know if it is something he will write, but I think the reasoning would be similar)

shambolicfrolion An Update on Last Week’s Accident

CalTrans doesn't diagonally stripe spaces like that? It would seem that they should.