May not be long before shops go cashless. With increasing numbers of people using the magic plastic - cash may fade out over time. Also, bank notes (at least in the UK) sometimes have serial numbers so it isn't wholly foolproof.
I don't know if I'm missing something here...
but what's wrong with running your laptop directly off the mains without a battery and unplugging the cord if necessary so the computer shuts down?
Nokia 105 here as well. I love how so many people on HN have 'dumbphones'. It's gone through so much more abuse than a smartphone would be capable of taking.
I guess you just summed up the benefit of having a non-specific HN in your last sentence.
Serendipity has led me to find all sorts of wacky stuff here that I would never have found otherwise.
Perhaps they may be some sort of benefit for having a "HN for [insert topic here]" for people to find a narrower information set. Personally, I like it as it is and one can always use the search function to target posts with keywords
I don't really see how people have down-voted you other than the fact that they don't agree with your opinion and I really don't think that should be an excuse to just grey out someone's opinion unless it is downright stupid/misinformed/ or extremely offensive.
Is it not better to have the opinion visible and actually have a constructive argument about that vs down-voting it to the point at it is barely readable.
According to the UK agency "...privacy has never been an absolute right and the debate about this should become a reason for postponing urgent and difficult decisions"
This article seems like a clever bit of propoganda to justify increasing surveillance
I'd recommend this book by the way:
'Time to Eat the Dog?: The Real guide to Sustainable Living' by Thames & Hudson - search it up if you want a read.
We essentially need to return to a lifestyle that is described by the 'Lark Rise to Candleford' Trilogy, with comparatively recent local communities in 'developed' countries growing their own food, helping each other, making their own entertainment, travelling little, and generally living within the resources of their immediate environment. Such a way of life could be said to reduce our land needs and potentially allow us to set aside half the planet.
Whilst the solution is arguably obvious, with the advocation of mass-consumerism and with many people having a vested interest in the continuous extraction of fossil fuels - that change will always be thwarted.
With regards to taking a dump, you could use one of those self contained composting toilets - maybe even using the digested remains as methane gas for cooking ;)
Regardless of these 'toxins' - I'm sure if you evaluated the toxicity and exposure to chemicals in an average household it would be probably exceed that of industrial labs in the past. Think deodorants, washing-up liquid, detergents, hand-washes, shampoos riddled with obscure-and-difficult-to-pronounce ingredients, cleaning liquids such as bleach. Forget the risk of being exposed to manganese within a steel can - we are already actively polluting our households and probably breathing in higher amounts of nasty chemicals hidden in household products than the examples mentioned in the article.
On the whim of national governments and rich individuals, Google has already been censoring the search results that appear to everyone. The only thing this law does is give the little man a chance - which is good.