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You answered your own question in your very second sentence. “For a normal person”. The modern economy increasingly does not cater to the “normal person” and they prove this con…
by randysalami · Oct 16, 2026
This is the kind of question that should be hounded all the way down. But it will take forever and whole generations will live and die before it does, because no one wants to. M…
by Brian_K_White · Oct 16, 2026
Yeah — science is seemingly only just getting into the question of how much of an inner life bumblebees and other solitary bees might have. There's a lot of surprising things ab…
by dofm · Oct 16, 2026
" It's unusable in almost every situation on the road" Yet it's a useful, comparable, measure for acceleration and is frequently exercised on track. If you had an AMG and haven'…
by dingaling · Oct 16, 2026
Show HN: OutClocked, a nearly impossible daily trivia game
by karolgajda · Oct 16, 2026 · 1 points
As someone who has had a Mercedes AMG that could do 0-60s in less than 4s for a few years, it just gets boring so fast, and it makes you question why you bought the thing in the…
by gambiting · Oct 16, 2026
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A question is an utterance which serves as a request for information. Questions are sometimes distinguished from interrogatives, which are the grammatical forms, typically used to express them. Rhetorical questions, for instance, are interrogative in form but may not be considered bona fide questions, as they are not expected to be answered. Read more on Wikipedia