Lerner has been peddling this bad science for 30 years, and it's still wrong.

Alt headline, "Crank scientist who has pushed discredited theories for 30 years still at it"

It would be more tolerable if they offered good service. I am moving to a city with one of the largest universities in the US and the fastest internet AT&T even offers is 12 Mbit/s down and 0.5 up.

up to 12Mbps. You won't actually get that.

Reddit getting bigger is the whole reason started going bad.

I created my HN accout 7 years ago after lurking for a couple years. People have been saying the same thing about HN the whole time I’ve been around.

It's a bit different though with the moderation and lack of revenue focus.

Well I think the self moderation the HN crowd does can’t be scaled. Reddit also didn’t moderate enough at fist. I also don’t like being at the mercy of bad subreddit mods.

I could buy 3 old Thinkpads for the price of one of those.

Ebay has totally changed how I view cheap electronics for this reason, why buy a crappy chinese knockoff when i can buy a top of the line thinkpad or dell from 4-5 years ago

Buying used is fantastic. Even setting a few Craigslist alerts can lead to wonderful things happening.

I had a friend shopping around for a professional level digital camera recently, and he didn’t realize until I told him that he could buy a 1-2 year old model with near identical specs and save some cash to buy lenses/accessories/etc or just save it.

One cannot get 7" Thinkpad with full HD screen, weight slightly above a pound and 8GB of RAM. GDP pocket is rather unique and its success is a clear indicator that there is a demand for such form-factor.

Wish something like this existed for college football.

I don't think anyone is implying that the ads themselves constitute a crime. The issue is that a foreign power attempted to manipulate the public in a certain direction.

Your assertion that "the media" intentionally tries and turns groups against one another is pretty sweeping. Certainly certain advocacy groups attempt to paint their opponents in a bad or even dishonest light, but this is far different than a foreign government trying to manipulate Americans.

The observations are still coming in and things are very uncertain. One astronomer on twitter noted that if the most uncertain measurement were removed that the comet has a 0.9 eccentricity, and therefore likely not an interstellar comet.

If he's not getting funding perhaps his work doesn't hold up under scrutiny? I'm a geologist and biology is greek to me so I don't know what to make of it.

This is correct. Everybody I know in the biz has said his work doesn't pass a wide range of sniff tests.

Likely not that fast. Waste piles and water flowing out of abandoned mines will continue to mess up water for many years after a mine closes.