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How can that possibly be a discussion-enhancing comment on a news site lovingly called "Hacker News"? Please mind that signal to noise ratio is something that
by aaronblohowiak 17y ago
How can that possibly be a discussion-enhancing comment on a news site lovingly called "Hacker News"?
Please mind that signal to noise ratio is something that we have to all work hard to maintain.
- jrockway 17y ago"This doesn't belong on Hacker News is signal?" (Even less signal-ish is this post. But I don't care about signal-to-noise. What I care about is when there's no longer any signal, like Reddit and Digg.)
- aaronblohowiak 17y agoI suspect that unmitigated habits of noisiness contribute more noise than the combination of noisiness and inverse noise. "I don't care about signal-to-noise. What I care about is when there's no longer any signal, like Reddit and Digg." Disregard for standards leads to digg.
- sundarurfriend 17y agoFour monks decided to meditate silently without speaking for two weeks. By nightfall on the first day, the candle began to flicker and then went out. The first monk said, "Oh, no! The candle is out." The second monk said, "Aren't we not suppose to talk?" The third monk said, "Why must you two break the silence?" The fourth monk laughed and said, "Ha! I'm the only one who didn't speak." Edit: Source: http://thelab.fisica.unige.it/grosso/modules/news/article.php?storyid=38 http://thelab.fisica.unige.it/grosso/modules/news/article.ph...
- jrockway 17y agoSure, but I never agreed not to speak. The rules apply to everyone except me. Duhhhh.