Hondor

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by Hondor 10y ago
For simulation it's not even close. Open source can't do user interfaces. Not a problem for programming languages, but for simulation at least, there's a slew of powerful but unusable open source software made by professors a
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by Hondor 10y ago
It sounds like your review process went very well. Those hardened anti-novelists have probably rejected piles of genuinely crank material. They're needed to keep the literature free of true rubbish. Of course they're not perfect s
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by Hondor 10y ago
Only 40 years before the invention of the Geiger counter. If future primitive people have dynamite, it probably won't be long before the know about radiation too. This whole project seems to be being treated as far more important than
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by Hondor 10y ago
We're hoping to start a colony on Mars. How could we possibly make Earth even remotely as inhospitable as Mars? Do you expect us to remove all the oceans' water? Remove most of the oxygen from the atmosphere? Kill all plants? I do
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by Hondor 10y ago
It has an unusual use of "we" instead of "us" in a few places. "... that helps we to detect features ...". I wonder if the author originally used "you" and "your" then did a search and repla
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by Hondor 10y ago
This "motorcycle" can only do 40km/hr so it can't even reach the speed limit. A lot of e-bikes used in China are much faster than that. Safety there isn't the problem you'd expect because they often move in pac
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by Hondor 10y ago
Compare sitting at the bus stop alone or with a friend. Which one is more enjoyable? If you prefer to be alone, then maybe you already have too much social interaction and need more alone time. If you prefer to have some kind of personal co
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by Hondor 10y ago
That's probably not true. When you're just socializing in real life, you're probably sharing all kinds of meaningless "updates" about yourself. Statements, jokes, expressions, etc that aren't important individu
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by Hondor 10y ago
What alternatives are there? Just recently there was a HN story about a great add-on for Emacs that would find the definition of a symbol. That's been in VS for a decade or two but open source editors apparently don't have it. Sam
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by Hondor 10y ago
Your children will have grown up since the 90's dot com bubble when you would have first seen the writing on the wall. This didn't just happen overnight. It's been going on for a couple of decades.
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by Hondor 10y ago
When people have the opportunity to earn more, they do, no matter how hard it is for them. Then they find things to spend that extra money on that they wouldn't otherwise have spent it on, like a house in a more expensive neighborhood
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by Hondor 10y ago
Isn't that their choice if they want to work so far from where they live? Can't they get a job somewhere else, like in their own neigborhood? These teachers, firemen and policemen must be really hanging to the edge of long term un
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by Hondor 10y ago
He's thinking philosophically, not politically (trying to influence people). We should be quite free to think and discuss things in an objective way without having to continuously show that we agree with contemporary morals. It might t
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by Hondor 10y ago
Here's recent labor slavery in Scotland http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/may/28/sl... The victims feared being killed if they escaped back to their homes, so I'd say it's
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by Hondor 10y ago
Nearly all professionals in the west are in that position. They could give away most of their income to save desperately poor people, but they feel that they deserve it for themselves. It's a very broad blurry line between evil and res
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by Hondor 10y ago
Only if it's harmful to people. We're not entirely sure of the extent of that yet. If not then we're not destroying it, just modifying it.
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by Hondor 10y ago
Not really. That carcinogenic hazard hazard category is a favorite of scaremonger reporters. Lead, engine exhaust and chloroform sound scary but they aren't known to cause cancer. This is Class 2B - "This category is used for agen
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by Hondor 10y ago
You're assuming that people everywhere value their working conditions equally. They don't. If you already have plenty of money for food, shelter and health care, then you can start worrying about workplace safety and comfort. Othe
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by Hondor 10y ago
Just because people died, doesn't mean we have to honor them and keep hold of what they caused. That's the logic of Christianity. Most soldiers don't really die for any noble purpose, they just fight other soldiers and eventu
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by Hondor 10y ago
It's funny how war is always glorious from the point of view of the aggressor and always sad from the point of view of the aggressed (sp?), even when they're the same person! How we feel depends on who's story we're read
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by Hondor 10y ago
What won't be inevitable is whether those disasters are worse than what would have happened otherwise. People are already running out of drinking water! Contemporary western morals put the environment first at all costs, even ahead of
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by Hondor 10y ago
You could say the same about gambling, loan sharks, and minimum wage laws in general. We have these laws to protect people from themselves. We aren't all rational decision makers, especially not those of us who are desperate.
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by Hondor 10y ago
Barriers to entry are high for a mobile network, but probably pretty low for a ridesharing app. If Uber and Lyft raised their fares massively, then they're leaving a wide open opportunity for someone else to come and undercut them, eve
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by Hondor 10y ago
Not having read the paper, I'd bet it has something to do with the fact that most American voters don't vote for any of the issues that concern them. Instead they just vote for the same party they've always voted for or the o
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by Hondor 10y ago
Isn't that just what a compiled language would sort out for you? On Bash it'd compile to curl HTTP://example.com > file.html and on PowerShell it'd become (curl HTTP://example.com).Content > file.htm
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by Hondor 10y ago
Pedophilia is a sexuality. Some people are just that way inclined. Don't confuse child abuse with sexuality the way people used to do about gays. That's extremely harmful to actual pedophiles who may have done nothing wrong. It&#x
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by Hondor 10y ago
Why do you pity the families of US soldiers who invaded Iraq but blame the US for the deaths of Iraqis? If what the US did was wrong, then the soldiers who carried out those orders were wrong too. How do Americans maintain this doublethink
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by Hondor 10y ago
Well yes, I suppose you're right. I think I'm just a bit jaded seeing every positive story about China filled with comments like "they'll fail because they're not doing it like us". There are plenty of ways the
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by Hondor 10y ago
It's not clear if many of these things are good or bad or if they're any worse than silicon valley. I wouldn't count any of them as serious obstacles for Beijing tech success. Focused on the local market. I often run into SV
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by Hondor 10y ago
Isn't that why Github has forking? If people recognize that you'll accept more updates to your fork than the original, then maybe your will become the defacto proper one. If not, at least you fixed it for yourself and all your fri

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