SilasX

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by SilasX 3y ago
Ugh. That's especially annoying because they're trying to be hip with slang and use a metaphor that requires cultural knowledge that you can't really assume everyone has.
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by SilasX 3y ago
You can find more examples of that kind of puffer if you go to a website's cookie consent pop-up and find the clause after "we use cookies to...".
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by SilasX 3y ago
The Onion was joking about this eventuality in 2010: https://www.theonion.com/boeing-lays-off-only-guy-who-knows-...
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by SilasX 3y ago
"Expecting the government to bear the costs of enforcing the law" is not generally what is meant by "socializing the losses", even if you can define the expression in a way that that makes sense. But I'm going to go
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by SilasX 3y ago
You're not replying to the question of how much money/assets -- thought to be lost -- was later found, you're just copy-pasting random details about the case.
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by SilasX 3y ago
> These are stupid games. Yes, if you have the cash to buy the car, you might consider playing stupid games. Huh? You were the one advocating paying cash.
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by SilasX 3y ago
It eventually culminated in one company getting in trouble for listing “love” as an ingredient in their granola: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-03/fda-decla...
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by SilasX 3y ago
Huh? Wouldn't they have to depreciate it over several years so only a fraction of it would be a deduction in the current? Or is the idea that they'd buy so much capital equipment that even the fraction they could depreciate that
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by SilasX 3y ago
Semi-related: the time an appraiser raised the estimated value after the couple removed all traces of the place being inhabited by black people: https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/local/jacksonvil...
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by SilasX 3y ago
The desktop version is still much more usable on mobile than the "mobile-friendly" version.
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by SilasX 3y ago
Beat me to it! The Carnegie Mellon/Uber "scandal" was talked about a lot on HN at the time! Some of the big threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9638121 https://news.ycombinator.com/i
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by SilasX 3y ago
>You're implying that bees are less intelligent than humans. >However they can sense electromagnetic fields and can sense whether a flower they're interested have pollen or not without looking at it with their eyes. Which, y
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by SilasX 3y ago
And, like clockwork, it's at the top of the /r/nottheonion sub: https://old.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/comments/1bcfceq/boeing...
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by SilasX 3y ago
A special case of, "I got all the glory for doing the easy part, you get to take the hard part."
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by SilasX 3y ago
So just that half second, deliberately makeup’d flash was him? Okay then I guess I can be expected for not thinking he’s in the movie.
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by SilasX 3y ago
Semi OT, but … wow. This is weird. As someone that never saw the movie, I didn’t know RDJ was in it. He wasn’t in the trailers I saw, at least not prominently: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uYPbbksJxIg and yet now, everyone
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by SilasX 3y ago
As opposed to today, when fashion is always solely an end in itself? It’s still a distinction without a difference.
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by SilasX 3y ago
So you consider it a flash of genius because it led you to produce a paper that trivializes the relevance of scarcity (to greatly simplify)? Without commenting on the merit of the thesis, people get flashes of insight all the time that se
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by SilasX 3y ago
Yeah I was confused by it being referred to as the hash. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URI_fragment?useskin=vector
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by SilasX 3y ago
Yeah, same feeling when the literal face of their React course wasn't actually the expert he claimed to be: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18601298
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by SilasX 3y ago
Just like we spent 50+ years preventing nuclear energy rollout to save the earth (and/or prop up fossil fuel usage by total coincidence).
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by SilasX 3y ago
Not submitting it to a more general audience that doesn’t have the prerequisite background, I’d say.
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by SilasX 3y ago
Either way, you recognized the linked rule violation as being motivated by human nature. Yet somehow, in that case, you didn’t handwring (with a clever ironic echo) about how you “can’t prune human nature”. Rather, you called out the rule
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by SilasX 3y ago
Wait, what? The first link points to you doing exactly what you're now claiming is impossible: pushing back, with threats of a ban, against behavior you recognize as human nature[1]: >Can you please make your substantive points wi
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by SilasX 3y ago
Always?
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by SilasX 3y ago
Haha yeah that’s often what happens, a useful slang expression becomes so widespread that eventually they accept it in formal context. I joke that, given enough time, the “English future tense” they teach will be “to be gonna”.
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by SilasX 3y ago
Sorry, I'm confused. Is there some clever joke I'm missing here? And is there a reason you don't make that clever joke or objection to any other preference for how HN is moderated?
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by SilasX 3y ago
Sometimes I wish you'd prune the users (at least from submission privileges) who can't be bothered to search first, which is how you get these n-fold submissions.
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by SilasX 3y ago
Note: the crypto options exchange LedgerX recently transitioned from 24/7 to NYSE hours, though I don’t know their exact reason.
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by SilasX 3y ago
Haha, I was complaining about that as early as 2017 (though mainly for big price drops ): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14705898 And don't forget, their 2022 Superbowl ad was just a (bouncing) QR code, and thus

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