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by arp242 1y ago
Most people are fine, even online. As the article says, it's really just a small group that's completely out of control. Maybe people are a bit more direct and blunt over text, but that's a different thing than what the artic
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by arp242 1y ago
Who has been sent to jail? Who has gone bankrupt?
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by arp242 1y ago
There is no denying that the US has done great stuff over the last 100 years or so. I don't understand this weird flex from some Americans to always claim US is the best at everything at the exclusion of everyone else. Same with the se
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by arp242 1y ago
The entire notion that startups must have "global reach" to be relevant seems odd to me. There are and have been plenty of startups throughout Europe, and the typical story is that they get bought by American companies and eye-wat
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by arp242 1y ago
Well, don't say you weren't warned when it turns out the miracle is not such a miracle after all and it all massively backfires in a few decades, at which point you're still going to have to actually fix the real underlying c
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by arp242 1y ago
It's linked in the article.
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Looking at the link they give for it, the 98% accuracy isn't for individuals but for aggregate data. That is: they can't predict with 98% accuracy when you or I will die, but they can with a sufficiently large group which averages
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by arp242 1y ago
I knew several people for whom the pictures were the "final push" to really quit back when they were first introduced. Not sure if it's easy to get good data to separate out all the factors such as cost, in-your-face warnings
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by arp242 1y ago
Depends on your circumstances. If you're a bit overweight and want to lose weight: it's perhaps not helpful. If you're obese and everything just seems hopeless: fuck it – do anything that will bring your weight down to a mana
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by arp242 1y ago
I lost almost 15 kg (~33 lbs) over the last two months and I didn't even try that hard. I never had problems with my weight, but over the last few years it slowly crept up to ~107kg (at ~1.95cm), at which point I realised I had to do s
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by arp242 1y ago
Are the long-term (>20 years) effects of taking GLP-1s really all that well understood? Because that's kind of what you're suggesting here. Making millions of people dependent on a drug to maintain basic health does not strike
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by arp242 1y ago
Pre-Islamic Arabia is, as far as I know, a fairly widely accepted term. Not that different from pre-Roman Britain, pre-Columbian Americas, pre-colonial Africa, pre-imperial China, or even Pagan Europe. In all these cases a significant chang
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by arp242 1y ago
I suppose we need to have a semantic discussion about what exactly "full of" means. Note that the original person who started the thread used the phrasing "many" (which only moves the semantic discussion to how many arti
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by arp242 1y ago
No project or development style is perfect and they all come with their own set of upsides and downsides. PostgreSQL is no exception. Maybe the PostgreSQL 20 years from now will be a different type of project with different types of trade-o
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by arp242 1y ago
> To the extent that Iran used drones, reportedly they gave no tactical benefit, as they were all shot down long before they reached Israel. Israel is geographically a very small country with a rather unique situation, and has spent eye-
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Thank you for proving my point.
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There are about 5.5 billion people on the internet. Firefox's "small" market share of ~5% is still about 250 million users. I'm reasonably sure that a small fraction of those 250 million people are even aware of the conc
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by arp242 1y ago
Same with e.g. PostgreSQL. But these are fundamentally different type of projects. Many businesses and products run on top of Linux and/or PostgreSQL. There is a very clear and obvious incentive to contribute, because that will help yo
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by arp242 1y ago
Many people on HN hold Mozilla to impossible and conflicting standards. It is simultaneously a compromised propaganda arm of Google for taking the Google bribe, while also being compromised money-grabbing wankers diluting their mission when
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by arp242 1y ago
Yes, Opera has done a Theseus and is nothing like it was.
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People did complain at the time and denied that Elgin had the right to take them in the first place, which is why parliament investigated the matter at the time. While the controversy has intensified in the last few decades, it's be
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by arp242 1y ago
Why would people be opposed to this? France loans some world-class exhibits to the UK, and the UK loans some world-class exhibits to France. Seems like a win-win? Who loses anything with this?
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by arp242 1y ago
Having all async happen completely transparently is not really logically possible. asynchronous logic is frequently fundamentally different from synchronous logic, and you need to do something different one way or the other. I don't
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There are many flavours of BASIC; some with line numbers and GOTO/GOSUB, some without line numbers and real subroutines. FreeBASIC for example doesn't have line numbers. It's similar to Fortran or COBOL, both of whom also sta
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by arp242 1y ago
I remember when the video first came out and EVERYONE was up in arms about it. Left, right, centre, far-right. People normally ranting about Deep State Democratic Nazi Communist Satan cult led by extreme-left Muslim Barrack HUSSEIN Obama we
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Last year he wrote in his "techno-optimist manifesto" that anyone delaying roll-out of AI is guilty of murder. Andreesen has tons of investment in AI and stands to make loads of money from it. Completely unrelated, I am sure. He a
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The entire point of a parser is to parse unknown values. That's the entire job of a parser: take unstructured (usually string) data and turn it in to something structured, such as a date. If it can't do that reliably with error re
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by arp242 1y ago
Also there's a big difference between a general "children's room" and strictly enforced "adults only" and "for children" section, with risk of costly lawsuits if some extremist parent thinks the kid
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A week old? That's practically ancient, and certainly no longer applies to the situation today!
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And their Facebook/Twitter accounts have no meaningful engagement at all. 123 followers on Twitter, which is pathetic. Even I managed to get ~600 followers, mostly from when my blog ended up on the HN frontpage. I barely posted on Twit

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