cipheredStones

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by cipheredStones 3y ago
Favorite comment I've seen on HN in a long time.
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by cipheredStones 3y ago
There's a difference between downvoted posts and dead posts, I believe: > What does [dead] mean? > The post was killed by software, user flags, or moderators. > Dead posts aren't displayed by default, but you can see the
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by cipheredStones 3y ago
This is one of HN's best features, IMO. Bad comments literally become less visible, in proportion to how bad they are, but without actually stopping anyone from reading them or leaving a context hole if someone makes a good reply.
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by cipheredStones 3y ago
To summarize, the 69-year-old man who was arrested (in addition to a 16-year-old boy) is a former lumberjack who had been in a legal battle to continue leasing land that had been in his family for many years, and lost the case just before
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by cipheredStones 3y ago
This article is from early 2021, and the author's lot in life has since improved (substantially because of the article): a year and a half later he wrote a follow-up titled "On Being Rich-ish: Lessons I learned becoming suddenly m
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by cipheredStones 3y ago
Looks like the art from those games - which really is quite stunning - is available directly as posters, an art book, and more (although not until next month, I guess): https://59parks.net/
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by cipheredStones 3y ago
I guess there's a bit of a negative filter for early comments on any given post: the people who respond quickly typically won't be the people who take their time to leave thoughtful comments, and the people who see the post first
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by cipheredStones 3y ago
> The issue is oligopolies. Few large businesses that own the majority of available rentals and thus can set prices to whatever they like to rake in the profits. Even if it's true that a few large businesses own most rentals, that k
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by cipheredStones 3y ago
Is that really the stated argument?! "We put money into this, therefore we deserve to earn money off of it [regardless of the fact that it never did anyone any good and is purely rent-seeking behavior]" certainly encapsulates a pa
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by cipheredStones 3y ago
It's been malicious for two and a half years now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25846504 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25622015
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by cipheredStones 3y ago
(2022) should really be (1997): at the very bottom of the article there's the disclaimer "This article originally ran in the February 1997 issue of Reader’s Digest."
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by cipheredStones 3y ago
Furthermore, it's a spill discovered 13 years ago which happened in the 80s.
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by cipheredStones 3y ago
This is very misleading - the regulatory changes introduced by the ruling were 5-4 along ideological lines, even though the judgement in favor of the Sacketts was unanimous. In the case this year: > The court voted unanimously to reverse
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by cipheredStones 3y ago
Per the Apollo developer's post, a huge amount of the problem is existing subscriptions already sold for $10/year, which are now massive costs - and negative on net if there's even four months left on them. Not that having
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by cipheredStones 3y ago
> Don't put your groceries on a credit card. ...huh? "Don't use store membership cards that track your specific purchases" is one thing, but in what world does your credit card processor get info about the individual
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by cipheredStones 3y ago
> at this time when Meta managed to almost triple its stock price in less than a year What are you talking about? Meta stock is up 14% from a year ago, down 26% from two years ago. It was last at a third of its current price eight year
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by cipheredStones 3y ago
Unfortunately I think the answer to "why keep working if you're already rich beyond the dreams of avarice" is "because it means you can keep being ultra-rich and powerful and famous". All your material desires w
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by cipheredStones 3y ago
It previously had this closing line, with links to their products ( https://web.archive.org/web/20230426171217/https://ottertune... ): > A better approach is to use an AI-powered service automatically d
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by cipheredStones 3y ago
In what subjects will 90 hours of reading - a little more than two work-weeks' worth - make you a world expert?
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by cipheredStones 3y ago
I'm not sure whether you mean "not very convincing" in the sense of "not reassuring that it works" or something else, but judging from users' comments on this issue about the release plans, it seems to work jus
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by cipheredStones 3y ago
Already fixed in Express 5 (which is technically still in beta, but that just seems to be the maintainer being very conservative about a major release): https://expressjs.com/en/guide/error-handling.html > St
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by cipheredStones 3y ago
> common in their current form since 1970 (that's 53 years not 10-15) A chart of filibuster usage over the past ~century speaks for itself: https://bit.ly/3mL6IOU And that's not even fully up to date: the 2019-
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by cipheredStones 3y ago
1. The much-mythologized founders disagreed on how strong the federal government would be; the first political parties were the Federalists and Anti-Federalists (technically the Democratic-Republicans, but carrying on that same ideology). 2
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by cipheredStones 4y ago
> A significant color shift happens only for a couple of minutes during sunrise and sunset. This seems like a very dubious claim - the "golden hour" is obvious to everyone, and there's an intuitive mechanism for sunlight b
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by cipheredStones 4y ago
Javascript has a lot of weird type coercion behavior, but it's not actually hard to avoid. "Never use ==" and "don't use operators on things if it's not obvious what they would do" gets you pretty much eve
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by cipheredStones 4y ago
You're not being downvoted because people trust banks; you're being downvoted because commenting "you can't trust the banks" doesn't add anything interesting to the discussion, it's just a bare statement o
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by cipheredStones 4y ago
I think this is apt, but another factor is that people don't want to put in up-front effort to learn a tool (rather than make progress on their actual goal) unless they have confidence that the effort will actually be rewarded. Most pe
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by cipheredStones 4y ago
If I've learned anything by reading Popehat (Ken White), it's that the "faces up to X years in prison" lines you see in news articles are totally uninformative - there's a complex set of sentencing guidelines that d
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by cipheredStones 4y ago
It's not actually self-evident: even if you take for granted that less-qualified people get hired, that could mean that companies invest more in training, or that the marginal bit of software is equally good but slower to produce than
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by cipheredStones 4y ago
Are you seriously trying to put the blame for software bloat and bad UX on "noobs" implementing things poorly? Popular web pages being choked with ads and modal banners is the result of business decisions to put those there. Jira

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