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by davesque 5y ago
How is the solidity of ordinary matter not already constituted more or less entirely by electrons and their behavior towards one another?
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by davesque 5y ago
I feel as though there's actually nothing that would convince people like your wife to get vaccinated. Or at least the ultimate deciding factor cannot be predicted or understood. The problem is that people begin to personally identify
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by davesque 5y ago
Seems like your basic point is that no trusted authority should ever be wrong about something. I'm sure you would say, "No, that's not what I meant." But that seems like the only thing that could be implied by what you&#
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by davesque 5y ago
Sure, but like Trump, it seems pretty clear that Mr. Thiel deploys rhetoric mostly just to get attention and not to make a consistent argument. He and the people like him live for the moment, always trying to exert influence but ultimately
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by davesque 5y ago
Am I missing something here? It just sounds like a digital voting guide. Political parties in the US publish these all the time.
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by davesque 5y ago
Maybe both are incredible?
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by davesque 5y ago
Could it have anything to do with subcultural differences among cannabis users and not deleterious physical effects of consumption?
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by davesque 5y ago
I've at times felt sympathetic to this argument (that the whole debate on abortion boils down to an appeal to morality). However, what ended up really clarifying things for me was hearing accounts of the lengths to which women used to
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by davesque 5y ago
Hong Kong seems really like a canary in a coal mine. Shouldn't it be easy for any of the world's democracies to speak out for such a small territory that is being threatened by a dictatorship? Apparently not in this sad era of dec
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by davesque 5y ago
Seems like a reasonable response. Apple has now revealed that they were capable of failing to consider the optics on this one which is worrying regardless of what happens next. It's really unbelievable that we now live in a world like
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by davesque 5y ago
I think this could be exactly the correct definition of burnout. I'm sure a lot of us care about a lot of things in our lives... until we realize that no one else does.
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by davesque 5y ago
While I agree with the title, the article itself is a fluff piece. It takes several paragraphs just to give hand wavy advice like, "Just remove barriers." It also feels like it can't possibly be true that people prefer flex
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by davesque 5y ago
I should probably know better than to moralize at people over the internet, but I feel somewhat obligated to give you my own honest opinion about this. And that is that if I were a prospective investor, I would regard this article as a red
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by davesque 5y ago
Not sure what the reader is supposed to get from this. I'm sure the situation was stressful beyond imagination. But the entire piece just seems overwhelmingly bitter. What can any external party really gain from this account? People fa
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by davesque 5y ago
Thanks for your succinct summary of the result. Just the other day, I was thinking about how useful clusterings seem in summarizing the landscape of a set of points in any number of dimensions. This work seems to be built on top of the sam
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by davesque 5y ago
I think this article overthinks the issue. There's a preponderance of marketing/corporate seminar buzzwords that makes me much less receptive to the overall argument. I have noticed that there seems to be an endemic issue in t
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by davesque 5y ago
It seems almost like a combinatorial impossibility that any software could be secure nowadays. Given that security basically depends on the interactions between various components being sound, and the fact that most systems nowadays are bu
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by davesque 5y ago
I remember when a friend of mine in middle school fired up the first version of Mosaic on his mac. I could hardly even tell what the point of the application (as they used to be called) was. He was also really into hypercard. We actually
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by davesque 5y ago
This article hits hard. Especially the classification of confidants into the two categories of those who get it and those who don't. For example, don't mention that you're burned out to your parents if they're boomers. C
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by davesque 5y ago
I remember the way that old style internet forums used to work. It was the posts that generated the most active discussion that naturally "rose to the top" simply because forums were designed to display the posts in order of rece
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by davesque 5y ago
Makes me miss the days of phpBB.
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by davesque 5y ago
Don't give up hope. We licked CFCs and leaded gasoline. There are probably plenty of other times in history when we mobilized to solve a problem at scale. These are discouraging times for sure. But ultimately there's just no point
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by davesque 5y ago
And ya gotta have one or the other, right?
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by davesque 5y ago
Just when you thought that we couldn't top the profoundly useless gesture of building your own personal rocket to blast off into space, we now have "metaverse." Take heed little ones, for some day you too might spend your har
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by davesque 5y ago
Sounds like they're in denial then.
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by davesque 5y ago
> show me a really big project using mainly Rust now, as there are uncountable using C++ For starters, the Rust compiler is self hosted and is written in Rust. Many important parts of Firefox are written in Rust. The Linux kernel just ad
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by davesque 5y ago
This isn't true at all. There are stories concerning code stealing that regularly lead the front page on HN and rouse a pretty intense reaction from the community. Saying that HNers have never before cared about this issue seems pretty
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by davesque 5y ago
Reminds me a lot of stochastic computing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_computing
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by davesque 5y ago
I think "people" aren't given enough credit. They're actually pretty smart. They know that, when they're questioned by a surveyor, they can feel better about themselves by claiming that they'd be willing pay
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by davesque 5y ago
There probably have been previous discussions about those projects. But yeah, the project relating to this headline is not news worthy. It's HN; go figure.

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