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by david927 2mo ago
An argument that tries to refute a fairly dumb argument in favor of an idea does not, in fact, negate the idea.
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by david927 3mo ago
"It's not debt, it's what they owe, and it's not hidden, if you dig you can find it."
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by david927 3mo ago
Yeah, something like that but more utopian and closer to Jacques Tati's Playtime. And I think that's what would make it funny: the affordance of the efficiency in design creating that expectation of a correctness in delivery which
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by david927 3mo ago
I thought about writing a comedy, set in the far future, where everything looks beautiful but nothing works right and it's just accepted (almost unnoticed) as a running gag throughout the film. Now I wonder how prescient that would be
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by david927 3mo ago
It was famously Dijkstra, so they were almost certainly quoting him. He was responsible for a lot of great aphorisms; I think he was as quotable as he was irascible.
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by david927 3mo ago
"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes," Edsger Dijkstra I always liked that quote because telescopes can introduce artifacts, so astronomers absolutely have to know them in a foundational
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by david927 3mo ago
That sounds fun! Very cool project.
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Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
292 points by david927 3mo ago|1154 comments
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by david927 4mo ago
Nice
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by david927 4mo ago
I also stumbled onto Crime and Punishment at 18 and expected it to be difficult and was blown away with how Dostoyevsky wrote one of the greatest novels of all time, to be sure, but as the author here says, also how engaging he made it.
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by david927 4mo ago
I think we're past that point; they're absolutely useful already for a lot of tasks. I think it's about costs, convenience, and benefits of a frontier model for what you're doing.
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by david927 4mo ago
I loved this when it came out. Lars von Trier was one of its creators and has a collection of amazing films. Check out Dancer in the Dark (2000) if you haven't already. But it should be remembered as returning to an earlier technique
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by david927 4mo ago
Thank you for taking the time to say that. I really appreciate it. When YouTube was new, a guy named JT Helms made that top one (Once Upon a Time in the West cut to Arcade Fire) and when Bruce Springsteen was asked if he liked anything on
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by david927 4mo ago
Fair use copyright covers areas such as this.
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by david927 4mo ago
I'm using an old domain to put together a curation of film edits set to music https://brodlist.com
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Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
312 points by david927 4mo ago|1148 comments
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by david927 4mo ago
The DoD was running illegal bioweapons labs in the Ukraine? This is huge.
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by david927 4mo ago
I'm a huge believer in this. It's something we need to do more, in our industry, and everywhere, honestly. When I moved back to the Bay Area after having lived in the south of France for years, one of the first things I did was s
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by david927 4mo ago
When I was in high school I was a reckless driver, and with each narrow escape, I became more confident and certain that I was in control and a bad outcome wouldn't happen, couldn't happen. Your comment was downvoted with the sam
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by david927 4mo ago
I have to defer, you're a lot closer to these things than I am, but I remember since the 90's the "this-for-that" analogies were around and became hot at some point, so that you were even encouraged by some to put it int
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by david927 4mo ago
HN is a mirror on the tech world -- which is dead. There is dearth of original ideas, generally. There are no cool startups, no investment, nothing happening.
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by david927 4mo ago
You're definitely looking for something other than the writing and even the plot. For example, the novel "The Firm" had a ridiculous ending but they fixed it for the screenplay. I dropped of a book to this guy that I had jus
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by david927 4mo ago
I think it was a combination of right place/right time, knowing everything about film-making (and you're right, what makes a good adaptation) and was just a naturally cool, interesting guy, so that everyone who met him just liked
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by david927 4mo ago
I had a good friend who did this -- was a reader for a movie studio, looking for adaptations. Everyone teased him for having such a great job.
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by david927 4mo ago
A CAPE ratio of 40x and record-high margin debt; what could go wrong?
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by david927 5mo ago
Exactly this. They're a necessary evil and they require constant vigilance to minimize the "make what you measure" effect. The original author's point is interesting, seeing rules as the constraints that, in one sense,
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by david927 5mo ago
My theory is this civil suit was used to expose Sam's (and Greg's) self-dealing and perjury. This was civil, now comes criminal.
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by david927 5mo ago
The Spirit Level by Pickett and Wilkinson argues convincingly that the pursuit of equality and social safeguards makes life better for everyone, rich and poor. San Francisco used to be my favorite big city in America; now it's a hellsc
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by david927 5mo ago
I remember in the couple years before the dot com crash in 2000, there was a lot of satire being written which was being taken very seriously. You couldn't tell what was serious and what was humor because both were absurd.
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by david927 5mo ago
In 1961, Peter Benenson, a British lawyer, read a newspaper story about two Portuguese students who went to jail for making a toast to freedom. He wrote letters to the Portuguese government and got others to do so as well, and it got media

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