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by disown 6y ago
You see this with all "ad" posts. There are outrageously positive comments, someone who works on the project magically appears in the thread and are happy to answer your questions, there are bunch of anecdotal "ads", etc
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by disown 6y ago
It's also tiresome when people try to shoehorn big philosophy words they just incorrectly learned to stifle discussion. OP was pointing out the speculative nature of the article. It's a question about evidence, facts and agenda. E
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by disown 6y ago
> Why not let all people wait and apply once they mature? Yes that's my point. Let people keep trying. > Why single out “those” people without an artificial unearned advantage? Who is singling out anyone? If anything you are the
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by disown 6y ago
Because they shipped their industrial base overseas where they have much lax environmental regulations than in britain. Unless britain's quality of life sunk to 1890 level, their real contribution is far higher than 1890. After all bri
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by disown 6y ago
> This is why applaud California's recent decision to halt standardized tests, such as SAT and ACT, as a mandatory placement criteria for entering university. All those tests measure, given the youth and maturity of traditional high
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by disown 6y ago
> Math is the foundation of science, right? No. The scientific method is the foundation of science. Math is a wonderful tool that is used in science and other fields like business, architecture, music, etc. > Things in science are pro
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by disown 6y ago
This is the second major company in past few years where SoftBank pretty much served as an intermediary for merging of companies. They bought Sprint a few years ago and merged it with T-Mobile. Now they are selling ARM, which they bought ju
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by disown 6y ago
The problem is why should people be "converting the mess" in the first place. Backward compatibility, especially when it comes to programming languages, should be a given. If anything, this is reason that people should stop using
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by disown 6y ago
Time flies.
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by disown 6y ago
> Society is an observable phenomenon that we are able to run experiments on and acquire empirical evidence about. Yes we can. But not in the scientific way. Society changes. You cannot replicate your test on a society because of that. N
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by disown 6y ago
It was on the frontpage since yesterday. And the minute it drops off the frontpage, it gets spammed to the frontpage again. Unbelievable. Not only that another NPR story got spammed to the frontpage at the same time. Now that's interes
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by disown 6y ago
> Please keep in mind that future Windows updates may adjust this setting. This is a big problem. Changing settings or even re-installing junk that you worked hard to remove. An even bigger problem is that microsoft can just simply disab
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by disown 6y ago
> "Social sciences" are generally considered the "science of society," and the term comes from philosophers in the mid-1800's. Some of the philosophers named it "science" of society in order to piggybac
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by disown 6y ago
Linear vs quadratic growth.
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by disown 6y ago
> So what is your position anyway, at least vis-à-vis Westerners and China? Why do I need to have a position? For all the complaints about foreign interference, we sure do love to meddle in chinese affairs. Also, it's not "west
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by disown 6y ago
Do you know if they did an analysis of fischer random and how it affects playability?
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by disown 6y ago
> Oh, come on. All of that stuff is now roundly condemned, or at least very controversial. And? Does it make the past disappear? > What makes liberal democracies better is not that they've been perfect and blameless throughout hi
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by disown 6y ago
> Why wouldn't they? In evolutionary terms, we followed the same path to get here. Then why can't I fly? We know that language had a role in our ability to count. Most primitive societies with limited language only counted 1 or
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by disown 6y ago
Well they should add it to the HN monthly "Who's hiring" thread. Are americans eligible for this position or is it just for british citizens?
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by disown 6y ago
> In the USA, we live in a system where power is held accountable. You must live in a different USA than I do. The multiverse in real life. > Your argument is pure whataboutism No it isn't. If you only wrote "china does some
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by disown 6y ago
> You're talking about a country that has active concentration camps, runs its citizens down with tanks, and harvests the organs of political dissidents. As opposed to countries that wiped out indigenous and stole their lands, ensla
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by disown 6y ago
> Regardless of whether the average friendship length is similar, being FORCED to abandon your friends based on someone else's schedule is much more traumatic than friends entering and exiting your social circle due to the natural c
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by disown 6y ago
Well the world population is expected to stabilize around 10 billion or so for a long while. So that new normal may also stabilize the wild animal population. The exponential population growth of the past 100 years seems to have stopped so
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by disown 6y ago
> Except that The Washington Post operates independently, and has strong editorial standards, something that a lot of "news" sites on the Internet today don't even pretend to have. Right, your news company is the only one
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by disown 6y ago
Not that anyone cares what I say, but the Restaurant is on the other end of the universe.
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by disown 6y ago
Perhaps it is because school is starting ( physically or online ) and many high schools/colleges teach C/C++? I wonder if there is a slight bump in C++ use every september?
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by disown 6y ago
Yesterday we had "Ask HN: What did you do to improve your company?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24398077 "Ask not what your company can do for you, ask what you can do for your company." This fo
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by disown 6y ago
> To be honest, the "resentment" of those without children have for "benefits" those with children get strikes me as extremely selfish, immature and displaying a total lack of empathy. Where is your empathy for the &q
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by disown 6y ago
> I do believe that most people are basically decent. If most people were basically decent, the natives and aborigines would still have their land. Entire continents of people were brutally exterminated and entire continents were stolen
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> Hobbes didn't say humankind was nasty and brutish, he said the life of man would be "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short" in the absence of a communit I think you are misrepresenting Hobbes here. The essential idea

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