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by escape_goat 6y ago
That might be true, but the risk is always that Google can remain irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
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by escape_goat 6y ago
I'm not referring to a set of specific reports, but rather, to what has been written ('reported') about the service. The most recent information I had attributed it to a single developer. Since he does not name himself outrig
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by escape_goat 6y ago
That archive appears to be in the middle of a database migration, so it's possible that this deficiency is temporary. It is (as of last report) actually a single-developer project that just launched in January, apparently with enough p
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by escape_goat 6y ago
It makes a sort of sense to start inexpensively with a species for which so many incurable human diseases are actually turning out to be curable. Even if a cure is found that does not work in humans it helps map the shape of underlying diff
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by escape_goat 6y ago
Okay but I think that if James Gleick made a new HN profile just to respond to a quote of a comment by the user 'nostalgebraist' on 'Good Reads' he might read the actual comment he was responding to and realize that it h
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by escape_goat 6y ago
> It feels as though Stoppard read James Gleick's Chaos (or a similar popular text), misunderstood it, forgot half of it, and then wrote the play on this basis of what remained. I feel seen.
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by escape_goat 6y ago
So, because the owners (a) claim that Parler is a free speech platform when (b) actually it engages in extensive moderation to ensure ideological conformity in their posts, then (c) Parler is more of a propaganda weapon than a free speech
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by escape_goat 6y ago
Hi dang and/or moderators, the title of Ms. Scott's article is "384 ways to help" and I think that that is a perfectly good link text. I don't fault the submitter for admiring Mackenzie Scott but editorializing in l
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by escape_goat 6y ago
Web crawling is a natural monopoly, and perhaps should be treated as such. That's easily compartmentalized from search itself.
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by escape_goat 6y ago
The culpability of Dean Oemcke in this particular incident should not be understated. Hindsight is hindsight, of course, but the fact that the new owner of the platform distribution rights of this open-source project was (and apparently rem
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by escape_goat 6y ago
It's clear that you didn't really read what I wrote very carefully.
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by escape_goat 6y ago
Okay, assuming that you understand my point, how would you restate it in a way that didn't imply that a person who engaged in that sort of response was an idiot or capable of reasonable thought? I don't actually have a problem wit
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by escape_goat 6y ago
Look, I like data — meaningful data — just as much as the next person here, but this is a little bit of a strawman argument, isn't it. You're not defending a comment that was based on any data, you're defending the a priori
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by escape_goat 6y ago
Fair enough, I've restated that.
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by escape_goat 6y ago
I absolutely intended to tell an entire category of people that they were sheltered. I disagree with you, but it's true that I've certainly seen the term appear within the context of a personal attack in the past, so I agree that
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by escape_goat 6y ago
I took the time to respond to what I felt strongly about, and maybe characterizing criticism as a "personal attack" describes how it makes you feel, but that doesn't mean that it describes what it is.
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by escape_goat 6y ago
Could we just not do things like this. I'm sorry to be singling anyone out but there is a pattern here. People, the "well actually" rebuttals that you pull out of thin air in two minutes are not a useful or meaningful respons
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by escape_goat 6y ago
LiveJournal wasn't actually launched until the spring of 1999, by which time ICQ was fading fast as the instant messenger of choice. Adoption of AIM and MSN Messenger was widespread, and many people used multi-protocol clients. (It was
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by escape_goat 6y ago
The headline is a bit too generic. This organization is being founded with the support of Simon Peyton Jones and has corporate backing. It appears that the intent is to focus on pain points in the Haskell toolchain and libraries.
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by escape_goat 6y ago
You abandoned the article because you disputed the characterization of HTML5 development in a throw-away example that had nothing to do with the actual topic of the article just about exactly midway through it? Get out of here. You were alr
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by escape_goat 6y ago
What Graham is attempting to prescribe here is an unmediated engagement with a problem. In truth, "making the world better" is no less ulterior a motive in engaging with that problem than "making piles of money."
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by escape_goat 6y ago
Kibitzing outside of any expertise that I have, here, but thorium reactors are generally regarded as a significant nuclear weapons proliferation risk. This has been an inhibiting factor with regards to investment in research. This design —
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by escape_goat 6y ago
I think we all remember which group of people green-lit Soylent.
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by escape_goat 6y ago
If you initiate a public dialogue with someone specifically for the purpose of making a show of rejecting the possibility of engaging in any dialogue with them, forgiveness of clichés is IMO a big ask.
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by escape_goat 6y ago
The article fails to mention that there are different polio vaccines and leaves the impression that there is a risk of polio infection from all vaccines.
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by escape_goat 6y ago
Twitter has not unlocked the New York Post's Twitter account because the New York Post has refused to delete six tweets. The New York Post can recover their Twitter account at any time by deleting those tweets.
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by escape_goat 6y ago
It's worth noting, for the sake of everyone here in the comments on a tl;dr tanget, that the organ is absolutely not new or 'mysterious' in the least. There are a pair of salivary glands at the back of the nose in a place no-
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by escape_goat 6y ago
This might be a sticking point to adopting your service for some stakeholders, not so much because they actually need to export the website anywhere but because the business model of so many website builders seems to be 'regret'.
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Ask HN: I want to praise an employee to an employer. Any tips?
35 points by escape_goat 6y ago|18 comments
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by escape_goat 6y ago
My apologies, but I believe that this theorem applies to a subset of possible systems with certain properties which are called "conservative systems," not any arbitrary system.

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