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by gaur 10y ago
> I hope they can safely reach the age where they can go off and experience the adventure of the big cities Conversely, I feel grateful that my parents chose to raise me in a dense urban area, instead of moving out to some suburban hellh
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by gaur 10y ago
> The concern raised by supporters of the bill his largely been unwanted men entering ladies rooms. The fact that the criterion revolves around birth certificates (as opposed to, say, state ID) shows quite clearly that the point of the b
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by gaur 10y ago
Reminds me of Paul Graham's article about newspapers shilling for suit companies: http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by gaur 10y ago
https://xkcd.com/774/
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by gaur 10y ago
> Make men's rooms into generally accessible restrooms and leave ladies rooms as ladies rooms. This is an idiotic non-solution, as should be obvious to anyone who has even a little capacity to think from the perspective of a trans p
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by gaur 10y ago
Let's be honest: the people who are indiscriminately xkcding their plots were never making good-looking plots in the first place.
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by gaur 10y ago
Do log plots (with scientific notation) work yet?
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by gaur 10y ago
My first thought when I saw the title was "that's a really mean thing to say about Hillary Clinton." Edit: for posterity, the original HN title was identical to the article's title: "Billions Are Being Invested in a
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by gaur 10y ago
I bet if you look at polls from the 1990s about the internet, you'll find a lot of people saying they're just fine without it, thank you very much, and they prefer the warm, personal experience of calling up a real human to book t
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by gaur 10y ago
> “It does make a psychological statement to the founders and employees that we’re not your father’s company” No kidding. My father's company wouldn't instill a culture where the expectation is to work 80+ hours a week and then
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by gaur 10y ago
> The so-called “drums and trumpet school” of examining battles and generals isn’t the only game in town. Might be nice if someone propagated this information to Wikipedia. Seemingly on every military-related article there is an attempt
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by gaur 10y ago
No. And to make things worse, any phrase containing the word "bespoke" just sounds grammatically incorrect. "Bespoke" is the past tense of the verb "bespeak", but that means the participle should be "bespo
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by gaur 10y ago
> Custom implies customised - a standard product which is modified. No, not really: > 1. Created under particular specifications, specially to fit one's needs: specialized, unique, custom-made > 2. Own, personal, not standard
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by gaur 10y ago
A little over a week ago, HN pondered a question based on essentially the opposite premise: "Why do so many people continue to pursue doctorates?" [0] The submission garnered some unbelievably sour comments about graduate research
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by gaur 10y ago
tl;dr: "Gender isn't important to me, so it shouldn't be important to anyone else either!"
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by gaur 10y ago
Inserting stock ticker garbage into articles is really obnoxious.
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by gaur 10y ago
Among other things, I guess those of us who don't know every piece of trivia about Spanish culture would get an explanation of what exactly is unsavory about this Blas de Lezo person.
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by gaur 10y ago
> physicists are conjouring up stuff like dark energy and dark matter to "fit the gap" between theory and observation without any sound basis for their existence. Physicists are undertaking a wide range of experimental programs
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by gaur 10y ago
Or in some cases, like with supersonic commercial jets, the technology is retired before it's mature.
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by gaur 10y ago
> Not that I'm disagreeing but you could have said "Newton mechanics has been the workhorse method for centuries and everyone has found that they work" then Einstein came along and dumped the apple cart. That's specio
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by gaur 10y ago
> the results have since been replicated several times by several organizations The results are random. Sometimes nonzero thrust is observed in a direction opposite to what was expected [0]. Know what that sounds like? A null measureme
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by gaur 10y ago
> I'm curious to what degree Unruh radiation (and the resulting consequences this idea relies on) 'established physics'? Most theorists think Hawking–Unruh radiation has to exist, I guess because the calculation is relativ
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by gaur 10y ago
> "Einstein was wrong!"-type articles I like popular articles about dark energy. About the only thing you learn from them is "Einstein called the cosmological constant his greatest blunder!".
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by gaur 10y ago
> the EmDrive has created a very interesting mystery. Microwave cavities have been a workhorse technology in many fields for many decades, and everyone has found that existing physics (classical electrodynamics, superconductivity, and a
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by gaur 10y ago
> The article mentions NASA tested it. NASA is so big that that statement doesn't really mean anything.
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by gaur 10y ago
I think you intended for your writing to be punchy, but it ended up just being hard to follow. I'll pick a passage at random: > Then she kept saying she was "looking for sex". Gee, those women were trying to harass me sexu
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by gaur 10y ago
> Google and Facebook are monopolies Which markets are Google and Facebook monopolizing?
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by gaur 10y ago
Obama in 2008 said that gay marriage should be a states' rights issue, and that he personally believed marriage is between one man and one woman. The fact that he and his administration later supported gay marriage just shows that they
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by gaur 10y ago
I did not claim that every SA supporter in the US government was a Christian fundamentalist.
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by gaur 10y ago
It should be illegal to have a restroom without paper towels (or equivalent).

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