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by halgir 4y ago
I hope they brought their own spork.
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by halgir 4y ago
I don't - it's been many years since I read much creepypasta. This one in particular stuck in my mind though.
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APIs Explained for Humans(halgir.com)
1 points by halgir 4y ago|0 comments
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by halgir 4y ago
Thanks for sharing, I liked this one. Here's my favorite video game related creepypasta, also about a mod: https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Black
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by halgir 4y ago
Reminded me of an Onion skit which is apparently 14 years old now! Introducing World of World of Warcraft: https://youtu.be/Rw8gE3lnpLQ
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Ask HN: Internet magically gets faster when opening speedtest?
685 points by halgir 4y ago|345 comments
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by halgir 5y ago
In Danish (probably other norse languages too) there is "sulten" which means hungry and "lækkersulten" which translates to delicious-hungry, for when I feel a craving for something in particular. It's a good point t
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by halgir 5y ago
Most users are not educated enough to protect themselves from bad actors. It's our (government, industry, whitehats, etc.) moral responsibility to protect those users from those who would exploit them. Not that I have a solution, but I
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by halgir 5y ago
Young children are also famously voracious learners. That is, until institutions like schools get in the way. Plunging young children into an anarchical learning environment with nothing but YouTube to guide them won't end well. But if
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by halgir 5y ago
Is that necessarily a bad thing? Admitting I don't know much about Singapore.
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by halgir 5y ago
This was a strange one for me. Profoundly boring, yet oddly captivating. I wanted to stop reading it the whole way through, but I just couldn't.
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by halgir 5y ago
> If they don't know that a % of their portfolio will fail, then they're idiots. Yes, but they don't know which ones. What the commenter meant is that the VC believes each and every one of their investments has the potent
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by halgir 5y ago
I'm asking to find out.
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by halgir 5y ago
Is it only emotionally easier, or do they expose themselves to any sort of legal risk by saying your product sucks or they just don't like that you have bad breath?
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by halgir 5y ago
Like many in the thread, I also had this experience of going all-in on podcasts during my passive time, and then after a couple of years realizing that I had stopped doing any thinking of my own. For me personally, podcasts are great while
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by halgir 5y ago
Sure: https://halgir.fo/godi-halt-kjaft/ It's in Faroese, which isn't supported by Google Translate. Good luck. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by halgir 5y ago
Someone else in the thread used the term "chronic bitcher", and that's exactly what I used to be. At any given time I would (subconsciously) look for things to complain about, and I always found them. I was traveling with som
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by halgir 5y ago
I agree it's not particularly useful as far as art goes, but I think it can be insightful as far as visual aesthetics go. The mistake to me is in implicating art, instead of just aesthetics. But Art Vote is a lot more catchy than Neuro
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by halgir 5y ago
Of course art is much more than randomly generated aesthetics, but I still think this project can be insightful, if not useful. Sure, it's not telling us what objectively makes great art, but I don't believe anything can. But if s
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by halgir 5y ago
There is considerable overlap between people who have no clue how taxes work and people who cannot afford to pay professionals to do it for them.
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by halgir 5y ago
My country of origin, Faroe Islands, has worked on this precisely because the population is small and very closely related. So there's a lot of recessive genes being expressed. Also, they've kept meticulous population records for
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by halgir 5y ago
When I had my net send fun back in school, an IT guy found me and just explained that if it becomes a recurring thing, they'll have to disable it on the network. And that they would prefer to keep the functionality available, so it wou
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by halgir 5y ago
Reminds me of when 4chan pretended to be Hacker News. Thread archive: https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/48696148 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9788317
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by halgir 5y ago
This particular article is filed in the "US Weather" category. A global perspective is important, but it doesn't exclude a local one.
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by halgir 5y ago
There's a company local to me that's been working to commercialize this for the past ten years: https://www.oceanrainforest.com/
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by halgir 5y ago
I appreciate this point. But I don't think it's about setting extremely high standards across the board and leaving those who can't keep up behind. For me it's about losing the mindset that children of certain ages are i
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by halgir 5y ago
> I'd recommend taking a look at Singapore Math[0] to get an idea of what kids in those age ranges are actually capable of doing, provided that adults shed preconceptions that children ought to be "sheltered from hard scary stu
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by halgir 5y ago
> In my initial comment I already pointed out trying to pick cheap textbooks. But people wanted to go after the easier target of expensive textbooks, so fine. Expensive textbooks are not the easier target, they are the only target. What
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by halgir 5y ago
> You must either think theft when needed to preserve life is morally justified or not. If I must take a binary position, then yes. Theft when needed to preserve life is morally justified. In fact, it happens every day on a massive scale
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by halgir 5y ago
> If someone owns something then they are free to ask whatever price they want, up to refusing to sell it at all. That's what ownership means. Yes, I agree this is what ownership means in principle. I think the more practical view o

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