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by mcdonje 4y ago
Too many ads. Ads that are large. Ads that are videos. I am privileged enough to have a connection that can serve up the content with all of those ads. But I'm not privileged with the patience to read anything on that site. If you don&
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A solution to transportation related climate change, traffic, and parking infrastructure is trains. The scenario isn't EVs or nothing.
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I have mixed feelings about this comment. It's good satire. But that's something I expect on reddit. Over here, it seems like we're running afoul of the forum norms, and Poe's Law.
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https://archive.ph/QAij2
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Penny farthing bikes are death traps. Bikes that have similarly sized wheels with pedals on the front wheel aren't practical enough to be better than walking. Bikes without pedals are also not practical.
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I don't know why all the rich people in the US didn't leave when they broke up Standard Oil or Bell. Or when FDR got a third term. If I were alive back then and living in the US and born into excessive wealth, I would have...
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by mcdonje 4y ago
This is a good observation and it could indeed be a driver.
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Larger thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35297420
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More like 1998. But yeah, the model of tech-washing has increased in popularity since then. The example that most readily comes to mind is Uber, and they started in 2009.
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>When a light wave enters the new time interface and the device changes its optical properties, the signal keeps moving forward in space. However, the signal gets reversed—if it was a spoken word, it would sound as if it was getting play
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by mcdonje 4y ago
I agree in principle, but I'd figure most people on HN would know what FP and OOP are.
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Gore's approach of splitting factories resonates with me. Seems like a good point to split a business unit based on function or something. Do some Conway's Law hacking. If that's not possible, then simply horizontally partiti
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by mcdonje 4y ago
Iraq is mostly desert but it used to be the fertile crescent. Did the hanging gardens of Babylon go away because they turned off the sprinklers? What actually happened was successive waves of deforestation. The same deforestation that made
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by mcdonje 4y ago
SWF is flash. Vector graphics are just a subset of the format. Any tool claiming to support that format would have to support the rest of the spec, which is overkill for many vector applications. Even though Adobe owns SWF, they don't
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Thank you!
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Paywall. Summary?
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Flash was part of that problem. The infrastructure and tooling should make the easy path relatively benign.
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Hit it with mercury. Get the speed and angle right, and you'll speed up the rotation, increase the gravity, and give it a moon.
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While I get what they mean by "tabular JSON", that's a bit of a misnomer.
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If the social paths are more popular than the official paths, then why not make the social paths official and let the official paths return to nature?
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If I were tetrazzinily wealthy, I'd lidar the solar system. There's no telling what we'd find in the asteroids alone.
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I wonder if anyone has proven this experimentally or by logging results of the gameshow. Seeing it work in real life would help the naysayers.
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I don't know what would cause a tree to sprout leaves earlier in the spring. And I don't know if the article explains that because of the paywall. Maybe it has to do with temperature? As far as shedding leaves earlier in the fall,
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by mcdonje 4y ago
There's a good pop-sci book on this subject called The Perfect Swarm by Len Fisher. I highly recommend it.
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I disagree about handling different genres differently. Sitcoms are not better when they're open ended. They go bad before they end. British and Japanese shows would do that too if they just kept going. If they're really good and
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We need more limited series. A show should be ordered for a season or three with the understanding that it'll come to a creative conclusion at the end of the predefined period. The entire main arc for that 1-3 seasons should be known t
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What I said was accurate about their intentions. If they said the same thing I did, they'd be saying the quiet part out loud. They're accusing everyone left of them as teaching "a doctrine", and they're accusing adm
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by mcdonje 4y ago
It looks like Zig doesn't have a GC. Does it have any improvements over C in that area? Like Rust's lifetimes?
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But my comment did address the article's content...
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It absolutely is a conservative think-tank. Look at their "about" page, or their Wikipedia page. I looked those up before I made a claim about them. Your claims about me and my language are also not correct. I am not engaging in t

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