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by pibaker 9mo ago
You will be surprised by the number of people (even among self proclaimed libertarians) who think children have no rights and are essentially their parents' properties.
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by pibaker 9mo ago
Go to your account page, turn on noprocrast and set minaway to a very large number. You effectively ban your own account once you click confirm. Now set up home firewall / device blocking settings and block the HN domain. The first ste
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by pibaker 9mo ago
If algorithmic feed is so bad then why are you on hacker news, a website with an algorithmic feed that is notoriously non-transparent and often accused of being manipulated by bad actors?
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by pibaker 9mo ago
Every HN thread on social media or porn inevitably gets overrun with "but think of the children" comments calling for banning kids from social media, or the internet, or from having a phone at all. And then every time a country ac
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by pibaker 9mo ago
Damn, I tried doing what you did and got a similar response too, down to exact wordings like "short answer, long answer" and "conservative maintenance". I will admit i was too quick to dismiss the accusation in my previo
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by pibaker 9mo ago
I tried asking ChatGPT if Japanese high speed rail has level crossings and it correctly identified the line I used as my counterexample (Yamagata Shinkansen). I think GP is just plainly misinformed in a more boring way.
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by pibaker 9mo ago
Your comment is down thread of a comment containing a link to a Wikipedia page of a Japanese train crashed caused by speeding. I do not understand how can you think this is impossible in Japan.
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by pibaker 9mo ago
The second train crashed on a non-high speed part of the network. There is also no reason to treat speed limits on high speed and normal trains differently. There are plenty of speed related crashes on low speed lines. If anything the stake
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by pibaker 9mo ago
Edit: someone down this thread pointed out the answer is likely written by AI. If you copy the whole post from GP into ChatGPT it will give you an answer very similar to the post I am replying to. > Shinkansen lines are completely separa
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by pibaker 9mo ago
It could be prevented by simply not flying over an active war zone, something airlines do all the times to prevent the exact same thing from happening.
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by pibaker 9mo ago
Which is also exactly how the most deadly rail incident in the past half century in japan happened. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amagasaki_derailment
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by pibaker 9mo ago
I am not sure what conclusion can we draw from, as you said, two very rare incidents over a long period of time. Reminds me of when Malaysian airlines crashed two planes in a short period of time. It was a good time to get cheap flights fro
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by pibaker 9mo ago
You should see it as the triumph of chip manufacturing — advanced, powerful MCUs have became so cheap thanks to manufacturing capabilities and economies of scale means it is now cheaper to use a mass manufactured general purpose device that
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by pibaker 9mo ago
In a corrupt and authoritarian country, it is common to have officials busted on "corruption" or "embezzlement" charges. And yet most people know they are actually not jailed for the crimes they got charged for, because
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by pibaker 9mo ago
Not disagreeing with your point but: I have never seen any call of duty player who actually thinks you can actually carry twenty magazines worth of bullets or recover from a dozen gunshots by cowering behind a car. I have however seen many
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by pibaker 9mo ago
"You are only making abortion legal because you want to have sex (read: fun) without consequences" is not an uncommon argument against it. If you want to argue that this isn't what "for sport" means, you just circle
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by pibaker 9mo ago
No. I think the opposite is true. Those who consider abortion murder can claim that we do not in fact universally condemn the murder of babies because abortion is legal and widely practiced in many places. Some may consider abortion to only
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by pibaker 9mo ago
> Do not torture babies for sport There are millions of people who consider abortion murder of babies and millions who don't. This is not settled at all.
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by pibaker 9mo ago
I will be very surprised if people are not already optimizing their HN posts for marketing purposes. It's not uncommon to see people showing off their website traffic graph on Twitter after hitting HN. You can also find people asking f
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by pibaker 9mo ago
Do you think the overwhelming majority of human kinds find it weird that 30 degrees is hot and 15 degrees is comfortable? (Hint: they probably find it weird that water does not freeze at "zero") You are entitled to your subjective
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by pibaker 9mo ago
Agreed, we must protect those diagnosed with sluggish schizophrenia[1] from the internet by sending them to off line vacation homes in Siberia. Can't risk them becoming disillusioned with our great motherland! [1] https://en
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by pibaker 9mo ago
I dont know what you majored. But when I was a CS major maybe 50% of my grade came from projects. We wrote a compiler from scratch, wrote something that resembled a SQL engine from scratch, and wrote sizeable portions of an operating system
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by pibaker 9mo ago
You have to wonder if the people so performatively mad about incomprehensible "modern" logos feel similarly about VLC player or foobar2000. It all seems to be just the prevalent anti-big tech cynicism finding an easily upvoted out
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by pibaker 9mo ago
There are many complaints about "modern" logos being illegible and how it is impossible to guess the purpose of an app from the logo and I do not understand it. There was never a period of time when you could just look at any lo
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by pibaker 9mo ago
If you look at the news in a democratic country vs an authoritarian one, you may easily walk away with the impression that the former is in a state of perpetual chaos, because of all the scandals, protests, resignations and snap elections.
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by pibaker 9mo ago
>junk food >junk food, Japan
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by pibaker 9mo ago
Now try actually hiring anyone at $7.25 an hour. Not to mention most states have their own minimum wage at over $10.
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by pibaker 9mo ago
It depends on what you use your Pi for. If you are self hosting anything beyond what a Pi Zero can handle then a mini PC would most likely be a better choice than a Pi 4 or 5. If you are building embedded devices or are a hobbyist then the
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by pibaker 9mo ago
> I don't really understand the purpose of RPi 4 and 5. They're not cheap compared to the price nor very powerful in any measure. They are good for commercial installations like smart displays in stores (think big screens with
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by pibaker 9mo ago
Whenever the Pi gets brought up people on HN will tell you you are wasting money if you are not buying a Chinese Pi clone with beefier specs instead. But at least for me, "Being able to boot into a Linux system without having to dig th

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