Y
HN Search
Hacker News Search
new
|
comments
|
top
|
jobs
saltyfamiliar
searching PlanetScale…
1.
▲
2.
▲
3.
▲
4.
▲
5.
▲
6.
▲
8 ms
·
31.
▲
by
saltyfamiliar
5y ago
> why on earth is whitespace relevant?? To eliminate the need for braces and semicolons, of course. It's part of what makes python so easy to read and write. Is it really such a problem? I honestly can't imagine disliking pytho
32.
▲
by
saltyfamiliar
5y ago
I felt the same way. The way the narrator's line is obviously spliced together just detracts from the rest of the trailer for the sake of a party trick. I really hope this doesn't turn out to foreshadow the movie as a whole.
33.
▲
by
saltyfamiliar
5y ago
How is it a racist outcome? This has nothing to do with the belief that one "race" is inherently better than another. It's a simple categorization error due to insufficient training data.
34.
▲
by
saltyfamiliar
5y ago
Would they really need many resources to take legal action? What you're describing is illegal. They could simply call the police if they found you out.
35.
▲
by
saltyfamiliar
5y ago
Same here. I ignored it and kept scrolling then suddenly all the pictures turned into the same adidas ad at once. Very dystopian.
36.
▲
by
saltyfamiliar
5y ago
A "microdose" is enough to alleviate symptoms of depression without risking one's psychological stability. There is really no need to take more than ~0.5 grams of cubensis unless the goal is deep insight/profound experie
37.
▲
by
saltyfamiliar
5y ago
This is pretty cool. Thanks for sharing.
38.
▲
by
saltyfamiliar
5y ago
The longest period of time that anything can legally be kept classified without exceedingly special circumstances is 75 years. Roswell was 74 years ago.
39.
▲
by
saltyfamiliar
5y ago
I truly cannot relate. All one needs is a VPN, a torrent client, a browser and an internet connection. Most tv's nowadays are smart enough to either connect to a simple Windows share or at least be able to play movie files. My SO and I
40.
▲
by
saltyfamiliar
5y ago
I also insist that the second answer choice is valid. Glad to see I'm not the only one.
41.
▲
by
saltyfamiliar
5y ago
Mealworms are very highly chitinous and a low quality food source when compared to options like crickets or roaches. Source: I keep insectivorous pets.
42.
▲
by
saltyfamiliar
5y ago
Maybe it's dull and uninteresting but unless you keep it in mind at every layer of abstraction, you run the risk of drawing incorrect conclusions. People tend to recognize this fundamental lack of control in only the most obvious cases
43.
▲
by
saltyfamiliar
5y ago
Your ability to work hard is dependent on things like your nutrition, genetic temperament, and general outlook on life as developed by your parents, friends, mentors and life experiences. It's not just a magical innate ability that exi
44.
▲
by
saltyfamiliar
5y ago
Hard agree on both counts. I think people on the internet tend to underestimate how religious most people on earth still are. I know a person that's convinced that ufo sighting could potentially be "angels." And this is a fai
45.
▲
by
saltyfamiliar
5y ago
China stands to gain the most from bitcoin mooning at the expense of other countries' currencies. Every yuan exchanged for bitcoin siphons value out of the chinese monetary network and into the global cryptocurrency network. Ideally, i
46.
▲
by
saltyfamiliar
6y ago
They make great comedians.
47.
▲
by
saltyfamiliar
6y ago
Sure, but if you want it to be _sound_ money, it has to backed by some kind of inherent scarcity or guarantee which implies work and energy expenditure. If you want to be able to store it on a flash drive and transfer it to a different cont
48.
▲
by
saltyfamiliar
6y ago
I'd argue it doesn't actually matter. People only buying it as an investment vehicle is still enough to push into mainstream awareness and increase it's level of adoption and usefulness, and at its core, the reason it's
49.
▲
by
saltyfamiliar
6y ago
Ripple (XRP) has the 5th highest market cap and volume of any cryptocurrency, but it's very unpopular on a cultural level because it's basically centralized.
50.
▲
by
saltyfamiliar
6y ago
Completely agree. I think this could also explain the fundamental randomness we perceive at the quantum level. We're simply not seeing/unable to see the full picture.
51.
▲
by
saltyfamiliar
6y ago
This was my conclusion as well. Maybe because I (naively) have trouble imagining that white doctors would reliably care less about black babies than white babies. Regardless, it should be simple to test for: just compare the outcome of all
52.
▲
by
saltyfamiliar
6y ago
You should try Vimium. Shift-o brings up an omnibar and opens your query in a new tab.
53.
▲
by
saltyfamiliar
6y ago
What are some higher status jobs where I can use my above average ability to work with computers and sheer tenacity to compensate for my woefully underdeveloped social skills?
54.
▲
by
saltyfamiliar
6y ago
> I've never met any proponent of technical analysis who maintains that they can divine patterns purely from the shape of the candles, without knowing what they're trading or what day it is? I have. The theory is that the funda
55.
▲
by
saltyfamiliar
7y ago
Did you even read the article you linked to? Of course dollar cost averaging doesn't work when the market is only going up, but that's not what's happening right now. The one third of the time when DCA works is when the marke
56.
▲
by
saltyfamiliar
7y ago
What an irresponsible use of energy. At least mine Bitcoin...
57.
▲
by
saltyfamiliar
7y ago
Communicate: 1. Share or exchange information, news or ideas. 2. Impart or pass on (information, news or ideas) I think it can be argued that to say sand dunes communicate with each other is not anthropomorphization at all. I didn't
58.
▲
by
saltyfamiliar
7y ago
Psychedelics as a sleep aid? You must have a very quiet mind. I can't sleep after a single bowl of weed.
59.
▲
by
saltyfamiliar
7y ago
Interesting. It sounds like communism is a better system for planning and building infrastructure while capitalism is a better system for using and living within infrastructure.
60.
▲
by
saltyfamiliar
7y ago
I can barely handle the simultaneous absurdity and obviousness of this study.
More ›