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by samhw 5y ago
Thank you so much for building this. I've been looking for something that's like Notion but without its horrendous performance issues, and ideally with some form of linking between notes (but without Roam's feeling that I mig
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by samhw 5y ago
This is why I disagree with recreational lawmaking. If you employ a bunch of people whose only job is to make laws, you soon end up with a bunch of absurd laws like this, just because someone got stung by a bee once and a politician decided
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by samhw 5y ago
If they were legally able to rent out that space, I'm pretty sure they would. So I don't think it "calls into question the concept of owning a space", so much as it calls into question the wisdom of legislating a 'm
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by samhw 5y ago
I suspect the artist comes from the r/antiwork fringe, who would say it's equally creepy to build an apartment in a building you do own. (I don't know how I feel about all that, really. I don't regard myself as a capit
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by samhw 5y ago
I'm pretty sure it's sarcastic, at least in places: > It is important to me that you know that I have a great deal of respect for the work you do and I am very sorry that I wasted some of your valuable time today. This project
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by samhw 5y ago
Well, and 95% of heroin users don't mind needles and constipation. It's trivially true that the people who end up using a product are mostly the people who are content with its tradeoffs. That doesn't say much at all about
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by samhw 5y ago
'Intersubjective' is that word (or 'intersubjective for the domain of all human beings'), if you want a technical term.
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by samhw 5y ago
> Call it Bird or Goose or something. I'd cast my vote for Crested Shriketit. Or maybe Mionectine Flycatcher? Many-Coloured Rush Tyrant? Incidentally, Wikipedia's list of birds is truly a wondrous place: https://en.w
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by samhw 5y ago
> It is about as good as a response that can be considered Just FYI, you want: > It is about as good a response as can be considered (Incidentally, I couldn't agree more with your comment. It was a very magnanimous response that
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by samhw 5y ago
> The README is using a trick I'm increasingly leaning on: parts of that document - the --help output and the example database schema - are automatically generated using Cog How does this interact with IDEs? Has anyone written a VSC
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by samhw 5y ago
Ah, dammit, I thought he meant "wri g". This changes the meaning entirely. Well, I disagree with that , but I thought there was some real insight in the observation that there are many things wri g with it.
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by samhw 5y ago
Do you think "works" is not a valid word? I can't see any other grounds for objecting to their grammar. This is quite a bizarre comment.
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by samhw 5y ago
Precisely. You can definitely see the downstream effects of this, too, with lots of academics who see great success by publishing total tripe in well-packaged books (see: Malcolm Gladwell, the entire field of social psychology, etc).
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by samhw 5y ago
I'm afraid I don't follow you
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by samhw 5y ago
"Attractive"? Do you mean this in some kind of figurative sense? If not, then I'm really not at all sure that that's how science fairs are decided.
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by samhw 5y ago
> there probably was a kid who had no help from their parents, who hacked together a 'are the lights on' circuit, using hand-me-down tech components, who's getting no notice. I'd have struggled to articulate what anno
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by samhw 5y ago
Advertising is not 'market manipulation': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_manipulation . This dialect of 'Substackspeak' is starting to feel like SEO for HN readers.
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by samhw 5y ago
> chrons takes years, and is very medically mature Sorry, what does that actually mean?
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by samhw 5y ago
Please go back to Reddit with your semi-literate blurtings - we're trying to have an interesting conversation here
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by samhw 5y ago
Because it was a Ponzi scheme, according to that theory. If you're running a Ponzi scheme - as Madoff demonstrates - your good luck and your good life tend to run out. The theory is that he faked his death when the music was about to s
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by samhw 5y ago
Yes, this is actually not unusual. People need food, water, shelter, and suchlike in order to survive, and so they exchange their labour for goods and services. Money is a helpful token now rather widely used in this bartering process. I kn
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by samhw 5y ago
FWIW, it's pedophile (or paedophile). 'Pedofile' is the notoriously efficient entropy coding compression format used for child pornography stashes (/s).
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by samhw 5y ago
> “because it’s not like ‘real’ drugs” Or, as the classic Brass Eye segment put it: https://youtu.be/MIAJemmO-bg?t=238
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by samhw 5y ago
That's really cool. If you have any pointers to any resources along those lines, I'd be really interested. And I absolutely agree. It's a tragedy that maths is taught in such a dry, unengaging way. I think far more people wou
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by samhw 5y ago
This looks fascinating - thank you! Strange to see it's from that Mormon university, but it's a great idea irrespective.
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by samhw 5y ago
This is the only way I've ever learned anything mathematical, at least beyond school-level maths. I wish it were more common to find courses - even online courses - that 'motivate'[0] maths with engaging projects, which for m
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by samhw 5y ago
It is indeed - but why is that relevant, or somehow undesirable?
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by samhw 5y ago
For sure: Cloudflare is increasingly feeling like a better alternative to the 'bare cloud' providers, for most of my projects and I suspect also for the 99% of companies who are just building generic CRUD web/mobile app backe
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by samhw 5y ago
Oh, nice! Thanks for that tidbit, appreciate it :) Edit: I'm an idiot, you work for Cloudflare, lol - I thought you were just particularly sharp-eyed
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by samhw 5y ago
> they were super helpful, but only if you explicitly asked for their help It also usually helps if it's an interesting problem...

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