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by smcl 4y ago
I guess it would also depend on distance. If it's a 10 minute walk vs waiting up to 5 minutes for the bus then a 5 minute bus ride I get it. Also I just plotted distances between stops on my tram commute (waiting for the CI[0] :D) and
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by smcl 4y ago
I'm having trouble making sense of this. It sounds like you want to say you won't take the bus for a journey under 200 metres - which is fine. But the meaning of your sentence is something like: if you want to travel 2 km and the
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by smcl 4y ago
Yeah to me (admittedly a complete outsider) they seem to just barely have the capability to remain in the fight in Ukraine, it's almost unthinkable that they'd try to open another front. I've also been wondering recently if G
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by smcl 4y ago
That's true to some extent - I could spin up a few hundred accounts predicting something specific happen on a specific date for the next couple of years (a Russian surrender, Boris Johnson sex scandal, whatever) and claim that I'm
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by smcl 4y ago
I personally don't care about it too much - I'd much rather see greater investment in public transport. But there's some interest in the UK - there's a driverless service across the Forth that keeps popping into the ne
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by smcl 4y ago
I think people took issue with the pretty extreme claim that it is an "arm of the CCP" - by now it is no secret and no surprise that the Chinese government have sizeable investments overseas. They're also the second-largest f
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by smcl 4y ago
I see you're expanding your comment from "It's literally in the name", adding facts as you make your way through the wikipedia article (scaling back to just "chinese roots" when you realised it's headquart
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by smcl 4y ago
Also the original commenter added another comment saying that they actually enjoyed bcantrill's "have you even kissed a girl" remark: "On the other hand, even as a Linux advocate I found bcantrill's post freakin&#
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by smcl 4y ago
> I have never seen such cognitive dissonance here at HN > ... > maybe stop tweeting images of guillotines You're seeing randos on Twitter tweeting shit and somehow twisting it to suggest that HN commenters are doing this? Lum
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by smcl 4y ago
> But in my opinion YC doesn't want the petition on the front page probably because they don't want to have to explain the comments to Congress In my opinion they probably didn't want it on the front page with that title (
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by smcl 4y ago
Right but when I commented the headline was literally “Y Combinator is asking for a bailout” I definitely understand why you flagged it though, it just didn’t occur to me when I commented
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by smcl 4y ago
Interesting, I thought it was the opposite - people attempting some kind of damage control since having a “Y Combinator is asking for a bailout” story on the front page is not a good look. But I guess the title was changed to be a little le
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by smcl 4y ago
Right but the link itself isn’t critical of HN or anything, just some of the comments turned out not to be super on board with the petition.
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by smcl 4y ago
Flagged!? Come on this is extremely topical, I cannot think of a more on-topic thing for HN. It brings together: - Silicon Valley - Startups - Y Combinator - Current Events Any one of those is an appropriate submission for Hacker News but
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by smcl 4y ago
Garry Tan there, making the case for a strong social safety net to shield people from the more ruthless side of capitalism, particularly when it’s as a result of events outside of their control. I’m a little surprised, but I am glad you hav
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by smcl 4y ago
Heh, ok so he's still got the midas touch then :) I hadn't really seen anything of him recently but I figured in a "stopped clock is right twice a day" way he can't possibly always be wrong, but maybe I gave him t
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by smcl 4y ago
Oh yeah there's definitely plenty more than I mentioned. But I just wanted to highlight that his reputation as this sort of accidental Grim Reaper of companies originated in the GFC back in 07/08
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by smcl 4y ago
I don’t think what you should take from this is “always do the opposite of what Cramer says”. Rather that you should not consult him at all when you’re deciding how to invest your money.
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by smcl 4y ago
I don’t know if he consistently made bad predictions, but he had a few howlers during the 2008 global financial crisis. He very loudly declared on his TV show that Bear Sterns was safe on the eve of its collapse: https://youtu.
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by smcl 4y ago
Soup with beef in it is relatively common in the two places I've lived - UK and Czech Republic. Couple of very common examples of "beef soup" from each: https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/oxtail-soup h
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by smcl 4y ago
Tip for anyone who enjoyed that particular type of video - scroll through that user decino's videos looking for thumbnails with bright yellow backgrounds. Those are the ones where he digs into tech behind Doom and Doom II, usually with
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by smcl 4y ago
Not necessarily. It sounded to me like they were dismissing the idea that there was anything to that original value. That there's nothing "lost" because there just doesn't exist $70bn of demand for BTC, it could never be
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by smcl 4y ago
Fair point, these are actually great counterexamples
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by smcl 4y ago
Good afternoon, fellow Imposter Syndrome Haver :) Just jumping in to say that you are most likely not a pretender or an idiot, you're probably just very self-conscious, hold yourself to high standards and give yourself lofty goals.
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by smcl 4y ago
I think the point is that the C standard (or K&R, or both? I forget) repeatedly refers to "objects", and uses the word differently than we're used to in OOP
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by smcl 4y ago
You're downvoted but I don't think you're wrong. In general it seems to be the case that if you're waging a war and you're not getting completely crushed the electorate (or at least the "undecided" voters&
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by smcl 4y ago
Ah yeah I remember DX9 support was mentioned. That's good to hear though
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by smcl 4y ago
Yeah for a while before RPi and Arduino embedded/DSP dev hardware was pricey. I still remember when I worked for ADI that their “EZ-Kit” SHARC and Blackfin development boards were insanely expensive, >$500 each or so. The real kicke
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by smcl 4y ago
You pulled that out of mschuster91's profile as an own, but actually I think that means they're probably pretty chill. I probably wouldn't have known that about them otherwise, thanks for sharing it!
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by smcl 4y ago
Well it is if we're talking about online abuse and the role of social media in enabling real life violence. Last I checked there weren't too many social media users back in 1965-1980.

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