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by ythl 10y ago
I mean, I thought it was an interesting read, although I immediately recognized it was not a scholarly publication in any way (even with his "formal theory")
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by ythl 10y ago
pure carbon is, counter-intuitively, carcinogenic.
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by ythl 10y ago
Isn't Harambe hate speech now? Or was that Pepe?
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by ythl 10y ago
Where are you from that "racks up" means "counterfeits" and not "accumulates"?
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by ythl 10y ago
> Facebook engages in propaganda and psychological manipulation. Wasn't Facebook caught scrubbing positive conservative news stories in the past? I could see secret deals between facebook and political parties regarding the consumer
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by ythl 10y ago
Wow, they implemented Deseret - the Mormon-invented phonetic alphabet
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by ythl 10y ago
> Countless computers secured by full time professionals have been hacked. And yet, the black hats who breach such systems often have an attitude like "Wow, such a reputable organization has such sorry security. They deserve what I
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by ythl 10y ago
Basically cardboard made out of metal?
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by ythl 10y ago
> Why should I earn several times their salary when I just sit at a computer all day, whilst they do hard work? Yeah, why should you? I mean, you are essentially being paid to surf Hacker News and plunk out a few lines of code every once
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by ythl 10y ago
What about people that squander their BI? We need safety nets below the safety nets... At some point shouldn't we let people fail?
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by ythl 10y ago
There we go, we've now gone full sci-fi
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by ythl 10y ago
I still think it's many, many orders of magnitude easier to survive on a messed up earth than on a fresh Mars or Venus.
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by ythl 10y ago
I'm not saying "don't try", I'm just saying "I think what you are attempting is foolish and that you are just going to kill a bunch of people", that's all. I can express an opinion about a potentially
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by ythl 10y ago
Don't worry. If anything, space will become the graveyard for the rich and powerful once they realize how poorly the human body fares in high-radiation, low gravity environments.
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by ythl 10y ago
> What if HN just automatically penalized negative posts? "I think it's a good idea to start a national wingsuit base jumping team." "I don't know if that's a good idea. Pretty high chance of death" Pe
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by ythl 10y ago
At least in my case, I see trying to start a Mars colony as a death trap. It's the illusion of carrying on the human race, but it's really just dooming a bunch of pioneers to a grim fate in an extremely hostile environment. I thin
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by ythl 10y ago
"How do I convert a JSON object to CSV?" is a common broad question I see all the time. There is no standard conversion because they are completely different data structures.
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by ythl 10y ago
I love/hate the carefully curated language. "Three weeks ago, SpaceX experienced an anomaly at our Launch Complex 40 (LC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. This resulted in the loss of one of our Falcon 9 rockets and its pay
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by ythl 10y ago
> I don't see any reason smoking an occasional cigar would be incompatible with health and fitness. Sounds like rationalization: https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/t... TL;DR:
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by ythl 10y ago
> I don't know anyone in tech who appreciates cigars That's because most people don't want cancer
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by ythl 10y ago
As far as I know, quantum entanglement is like two paper bags with two identical colored balls in them. You can separate the bags by a million miles, and yet if you look in one bag, you will know which color ball the other bag contains (bec
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by ythl 10y ago
Make it only available to the government. Your average citizen shouldn't have access to so much information; only the government should.
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by ythl 10y ago
> So why are we looking at Google to scrub the record of factual information Europe likes to try and bully Google; it makes them feel better about their distinct lack of web tech
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by ythl 10y ago
We should just pass a new law called "The right to scrub your public image", which allows you to control how the public perceives you or your company online. If someone says something unflattering about you, you can force them to
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by ythl 10y ago
That's why my HP printer only has a black cartridge. The socket for the color cartridge is empty.
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by ythl 10y ago
This seems like a meaningless argument. It's like saying: "We are all just brains in vats in a giant floating supercomputer storage facility in space hooked up to a networked virtual reality system! Everything we perceive is false
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by ythl 10y ago
Yeah, but this is taken to the extreme. I mean, Tesla isn't currently profitable and they are relying on subsidies to just stay afloat. We're talking billions of dollars of government cash flowing into Tesla/SpaceX to keep th
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by ythl 10y ago
I'm tolerant of Edward Snowden-related politics on HN, but this just appears to be straight up politics with little/nothing related to tech.
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by ythl 10y ago
> "Yes, he's building rockets, but he took a bunch of government money!" To be fair, pretty much all of his companies rely on government subsidies. He's basically built his businesses around it.
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by ythl 10y ago
Putting win percentages on gambling games is about as effective as putting lung cancer warnings on cigarettes. Casinos don't care that they ruin some people, just like big tobacco doesn't care if most of their customers eventually

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