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by ythn 10y ago
I was pretty surprised to see I aligned with Trump on most issues, but I am also skeptical that Trump really holds all of those stances.
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by ythn 10y ago
Could you elaborate on why you believe transparency is the cure?
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by ythn 10y ago
At my work we just have a Jenkins job that fires the current CEO first thing in the morning
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by ythn 10y ago
Pay toilets are super annoying, and very common in Europe. Still, even if you are in NYC, it's hard to find a "free" toilet. Most of the time you have to go to a restaurant, buy something, and then you'll get the key.
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by ythn 10y ago
Really? I almost never feel guilty unless the devs put some actual personality into the characters I'm killing (like Undertale). With things like Skyrim or Deus Ex, the NPCs seem like lifeless robots (shoot them in the foot and they di
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by ythn 10y ago
You gotta be careful of the Laffer Curve[0] though. Tap into the rich too much and they'll leave. Make it illegal to leave... well, your country is going downhill fast. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curv
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by ythn 10y ago
I foresee anti-theft measures being more like the drone rendering itself useless/calling home if stolen or captured. Also marking the parts with amazon identification so you know they are stolen. It's no different from stealing th
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by ythn 10y ago
> Are there any popular simple games in the latter category recently? One Night Ultimate Werewolf Splendor Love Letter Coup
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by ythn 10y ago
It's a pro and a con. Pro: Fidel Castro died Con: Alan Rickman died
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by ythn 10y ago
Cons of 2016: - Brexit - Trump - some famous people died Pros of 2016: - Brexit - Trump - some famous people died
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by ythn 10y ago
> the emotional aspect of playing a great instrument played by other great musicians? Equip: Famous Violin [+5% playing ability from placebo effect]
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by ythn 10y ago
Well, it has an abnormally high number of edits because every month they archive the past month and restructure the page to the current month. Notice how that page only shows December?
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by ythn 10y ago
Donald Trump at #2. Not sure if that means people were trying to make his page more accurate or that people were trying to make his page less accurate.
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by ythn 10y ago
Out of all the devices I've ever owned, my Apple devices have had the most hardware failures. My iPhone 4S's headphone jack stopped working. I bought a replacement and installed it myself (which was a nightmare) but it was still
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by ythn 10y ago
No, he means, where's the reference? I would be like if I said: Scientists recently proved the existence of a soul inside of all life forms [0].
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by ythn 10y ago
People like believing in science fiction. If it makes them feel better, let them.
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by ythn 10y ago
I've been burned twice now. First with Name of the Wind, and again with Blood Song. Both books were incredible masterpieces, and both books were a part of an unfinished series. And at least with Blood Song, the rest of the series was p
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by ythn 10y ago
At this point they are synonymous, so there's no point in trying to change the terminology any more.
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by ythn 10y ago
Name of the Wind is good. Almost too good. The downside of course is that some people fear Rothfuss will never finish the story...
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by ythn 10y ago
> and the creepy five-year-old singing an echo-ey, unaccompanied version of some happy classic tune to give it a tense, unsettling secondary meaning "Oh, say can you see, by the dawn's early light..." d-d-d-d-d-bwooosh (
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by ythn 10y ago
> What is the right way to cope in a situation where reality is: 1) you ARE outclassed by your peers 2) your peers ARE judging you for it In that case you are a little fish in a big pond. Consider moving to a smaller pond. If no pond is
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by ythn 10y ago
There's a point where printing progress is actually a huge bottleneck to performance. Try it out in python. Make a for loop that loops a million times and prints "Hello". Run the program once normally, and a second time pipin
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by ythn 10y ago
The only incentive I've ever had to jailbreak a 3DS was in order to play region-locked games that were only released in Japan. Why is region-locking still a thing? Why force the most loyal of your customers to buy two consoles - one NA
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by ythn 10y ago
I guess I just interpreted "politics" to mean left vs. right bickering, not the nuanced ethics of self-driving cars or whatever. The left vs. right never-ending debates are what I want to avoid. If an article clearly has a pro-lef
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by ythn 10y ago
I don't see any reason a story about voting machines couldn't be strictly technical. What politics would you even want to discuss?
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by ythn 10y ago
Thank you. I have a million places I can go for political discussion. Why does HN have to be one of them?
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by ythn 10y ago
I already get TONS of political crap thrown at me on facebook and reddit, why would I want my last bastion of pure, unadulterated technology news also tainted by the very thing I'm trying to avoid? I want to come here to discuss code a
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by ythn 10y ago
@realDonaldTrump is verified, the "official" handle for conservatives, so what?
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by ythn 10y ago
I'm skeptical because you are promising the moon, and when I look and weigh the tech for myself it seems many orders of magnitude less advanced than your hype leads one to believe.
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by ythn 10y ago
I'm not even convinced that the human brain can be modeled in terms of a Turing machine. How does does the brain achieve free will - the ability to "decide" between two arbitrary, equally-weighted things? RNG? And yet, it doe

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