hengri

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by hengri 4y ago
Do you think that average people throughout history had the means of going on weekend camping trips.
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by hengri 4y ago
Random question, but is this from the Google bare metal team? I remember interviewing with them and the work they did was fascinating.
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by hengri 4y ago
It's low interest rates to blame
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by hengri 5y ago
> Some of the prior employees enjoyed playing with advanced language features and writing libraries for the most general possible case even when that made it hard to understand how they were used for the 2 actual cases we needed to handl
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by hengri 5y ago
PRISM is old news, google encrypts data between datacenters now
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by hengri 5y ago
Could be that HN is more inclined to use OF than play mobile games heh
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by hengri 5y ago
I was under the impression that marketing costs fall under a cost of revenue column and goodwill is just a BS account item to account for differences in money spent and 'market value' during m&a. See https://www.inv
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by hengri 5y ago
If that was true, we would still be using myspace and friendster.
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by hengri 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
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by hengri 6y ago
Urban population density is the only thing that is keeping our(US) carbon footprint from going through the roof imo. I'd much rather have people live in high density buildings within walking distance to most things. Sewers, electricity
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by hengri 6y ago
they dont
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by hengri 6y ago
You are an inspiration to the rest of us
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by hengri 6y ago
I have ~3000 blitz games in Lichess and I have never once had to play 2 bishops or bishop knight end games.
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by hengri 6y ago
I can't tell them apart. Maybe I just like them both too much.
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by hengri 6y ago
Because most people with Down Syndrome are sterile
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by hengri 6y ago
Blind is terrible. I think only the toxic ones stick around though. I doubt most people are like this.
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by hengri 6y ago
It's much simpler than that. Every chess move has an accuracy score where 100% means that it is optimal play according to the top chess engine(which can easily beat any human). Anyone with an abnormally high accuracy is a cheater. Anyo
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by hengri 6y ago
I'm guessing it's a uncomfortable fact for the hackernews crowd who seem to travel a lot and also claim to care for climate change.
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by hengri 6y ago
Okay, but what if I want to play with strangers and NOT have to worry pervasive cheating?
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by hengri 6y ago
Regulations like this only widen Facebook's moat. Compliance is a huge challenge for resource starved startups.
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by hengri 6y ago
How does it work? I figured you'd have to somehow dispose them in a way such that it doesn't reenter the biosphere.