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by slingnow 2y ago
The author starts with 8 paragraphs on gold, and the word gold is mentioned 33 times throughout the article, spread about evenly throughout. By no means did the author "move on" from talking about gold, let alone "quickly&quo
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by slingnow 2y ago
Really? HN has been a mini-Reddit for quite some time now. Frequently just a bunch of low quality, unfunny and recycled one-liners hoping to grab a few precious internet points.
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by slingnow 2y ago
> But the author can't be serious about no one knowing who Prabhakar Raghavan is. He is, for instance, the co-author of the definitive text on randomized algorithms [Motwani and Raghavan]. He has also been a well-respected database
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by slingnow 2y ago
Not sure that "being able to hit undo" and "no harm done!" is what makes blowing things up enjoyable, but to each his own.
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by slingnow 2y ago
There are 8 billion people on earth. And Texas is 172 million acres. I don't think the math works out.
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by slingnow 2y ago
And no philosophy worth anything would put any of the things you listed on the path to happiness. In fact, generally speaking, they are the opposite. An infinite supply of anything to satisfy all of your desires does not lead to a fulfillin
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by slingnow 2y ago
Are you seriously telling me that a sport that allows elbow and knee strikes to the head has become more dangerous because they reduced the weight of the gloves? Have you thought about this for a second? And the mention of your "untrai
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by slingnow 2y ago
I generally take this word to mean "I'm a redditor and I want everyone to know it".
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by slingnow 2y ago
Do you think that earthquakes transmit instantaneously? Why would they not have a propagation speed like everything else in the universe?
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by slingnow 2y ago
Thank god Microsoft and Google are on the case! I was thinking next, we should have Exxon Mobile study the effects of oil on the environment.
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by slingnow 2y ago
Very little? Let me introduce you to: newspapers, radio, television, books.
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by slingnow 2y ago
It seems like your expectations must come from frontend development or something, where you can hot glue together a few packages to instantly get results. It is absolutely possible to do what you want, but it still would take a little knowl
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by slingnow 2y ago
This take just seems disconnected from reality. The advertisers know at some level what's going on there, but until the general public changes its view of what Twitch is, they can advertise there with zero consequences. If and when som
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by slingnow 2y ago
And it's very clear to me that HN is next to suffer this fate
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by slingnow 2y ago
> The top answer given here is highly reductionist to the point of misleading This is my expectation for every single "expert" answer on Reddit. Confidence without substance.
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by slingnow 2y ago
You lead with saying you have no background in physics, proceed to give an incorrect explanation, and then asked if it was wrong. Someone simply told you it was in fact wrong -- which apparently didn't meet your expectations. If you wa
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by slingnow 3y ago
Rust did not invent immutable by default. This appears to be some kind of blog spam. More than 50% of the "article" is just trivial code examples backing up a non-existent point. Perhaps the author is looking to get a job in Rust
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by slingnow 3y ago
I don't understand what you're saying. Clearly both types of meetings (one-off vs recurring) would be helpful. The one-off may save you days/weeks of research, but it seems like you're not satisfied with that unless you
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by slingnow 3y ago
> In short, we have already used up all the landmass we responsibly should use for people This sure sounds a lot like a pure opinion. Do you have anything to back up this claim?
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by slingnow 3y ago
We are nowhere NEAR saturating our landmass with people. There are more and less desirable places to live in the country, but there's no shortage of raw space. Not to mention, this isn't zero sum. Our roads and bridges can be in d
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by slingnow 3y ago
You're right. And to continue with this kind of reasoning: there's definitely a non-zero chance that humanity is wiped out by a large asteroid collision, or a fast spreading lethal disease, or nuclear war. Therefore since there&#x
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by slingnow 3y ago
The landing page is as opaque as the name. I _think_ this might be something cool, but I have absolutely no idea what it is based on the landing page and the included video.
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by slingnow 3y ago
I'm sure this generic "joke" would be a real gut buster over on Reddit.
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by slingnow 3y ago
Society largely finds marijuana use acceptable, and yet it remains a federal crime. When someone cuts me in line at the store, I don't see that as ethical or acceptable, but we don't have laws against it. So your argument that una
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by slingnow 3y ago
This isn't at all what they claim. Can you point out where they say that "if you just buy their thing you'll have a distraction free life in 14 days" ? What it actually claims is to get you to "bearable levels of pr
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by slingnow 3y ago
And someone in a "flow state", headed in the wrong direction, is even more wasted time than a meeting to coordinate efforts in the right direction.
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by slingnow 3y ago
What do you use for documentation? My experience with Confluence has been similarly bad.
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by slingnow 3y ago
Your analysis seems like a very Europe-centric analysis. Can you please add your opinions on the best tools for sale in Japan? And then Australia next. This may surprise you, but some people are from regions of the world where only a subset
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by slingnow 3y ago
Yeah, it's called being a hacker
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by slingnow 3y ago
Please elaborate on how watching a commercial or receiving a pleasantry from a cashier is anything remotely like a company secretly influencing the results of a search for knowledge.

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