throwqwerty

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by throwqwerty 6y ago
i don't understand this response. are you truly unaware that the truths of many policies are "verifiable" but not practically verifiable until many many years after they are implemented. again - this is the whole point of the
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by throwqwerty 6y ago
Look at the length and substance of that comment of mine and the one that started this subthread. They are similar in length, similar in glibness. I don't know what the score of gop is but it's not grayed out so I'll assume i
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by throwqwerty 6y ago
so you think propagandist literature has no effect on its reader?
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by throwqwerty 6y ago
>I don't know what it is about science fiction and fantasy authors in particular - maybe it happens in other fiction genres too and I'm just not aware because I don't read them as much, but a lot of them seem to succumb to
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by throwqwerty 6y ago
>I normally downvote comments that complain about downvotes, but not for quoting well-sourced interesting/concerning background facts about relevant authors. Below I linked to a published literary essay and I got downvoted.
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by throwqwerty 6y ago
>In an August 2013 essay Card presented as an experiment in fiction-writing called "The Game of Unlikely Events",[173] Card described an alternative future in which President Barack Obama ruled as a "Hitler- or Stalin-styl
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by throwqwerty 6y ago
>Maybe Ender went too far, but he did act in self-defense the book is literally about a kid committing genocide and the reasons why he should feel okay about it (ie a pretext). or did you not read it through to the end?
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by throwqwerty 6y ago
whenever someone mentions ender's game in a positive light i worry about that person https://web.archive.org/web/20070206121131/http://www4.ncsu.... tldr; orson scott card is a bigot and ender'
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by throwqwerty 6y ago
r/programming, r/math, r/physics, r/compsci. All of them don't have nearly the strict moderation you practice here and all of them are great places to have substantive discussion. I'm gonna repeat what I'v
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by throwqwerty 6y ago
>I'm hoping to persuade you! you can't because i fundamentally disagree with you and i have zero incentive to abide
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by throwqwerty 6y ago
>If you think it's possible for a large, public internet forum not to get a lot of ignorant or shitty comments why is it that the tech subs at reddit don't have the same kind of policing you practice here and are just as produc
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by throwqwerty 6y ago
>You've been posting a shocking number of nasty swipes at people. i don't take swipes at people who don't post vile things to begin with. i will never understand the whole "you have to tolerate the intolerant" et
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by throwqwerty 6y ago
>We've had to ban you before for that, so would you please stop? you seem to be oblivious to the fact that i don't care (hence the throwaway).
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by throwqwerty 6y ago
yes there is but somehow it is not as good as the codementor extension (iirc you it doesn't play well with cell navigation bindings)
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by throwqwerty 6y ago
>I would think we should hold academic products to a much higher standard who is we? are you a tt prof at literally the number 1 cs school in the US? are you a reviewer for any distributed journals? the author of this book is a wildly su
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by throwqwerty 6y ago
lol hn never fails in it's shallow dismissal of an enormous amount of work: as of right now there's a comment on how this textbook is too shallow (I guess if it were a content marketing medium post it would be much better) and h
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by throwqwerty 6y ago
I'll take this opportunity to get jupyter advice: one thing I don't understand about jupyter vs jupyterlab is why notebooks in jupyter classic have functioning vim bindings (ie in cells) through the codemirror extension but jupyte
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by throwqwerty 6y ago
cool extension but literally every other use of the term visual debugger refers to a graphical interface for something like gdb (where you have to manually type in commands to set break points, step, continue, etc). so I don't think it
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by throwqwerty 6y ago
>Perhaps you all stay only in 5 star hotels? this has gotta be the answer. I have the exact same experiences and feelings as you. I always look for basically the cheapest Airbnb and it ends up cheaper by 2-3x than local hotels and I&#x27
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by throwqwerty 6y ago
what are you talking about? it says it right there in literally bold letters on the home page in response to "what" rather than "why": >Chapel is a modern programming language that is... >parallel: contains first-c
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by throwqwerty 6y ago
i meant exactly what i said: it's a humble qualifier . "I think" functions as an admission of fallibility. it transforms a certain claim into a proposition subject to change. its purpose is rhetorical rather than formal.
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by throwqwerty 6y ago
the difference between your hypothetical tweet and this article is that humble qualifier "I think". what I've seen hn (and startup culture in general) distort is people's confidence in their own opinions. this is probabl
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by throwqwerty 6y ago
Looks like a good summary. Will read. But at the rate the discipline moves I feel like we need one of these every couple of months for everyone (not just "lay" scientists). Anyone know a good journal or something that produces a s
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by throwqwerty 6y ago
>With the bailout were basically saying its OK to not pay taxes but expect a bailout suppose this were true and this legislation set that precedent? let me ask you: how often do we have a need for a "bailout"? do a really quick
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by throwqwerty 6y ago
oh no! who will think of the precedent!!!
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by throwqwerty 6y ago
>I often wonder how things would be viable businesses if you were good at grinding. you should go ask a miller.
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by throwqwerty 6y ago
it's called outbound sales. there's no "big break" there. literally everyone does it.
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by throwqwerty 6y ago
that's because all of that goes without saying (since I assume that the typical hn reader already knows about 1. pivots being costly 2. the early adopter grind). those points aren't key features of their succuss either because eve
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by throwqwerty 6y ago
>To me that’s just a subjective list the author likes. but the prompt isn't "list some books you like" but "how should I learn" so there's obviously intent in picking those books.
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by throwqwerty 6y ago
God that's impressive. takeaway: make products for people that use computers but don't know how to use suites of tools.

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