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podric | 4 years ago

Are the Hacker News servers down when you're not on Hacker News?

There are an infinite number of these types of logically pendantic questions that are immensely uninteresting to think about.

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Stratoscope|4 years ago

> Are the Hacker News servers down when you're not on Hacker News?

That seems like a tautology. If I'm not on Hacker News, then of course the server must be down. Why else would I not be on HN?

trutannus|4 years ago

If (Stratoscope and Hackernews) -> Stratoscope is on Hackernews.

=> (Stratoscope is on Hackernews) is false.

=> (Stratoscope and Hackernews) is false.

=> Stratoscope is true.

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Hackernews is false.

ooi10|4 years ago

It’s been my experience that people who call things uninteresting are merely sharing their own unusual disinterest in something otherwise interesting. It’s also been my experience that said people are usually the most uninteresting in the room.

Also, I don’t know what it says about you that you went from effectively “trees falling in the forest” to the Hacker News infrastructure to defend your point about fun, thought-provoking idioms, but I do know it’s remarkably uninteresting.

podric|4 years ago

Fair enough. By calling my comment uninteresting, have you also rendered yourself to likely be the most uninteresting person in the room, by the logic in your first paragraph? If so, who wins the title of the most uninteresting person in the room?

Etheryte|4 years ago

Tell that to Schrödinger. Even questions that seem utterly pointless and mundane at first glance can lead to captivating insights if explored at depth.

smichel17|4 years ago

Schrödinger's cat was originally intended as a reductio ad absurdum.

vokep|4 years ago

uninteresting to you

A lot of discoveries of interesting stuff resulted from something uninteresting being considered interesting and deeply contemplated. Others look and say "what an idiot, spending such time on such uninteresting x", I say, "you're only my self-imagined disagreeable other, I'm your god, your consciousness is my consciousness, what say you now?" and they would say nothing since the puppeteer has been revealed and there is nothing left to say. I guess this is why God will never prove he exists.

Mary-Jane|4 years ago

I'm sure the comments were made in jest...