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9 years ago
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on: Donald Trump Is the Next President of the United States
This is exactly what I mean. A couple of social policies are the whole world to you: I don't care where trans people go to the bathroom, that's not going to make me vote Hillary and have to live through more wars and recessions.
hellodevnull
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9 years ago
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on: Trump Nears Victory
I understand that this place is 99% liberal and that you went as far as to petition to kick Peter Thiel out because of his trump support, but please realize most Americans agree with trump. That's how you lose to him. Make jokes all you want, we won.
hellodevnull
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9 years ago
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on: Donald Trump Is the Next President of the United States
The same sentiment were made after brexit. Nothing bad happened. The markets didn't crash, society didn't collapse.
hellodevnull
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9 years ago
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on: Brexit: UKIP Leader Nigel Farage Resigns
So many comments in this thread regurgitating the same drivel, which by the way adds no value to the discussion. A man spends decades of his life working on something, and now you're telling me, after he achieves his goal, that he's having an epiphany and no longer believes in it?
There's a political bubble here on HN (a lot of hate for Brexit/UKIP), but that's not a reason to be able to make silly comments like this.
hellodevnull
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9 years ago
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on: Drop jQuery as a dependency from Rails
Then why drop jQuery? "It needn't be part of the default stack any more" doesn't hold up as a reason any more because it's not about whether something's needed or not but whether it's useful.
Most sites require jQuery, most developers are happy using it, why put the effort into getting rid of it?
hellodevnull
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9 years ago
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on: Moving Forward on Basic Income
Same logic is used in free market arguments: Workers leaving jobs to go to other companies creates an incentive for employers to improve work environments.
In both scenarios the workplaces become better off, but what really happens in practice is less than ideal.
hellodevnull
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9 years ago
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on: Reason: A new interface to OCaml
Site doesn't load in Firefox. Works in Chrome.
hellodevnull
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9 years ago
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on: Warren Buffett and Dan Gilbert Unite in Bid to Acquire Yahoo
This community often seems to think that something is dead just because people don't use it in SCs or in startups, completely forgetting the average person. By their logic Windows is dead, Oracle is dying etc. the only successful companies are Google and Apple.
hellodevnull
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10 years ago
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on: Request For Research: Basic Income
>I love this statement, but the need to eat has been driving human beings for a very long time. It would be a truly profound statement if we could prove this.
You could look to many European countries for an answer. The unemployed receive welfare, now tell me how many of those are still motivated enough to do anything when there's no fear of hunger. Are these people happy receiving enough welfare to live a modest life, or do they strive to do more?
hellodevnull
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10 years ago
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on: What happens when a culture is driven by the need for money to make more money
>No matter their importance to their community, they can’t stay if they can’t pay
>Investors make money, franchises notch a new location, and the neighborhood suffers a significant death.
What are these businesses that are so great to the community yet don't make any money? If everyone's taking their business to franchises it's because they (the customers) prefer them and franchises provider a better service.
Seems like the author just longs for independent stores and the like simply because he dislikes corporate culture, and would rather pay more to avoid it.
hellodevnull
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10 years ago
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on: Why Calorie Counts Are All Wrong
One of the reasons people regain is that they've gone on diets with a calorie intake that is too low (or lacking in protein) and experienced muscle atrophy rather than fat loss. A decrease in muscle mass also decreases their metabolism, which means their BMR is now lower, but because they don't know, when they return to their seemingly normal calorie intake, they'll quickly put the weight they lost back on.
hellodevnull
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10 years ago
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on: Why Calorie Counts Are All Wrong
One of the most insightful studies I've read on dieting is that people trying to lose weight underestimate how many calories are in the food they're eating. It's not surprising once you start logging everything you eat -- you'll see that a lot of common foods are extremely calorific.
I can't find the exact study but here are two on the matter
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16954358
http://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.f2907
hellodevnull
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10 years ago
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on: A 61-year-old hotel that has never had a guest
hellodevnull
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10 years ago
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on: “It’s done, there is no way back. We tried, we failed”
I have and it's very insightful. The people in the studies that were least competent were also, relatively, the most delusional of their inadequacies. This principle explains why you get people with little coding experience applying to developer jobs and failing the simply FizzBuzz exercise.
hellodevnull
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10 years ago
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on: Learn Chapel in Y minutes
I had never heard of Chapel and was looking for something along those lines.
What's interesting about it that makes it worth taking a look?
hellodevnull
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10 years ago
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on: The World's Finest Panama Hat
I don't know much about watch culture (I have a $10 Casio) but I heard someone say that a $1,000 watch is expensive, but a $30,000 watch is an investment. Not sure if people really pay attention to watches but Google "investing in a watch" and there's plenty of articles about it.
hellodevnull
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10 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Books with a high signal to noise ratio?
Within computer science, I found "Introduction to the Theory of Computation" by Sipser to cover a lot of ground in a concise and comprehensible manner.
hellodevnull
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10 years ago
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on: Okay, Feminism, It’s Time We Had a Talk About Empathy (2013)
That article by Susan kept coming to mind while reading this one.
I think that most women that actually work in technology have feelings closer to the ones expressed here than the stuff that a vocal minority spreads all over the internet.
hellodevnull
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10 years ago
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on: BingoCardCreator.com Sale Page
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11 years ago
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on: So Your Company Has Been Found Using Alex’s Photographs Without Permission
>They mean that, once you have paid and received permission to use the work, you shouldn't be restricted in your use of the work.
Including reselling the work. This is one part I don't understand. One person pays full price and sells it to everybody else at a lower price, until the product is free as in, yes, free beer.
