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The Chesterton fence defense (yeah!) doesn't apply. Did you care about Chesterton when the previous set of fence-smashers went around smashing (much older) fences?

You mean "hotel booking sites offer discounts to non-bay area customers", surely?

Intuition forms because it works. When it doesn't it's remarkable to the point of writing books and movies about it.

You're right, no badness there.

I couldn't make it to the end of the "Badness 0 Knuth's version" paper because of the keming. Is it on purpose? I can't tell, it was too distracting to keep reading. Ironic.

In UX, the right way to think about your users is not that they are dumb, but that they are very smart but very busy, and don't have time for your app's bullshit. It puts you in th…

Waves on what?

Can't spell "copilot" without "clip"

Is that 5% growth? Or is that a piece of paper with a number "5" in it? There is a difference.

> any foreigner who lent Evergrande money thinking this wasn't a huge risk is a moron. Or they are very smart while investing your money. Check your country's pension fund, see who…

It's not taboo in the slightest, it's everywhere. It's just that it wouldn't work because any group defecting and having more children would inherit the earth and you'd be back to …

The market, made up of a lot of people, seems to think the richest man in the world is pretty valuable. A subset of people around here don't think that way. Why? I have my own opin…

Not a lot of humans do

The world is easier to understand when you replace "fair" with "good for me and mine in the shortest of terms"

The non-austere "Free stuff for you! Vote for me!" political strategy has worked pretty well while technology improvements has made stuff faster than politicians can give it away. …

Do you also worry that rogue employees or literally anybody with the keys to the office of a printer could have been changing the texts of laws as printed in official publications …

Is the secret in the running of it? The policies? Or is there a source of funds in the Isle of Man that is not applicable to the rest of the world? Like, if it was applied to the r…

I'd call it a puzzle more than a game. But yeah

Yeah, you never saw it

Preach. Angular 2+, btw, can (and should) be used the same way. V=f(S) is the only sane way to live. Just don't change application state from a component lifecycle function and you…

Does it contain a drill?

Just solved it, finally, it only took me ten years of seeing it on HN and attempting it.

I wonder if the "banned books" line is earnestly trying to fool anybody. Is it just for internal self-deception? Shibboleth? Mood affiliation? Maybe it can be said it succeeded in …

Sure. You'll find plenty of evidence for Navalny's lawyers as well, funny how that works. You still haven't told me how you're going to tell them apart. I mean, I know: You start w…

There are no mistakes, just print it now if it aligns with the narrative you want to push, and you'll correct later when nobody cares if you got it wrong.