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I like to think that most of the valuable information is generally unnoticed. Most of the things I make are very valuable to the people who want it, but any one of those things are…

Whenever I hear "algorithm" anymore, I see it as the "statistics" of the past. This entire thing is a product of math washing[1]. [1] https://www.mathwashing.com/

I'm still trying to differentiate the difference between Western and American culture. As a general rule, the content that floats here about the rest of the world is either extreme…

I'm absolutely convinced that censorship takes one of two forms: 1. Cut out things, overstepping and taking some of the best that humanity has to offer. 2. Avoid cutting out things…

I'm comforted by history. Shopped photos don't mean we distrust photos entirely, but we're now generally "herd immune" to silly things in a photo because we all know that it came f…

As a trend-resistant individual, this entire discussion is ridiculous. While I'm white as the plowed snow, my wife is distinctly black. Whatever injustices that happened have, for …

Why so much fatalism? From what I understand, this seems like a one-off situation, and could swing back into full restoration once the urchins die off from starvation. If nature is…

A huge part of this depends on your philosophical axioms about the inherent morality of individuals. Are people default-good or default-bad? Frankly, this view is the major divide …

Totally okay, though I added the PDFs/videos to gitignore. I'm mildly paranoid about IPs[1]! [1] https://gainedin.site/ip/

I love this! It really embodies the concept of "emergent order". From our birth onward, we perceive the environment around us, observe patterns, then build them, and the entire thi…

Okay, this may be a difficult question, but what's the _bare minimum_ disk size of a social network? For clarity's sake, we're going to assume: - text-based, like HN - no inherent …

I have a massive learning project[1], and I think 2/3 of my "to get through as soon as sensible" content is news.ycombinator links. Needless to say, this site is my own personal St…

I entirely agree, but HN is filled with ASD savants, so what would you expect? It's not precisely correct, and affirmations about known facts are largely a neurotypical thing. NOTE…

One thing that tends to offend most tech people I come across: Data is not the basis of existence. Math itself is nothing but a derived value construct our minds play tricks with. …

I'm still hashing out the details, but essentially cybersecurity has one major flaw: nothing is immaculate. At least the way I see it, good CySec is creating a chain of dependent c…

I would love for someone more well-versed to correct me on this, but I remember reading a decade ago about how the Roman priesthood (the calendar-keepers) would fudge with the date…

I'm probably speaking _way_ out of my league here, but I imagine it's somehow spoofable, kinda like how you can generate fake MACs or IPs, so why not? One terrifying/beautiful elem…

Even if this was shopped, the illusion was correct, meaning the sailors' tall tales from a few hundred years ago weren't quite so tall. I mean, mermaids ≡ dolphins, so ghost ship ≡…

It doesn't help that game dev (IMO) is literally the most difficult software development possible: - massive front-end visual dev, both static and animation, that often require log…

I'm sure I'm not the only one who noticed the trend from that graph. We seem to be floating steady at ~50% now. I don't mean to be cynical, but what do you think would bump the cur…