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> Ps does HN offer the capability of completely deleting the account and all of the comments ? They claim to allow deleting the account (just the name, they keep the comments up), …

Yes, famously the Italian school of algebraic geometry ran into foundational issues. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_school_of_algebraic_ge... .

This is also very similar to N-version programming :)

> I take it you haven't seen the world of HTML cleaners [1]? Are you seriously comparing deterministic code formatters to nondeterministic LLMs? This isn't just a change of scale b…

No, a lot of people on this website value very highly their completely irrelevant nitpicks. I’m starting to think it’s just the kind of mind the tech industry attracts, because I’v…

GDP per capita is an almost completely meaningless metric if you don’t also include cost of living and some way of measuring the quality of goods and services it acquires for you.

You are correct, but universities did use to actually teach. SICP is still relevant 40 years later, and it was because the professors who created the class and textbook actually ga…

FWIW, I believe RealPage works to lower rent. Every landlord wants to say, “We charge below the 50% mark”, thereby steadily lowering it over time.

That all sounds obvious and inevitable, but it also relies on the return from capital out-earning the return from labor by quite a lot. This hasn’t always been true, but it does se…

No

Really? All real estate is worth the exact same? That's news to me.

Look up fungible in a dictionary. Housing is not fungible because not all units of housing are interchangeable. Being able to sell something does not make it fungible.

Stocks are fungible. Housing is not.

> I think this is because we introduce a complicated way to calculate determinants and then we use determinants to calculate the eigenvalues? Yes, the determinant should be taught …

How’s that working out for you with immigration?

Your terms are acceptable.

Obviously I have no evidence to back this up, but it seems to mostly be used on the Internet in an intellectually lazy way to avoid confronting the fact that many people really are…

30 ng of botulinum toxin can kill you. What's your point?

Every day I become more convinced that Hanlon’s razor is an example of malice.

I don’t know if it’s the actual reason, but they missed ad revenue expectations according to Yahoo. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/stock-market-today-nasdaq-fal...

I was when I posted it.

Alright I’ll say the obvious since no one else will. This technology is far too dangerous to ever see widespread adoption because no one can be trusted not to use it for power and …

> By definition half the population will have opinions ahead of curve, if curve means the median opinion. You’re imagining a continuous distribution that doesn’t exist.

> If anything, it's the anti-Musk people who are sliding in extremism and foolishness. I’m not convinced the anti-Musk people are as monolithic as this comment would imply.