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I agree, somewhat, but that is a much more evidence-backed stance---they're obviously useful in a sense; the debate is over what worldview / posture one ought to adopt as a result …

Same. HN comments would (maybe still do) accuse you of astroturfing if you said you preferred an office. Not that much stock should be put in strangers accusing you, but, it was te…

There are 4-5 competing ISPs in my area. And no, they'll lower prices to prevent losing customers preemptively as well. But only if you ask them to

It is probably not that. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49180901 posted yesterday explains it well.

Perhaps you saw https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49180901 on here yesterday?

that's one way of doing the calculation, which I do not subscribe to. The economic theory that markets develop according to the aggregate effects of rational actors does not invert…

mostly unrelated but amusing: I keep getting fliers from Google fiber trying to get me to switch. Every one has this one bizarre line in it: "our customers have never had their rat…

The other part is: if there really is so much money in these, it should be easy for the companies to produce an actually good deal. Everyone can tell (after all these experiences) …

It's strangely meditative to read the prose of someone who was so willing to absorb every single fact about something and to have a considered opinion on each of them. It is a stra…

Don't see what's wrong with it...

Related: https://acoup.blog/2020/07/03/collections-the-practical-case...

For as long as the sparkle emoji has been in use I have taken it to be a red flag, the telltale sign of "buttons not to click". I can't imagine how a designer could justify includi…

I like it. Bring back thus as a normal word. Also thusly.

Well, it is technologically not that hard to imagine a solution---the problem is social, getting everyone to agree on how to do it, figure out the policy around it, etc. And the si…

It feels like there is fundamentally missing infrastructure here that is needed to make these problems go away. Basically bots need to be (somehow) paying for the traffic they crea…

It's funny how similar this is to a human reaction to the same thing. It's the right level of incredulity, to be sure, and the first thing you do is you start re-reading the conjec…

well if he said it then it must be true

What do you expect from a person other than the generalizations they see from the experiences they have had...? What 'evidence' could possibly be given other than extensive anecdot…

Happy for the individual, sad for society

Part of the problem is that the difficulty curve becomes, like, superexponential if you try to do the actual math. Fairly elementary atoms require the full theory of quantum mechan…

JS was popular despite its lack of types, not because of them. If a typed language had been bundled into browsers from the beginning then we would not be shimming types into it wit…

guess so. I still don't think their position is serious, but, that's just me. was amusing to come back hours later and find out whether this comment ended up more upvoted or more d…

I think you have missed my point. Both are defined to integrate to one, over different measures.

It is the right question to ask. The idea that moral questions should have a market value is itself a moral failing, so assuming you want moral principles to rule over the design o…

i could be wrong, but it was enforced as the default at several places I worked, and most editors now have the option of the tab key inserting spaces to bridge the gap. (I don't ca…