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Is this data normalised to account for differences in traffic/popularity of the HN platform between 2008 - 2024? Reason being: If the distributions of user types have changed over …

I think the intuition here is: - Being surrounded by people one cannot connect with, increases the feeling that one is socially isolated and an 'outsider'. They are unable to engag…

Have you ever played the factory building game "Factorio"? It's an amazing lesson in scale. In the early game, it's pretty easy to recover from supply chain issues and refactor you…

This doesn't bother me at all, especially at an individual level. I want to make clear - it's not the language issue per se. I think native English speakers are incredibly privileg…

This is the comment I was waiting for :) It's strange isn't it, to suddenly be negatively receptive to something that you never noticed bothered you in the past.

"Dear Ms. Smith, We would like to inform you..." vs " Dear Ms. Smith, we would like to inform you..."

What you say is write and I am guilty of that too. I would feel very rude or out of place telling a colleague of mine to capitalize the first letter after Dear X. Even if I wanted …

"You need scalable enterprise cloud solutions for digital business processes while maintaining complete data integrity?" Nitpicking here, but my god, can German companies/universit…

"clever one liners" That's exactly it! It's basic clean coding style where it's better to use meaningful names and sometimes write something in 2 or 3 lines that is more interpret …

I really wonder what percentage of difficulties that stem from math are due to its representation in the symbolic language used. By that I mean, so often, I am staring at a long, c…

I bet the sophons are already on their way

In many ways I agree with you. I would like also to return to simpler times. Especially insta-texting (whatsapp) etc. SMS was fine for me to organise a meetup and then talk in pers…

I see your point and think you have quite a valid argument there! Some of the things you said definitely echo with my experiences. For example, I do surf the net too much because I…

I don't understand these negative comments about what "computers/internet" has done to me etc. Yes, there are certainly aspects of computers, the internet and especially social net…

I can see the use case for these online password apps. But I can't for the life of me understand why KeePass isn't the defacto gold standard. It's secure, open source and you have …

+1 Honestly never understood why joining startups is meant to be so amazing unless 1) They are working on exactly the niche that YOU personally want to work in and 2) The startup's…

I kind of torn between two opinions here. On the one hand - an adult should be able to make their own choices regarding something like this. I mean, we're all slowly decaying day-b…

Exactly! And the irony (for me at least) is, that corruption and fraud is still rampant in Germany (e.g. during corona, tons of fake PCR tests being billed to govt. Pharmacies issu…

Facebook aside you really see this across the board on almost any platform, that once the product reaches it's 1.0 stage, (where it is good, does what the users want it to do, and …

This reminds me of the most amazingly archaic interaction I had with the Finance Ministry. They notified me by post that I needed to provide them with some information on their onl…

I agree with you actually about the Gigafactories and it won't surprise me if the Texas one finishes first. And I also live in Germany and have worked for car companies as a contra…

" too much socialism" This is a vague and exaggerated statement, it makes you sound quite biased. If we're going to argue in that direction then let me point out that China has "wa…

Does anyone have any good arguments for why we lack any serious blue-chip competitors in the EU? I mean we have things like Spotify and SAP (though they're b2b). But I really can't…