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Maybe it's because the website is called "Hacker News" and not "Gender Ideologue News".

What problem does this solve?

if passing array by reference to an external function means 'deliberately getting rid of' the size information...

An appeal to web designers: Please, do not do the thing this page does where scrolling up or down just ONE PIXEL causes UI elements to intrude or disappear over the content. Referr…

Careful! You're cruising for a shadowban with that line of inquiry.

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Even if Japan had made a bomb in time, by 1945, they had barely any navy or air force left to deploy it. By then, the fantastically inept IJN leadership had squandered all their be…

>2.1 x 10^10% I guess you mean 2.1 x 10^-10%?

The real revolution comes when gene splicing technology becomes so ubiquitous that complex organic molecules (i.e. pharmaceuticals legal or otherwise) can be produced in anybody's …

What a fascinating paper! Although I know the speed of light is finite and have considered many of the implications of relativity, I never thought of the effects on the apparent oc…

You're striking at the core of the issue here. In RMS's ideal version of the world, there is no distinction: every "user" is also a "developer". The freedom guaranteed by the GPL e…

I think you've some confusion about the words "can't" and "won't".

>People won't pay attention until they're scared You aren't allowed to scare people into social change, Citizen. Only the thugs in uniform are allowed to do that.

Well, that's one way to maximize thrust to mass ratio.

You have to understand, most people are born with a conscience. It takes a long time and concerted effort to erase it. The doublethink and cognitive dissonance on display here is t…

It's been an issue since they switched from the G4, TBH.

Nuking Kyoto would have been an irredeemable loss to humanity; anyone who has ever been there would surely understand this. The city is concentrated with ancient wonders and cultur…

>"sexist" or "male-dominated" >both of those constructions mean the same thing. >"sexist" >"male-dominated" >the same thing Am I reading this right?

I think language and symbology is at the core of why they are so impenetrable. One major sin is taking new concepts and ideas and putting the primary discoverer's name on them. Suc…

This is offtopic, but is there shadowbanning on HN? Have I been shadowbanned? If you can see this comment, reply or give an upvote. Just one is enough, thanks Edit: or a downvote. …

It's like you're seeing into a machine's imagination. Look at the 8th-layer images of the pitcher, or the gorillas with improved prior, for instance. They're very close to layout s…

But simulated CP is illegal too. In many jurisdictions you can get locked away for drawing something on a piece of paper. This is probably what OP is addressing.

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I think we'll enter a paradigm where R+D costs will drive the price of successive generations of CPUs back up to the level of the early '90s or even before. We're near the end of t…

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