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Trains go at 400km/h

>and rebel against i.e. intentionally use definitions you know are confusing and then - as language is famously a single person endeavour - blaming the listener when they misunders…

Eminent domain exists in the West, too

Sorry, I'm not as enlightened as you. Which self driving car do you own?

Games are very un-'clean'. They can stop working just a few years after release and they don't support any kind of developments in the platform (framerate limits, resolution limits…

If that was true, you wouldn't be behind the wheel at all. The transmission can't see the road ahead and prepare in advance.

I'd consider 35 people who felt that suicide was better than leaving is a pretty solid display of why that argument doesn't work.

c++ is in narrow niches?!

You need to pay commission and spread every time you rebalance your portfolio (daily, if you copy the frequency of modern funds) So at the £5ish/trade of my current broker, that's …

I haven't managed to get this working yet on my phone but: would it be possible for the same code to be used for the tones of other languages?

I think it's worth noting that S&P 500 index funds didn't exist until the 70s. You'd be spending a lot of time and money to approximate it before that.

Let's be honest, people on HN aren't limited in where they live by poverty. As I said, it was possible 100 years ago. We -as a society- have brought this rut on ourselves.

You only chose to live that far from work, in a place that gets a foot of snow, because you assumed you could make the journey in a petroleum car. It wouldn't have been possible 10…

She lives in Hong Kong.

Well firstly, you as a reader did actually know the context. That's why you could tell everyone else. Secondly, giving that context requires the writer to know that it's not normal…

That's an extraordinary level of understanding of someone's motivations and morality that I would characterise as 'baseless'.

Celeste (a platforming game) has an enemy who copies your inputs, making them appear to chase you.

A reporter in China tweets to people who choose to follow a reporter in China and you accuse her of being disingenuous for failing to accommodate it being posted on an internationa…

Unfortunately, pragmatism like yours sounds unconvincing compared to the more passionate positions of somebody against nuclear fission power. It doesn't mix well with an expensive …

I hear Softbank are offering 20 billion

Why did you choose to live 8mi from your daily obligations? I think walking would obviously be even better.

It's just nationalism

The reasons in the link are fairly ridiculous

>Noise should be opt in; not opt out. That's a great way of putting it. One of my pet peeves is along a similar line. I have a quiet voice. When I was younger, I had a quieter voic…

I think it's silly: the idea that free software is primarily done unpaid is just a myth, as can be seen from the attendees of any major free software conference, or the commit hist…