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Author here. You're absolutely right about Canada ;)

Author here. Your thinking is equally weird to me. I value my time for sure, but isn't there a cost in not persuing what I'm genuinely curious about? What if a successful startup h…

Author here. This story took place in 2011-2012, but I wrote this post in April 2021.

I'm the author of the post. I can confirm that I 100% enjoyed it.

Thanks for your comment - author here. You're absolutely right - the good old trial and error applies when it comes to innovation. There's just no way someone could come up with a …

There's already a client-side implementation of Python in JavaScript. See: https://brython.info/ But it might not give you the sort of compatibility between the client and server c…

Everybody here is talking about PSP 5.0+. But for me, the best version ever was 3.0. I was able to draw pretty impressive diagrams at the pixel level, without any problem. In subse…

I'm currently experimenting with CodeMirror for one of my projects, and it shows that you spent a lot of time to refine its design and API. You did an awesome job, seriously. I hav…

Public speaking isn't a skill. It's a habit. The more you practice it, the more comfortable, the more structured and the more natural you become. I've been in Toastmasters for almo…

Big respect for Google! Creating that site is a really cool move, and it will encourage other people to do the same. I especially like the fact that they'll mount sensors for air q…

The longer between your requests, the better. If you generate a load greater than what a human would do, this might become problematic. A human wouldn't poke a website forever ever…

The way it works was not immediately clear to me either. If you go to her website: http://profane-justice.org/profane-justice.org/ (yep, you have to enter this weird URL) At the bo…

Hey thanks for posting my article to HN. Glad that you found it helpful! :)

I guess that we see things differently. On one hand, you see the economic value of airlines, cars and factories, so for you it justifies the environmental consequences that they ha…

Elon Musk has already said that burning fossils fuels and pumping it into the atmosphere is the "dumbest experiment in history". So I guess we've just found the second dumbest one.…

What do you think creates more pollution between: 1. All airlines in the world. 2. All cars in the world. 3. All factories in the world. 4. All rockets in the world. Right now, I t…

The meaning of your statement isn't clear. Do you see resource extraction on Earth as something having no consequences whatsoever?

For those interested, the official court document can be accessed here: https://www.scribd.com/document/274211118/Judge-denies-Faceb... It describes in details what happened.