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Such reason deprives people of the passion to take sides and argue emotionally.

I'm surprised that better science never resulted from that lady who could smell it.

That's why people come here, they learn these things in the comments.

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There are rovers on Mars already that landed on the first try. The approach was rigorous planning and study with the highest standards. It doesn't mean the approach SpaceX is takin…

They said less than 1% of users were affected.

As someone with no knowledge of the topic, why was electrical reform needed? Wouldn't one assume that either party motivated to do it while in power would be doing it with the goal…

Regardless of the hyperbole in the title, it's an interesting find. I wonder where they were going and what happened to them.

On the other hand demand for premium seats would be down, lowering their price and making a nicer ride more accessible. Overall this would net to lower prices for the same distribu…

I think that take is a little cynical. If it's only for the rich then the prices will be high. Meaning the capitalist mechanism of resource distribution will be even higher (more p…

There are many jobs where it isn't enforced.

Language is for both. Every concept is tied to a label that is a word. We identify pieces of reality by their common attributes while omitting their specific measurements, and atta…

Whatever happened to Fuchsia? Is that still a thing?

And for every group there is an anti-group, another set of people for whom the group-included feel justified in feeling resentful towards in some way.

The "big crunch" wikipedia says that it's an idea about the end of the universe, where expansion will reverse and everything will collapse back in on itself. That is not what I'm a…

Stupid question: how do we know that the universe is strictly exponentially expanding, and not both expanding and contracting in perpetuity like a sin wave? And could such an idea …

Completely agree with you. However, I think over time I've come to realize that those hacks that seem obscure, weird, and impossible are not perceived that way by the people who di…

The point of crypto isn't to force decentralization, it's to permit it. If you'd like to keep your crypto on a service like Coinbase, you have that freedom. Alternatively, if you'd…

Part of the danger is that the CIA does not represent the people. The leadership is unelected, and they basically have influence over policy within government, and increasingly the…

4 was rounding from 3.7, so I think that seems like a bit of a petty correction. Humans will not go extinct (I hope), but HN is full of some of the smartest people and these are th…

I think this is probably true. Historically children would provide for their elders, but that role is fulfilled now more by technology, so in practical terms, they are less needed.…

I will admit that I was a bit off-the-cuff in terms of the Western aspect of my comment. There are lots of factors, of course, and the trend isn't limited to only the west. Though …

It isn't a more difficult undertaking. It was never easy, we've just been raised softly and do not value children the same way previous generations did. An outlier in many places, …

True in a way, but Google certainly benefits from having their OS on the majority of the world's smartphones. A more apt comparison might be Microsoft, who has roughly the same mar…

More Android phones sell than Apple, but I think most HN-ers would be hard-pressed to claim that Google is definitively the bigger, better, or more successful company overall.