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please, HN community, downvote me to shit for speaking plain truths; pretend I said something I didn't if that helps you. the guy said why don't "manufacturers offer standard pc mo…

he suggested "motherboard", not "full desktop system" resist the urge to reword

what you say is true, but what I said is also truly what I wanted to say, so to clarify: NYC has widespread ignoring of many traffic laws, and that does not bother me. I am talking…

most electric bikes I see are ridden dangerously to pedestrians; by NYC deliverymen (doubt I've ever seen a woman on one), swiftly and silently sneaking up to run you down on sidew…

make it a "shopping trip" to an old store, virtual time travel :)

what I wrote was also about academics, taught by academics who also write academic papers. They're the same people. You don't have to read them

I agree the manipulation of, or it's hyper perception, is a good direction to take; the point I'm making here is that, that doesn't mean "in the stock market"; the stock market is …

well, winning the world series of poker is the way to make a lot at poker, otherwise you aren't make a lot at poker. And etc. for a lot of other endeavors. The fun of the question …

I'm not being a smartaleck, but "you shouldn't be writing code" with your attitude/approach. "NEVER trust user input" is an important security mantra to learn all on its own, like …

I understand what you are saying, but to inform other people it would be better if you indicated that you know what I'm saying. Refute the point? I disagree. if this robot could do…

Finance Theory, the study of stock markets and related matters and which is recognized as an academically rigorous subfield of economics, does not offer the conclusion that being s…

I felt like a lot of the answers people suggested were assuming it was actually more superhuman than we know it to be from the description. The intriguing part for me was simply th…

can you control getting onto Jeopardy quickly? And then there is no evidence that by being smart and informed that you can be smarter and better informed than the crowd-sourced sto…

why isn't the answer "hang around outside Yankee Stadium hitting balls, running, and catching them, till you get discovered and signed"? or something athletic like that. Seems a lo…

stop and think for a minute about what you are saying. Did you go to college, and did you learn anything? High school? Those books are all written by academics; very few of the sma…

um, pretty secure even against dedicated thieves. a four digit PIN is pretty secure when you have centralized authentication (the one bank) and get very very few tries before accou…

for various historical reasons, the US economy is among the largest, "most advanced" (not referring to products, but to services, financial markets, meta-stuff), and "most global" …

pure speculation, because i don't know the interior history of python: 1. perl has always prided itself that "there's more than one way to do it" including repeated, prominent use …

but who will bust the busters? guy got busted by some people who turned around and helped him. now he's returning the favor?

look, I am in favor of open systems, right to repair, right to modify, etc. Hell, I'm in favor of the GPLv3 which puts me way to the free-open-copyleft side of 90% of HN. So yes, I…

I don't recall when/where it came from, but for example the unix mount command uses "path ::= name colon path" delimiting for things like NFS and other "protocol based rather than …

I want to use Uber's software, just like this guy wants to use the software that came with the hardware that broke. Look, I agree that I don't like what this company is doing. But …

wow, thanks! that is an incredibly interesting article, and way to learn trig, I think I would have gained more insights had that been part of my introduction. I'm sort of wonderin…

this company has not taken action to enforce DMCA or any other licensing gripe with the guy, so as yet he hasn't forced to pay obeisance to anything, and he didn't, so that issue i…