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Speaking as somebody who enjoys intentionally mocking others (go ahead, check my comment history. Fuck, I picked this username just to make the then-popular diet discussions on HN …

I swear, it's like a few months ago somebody somewhere introduced tptacek to the concept of using "nerdy" as an insult (and to the debating tactic of attaching an insult to a posit…

Oh. I thought they switched to stackexchange or something stupid like that. Whichever, I don't use the site much.

No idea. Last time I bothered trying Stack Overflow did though. (That was a while ago, when it was still called that.)

It would be an improvement because then I could count on comments in JSON doing nothing (instead of possibly not parsing).

To add to this, I suspect any non-English speaker would rather have English comments that they can at least throw at Google Translate, than no comments at all.

I have a hard time believing that the removal of comments would greatly simplify a JSON parser.

> "I saw people were using them to hold parsing directives" What could possibly make somebody want to do that? Are there any examples around of people doing that?

Ah yes, I'm not sure there. I think maybe whoever compiled this collection scrapped it themselves. I'm not aware of TPB themselves making the proper database publicly available yet…

Regarding your last point: You're not the only one to make this observation.

Paste that link into your favourite (up to date) torrent client.

Well... that seems fairly damning.

Is it actually easier though?

Presumably if he was adding periods manually, he wouldn't have skipped them at the end of paragraphs.

All pills can do that? I thought many were designed to dissolve in your stomach like tums. Not sure why they should be exceptionally bad, unless tums cause issues too.

That seems like a fairly sever oversight. Is there a reason for that behaviour?

The inconsistent substitution of 'with' with 'w/' confuses me. Why do people even do that? On qwerty I know I find '/' to be much harder to strike than 'ith'.

I feel uncomfortable attempting to derive any conclusions from a comparison between these two groups. It seems to me that since technology and technology presence is advancing so q…

Lets see: http://4chan.org I'll let you know if I get arrested.

No, I like it as it is. Why would I neuter my language for your sake?

Do you naturally miss the point, or do you have to put effort into it?

[1] I only recognize that a distinction could exist when we restrict the discussion to conscripted armies. [2] I assert they do nothing of the sort. [3] Call it what you like, tell…

The ethical ramifications of work that is military in nature that an engineer must consider are close enough to on topic for my taste. These are concerns I know are considered not …

So if the military does something and it is bad, then it isn't their fault because politicians made them do it. But if the military does it and it is good, then they deserve our pr…

Consider for a moment who that military decided needed killing en mass during the decade following the topic of discussion. Where all those communal farmers really threatening our …