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dogfoods

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    Comment #23920623

    RTFA and find out!

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    Comment #23920616

    It achieves a theoretical lower bound on the complexity. This is what the article says in like 1000 words because it's written for mathematical illiterates.

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    Comment #23906149

    Yes, lots of people do things that are bad ideas.

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    Comment #23905469

    No, they are not. Reddit (and even more so Discord) does not have the permanence that forums have and far worse tools for formatting posts, so every subreddit degenerates into 101 …

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    Comment #23903329

    Maybe it shouldn't be split up but burned, razed, and the ground salted so nothing will ever grow there again.

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    Comment #23903319

    We used to have forums and blogs organised by interest topic or community. An elegant mode of organisation, for a more civilised age.

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    Comment #23903245

    So vim but for finance?

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    Comment #23902993

    You can @ the President of the United States on Twitter

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    Comment #23898133

    Every time I come across a piece in that style I want to smash a screen. It could be a one-paragraph solution, but I have to scroll past three images and five paragraphs of worthle…

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    Comment #23898066

    Twitter has been orders of magnitude more harmful to society than any *chan and Twitter bluechecks should be thought of and treated like Twitter bluechecks think of and treat chan …

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    Comment #23887890

    No, they did know for sure.

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    Comment #23883766

    There's a reason RTFM was so prevalent, and we need to make it so, again.

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    Comment #23883679

    No, Bethe and others knew in the 40s it could not have. Enough nuclear physics was known then to know that the atmosphere cannot be ignited by a nuke. https://blogs.scientificameri…

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    Comment #23880704

    Twitter weighs about a MB, a tweet is at most 280 characters, and typically of negative utility to the user and society. So yes.

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    Comment #23880692

    Then why the fuck is the average website measured in megabytes

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    Comment #23878514

    It's amazing that 3-4 seconds is considered a reasonable target in 2020 when 8 seconds was a target on freaking dialup. It's like having a Ferrari and considering outrunning a hors…

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    Comment #23866703

    "The bomb could have ignited the atmosphere," No, it could not have.

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    Comment #23862628

    That should say threats* not tweets, dammit.

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    Comment #23862156

    POTUS tweeting nuclear tweets didn't convince you of that already?

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    Comment #23862139

    You've just invented forums, but worse in some ways.

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    Comment #23862126

    > is the only platform where interesting ML discussions happen daily with a large amount of actual researchers and practitioners talking about their work directly arxiv.org

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    Comment #23861950

    I have a shorter algorithm. 1) Don't.

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    Comment #23861879

    Don't have the web be four sites full of screenshots of each other. I.e. go back to the blog and forums era. Outlaw social media with more than X users. Make content recommendation…

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    Comment #23861802

    > a smarter solution, Add the following to your hosts file 127.0.0.1 twitter.com This saves you from even loading those DOM elements in the first place

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    Comment #23855819

    Your hnews username is an identity. A small, weak, and reasonably disposable one, that you can have many of. Why do you want to use your God damn real name on the Internet unless y…