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I agree, but HN doesn't like metacomments that just complain on how an article/comment is being upvoted, hence you being downvoted. See guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/new…

The single folk envy the married and the married envy the singles. Life is suffering either way.

Canadians would commit to guerrilla warfare? For decades? Have you met Canadians?

No, I didn’t. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%E2%80%93China_relations

As Canada is separating from the US, it is growing closer with China. This makes Canada a threat to the US. This makes the US a threat to Canada. This makes the US more likely to g…

and a teacher is hired to teach, but some self-improve so they may become headmaster

A gun is a good tool easy to shoot yourself in the foot with

I don't know if it's intentional, isn't this the ultimate form of liberalism? To give the individual full autonomy, unshackled from the dependencies of family, neighbors, community…

yes, because he forgot about the car. The reason we don’t befriend our neighbors is because as soon as we leave our home, we put ourselves in a metal cage, ensuring no one will tal…

This isn’t satire.

An image is a projection, it lacks at least one dimension of that which is projected

> they're not strictly necessary. We know this because humans can drive without a LIDAR and propellers on a plane are not strictly necessary because birds can fly without them? The…

After the operating system and the spreadsheet, most software is toys.

This is a distinction without a difference. Even if you take a rudimentary raw cloth comparison like cotton vs heavy wool (the latter being fire resistant and used historically use…

“ …by the mid‑19th century machine‑woven cloth still could not equal the quality of hand‑woven Indian cloth. However, the high productivity of British textile manufacturing allowed…

What caused textile machines to replace the manual labor wasn’t the quality of their output, it was quantity. In fact, manually made clothing was of higher quality than what was ma…

The environmental problem is enough for us to pump the brakes. By the end of this year, AI systems will be responsible for half of global data center power demand… 23 gigawatts. Fo…

I interpreted his post as saying it's not binary safe/unsafe, but rather a spectrum, with Java safer than C because of particular features that have pros and cons, not because of a…

If the carpenter owns weapons, a lot of my farmland, a lot of shares in my farming business, and my debt… I will learn to build my own crossbow

Yes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortages_related_to_the_COVID...

the gist is: When you can manufacture ships, you can also manufacture warships. When you can manufacture warships, you can protect your economy. or: If all you sell are financial s…

Here’s some food for thought from Anders Hejlsberg https://www.artima.com/articles/the-trouble-with-checked-exc... Error results and checked exceptions are more similar than either…

here is the "goal" page: https://rhombus-lang.org/goal.html (with related paper & talk)

“ Cash is Censorship-Resistant, meaning it cannot be blocked by banks or governments” No crypto is large enough to be useful as cash and yet still censorship resistant. Governments…