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That’s a lovely thought but that’s not how China works. China is not a democracy, the geopolitical goals of the Chinese government are clear, and no large strategic company acts wi…

7stems.net: a Spanish verb conjugator and method for learning Spanish verb conjugation, where irregular verbs are just verbs with more than one stem. Also just self-published a boo…

This explanation seems very implausible to me. By lowering the rent by X%, and therefore reducing annual revenue by X%, you admit the building is worth X% less. But by leaving the …

Edward Abby wrote about southern Utah. Red rock country. Box Elder County is northern Utah. Night and day.

I think this is right. More specifically, the problem is JavaScript function colors mean Sync/Async, whereas Zig's mean Non-IO/IO. Using function colors for async is fundamentally …

Here’s an article I wrote a while ago about a hypothetical language feature I call “folded application”, that makes parameter-list style and folded style equivalent. https://jonath…

I think we should avoid suggesting that other people on this forum are evil, even if you think their ideas and arguments are harmful. I think sometimes people are so certain about …

What if the truth is that something is a lie? Promoting truth and opposing lies are the same thing.

This writeup is very useful simonw. But the title of this HN post is extremely misleading. What happened is that OpenAI rewrote the mission statement, reducing it from 63 words to …

It’s like being a manager.

Capitalism just means private citizens can own the means of production (e.g. start a business, buy stock) and earn a return on investment. It doesn’t mean only the rich must get ri…

Right, so for a subset of functions, a language could implement an extensional equality test operator `==` for two functions by calling the functions for every possible input. It w…

Yes that’s a good point.

Reading the news and being informed are two separate things. Being an informed citizen, the kind that democracies need to survive, also requires 1) being informed of history and 2)…

One case where a function is often not substitutable for an array is equality testing. In a language where any two arrays with the same elements in the same order are equal ([1,2] …

Ouch! I don’t think that’s fair. It sounds like his professional life or personal interests naturally being him in contact with a social circle that isn’t fulfilling socially. Does…

Listen to them.

Assuming a self-similar 80/20 Pareto wealth model (a fractal Lorenz curve), the headline number generalizes as: Just x% | % wealth held | × poorest half ---------+---------------+-…

This reminds me of the philosophical distinction between "sense" and "reference" introduced by Frege. https://www2.lawrence.edu/fast/ryckmant/On%20Sense%20and%20R...

But you will never guess that the latest tik-tok craze will last another 50 years, and you'll never guess that Saturday Night Live (which premiered in 1075) will end 5-minutes from…

It does seem like common sense that they would be linked. But there is also research: https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2008/02/06/correlation...

I haven’t heard that statistic before. And the formulation seems imprecise? Does continuously beating the market mean that every single minute your portfolio value gains relative t…

I am working on Community Notes for Bluesky: https://github.com/johnwarden/open-community-notes

I didn't realize "Juneteenth" was considered "Black-sounding" by some people. Juneteenth is a pretty culturally mainstream term (being a national holiday). And forming new words us…

Author here. @sokoloff also pointed this out in their comment. You are right, the example confuses by making the group sizes different. I will update the article so it reads like t…