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> So I'm assuming the news of what the people you voted for get to you via... diffusion? Maybe. > You should sue your school for the permanent damage they did. Both in terms of gra…

> I don't understand why there has to be this dichotomy, you're either active on social media and miserable or off of them and happy. Because this is propaganda, not news. What is …

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> it will be pretty easy to automate attribution. Yours is a valid concern, but people can also fool attribution software easily. You could even write software that alters your pap…

Actually undefined behavior is defined. It is defined as undefined.

What happened to graphene? A couple of years ago, that's all anyone talked about? I thought graphene was going to get us back on the exponential incline that is moore's law? I'm gu…

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I guess this is for the nontraditional programmers since computer science is a mathematical field and programming is simply applied mathematics in some sense. I don't see how you c…

Why is this news? Everyone does this, including the nytimes. The nytimes marketing department offers their clients on all kinds of identifying/targeting traits for advertising. Fro…

> Winston Smith actually could hide for a while. Actually, he couldn't. He thought he could hide. But we find out in the ministry of truth and room 101 that everything he did "secr…

> Fentanyl only exists on the dark web because of the Chinese labs pumping it out. Wake up! The chinese labs wouldn't be pumping out fentanyl if people weren't demanding it. If it …

> Who is “we?” People who look like me, a white person, who did mean things two centuries before I was born? "We" as in the nation or government? And it wasn't 2 centuries ago. We …

Good god. It's a joke. > We can't blame pewdiepie nor expect him to act mature even though he has more than 70 million subscribers. And apparently, he can't get some people to unde…

I see the same comments every time a china topic is posted on HN. I wonder why? > I don't think it would be far-fetched to assume that some very protected and valuable IP has leech…

The difference is that with fp ops, it's part of the design and understood that you should never directly compare the equality of fp numbers since they are estimates. You should ch…

> I mean, almost every image posed on reddit is a form of piracy No it's not. It's called fair use. As long as it is changed or altered in some way as a means of commentary/critici…

> If Reddit and other similar sites want to make a point, a banner won't be enough. They need to do the unthinkable: Block all access from the EU. What they need to do is work toge…

So close. We almost did it guys. One day without facebook spam.

> Slightly off-topic, but: has PostgreSQL largely replaced MySQL for new projects? I'm seeing larger numbers of positions advertising for Postgres, even here in the Midwest. Perhap…

> It seems to me that the biggest thing that the author does not know about the provenance of Google's style guide is just how massive Google's projects that this guide applies to …

> It's one of the many reasons i'm concerned that models like Chinas will actually flourish more than they otherwise would in the coming years. That's why the soviets won the cold …

Ironic considering SSRN is owned by Elsevier, which is renown for trying to limit/control information for profit. It even published fake journals to spread "fake news" ( aka ads ) …

There are so many better links than a nytimes spam. But all we seem to get is nytimes spam lately. How about link the a website dedicated to chess? https://www.chess.com/article/vi…

> While there are similarities, one is a financial rating and the other is a social rating. They are one and the same. The "financial" rating affects where you can live ( try getti…

Trade war has nothing to do with it. It's rising wages in china. For more than a decade, manufacturers ( even chinese companies ) have been shifting production to vietnam. https://…