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That's addressed in the post. > Oh, where did you think it was going to be? Somewhere convenient for you? > One of the stronger reasons for adopting a new time zone is to more easi…

I agree with you, but you are using the wrong numbers. Sure, only 23% of households have 4+ members, but they contain 44% of all Americans. Likewise, the 1.3% of households with 7+…

The paper doesn't explore life-years, but perhaps it would be possible to look at the distribution of ages at death?

At https://www.top500.org/statistics/overtime/ click "Operating System" and "Performance Share" to see: - 300 PFlops: Linux - 260 PFlops: other - 150 PFlops: Cray Linux - 130 PFlop…

> [YC] need to make the argument [that their investment in the marijuana industry] isn't white people getting rich on the back of black lives Sorry, I don't quite understand. Which…

iTerm2 lets you force a minimum contrast, which solves the contrast problem while still letting you use colors. Lots of programs display hard-to-see colors (red-on-black for me too…

That article says: > Common contemporary usage classes PascalCase as a special type of CamelCase, namely upper camel case

I agree that a stacked bar graph would be nice, since the focus is on the per-species total across all 8 tooth types. Could you explain why a line graph is bad for a discrete but o…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%3F%3A

"\e[A": history-search-backward "\e[B": history-search-forward These have to go in `~/.inputrc`, right?

Velco is wonderful– thanks for making it. Buttons are pretty easy, but that's a really convenient (and fun!) way to build a navbar. I don't see the point of supporting something th…

I agree with you that nothing will convince creationists. But Origen's Genesis 1 was far from representative of his time. Sure, he's an early example of not taking Genesis 1 litera…

Another way to avoid PayPal fees is to 1) decide how much to give, 2) multiply it by six, and 3) decide by dice roll whether to give it.

It'd be great if someone added "[processor-heavy]" on to the title of posts like this.

In a centralized system, hosts can be held accountable.

Is not the fact that children are stealing their parents' money worse than that people are stealing money from children?

"The net result is that Internet Explorer will execute this script, but other browsers will ignore the script altogether. This makes your page load faster in browsers that don’t ne…

One has to factor in that there are thousands of things he could have printed that would have had roughly the same effect (eg. "Piss off", etc).

This phrase is only fun to subvocalize because of its resemblance to "Fire the Torpedoes!"

This is disproved by the fact that at least 10 perfectly photoshopped screenshots had to have been submitted in the first hour, and have not been posted.

He'd lose a little money, but couldn't he pay them minimum wage and then charge them $7/hour for the training he's giving them(just like the martial arts schools)? Also, if his com…

I assumed "usual" implied not a certain specific joke, but the presence of a joke.

An answer to the second would be a system pointing out people's replies to themselves.

Do a bit of a merger between paulgraham.com and HN by moving comments for those articles over to each essay's page and inter-linking.

I think he just described much of LISP (from my limited knowledge of it)