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> The average HN reader is highly overrated for other reasons. Possibly ... ;-)

> Don’t show me the random code you built that makes a users like history load 500 milliseconds faster, talk to me about how to make the product better/more engaging/monetized! Hon…

First: there is of course an incentive not to admit this. Second: I do believe that many people on HN really deeply care about technology/hacking topics and have detest for office …

> I think you are vastly overestimating the willingness and capability of volunteers and underestimating the effort needed to coordinate such an effort. > And having any kind of ma…

> Although some kernel driver developers have testing clusters with real hardware (like GPU drivers devs), there is no effin way Linux could be effectively tested without someone p…

My experience differs. Perhaps the reason is that the scientific textbooks that I love to buy are often "long-tail business", i.e. textbooks about very specialized topics. The situ…

> Enough people say it wrong it eventually becomes right. There's nothing definitive about language except for usage... This is a view that is common among English speakers. Among …

> Amazon is unusable at this point, and I don’t get how they have so many customers. At least in Germany, using Amazon is often the easiest way to buy copies of foreign-language (o…

> Should I try to build my own car? Or my own CPU? Become a hacker and learn how to crack this kind of DRM.

> This happens in other markets just fine, one that springs to mind is oscilloscopes. Often you will find that a the hardware in one model is the same as the hardware in scopes in …

> and so that begs the question why not make twice as much working as a software developer and not have to sort out these types of messes? You partly answered your own question: pe…

He is influenced by multiple feedback loops: one that is encouraging this behavior (from the respective website) and one that does discourage it. In this case, the former one was s…

> If I search for flights from February 24 to February 24 I don’t expect the empty interval. The expectation depends on how you define "from" and "to" :-D Since the HN community is…

> You have the same predetermined behavior you'd have all along - the care is incidental, would have happened or not happened anyway. This is correct, but this does not mean that, …

> In a world without free will "care and education" don't matter. The fact that care and education cause change in the behavior has nothing to do with any "freedom" as in "free wil…

> You can't disprove free will and still be concerned of what you should do morally or strategically etc, as if its your own mind to make about it. The same as for free will can be…

Why do most people what they do? Because their are conditioned/brainwashed by school and society to believe in specific morals for their behavior. Similarly, as bilekas suggests, t…

> Philosophers have been talking about justice and morality for æons, something so small isn’t going to turn our thoughts on justice on their head. Theologists have been talking fo…

But this is a minority view among investors.

> If a factory increases efficiency resulting in idling of the machines for 2 hours thus decreasing costs, yet at the same time keep the prices of its output same - that would neve…

> You're kidding right? Having a desktop PC in the pre-internet days was a scary experience. My smartphone and iPad are both cute and work unblinkingly every time all the time. I b…

> My theory is these designers dont have family members or they dont care about them. Or they don't have family members with bad eyesight. Or they actually do have family members w…

kllrnohj already wrote that Vulkan has no predefined source code language for shaders. I can imagine that the SPIR-V code of these shaders could have been hand-optimized by some te…

> I hope they improve ROCm, and add support for normal GPUs, instead of only 6800xt+. Also, AMD should finally support ROCm under Windows. Currently, the only application known by …

> This argument is applicable to all digital things, but for some reason it is usually only applied to books. It seems that a lot of software being free would be much more benefici…