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There are items in there that are deleted/[dead] on HN (and not very recent). How come?

In wich ways is this different and superior to a fee?

'The series dangerously feeds into the racism of the hysterical moment we find ourselves in today.'

Could this RNN model perhaps be used to filter click bait headlines from HN automatically? Perhaps one could perform some sort of backward beam search to figure out how likely a pa…

Maybe I’m mistaken, but it seems to me that Reddit would be much better off as a dontation-based non-profit. It seems ethical that nobody should make money off of user-generated co…

What do you mean exactly? I mean that the status symbol aspect of a cargo cult is a crucial part of its self-reinforcement mechanism.

I’m not sure what this site is supposed to be for: Is it (a) to generate more ad revenue for reddit to be finally self-sustaining or (b) an attempt to come up to the expectations o…

I think a cargo cult also has something to do with signaling, sort of like a status symbol ("They can't really be Y if they are not X!" -> "Look at us how X we are!"). It's a self-…

Beautifully said and matches closely my intuition and how it is depicted at the beginning of the film Her.

I have this script bound to cmd-shift-6: https://github.com/jomo/imgur-screenshot

Then lets steelman this point of critique: Why doesn't Apple keep their OSes in beta for a couple of months more to release something that is really stable? Is the sample size of b…

I think that's an idiom.