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Heh, you seriously think that's why I had a problem with your post? I am once again staggered by the brilliant insights into human nature I learn here on HN... Bye y'all!

The shortcoming is that it is insulting simple . Seriously. :P

This is an insultingly simple rendering of some pretty complex topics.

Melatonin intensified my dreams but did not prompt nightmares; but then, I never have nightmares any way! A friend who was prone to nightmares tried melatonin and it made her night…

Hitting the thing that looks like a play button actually toggles the video visibility.

In general, magnetism requires the material to be ordered, and heating an object up involves adding lots of random motion to the system. > The electrons might even get excited enou…

Why are you referring to a book that was published well after the quote in the article? >"Feynman's thesis advisor, John Wheeler, proposed the hypothesis in a telephone call to Fey…

>I have to object to The Guardian's use of scare quotes in the title... I've noticed it's quite standard in English publications to use quotes around allegations, even if no one re…

Hardly a HN exclusive. :) From 2012: http://kotaku.com/5890372/is-this-valves-control-pad-design/

Those look pretty different to me. I mean, very clearly related, but with tons of small changes. Like, the angle of almost every terminal is different, and in general the new typef…

Keep in mind that this is the first of three announcements that they've, err, announced: http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/ The second is in 48hrs, and almost definitely som…

This seems like one of those things people say to score points, rather than to actually engage in the process of using their brains. There are a myriad of things that are legal for…

> It comes from an earlier time, before the idea of "turn cards sideways to show they've been used" took hold. Netrunner came out 3 years after Magic.

Yeah, whoever changed the headline accidentally made it misleading click-bait.

Minecraft was making obscene amounts of money well before the xbox release. (Something like 100k a day in 2010, according to a quick google.)

And? If you'd directed your dismissal at HN readers, that would be one thing, but you didn't! There was no "underlying claim" evident in the linked article itself.

>The problem with these types of posts is that they never come with the context or the gravitas needed to substantiate the underlying claims that are implied by the presentation. I…

Hmm, I quite caffeine for a bit more than a year. I didn't feel like I had more energy per se, but I definitely felt better overall. It did take a long time to get through withdraw…

No where in that headline does it mention OpenID -- and I have no idea what ClickPass is. Nor was it a persistent announcement; it was just a regular story. Perhaps I didn't even c…

Hilariously it was dropped with no real notification, and one day my account just stopped working. I had to make a new one, because there was no way to access my previous account.

I don't have knowledge about this particular case. But I can tell you that multiple, multiple times people have cried wolf on this. There's always a gap between when Google release…

Sure, just wanted to point out how complicated truly "simulating reality" is. :) I mean, my doctorate involved calculating tiny, tiny corrections (8 or 9 decimal places) to hydroge…

>The very best simulations of reality that we can perform handle at most just a few H/He/C atoms. On a deeper level, we still have trouble simulating even a single proton. http://e…