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The fact that through an unfortunate twist of history you even need to consider arming your teachers is simply incredible. There are a lot of great things about the US, but sadly t…

Thanks for the correction. I'm clearly showing my ignorance when it comes to some of these issues. I based my M16 bought at Walmart caricature on the little I've learned from news …

As I mentioned, I'm from Australia, so if I misrepresented anything about the US then I'm happy to be corrected. In my original post I described an exaggerated caricature of gun ow…

I have no problem with the military and police having access to weapons. They are (or should be) highly trained, Psych tested and they work within a regulated, highly structured, h…

My perspective is different since I come from a country with a different culture. Here in Australia there is essentially zero gun ownership by private citizens. We also had a gun b…

From my own experience I can tell you that running your own mail server is a massive PITA. There's a good chance that even if you jump through all the required hoops to improve tru…

As my original post said this all applies to web applications . If you're building a consumer facing brochure site then you neither want nor need most of these new web features. Ha…

the article has way too much hyperbole to take any of it seriously. This statement is itself hyperbolic. A lot of these advances are going to impact web applications. Sure if you'r…

In reality for the vast majority of apps you'll never notice the limit. By far the most effective thing to use for (hardware accelerated) smooth animation are CSS transitions which…

"why does it hurt when the brain is wired in a specific way?" Because organisms that evolved to avoid that thing we call pain survived long enough to pass on their genes, whereas t…

I agree with you that an more abstract understanding would be more useful than a naive copy, however I think calling it "pointless" is a bit of an exaggeration. Imagine being able …

Your explanation doesn't make sense. We know that there are people who a) don't exhibit emotional pain or very little compared to "normal" (sociopaths/psychopaths) b) are autistic …

That's not really the point I was making. My point is that you don't have to understand the workings of a clock (or its subcomponents) to be able to build one given the subcomponen…

You make a great argument, and I agree with you that it is very unlikely that a model which can only ever be an approximation of a human brain will ever exhibit intelligence. My gu…

Feeling pain can't be explained as an interaction of physical particles Do you mean physical or emotional pain? I imagine that physical pain is very well understood and can be expl…

Thanks for your answer, its given me something to think about. A few things immediately come to mind though: A sentence is just letters, but that doesn't mean that thorough examina…

Sorry, not sure if I'm understanding you correctly. Are you arguing that there is more to consciousness than just the atoms in our brains? If so what is your reason for thinking th…

Congratulations for shipping! It's a huge milestone to reach and I'm sure it is nerve wracking to press that submit button on a 'Show HN' Here are some of my observations after usi…

Every project/team is different. Sometimes a designer wants to communicate with another designer, sometimes with a developer and sometimes with a client. Each of these stakeholders…

It's a lot harder to email paper? there aren't many good paper VCS? Paper is great for quick sketches and has its place. Digital is good for lots of other use cases. Maybe use what…

hmm not sure what you mean by internal structure that seemed obscure . GDrive works just like you describe: a simple, normal folder. That's it. I put stuff in, it got synced

I was simply pointing out the obvious difference between SO and 99D. I'm neither for nor against the 99D way of doing things. I'm sure there are many secondary benefits to be had f…