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The author starts with 8 paragraphs on gold, and the word gold is mentioned 33 times throughout the article, spread about evenly throughout. By no means did the author "move on" fr…

Really? HN has been a mini-Reddit for quite some time now. Frequently just a bunch of low quality, unfunny and recycled one-liners hoping to grab a few precious internet points.

> But the author can't be serious about no one knowing who Prabhakar Raghavan is. He is, for instance, the co-author of the definitive text on randomized algorithms [Motwani and Ra…

Not sure that "being able to hit undo" and "no harm done!" is what makes blowing things up enjoyable, but to each his own.

There are 8 billion people on earth. And Texas is 172 million acres. I don't think the math works out.

And no philosophy worth anything would put any of the things you listed on the path to happiness. In fact, generally speaking, they are the opposite. An infinite supply of anything…

Are you seriously telling me that a sport that allows elbow and knee strikes to the head has become more dangerous because they reduced the weight of the gloves? Have you thought a…

I generally take this word to mean "I'm a redditor and I want everyone to know it".

Do you think that earthquakes transmit instantaneously? Why would they not have a propagation speed like everything else in the universe?

Thank god Microsoft and Google are on the case! I was thinking next, we should have Exxon Mobile study the effects of oil on the environment.

Very little? Let me introduce you to: newspapers, radio, television, books.

It seems like your expectations must come from frontend development or something, where you can hot glue together a few packages to instantly get results. It is absolutely possible…

This take just seems disconnected from reality. The advertisers know at some level what's going on there, but until the general public changes its view of what Twitch is, they can …

And it's very clear to me that HN is next to suffer this fate

> The top answer given here is highly reductionist to the point of misleading This is my expectation for every single "expert" answer on Reddit. Confidence without substance.

You lead with saying you have no background in physics, proceed to give an incorrect explanation, and then asked if it was wrong. Someone simply told you it was in fact wrong -- wh…

Rust did not invent immutable by default. This appears to be some kind of blog spam. More than 50% of the "article" is just trivial code examples backing up a non-existent point. P…

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I don't understand what you're saying. Clearly both types of meetings (one-off vs recurring) would be helpful. The one-off may save you days/weeks of research, but it seems like yo…

> In short, we have already used up all the landmass we responsibly should use for people This sure sounds a lot like a pure opinion. Do you have anything to back up this claim?

We are nowhere NEAR saturating our landmass with people. There are more and less desirable places to live in the country, but there's no shortage of raw space. Not to mention, this…

You're right. And to continue with this kind of reasoning: there's definitely a non-zero chance that humanity is wiped out by a large asteroid collision, or a fast spreading lethal…

The landing page is as opaque as the name. I _think_ this might be something cool, but I have absolutely no idea what it is based on the landing page and the included video.

I'm sure this generic "joke" would be a real gut buster over on Reddit.

Society largely finds marijuana use acceptable, and yet it remains a federal crime. When someone cuts me in line at the store, I don't see that as ethical or acceptable, but we don…