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It’s common, but disingenuous to talk about the Overton window as though it was some immutable, one-way thermodynamic process. The truth of course is that it goes both ways, that d…

Its been nearly two months since I started emailing hn@ycombinator.com without a reply. I’ve changed email providers in case it was a spam issue, and still nothing. So, I’m trying …

Its been nearly two months since I started emailing hn@ycombinator.com without a reply. I’ve changed email providers in case it was a spam issue, and still nothing. So, I’m trying …

The charges have to be based on new information, and the UK judiciary isn’t overtly political. All told I think Assange will go down for the hacking, and then be off to Sweden. Aft…

I have to remember that one if I ever feel like burgling someone’s house. “Ah yes yer honor, I did try to break in for research purposes!”

Yes, GPS too. It is after all what puts the “smart” in bombs. Again, this is something I broadly support, but I’m not in denial about it.

I can live with the unpleasant UX as far as that goes, but where it implodes for me is having to sift through endless fake reviews, counterfeits, and shit products. “Amazon’s Choic…

Just the devices used to choose targets. It seems like splitting hairs when you effectively don’t build guns, you just build gunsights to use a metaphor. Note that I’m in favor of …

That’s true, but you don’t get clicks from outrage by just saying the boring truth. I’ve also been reading rants from people who think the US is going to throw a bunch of other cha…

It feels like AMP is Google nailing its own coffin to me. It probably felt like a winning move when Bell and AT&T made people buy their own products to use telephone systems, but i…

I use an old SE and I love it. It does what I want a phone to do, and just works every time. For my desktop I want freedom, but on my phone I want to have a safe App Store and not …

You keep adressing my secondary point. The one that seems to personally hurt you. Here’s an alternative theory... I didn’t take it personally because I didn’t take the stance you’r…

You keep raising the issue of bias, but the one piece of supporting “evidence” for that bias doesn’t support your claim. You brush that off by saying it changed “after the story se…

The first three top-level comments all laud the decision. That would appear to be the opposite of your central claim that May I remember that most HN jumped to defend Boeing and th…

To be fair, this is after years of lending surveys already closed the loophole for MACHO theory down to the pinhead closed by this last survey. Still a good read.

If they’re like 99.9999% of people they’ve literally never heard of it.

Why does that bit of nonsense get repeated so often? It’s a myth. https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti... Debunking the Shareholder Value Myth: History Alth…

As a counterpoint religious affiliation and attendance of religious services has fallen across the developed world space with education. I’m not sure that cherry picking a list of …

Of course the insulation part of the equation is a double-edged sword. You want insulation, but you always want air circulation at a rate conducive to low CO2 levels. Maybe a compr…

Chinese culture encourages sharing ideas, not copyrighting ownership. Some things I've read say it comes from Confucianism. Regardless, they think it's good to spread and remix exi…

They stand up to all sorts of things when their bottom line is at stake, see AMP. When it comes to things they never cared about to begin with though, they fold like a cheap suit.

Mother of god, that’s equal parts funny and just plain accurate. Dell wonders if maybe their hiring process can be improved. Hackernews debates whether this is a cynical attempt to…

That was... impressive. Those dragons really are impressive killing and eating machines, and people who want to own one are out of their tiny minds.