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So Facebook's point here is that their legal team is so utterly clownshoes that when receiving a warrant about burning a stillbirth they couldn't clue in that it might be about abo…

> What I take away from this all is that for every article about academic misconduct and p hacking there are 100 more where the peer review process (both before and during submissi…

Clearly not--when there is systemic rulebreaking, the point is that it's impossible to enforce the rules in a way that is "enough".

I have used Python on OSX for years and it is and always will be a horrorshow. Using the system Python installation is a nonstarter for many reasons, chief among them is that I don…

My parents asked me for some money the other day, but I told them to pound sand--if they wanted my help they should have made me sign something before they gave me all that free ro…

That was a real question, you absolute weirdo. I am just flabbergasted that you and they have such disregard for human life that they consider participation in its oppression to be…

Oh okay! I thought you were suggesting the opposite (which is nonsense). Thanks!

The phone numbers are linked to searches. You think people searching for "Chinese government oppression" on Dragonfly are going to have long happy lives? You still think it's bette…

Your suggestion is that someone who did a degree specifically in machine learning at Harvard would be less likely to be defending their discipline out of a sense of ego?

> Why does WoW allow you to run scripts in your chat window? Who needs that functionality? The "chat" window in WoW is more like a shell interface/CLI than a pure chat window and i…

Are you serious? There's a better way to work together to take risks and tackle problems that are too big for individuals, and it's called "government": the original corporation th…

Modules and functions in Python have a __name__ attribute. If you've used Python for scripts, you've probably written `if __name__ == "__main__":` at some point, which is the modul…

Worth noting that the PyPy article links to a whole site devoted to the troubles and rehabilitation of the CPython API: https://pythoncapi.readthedocs.io/ . It's really exciting to…

> This makes it seem like the tutor is teaching things to the student right before they need it for an exam On the contrary, I found it really precise. JIT processes in manufacturi…

> Of course I know effort is probably not a valid criteria but still, it's sometimes hard not to see what appears to be low-effort generative art as barely more than the random dot…

> I think most of the other services offered this way can really be circumvented by differentiating yourself as better than the gig workers. Do you have any evidence to back up thi…

The post isn't about "Teamwork is important". The title is about "the arrogant engineer". You've elided the thing that made someone angry and then questioned them why they're angry…

> Unfortunately, I have to ask them a very unforgiving question: why does your company deserve more money? This is so stupid--do VCs ever ask this question in the first place? No. …

In fact, they're mostly meant as a way for HR to have a paper trail to fire people. That's the only real reason for them to exist, and any good that managers do with them is incide…

> I simply cannot even imagine having a hobby that would have me spend thousands of dollars. I would sooner switch hobbies. Your imagination needs work. Being on HN, I'd assume tha…

I agree that American culture is the problem. The way we oppress black people every day and force them into these ugly situations where they're forced to choose between criminality…

I agree that the things you said happened, but I believe that the success of the company is incidental to who ran it. There are millions and millions of factors involved in Faceboo…

> At the risk of misunderstanding “eyeball planet”, you’re living on the most obvious example. You should read the articles on this website please.

Well, forgive me for being smug to someone that deserves it.