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https://alvinalexander.com/scala/fp-book/how-functional-prog...
"Did you win the Putnam?"
Yes, I did.
Some of my actually favorited posts: jjoonathan on Oct 6, 2014 on: Glut of postdoc researchers stirs quiet crisis in ... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8416875 , "For most people it's not, but some people subscribe to the notion that choice implies consent/endorsement/approval ..." scardine 12 months ago on: Ask HN: My company plans an ICO despite my opposit... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16126082 , "L…
I'd like to ask a parallel meta-question: How can we make better use of HN's existing 'favorite' feature? Currently, we have the option to click on 'favorite' to add submissions or comments to a publicly visible list. Occasionally (a couple times a month?) I do this for comments that I think are excellent: https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=nkurz&comments=t Some other users do the same, but I don't really know…
"The 4-color map theory is bunk," [0] a comment in which a user boldly refutes modern mathematics and, when faced with contradictory evidence, continues to double down on his assertions. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16862553
This question was already answered several times here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1487605 (2010) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3996652 (2012) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12496558 (2016) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16846229 (2018) (possibly more)
Should HN allow one's favourites to be shared?
It’s upvotes that are private to each user.
comment by comment you could sense the earth shattering awareness slowly setting in, or how the HN crowd suddenly went from unquestionable faith in big government to "oh lord what have we done".