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Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?

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Post by Viliam1234 »

BizarroLand wrote: post #185
postsantum wrote: post #173

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The whole dogwhistling accusation tactic is a well-known method of derailing a conversation

I mean, there's nothing I can say or do to ever convince a person to see my viewpoint once they have decided that someone's race decides their value. There are no magic words, no sudo "be a kinder person" command, no entreaties, no begging, no threats, no guile that can convince someone on the internet who has decided to take a confrontational stance to stand down, or reconsider. If you act racist on the internet the…

> If it quacks like a duck, it's a duck.

Things get more difficult if an online mob compiles a database of thousand different sounds that ducks allegedly make, and says "if it makes one of the sounds in this database, it's a duck".

Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?

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Post by Viliam1234 »

tagami wrote: post #140
iroddis wrote: post #107

Possibly this is me misunderstanding things, but that all things move at a constant velocity (speed of light) through spacetime. So I’m moving at the same speed as light, it’s just that a lot of my velocity is in the time dimension, where as light’s velocity is fully in the dimensions of space (and zero in time).

I'll accept my ignorance here, but there has to be some time element to light otherwise it would have infinite speed.

Relativity: from our perspective, light moves at 300 000 km/s; from light's own perspective, it actually moves at infinite speed.

Which by the way is a reason why you can never reach the speed of light; because it would mean reaching (from your own perspective) an infinite speed, and you can't do that by burning a finite amount of fuel.

Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?

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Post by jnash »

MockObject wrote: post #149

The vast scale of the organized child sex abuse activity among Catholic clergy. I have a hard time understanding how such organized activity can be performed by people who literally fear divine judgement, so I am alarmed by the number of clergy who are evidently atheist.

Obviously they don't fear divine judgement. In other words, it is evidence that a large percentage of Catholic clergy simply doesn't believe in God. There are websites out there dedicated to religious clergy who doesn't believe in God but has no choice but to continue spreading BS.

Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?

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Post by gaws »

ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #2

1) Execs complaining that it's hard to find skilled workers nowadays, while doing their best to make the company an unattractive workplace and not bother retaining existing workers who are leaving (including me soon). Guys, it's not rocket science, just ask your employees what's bothering them. If people are leaving by the numbers, then you have some serious issues that need to be fixed, otherwise the churn will neve…

> Guys, it's not rocket science, just ask your employees what's bothering them.

That requires confrontation, which many executives (and even low-level managers) don't want to deal with.

Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?

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Post by gaws »

Giorgi wrote: post #146
neonsunset wrote: post #51

Reality check I got after being accused of having anti-minority opinion while arguing for protection of all categories of people, just without double standards and without giving priority to some over others. This got me instantly banned from a community I had professional interest and participation in, which made me realize the damaging effects of culture wars that are about to get worse for major corporations. With…

It was on Reddit, was not it? I got banned from a sub just because of having opinion that contradicted OP, when I asked which rule did I broke, My account was suspended on whole Reddit... I have been member since Digg exodus and never had any problem till that day. Unfortunately Reddit is ruled by moronic mods who can perma-ban your account, and admins can't be bothered. If your opinion is not in line, your IP is goi…

> your IP is going to get blacklisted

This is easily circumvented by resetting your router and starting fresh with an account. Who cares about "karma" anyway?

> so either you are extremely left wing, or you are out.

Or don't participate in political/culture war subreddits that encourage idiots on two sides to sling text feces at each other all day.

Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?

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Post by gaws »

lamontcg wrote: post #160

The Washington Post being referred to as "Hard Left" The Fed clearly deciding that it is time to crash the economy into the wall rather than allow workers to get raises... And everyone thinking this is clearly the appropriate policy action and very much past due.

> The Fed clearly deciding that it is time to crash the economy into the wall rather than allow workers to get raises

Wealthy people in power only care about other wealthy people.

Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?

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Post by refurb »

kimchidude wrote: post #54
refurb wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

High net worth individual is >$1M seems low. I mean the Portugal number are clearly due to it's Golden Visa which is for retired people. Having $1M in assets (house included) isn't that rare at retirement.

But I think when you extend the sample to the spectrum of all humanity (as the infographic does), $1 million USD becomes quite clearly a fitting benchmark of wealth.

In the spectrum of humanity, "high net worth" would be much less than $1M USD.

Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?

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Post by gaws »

shetill wrote: post #93

Leetcode hards masked as mediums

Or the need to spend dozens of hours on Leetcode questions for a job. Many of those questions have no relevancy to the work.

Need: Front-end developer to build basic components and style them with CSS.

Interview: Check if a given array can represent preorder traversal of binary search tree

Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?

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Post by _8j50 »

neonsunset wrote: post #89
_8j50 wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mutually assured destruction would sure be cheaper.

Mutually assured destruction is unlikely to happen. It is game theory advantageous to make other party believe you are an irrational agent while being the opposite. If non-nuclear systems require human input to arm and engage them, rest assured nuclear systems would be even more so. That said, if people actually looked at the numbers, the military help provided by US to Ukraine is spare change compared to the cost of…

MAD is tricky. I would like to think once you get nuked a few times you won't retaliate to avoid MAD. But in reality it happens very fast, if you hit the enemy with enough nukes fast enough you might save a few cities. In the US urban sprawl type mega cities mean several typical warheads places strategically and getting past THAAD will need to succeed to wipe out a city. In both US and Russia, most of the rural population will be just fine after several waves of nuking it will be the aftermath (afterthought during battle) that will kill most. Critical civilian and military infrastructure will still be viable in many places with millions of lives that could be saves if you overehelm the enemy quickly enough.

Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?

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Post by csomar »

dazc wrote: post #18
kimchidude wrote: post #6

There is an infographic floating around at the moment that maps the migration of millionaires in 2022. I have not dug through the data to see if everything in the infographic is accurate, but as I think most people would presume: it shows loads of wealth holders are making their way into the western world from Russia, China, India, Ukraine (you can predict the others net negative countries). However what's got my min…

Is a 'millionaire' a 'wealthy citizen' these days? In the UK this means you can buy a decent home for cash and still have to work for a living?

The report mentions that they are HNWI. Defined in Wikipedia by: High-net-worth individuals (HNWIs): People or households who own liquid assets valued between $1 million and $5 million.

I assume liquid assets doesn't account for Real-Estate?

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