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Re: Tell HN: Merry Christmas

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Post by markatkinson »

neals wrote: post #16
satysin wrote: post #2

And to you giosch! Wow 2016 has been an interesting year! Especially for us Brits/Europeans and Americans. Looks like 2017 will be a big year also. I just wanted to thank everyone who has made valued contributions to Hacker News this year. I love to read the comments as I almost always learn something. I hope you have a fun and safe end to 2016 and a happy and healthy 2017.

Which makes me wonder if the year wasn't just as interesting for (example) our Chinese friends, but that we just don't focus on their news? But yeah, European me feels like we've had quite the spectacle this year. Merry christmas to all my fellow tech-enthousiasts, here's to pushing the world to an even crazier ride in 2017!

As a South African I would like to tip my hat to both America and Brit, you surprised even us this year. Welcome to the club.

Re: Tell HN: Merry Christmas

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Post by chillingeffect »

amelius wrote: post #33

Best wishes for Christmas! And one question to reflect on: why can we build compilers, operating systems, and distributed databases, while we can't find the basic rules of an economy that is well-performing, yet fair to every participant, now and in the future?

Bottom up deterministic media vs persuading group consensus. Difficult but noble goal.

Re: Tell HN: Merry Christmas

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Post by caseysoftware »

amelius wrote: post #33

Best wishes for Christmas! And one question to reflect on: why can we build compilers, operating systems, and distributed databases, while we can't find the basic rules of an economy that is well-performing, yet fair to every participant, now and in the future?

Requirements issue: Because everyone's definition of "fair" is different.

Implementation issue: Designing for wildly complex system of systems with thousands of interdependent and independent variables, with known unknowns, and unknown unknowns is effectively impossible. We can't even parse HTML with 100% accuracy.

Debugging issue: When there are issues, who do you trust to have "root" to debug and fix it?

Re: Tell HN: Merry Christmas

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Post by krapp »

Modern Christmas is just another attempt at cultural propaganda by the CIA and Big Toy oligarchs, meant to train the populace to welcome the presence of an all-consuming surveillance apparatus and to create a neofascist cult of personality out of the embodiment of American consumer culture.

Santa's suit is dyed in the blood of countless Chinese child slaves.

Happy Holidays, sheeple.

Re: Tell HN: Merry Christmas

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Post by inimino »

neals wrote: post #16
satysin wrote: post #2

And to you giosch! Wow 2016 has been an interesting year! Especially for us Brits/Europeans and Americans. Looks like 2017 will be a big year also. I just wanted to thank everyone who has made valued contributions to Hacker News this year. I love to read the comments as I almost always learn something. I hope you have a fun and safe end to 2016 and a happy and healthy 2017.

Which makes me wonder if the year wasn't just as interesting for (example) our Chinese friends, but that we just don't focus on their news? But yeah, European me feels like we've had quite the spectacle this year. Merry christmas to all my fellow tech-enthousiasts, here's to pushing the world to an even crazier ride in 2017!

Trump was big news, and probably the biggest surprise, in China this year.

Re: Tell HN: Merry Christmas

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Post by pdevr »

Merry Christmas to all of you!

Have an amazing day ahead, everyone.

To those not celebrating Christmas, happy holidays to you. The wish is applicable to you too :-)

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