Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier • Hacker News Board

Re: Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier

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Post by dang » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 4:27 PM UTC

samatman wrote: post #718

thaumasiotes wrote: post #707

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> you will find that particles are contextually defined as pieces of matter in the solid or liquid phase which are suspended in the air. What is this supposed to mean? The solid or liquid phase is defined by the interaction of related molecules with each other. Suppose I have a cluster of 15 water molecules, suspended in the air, interacting with each other such that I can call them a tiny droplet of liquid water. Su…

> What is this supposed to mean? What it means is that you're trading on a half-recalled education, and trying to sound clever, but what's happening is you're being annoying in various not-even-wrong ways.

You've been breaking the site guidelines a ton lately. That's seriously not ok, and we ban such accounts. I don't want to ban you, so please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and fix this.

More at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31851409.

Re: Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier

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Post by geerlingguy » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 11:14 PM UTC

azalin wrote: post #677

geerlingguy wrote: post #526

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To that last point, that's why we have AvE and his BOLTR reviews.

BOLTR is ok if you take the review with a huge grain of salt, basically just as a proxy for having and disassembling the tool yourself. I largely disregard whatever AvE says and make my own conclusions from what is visually apparent. His standards for what makes a good tool are too focused on physical resilience - basically "if it can't survive being dropped into a mine shaft and beaten to hell, it's shit" is unreali…

True; I just like seeing how the tool is put together without having to rip one apart myself.

Usually you can see where corners were cut and suss out whether those corners matter in your use case.

I don't care too much about his review portions, more on the teardown part.

Re: Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jun 28, 2022, 7:23 PM UTC

fartcannon wrote: post #711

kup0 wrote: post #642

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Which he told them beforehand not to do, and afterwards chastised them for doing so, being clearly frustrated that his fans would so something like that and make things worse for everyone. If he wielded the power himself (encouraged that behavior) that's one thing, but fanbases of scale will eventually always have a subset of people that behave poorly like this despite even being directly told not to by the person th…

Exactly. He's powerful.

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