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DeedsMoraine

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DeedsMoraine··on Ask HN: Who are the Feynmans, Sagans and Attenboroughs of our time?
That depends on how much your time skews my time away from the originals being those people.
DeedsMoraine··on Ask HN: The strange phenomenon of stockpiling ‘toilet paper’
It's something that will get used eventually even if they don't need it, so they can justify hoarding it.
DeedsMoraine··on Airlines flying empty planes to keep flight slots during coronavirus outbreak
It's not about the passengers, it's about parking space for the planes.

You not taking off means someone else can't land.

DeedsMoraine··on If you drive an expensive car you're probably a jerk, scientists say
DeLoreans didn't even have short-term reliability.
DeedsMoraine··on My friends bet me I couldn't make cybersecurity sexy. Here it goes
Pay them.

That's pervy-uncle levels of cringe.

DeedsMoraine··on Ask HN: What can I do with extra electricity?
Something smaller and more bicycular then?
DeedsMoraine··on Apple wont let bad guys use iPhones in movies, director says
He's probably licensed for that, too.
DeedsMoraine··on Reddit purges 1/2 of The Donald’s moderators – replaces them with approved mods
>If the content that people are upvoting is bad enough to get banned over shouldn't it just be removed from the site and not left up to upvote?

Honeypot.

DeedsMoraine··on 'Mad' Mike Hughes, flat-Earth theorist, dies in rocket mishap
Why would they be persuaded by you pointing out that the only difference between two stones is an element that has shown proven changes when added to other things?
DeedsMoraine··on Monobloc chair
Well, they may recognize the shape of the chair as being similar to the stations at the end of the ancient transport system the precursors created. But since that system of tubes was too small for humans to travel through, it must have been something from an even older culture that humans co-opted and used in their ritualistic worship of the rectangle deity.
DeedsMoraine··on To create a new category, name a new game
>...Maybe I expect a chatbot, maybe I expect outsourced customer-service-farms...

It's usually a chatbot that handles the repetitive questions when they're worded properly, and when it can't, asks you to hold on a sec while it forwards the question to the customer-service-farm.

DeedsMoraine··on Ring and Nest helped normalize American surveillance
throws stone
DeedsMoraine··on Your balance is $0.30000000004
The smallest unit of US money is the mill or 1/1000 of a dollar. The smallest unit of US currency is the cent. You're supposed to work in mills and round to cents.

Or just work in floats and round as the last step. Or do both selectively depending on which rounding error works in your favor, but don't tell anyone that's what you're doing.

The real problem is that nobody at the company seems to have looked at the parts of their software that everyone sees, so what else have they not looked at?

DeedsMoraine··on Actix – Actor Framework for Rust
I doubt that has much to do about the merits of either language as a web back-end, and it's more about people not wanting to consider Haskell at all.
DeedsMoraine··on Why is movie theater popcorn so expensive?
It trolls people into reading the article to verify what they already knew and feeling smart about it.
DeedsMoraine··on Apple engineer killed in Tesla crash had previously complained about autopilot
All of them. That's how AI works. Not by making smarter machines, but by destroying intelligence by smashing it into machine-digestible bits.