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So why did you post on hackernews in a way that would guarantee a flamewar and not just open an issue like a civilized person?

Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.

anon4on Barack Obama: Why we must rethink solitary confinement

the primary purpose of justice is to punish criminal behaviors

Americans are a scary people.

anon4on Marvin Minsky: What makes mathematics hard to learn? (2008)

Remembering the multiplication table up to 12 seems to be an American thing. We only did up to 9 and from then on learned how to multiply many-digit numbers going digit by digit.

anon4on Marvin Minsky: What makes mathematics hard to learn? (2008)

Two-column proofs

I had never heard of that monstrosity before and having googled it, it looks worse than programming in COBOL.

anon4on Marvin Minsky: What makes mathematics hard to learn? (2008)

I'm not sure how you would define the Fourier Transform geometrically without needing 4 spatial dimensions, at which point intuitive geometric reasoning is impossible.

anon4on Italian neurosurgeon appeals to billionaires to fund first human head transplant

Oh, it won't be a black market. There will be lobbying and laws will be passed authorising the preservation, transport and sale of war casualties from "rogue states".

anon4on “Power pose” research is the latest example of scientific overreach

It's better than nothing!

anon4on Federal cops gets pulled over by TN cops, car illegally searched

Sounds like he's an expert on respect.

anon4on The strange life of Q-tips, the most bizarre thing people buy

That's weird. I have dry earwax and my brother has the wet variety.

anon4on The strange life of Q-tips, the most bizarre thing people buy

Bulgaria, too. I suspect that's the generic name they use in a lot of countries.

In their defence, they are meant for cleaning your ears, just not your ear canal.

anon4on It's time to build your own router

What about MikroTik?

anon4on A Former Dentist Uncovering Sugar's Rotten Secrets

Yeah, the language mix-up is making it hard to tell people. We "know" that the brain eats sugar and that sugar is a simple form of energy. Unfortunately this applies to glucose specifically, not to any sugar-class molecule and not to the white crystalline powder called table sugar. Glucose is ok for you. Practically every tissue in your body can use it right away. Fructose is, as you said, metabolised in the liver, and is practically toxic. Table sugar and HFCS are both 50-50 fructose-glucose and biologically equivalent.

anon4on “Subject: Urgent Warning”

Really? I found https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-... and others complaining about etilqs files and being told they're created by sqlite. It's probably a failure of the software using sqlite if these files persist to the point they become a problem.

anon4on “Subject: Urgent Warning”

It's like if you slip on a magazine someone left on the ground and ask the photographer of the cover photo for recompense for your bruises.

anon4on Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy

It's not realtime, though. You send your message and the other person gets it... in a few minutes.

anon4on All Hollowed Out: The lonely poverty of America’s white working class

Well, of course inequality itself is not the problem. If a loaf of bread costs 0.20$ and rent is 50$/month, while keeping all salaries at their current level. However, inequality has a definite effect on economics and prices, so we can deduce that if the ratio of the two salaries were greater than it already is, while the job remains the exact same, then his mother would be in a worse position.

anon4on Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides for 80 Years

Wingsuit flyby of wingsuit flyby of man posting a comment on HackerNews ️

anon4on Show HN: Python to C++14 transpiler

There is also nuitka - http://nuitka.net/

anon4on Why you cannot have C++ exceptions with a stack trace

This sort of thing drives me crazy sometimes. Why can't we have a high level assembly language which can represent the code that's executing. Right now I have the choice of either looking at the code, which can be wrong, or looking at assembly, which is hard to associate with the code. Why can't I look at annotated assembly which tells me exactly which part of the code it corresponds to?

anon4on U.S. Will Track Secret Buyers of Luxury Real Estate

The meanings of words can change.

anon4on Proposed New York Law bans encrypted smartphones

They'll just alter the contracts on phones sold in NY: "You agree to not encrypt any data on this phone and will indemnify COMPANY in court"

anon4on Create an anonymous Signal phone number with Android

IIRC, the last time the question was raised, the answer was "because that's what the average person expects".

anon4on Voxel Quest January 2016 Update

Skyrim and Fallout 3 and 4 are basically somewhat directed sandbox games. There is a main questline you can follow, but most players just immediately take off to go exploring that cool thing in the distance. Then die because the mobs are too high level :) . And that gives you incentive to level up, which frames your interaction with the world.

anon4on Voxel Quest January 2016 Update

That used to be true, but right now you not only can, but have to control every pixel. The fixed pipeline is dead, now you have to write your own shaders and those can do literally anything. Or use CUDA/OpenCL for even more power.

anon4on When a Video-Game World Ends

Isn't it 95 years now?

anon4on RemixOS for PC released

Fuck China.

-- posted from my RemixOS desktop

anon4on The Great British Curry Crisis

Germans eat steak with jam on the side. I wouldn't look to them for being the measure of European cuisine. They make a mean wurst though.

anon4on Why the ‘wet tea leaves’ drug raid was outrageous

> They want to make 4/20 an annual drug raid event.

So just make it like Halloween. Have the kids dress in police uniforms and go door to door with the actual officers searching every single house in the county. Have the adults give out marijuana-shaped candy. Say "pot or arrest" as you knock on the house. Have a competition at the end and declare the kid with the weightiest bag of "pot" the winner and give him/her a medal. Go all the way. It's good publicity you're after, not actual police work, after all.

anon4on Nvidia GPUs can break Chrome's incognito mode

Not always. I was trying to write an android application to serve as a frontend to a site by launching a background webview, drawing the elements I'm interested to a canvas and sending the pixels back to the application. (Un)fortunately, after you draw an HTML DOM element to a canvas, you're forbidden from reading the canvas pixels back and there's no flags you can set on the webview to let you do it.