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to be honest you are missing the forrest for the tree. start a flamewar somewhere else.

Many of the comments here show why critical thinking is a useful skill esp with articles such as this one, but given how much volume there is nowadays, and the fact that we are not all subject matter experts, it becomes a bit cumbersome.

I wish these articles had a "Ways in which our claim could be wrong" section. Maybe every article should. E.g. Here is what i think, but here are aspects of it that I haven't looked into that could make me change my stance.

At the very least, you'd know the author made some effort to be truthful, and not just sensationalist/misled.

Perhaps we can have a browser extension that aggregates and ranks crowdsourced feedback on articles such as this one? :P

does that mean that if your software is 'hidden behind a paywall' i am allowed to distribute it freely once i get to it?

It was a substantive comment,and I agree I could have been nicer. The negative emotional overtone was a part of the message

How about y'all stop complaining about everything

The story is actually on the verge.yay amp links.

"Unless, of course you ruin your voice, but let's not think about that possibility."

Yeah, of course. Let's not think about it. Except for we should.

Here is my view. Introduce balance in your life - push yourself for a limited amount of time per day, pursuing a specific goal, and do it intelligently. Like when you are in the gym - lift more than you should for longer than you should and get to enjoy 6 months of tendonitis.

It is not because you are weak/dumb. It's because your approach is weak and dumb.

Thank you! The code and the docs look great!

Such discoveries (yes, of similar or greater quality) are made so frequently in the southern parts of the Balkans / Italy that they are almost skipped in the news. Yet, when it happens in France it makes the NYT and the event is 'exceptional'.

I gotta say, as fucking annoying as I find most of you people on other topics, I am so thrilled to see your support for a cause such as this one. You almost killed the cynic in me :) Go hackers!

"...And that is a good thing. If they can be influenced in a bad way quickly, then they can be influenced in a good way..."

Are you just interested in making arguments for arguments' sake? Besides that, all of your comments are good examples about why direct democracy is not a always a good idea - because most people don't have enough time/desire to think issues through, and yet they are willing to be adamant about their opinions on them.

Please be that guy more often.

Keep going! I really like being able to follow projects that start small, as opposed to 'here is my 10000 line toy project.

That being said, you will probably get some flak, probably because of the insane amounts of rust evangelism people on hn have had to deal with

I get it - sorry, meant to playfully Sunday afternoon troll you.

Ever since I moved from C to Java (I like low level stuff but the company I joined is such) I have been having one of three major problems - logic bugs, too many frameworks, causing bugs due to lack of in depth understanding of each one of them, and GC bottlenecks. Of all of them, I hate the GC ones the most.

Go back to rust-land now :D

By making everything so dramatic you will end up scaring all women away from science.

it is even more depressing to read what racists like you have to say everywhere

1 hour commute is fine? No. There were all these visions about how with the advent of the Industrial revolution people would have to work half a day because that's how long it would take them to finish their norm. Instead, they were asked to produce twice as much.

Now we have our 'great' thought leader try to convince us about the virtues of hard work and 1 hour commute again.

How about "Put the type of Ego in your ideas that will remove the need for you to have a job in a few years"? Because jobs will be going away, and we don't need an even more hard core rat race in the US.

What you just said introduces a bit of a conflict with your claim that strategy is important. Sometimes you need to take calculated risks (i.e. always be reasonable, don't lose all of your assets, don't get addicted) and 'lose' money to learn how to make more money.

I think it is very noble of you to weigh your needs against the needs of others. Charity and how you should exercise it is a very interesting subject, and there are many many ways to do it optimally. See Givewell, Watsi, Mindsmatter etc. Since you are reading this, I assume you are doing reasonably well in life, so, and this is my personal view btw, you do need to give something back to those in need. However, don't let that prevent you from investing in your own education - it will very likely enable you to do more.

Meanwhile their bosses retire in their thirties and do whatever they want. Funny people

Often times, sayings such as this one are not meant to tell you 'DA TRUTH', but to provoke you to think differently.

To all the logic warriors here - a sound argument is not always a true one. Damn... sometimes I wonder what will come first - computers becoming human, or humans becoming computers.